Jeong Eon-yeong was born on March 7, 1995, in South Korea (Esports Earnings). He belongs to the first generation of Korean League of Legends professionals, players who turned an amateur PC-bang pastime into a full-time career in the years right after the game’s 2011-2012 competitive scene took shape (Wikipedia). No details about his family background or upbringing have been made public, which is typical for Korean players of his generation, most of whom entered the professional scene as teenagers well before esports had any mainstream media apparatus covering players’ personal lives.

Impact turned professional in 2012 with Xenics Storm, a Korean team, where he was originally fielded as a support player rather than in the top lane role that would later define his career (Wikipedia). The team reached a third-place finish that spring, a modest but respectable debut in Korea’s fledgling domestic scene. He soon moved to the top lane, the position he has played for essentially his entire career since, and by late 2012 he had drawn the attention of SK Telecom, then assembling one of the rosters that would go on to define competitive League of Legends for the rest of the decade (Wikipedia).

In 2013, Impact joined SK Telecom T1 as one of the founding members of the roster that became SK Telecom T1 K, alongside players who would go on to become some of the sport’s biggest names. That team won the 2013 League of Legends Season 3 World Championship, defeating Royal Club in the final and claiming the tournament’s $200,000 top prize, split among the roster (Esports Earnings). Impact was 18 years old at the time, making him a World Champion before most professional careers in traditional sports have even begun. Esports Earnings records the Worlds 2013 payout as the single largest tournament prize of his career, representing close to a third of his lifetime tournament winnings even after more than a decade of additional competition (Esports Earnings).

Beyond the 2013 World Championship, Impact’s résumé includes two LCK titles won during his time with SK Telecom T1, and a lengthy list of North American championships built up over stints with Cloud9, Team Liquid, Evil Geniuses and now Sentinels (Wikipedia). Sentinels’ own announcement of his signing for the 2026 LCS season describes him as entering his twelfth LCS season having already won seven league splits, six of them with Team Liquid and one with Evil Geniuses, alongside a runner-up finish with Team Liquid at the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational (Sentinels). He has also collected multiple LCS All-Pro Team selections across different seasons, recognition of his standing as one of the region’s most consistent top laners for the better part of a decade (Wikipedia).

Impact is widely regarded within League of Legends esports as one of the most durable and respected imports the LCS has ever had, a player whose name still carries weight nearly thirteen years after his first World Championship. When Sentinels announced his signing ahead of their 2026 LCS debut, the organization explicitly framed him as a “former World Champion” brought in to anchor a new franchise, leaning on his résumé as a credibility signal for the team’s first season in the league (Sentinels). In a 2022 interview after leaving Evil Geniuses, Impact reflected on his years playing in North America, saying: “Being in NA taught me how to be a better person and I am not just talking about a better player, but a better person overall,” a comment widely picked up by esports outlets as representative of his low-key, professional public image (ONE Esports).

As with most LCS players, Impact’s sponsorship exposure has come primarily through his teams’ organizational deals rather than personal, individually negotiated endorsement contracts. During his years with Team Liquid, the organization’s roster-wide partners included hardware and lifestyle brands such as Alienware and Secretlab, whose branding appeared on broadcasts and content featuring the full roster rather than Impact individually (Liquipedia). No independent personal endorsement deal, in the sense of a brand contract negotiated specifically around Impact rather than his team, has been publicly reported at any point in his career.

Impact’s income has been built almost entirely around competitive salary and prize money rather than outside business activity. Unlike some veteran pros who have launched apparel lines, coaching academies, or media companies, there is no public record of Impact founding or owning a business venture separate from his playing career. He has streamed on Twitch during periods of his career, as is standard for most contracted LCS players, but no reporting suggests streaming has been a major independent income stream for him the way it has been for full-time content creators (Wikipedia).

There is no reliable public record of real estate holdings, vehicles, or other major personal assets belonging to Impact. Korean and North American esports organizations do not disclose player housing or asset arrangements, and unlike mainstream athletes or entertainers, competitive League of Legends players of his generation have rarely had their personal property covered by media even at the height of their earning years. Given that gap in public reporting, any specific claim about property he owns would not be verifiable, so none is made here.