Worlds 2026 anthem Know My Name music video highlights Faker’s illustrious career

Heralded by weeks of teasers and promos, the League of Legends Worlds 2026 anthem, Know My Name has been unleashed. Released on the evening of Oct. 8 (Oct. 9 for the world outside of NA), the track was accompanied by a four-minute accompanying music video in celebration of all things Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok, from his humble beginnings, to becoming a six-time world champion.

Packed full of references, the Know My Name ft. True Damage (Official Music Video), to give it its full government name, is an animated tapestry of Faker’s highs, occasional lows, and rare mids. But to be honest, mainly his highs, ‘cus get real, this is Faker, he hasn’t had many lows.

Turning history into lore: Know My Name gives Faker’s story the Marvel movie treatment

We’ll admit, we literally could not track all of the references, spotting our first at the 20-second mark, only to realise we’d missed three or four already. This is an easter egg-ocalypse of referential moments to Unkillable Demon King, Faker's career.

There's blink-and-you’ll-miss-it nods to Choi "Zeus" Woo-je, Han "Peanut" Wang-ho, and Park "Ruler" Jae-hyuk (as well as dozens of other players), as well as cameos from coach Kim “kkOma” Jeong-gyun and (confirmed sightings of) Eefje “Sjokz” Depoortere.

There’s so many in fact, we’re deferring to the experts. This Reddit thread is perfect, and besides the main post, there’s more notes in the comments.

And while it’s an enjoyable enough video for Know My Name, this is the Marvel movie end-credits of narrative quality. Faker did these things. Then he did these things. Hopefully, for the sake of viewership figures, he’ll do it again this year.

I wonder if a more nuanced take could have been some kind of narrative around Faker’s evolution. Once the mechanically gifted soloque ladder prodigy turned champion, but now a more cerebral, macro player who shepherds younger players to victory. But there’s probably a reason I’m typing about LoL esports and not making movies.

We’re also not music critics here, but the song is fine. Just fine. Gym-goer pop-rap manufactured to sound just different enough to be exciting but soulless and corporatized enough to have been effectively made by committee. It’s certainly music for League of Legends players. The vocal performances are fantastic, but then of course they are. And the production quality is top tier, because it wouldn’t be any other way. Sterile.

And if you’ve followed professional LoL for the decade plus change it’s been around its nice to remember the past eras, especially in this nostalgia-dipped era of Riot Games we’re in now where every other release is a throwback or a reimagining or a return.

But perhaps ultimately, the biggest message to take from Know My Name is something anyone who’s ever tried to talk about esports to a non-knower understands: Faker is quite literally the only name that’s important in pro League of Legends to most people. And Know My Name artfully displays this by obsessively showcasing every detail of his career, turning the Korean star into as much of a lore-wiki-infused shonen character as the rest of the LoL cinematic universe attempts to be.