Wolves Esports Wolves Esports China Rank #2 V1yA Chang Rui-min (张睿珉) SiuFatBB Pong Gaa Hei (庞加曦) Yuicaw Huang Yung-chieh (黃湧傑) Spring Liu Jiunting (刘俊霆) Lysoar Liang Youhao (梁优好) Juicy Tyler James Aeria has announced former Xi Lai Gaming Xi Lai Gaming China Rank #4 Rarga Arthur Churyumov happywei Deng Minwei (邓闵维) MrCANI Chen Tingxun (陈廷训) MarT1n Zhuo Zhengjie (卓政杰) coconut YOU Yip Man Ho ZiXuan Liu Junwei (刘俊伟) coach Fayde as their head coach and the signing of former FunPlus Phoenix FunPlus Phoenix China Rank #5 Autumn Kale Dunne Life Qu Donghao (瞿东豪) AAAAY Zhang Yang (张杨) BerLIN Zhang Bolin (張柏霖) yosemite Wang Lei (王磊) standout Liang "Lysoar" Youhao (梁优好).
Lysoar joins after a 2024 campaign with FPX that saw them qualify for all three international events. Domestically, FPX were the second-best team in their region. They finished as runners-up at Kickoff, China Stage 1, and Stage 2 to eventual Champions-lifting EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #1 S1Mon Hsien Meng-Hsun (谢孟勋) ZmjjKK Zheng Yongkang (郑永康) nobody Wang Senxu (王森旭) CHICHOO Wan Shunzhi (万顺治) Smoggy Zhang Zhao (张钊) .
Lysoar played the Controller and Sentinel roles for FPX most often. He made his professional Valorant debut with FPX in 2023, and leaves for Wolves after two seasons.
Fayde's announcement comes a few weeks after he announced that he resigned from his coaching position with Xi Lai Gaming.
In 2024 with XLG, Fayde played a part in helping the team to lift Ascension China, defeating a Rare Atom Rare Atom China Rank #8 Yueluo Yi Zhiwei (尹志炜) zhe Niu Zhe (牛哲) Satoshi Fei Zhixian (费郅贤) Midnight Wang Yingjie (王英杰) team that they failed to beat twice before in the competition. A few days after lifting Ascension, he announced that he resigned from his coaching position with XLG. Before 2024, Fayde was with Ninjas In Pyjamas Ninjas In Pyjamas Inactive Uta Eren Yang Zhengwei (杨曾威) JayH Wong Jia Heng SiuFatBB Pong Gaa Hei (庞加曦) and JiJieHao JiJieHao Inactive Zcc Shr1mp Yang Yong (杨勇) sora Fung3 .
Fayde will be a head coach for the first time since his days with Hong Kong VCL team Griffin E-Sports Griffin E-Sports Inactive Fung3 SiuFatBB Pong Gaa Hei (庞加曦) Uta LockM Xing Fuling (邢福凌) sora . The well-traveled coach also spent time with Team Secret Team Secret Asia-Pacific Rank #7 invy Adrian Jiggs Reyes JessieVash Jessie Cuyco Wild0reoo Brheyanne Christ Reyes 2ge James Goopio Jremy Jeremy Cabrera , BOOM Esports BOOM Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #2 dos9 Zhumagali Dastan Famouz Fikri Zaki Hamdani Shiro Hildegard Arnaldo NcSlasher Sheldon Andersen Chandra BerserX Rizkie Adla Kusuma , and Team SMG Team SMG Inactive .
He replaces head coach jungleDSL and assistant coach chaPPie , who were released a few days earlier. The moves in the coaching booth are the organization's first since parting ways with in-game leader pl1xx in August. Korean coach CheongGak also returned to his home country, signing with T1 T1 Korea Rank #2 stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Meteor Kim Tae Oh (김태오) Sylvan Go Young Sup (고영섭) BuZz Yu Byung Cheol (유병철) iZu Ham Woo-ju (함우주) .
Wolves began their 2024 season with a 2-0 win over eventual Champions participants Bilibili Gaming Bilibili Gaming China Rank #6 B3ar Yang Zhanxiong (杨瞻雄) whzy Wang Haozhe (王昊哲) Levius Lu Yinzhong (卢胤中) rushia Wang Xiaojie (王晓杰) nephh Marcus Tan Knight Liu Yuxiang (刘宇翔) at China Kickoff, but would lose six of their next eight matches, failing to qualify for the playoffs of Kickoff and China Stage 1.
A better Stage 2 showing for the team saw them win half of their matches and look to contend for a spot at playoffs, but they finished one game behind the top six and saw their season end in July.
In the short life of Wolves Esports' time in VCT, they have yet to qualify for the knockout rounds of any competition they've been in.
Wolves Esports Wolves Esports China Rank #2 V1yA Chang Rui-min (张睿珉) SiuFatBB Pong Gaa Hei (庞加曦) Yuicaw Huang Yung-chieh (黃湧傑) Spring Liu Jiunting (刘俊霆) Lysoar Liang Youhao (梁优好) Juicy Tyler James Aeria is now: