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Reignover

South Korean esports player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ24006247 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kim Yeu-jin (Korean: 김의진), better known as Reignover, is a South Korean League of Legends coach and former professional player. He played for Fnatic of the EU LCS during most of the 2015 season as their jungler. While on Fnatic, he won 2 EU LCS championships and placed third at the 2015 World Championship. After leaving Fnatic, he played for Immortals of the NA LCS in 2016 season, Team Liquid in 2017, and Counter Logic Gaming in 2018.

Reignover was named MVP of the 2016 NA LCS Spring Split while he was a member of Immortals.

In 2019, he joined Cloud9 as a coach. In 2020, he was promoted to head coach of Cloud9. He stepped down as head coach before the start of the 2021 LCS Summer Split and formally left the organization at the end of the season. He joined MAD Lions at the beginning of 2022 as a positional coach.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Reignover” is south Korean esports player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Reignover, South and Korean, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2016, 2017, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-07-04. For this dossier, Reignover, South and Korean is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “south Korean esports player” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24006247. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Reignover”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Reignover primary sources, Reignover archive and Reignover research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “Reignover” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.