Yehezkiel Joins RRQ Hoshi: Who Is He?

RRQ Hoshi completed their MPL ID Season 17 roster on February 25, 2026, announcing Yehezkiel as their seventh and final player. The mid laner arrives from Team Liquid ID, bringing a resume that includes an MPL ID championship and a World Championship runner-up finish, followed by one of the worst single-season collapses in TLID history.

The signing raised more questions than the Kuroky announcement did. RRQ already have Rinz locked in as mid laner. Now they have two.

#Who Is Yehezkiel

His full name is Yehezkiel Wiseman Hamonangan Napitu. He also goes by "Syn." Born September 11, 2005, he is 20 years old and has spent his entire professional career at Team Liquid ID, debuting in MPL Indonesia Season 12 in 2023.

Team Liquid's own profile described him plainly: "YehezKiel may be quiet, but don't let that fool you. His aggressive play will take you by surprise." That description holds up. He plays with a controlled aggression that tends to be invisible until he's already made the play. A rookie who prefers unorthodox heroes to surprise opponents, per Liquid's coaching staff, and the M6 clips back that up.

His signature tournament moment came at the M6 World Championship in late 2024. TLID arrived as MPL ID Season 14 champions and made it all the way to the Grand Finals, where they faced Fnatic ONIC Philippines. Yehezkiel's Novaria across the knockout stage drew attention from the wider MLBB community, a hero most mid laners at that level were leaving on the bench. TLID fell 4-1 to Fnatic ONIC in the Grand Finals, but Yehezkiel's performance throughout the bracket cemented his reputation as a mid laner worth watching.

#The Career Arc Before RRQ

Yehezkiel's Liquipedia record reads like a story with an unresolved middle chapter.

• MPL ID S12 (2023): 9th place group stage exit, 5/11 record
• MPL ID S13 (2024): 5th-6th place, swept 0-3 in playoffs
• MPL ID S14 (2024): MPL ID Champion, 4-3 Grand Finals win over RRQ Hoshi. Also named to the Team of the Week twice (Weeks 6 and 7)
• MPL ID S15 (2025): 5th-6th place, 1-3 in playoffs
• MPL ID S16 (2025): 9th place, 0-11 regular season record, eliminated before playoffs

The S14 title and the M6 runner-up finish represent a career high that came fast and early. What followed was a regression that had nothing to do with Yehezkiel's individual ceiling. TLID's S16 campaign was a full organization collapse. A 0-11 record means the team won zero series across the entire regular season. That context matters. Evaluating Yehezkiel based on S16 results alone would be the wrong read.

He was part of a TLID transition that went sideways. The S14 roster that won the championship was built around a specific team identity. When that structure frayed in S15 and disintegrated in S16, the individual talent inside it couldn't compensate for the system breaking down around them.

Team Liquid ID's farewell reel on the official MPL ID account captured it well. The caption from Team Liquid's own social account on February 25, 2026, read: "The underrated midlaner we always believed in." That phrasing from his former organization is a clean send-off, and it's also a statement of valuation.

#What He Brings to RRQ

RRQ's current mid lane situation entering S17 already had Rinz, who held the starting spot through Seasons 15 and 16. Steady, competent, rarely the decisive factor in elimination rounds. That assessment isn't harsh, it's accurate. Rinz was described in pre-S17 analysis as a player who needs an equal rival to elevate his game.

Yehezkiel provides exactly that.

The dual mid lane setup is not accidental roster construction. Coach Khezcute built something similar at the gold lane position by bringing in Kuroky alongside Toyy. Two players competing for one starting slot means the better performer earns the game time, and neither player can coast. Khezcute has run this philosophy before. It creates depth, and it creates pressure.

The difference between the two positions is the quality of the challenger. Kuroky arrives from Tier 2 with no MPL experience. Yehezkiel arrives as a proven MPL champion, an M6 finalist, and a mid laner whose hero pool includes picks that MPL-level opponents regularly leave unchecked. He is not a development prospect. He is a player RRQ expects to contribute from Week 1.

His unorthodox hero tendencies give RRQ something Rinz's game does not: genuine draft ambiguity at the mid lane position. When opponents know Rinz is starting, they can draft around his tendencies. With two mid laners who play differently, the pick-and-ban phase becomes harder to read. One of them plays Novaria. The other plays the conventional S17 meta picks. Opponents have to prepare for both.

#The RRQ S17 Roster in Full

The roster has depth across both contested positions. RRQ enters S17 with seven players where most teams field five.

#What Needs to Happen in S17

RRQ's S16 ended 7th overall with no playoff appearance. That was coming off back-to-back runner-up finishes in Seasons 14 and 15. The organization does not have the luxury of a slow rebuild. Playoffs are the floor, not the ceiling.

For Yehezkiel, the task is simpler than it sounds on paper. Demonstrate that S16 was TLID's failure, not his. If he wins the mid lane competition against Rinz and performs in the regular season, the narrative around him resets entirely. His S14 championship was won against RRQ in a seven-game series. He knows what their style looks like from the opponent's side of the bracket. That knowledge doesn't transfer automatically, but it does mean he arrives with context most new signings don't have.

MPL ID Season 17 kicks off March 27. The regular season runs through May 24, with MSC 2026 at the Esports World Cup as the season's larger target. Whether Yehezkiel or Rinz holds the starting spot by Week 3 will tell you exactly where RRQ's coaching staff thinks this team's mid lane ceiling sits.

For a broader look at what every team is doing heading into this season, check out our MPL Season 17 preview.