League of Legends player

Caps: Europe's most decorated player, and its most painful near-miss

Caps has reached two world championship finals with two different organisations and lost both, which is a record no other Western player holds. He has also won more domestic titles than any of them, and been the constant in G2's roster through every rebuild since 2019.

If Europe has a Faker-shaped figure, it is him: the same position, the same organisation loyalty, the same habit of appearing at every international event for a decade.

Real name
Rasmus Winther
Country
Denmark
Game
League of Legends
Role
Mid lane

Career timeline

Caps career timeline
TeamYears
Dark Passage2016
Fnatic2017–2018
G2 Esports2019–2021
G2 Esports2023–2026

The 2018 and 2019 finals

He reached the 2018 final with Fnatic, losing to Invictus Gaming, then moved to G2 and reached the 2019 final, losing to FunPlus Phoenix. Those two rosters are Europe's most quizzed line-ups precisely because of what they did not win.

The Perkz swap

His arrival at G2 forced Perkz, then the team's mid laner, into the bot lane — a role change that produced an MSI title and a Worlds final in the same season. It is the most famous positional switch in the game's history and a common trivia question in its own right.

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Compiled from public tournament and roster records. Last reviewed: September 2026.