Caedrel

Caedrel is the voice of League of Legends for the English-speaking internet — a former pro and LEC caster who walked away from the broadcast desk to become the biggest independent co-streamer in the game. Marc Robert “Caedrel” Lamont’s arc from Excel Esports mid laner to the most-watched English co-streamer at Worlds is the definitive career pivot of the esports media era.

The pro career came first. Lamont competed as a mid laner for teams including H2K and Excel Esports, then moved to the LEC analyst desk in 2020, where he quickly became one of the sharpest minds in the broadcast — the caster who could explain a draft like a coach and roast it like a fan. But by 2023 he was living in two worlds, and it was breaking him. On September 29, 2023, he announced a sudden retirement from casting, writing that juggling the caster desk and the streaming grind had left him exhausted and overwhelmed, hurting his work in both and his personal life too. His last full-time cast was the LEC season finals in Montpellier.

The break had actually started months earlier. At MSI 2023 in London, Caedrel made the startling decision — two days before the tournament — to step off the official broadcast and co-stream the event from his own channel instead. Riot’s MSI was the first international event with thirty official co-streamers, and Caedrel’s move was the loudest signal of where the power was shifting: the analyst desk’s biggest personality decided the audience was on Twitch, not the main feed.

Worlds 2023 in Korea was the coronation. Caedrel spent the tournament streaming from Seoul — hosted for a month out of the T1 offices, a relationship he kept thanking them for publicly — and Riot named him an official on-site co-streamer for the final at the Gocheok Sky Dome on November 19, 2023, T1 vs Weibo Gaming. The numbers were absurd: a peak of 372,000 viewers, 17 million hours watched, making him the most-watched co-streamer of the event and the most-watched English-language stream of the entire World Championship. His T1 vs JDG semifinal highlights crossed 2 million views on YouTube, and the pre-tournament rap video he made with Ruddy Esports co-owner Regan, “TheShy is Back,” became a tournament anthem in its own right.

Behind him came the rat kingdom. Caedrel’s community — the self-styled “degenerate rats” — is one of streaming’s great inside jokes, built around the xdd rat emote and nicknames like the Rat King and Pedro. In January 2024 he joined Fnatic as a content creator, announced with the headline “The Pied Piper of Berlin” — Fnatic changed its X profile picture to the xdd rat emote to mark the occasion. The move was practical as well as ceremonial: Riot requires on-site LEC co-streamers to be affiliated with a team org, and the Fnatic deal let him co-stream the LEC Winter 2024 split live from the Riot Games Arena in Berlin, covering LCK, LPL, and the LEC — plus the T1 Academy LCKCL squad and his friend Rekkles’ campaign.

December 2023 added another first: Caedrel was the only on-site English co-streamer for the Red Bull League of Its Own at the Berlin Velodrom, the all-star show event featuring freshly crowned Worlds champions T1 against G2, Karmine Corp, Team Heretics, and German squads NNO Old, BIG, and Eintracht Spandau. It confirmed his status as the trusted on-camera presence for Riot-adjacent spectacles that need someone who is both credible and chaos.

The method is deceptively simple. Caedrel co-streams the LCK, LPL, and LEC daily — the NA LCS is notably absent, and he’s cheerfully on record as barely watching it, ranking just one Western player (G2 support Mikyx) in his Worlds 2023 top-fives-per-role and attaching the caveat “I didn’t watch the LCS.” A decade of pro play and casting gives him reads nobody else has — draft-phase predictions, coaching-level mid-game analysis — and the fact that he still loses his mind over a Baron steal keeps him one of the chat. In an era of corporate broadcasts, Caedrel is proof the audience will follow the personality.

And the audience keeps growing. In September 2026 he was the number-one most-watched streamer on Twitch with 191.1 hours streamed, sitting at 1.7 million followers. What started as one caster’s burnout decision in 2023 has become the industry’s blueprint: the official broadcast still exists, but for the biggest matches in League, the rat king’s stream is where the internet watches.

Previously covers Caedrel because he is, functionally, the English broadcast of League. For the Spanish-language equivalent, see Ibai.