Invictus Gaming was founded in 2011 by Wang Sicong, son of Wang Jianlin, one of the wealthiest men in China and Asia,[1] who bought the team formerly known as Catastrophic Cruel Memory (CCM) at about US$6 million, in order to promote and ameliorate the professional esports scene in China.

The creation of iG.Y after poaching YYF, Chuan, 830 and CH of LGD,[3] historically one of the strongest teams in China, came days after the purchase of CCM.

After re-shuffling the roster of the combined IG, they have won the SMM Grand National DotA Tournament world championship.

Since Chuan is from Malaysia, the rules of World Cyber Games 2012 restricted him from playing alongside his team in the event.

For Liquid's Dota 2 Awards, Chen "Zhou" Yao got the best Carry, Zeng "Faith" Hongda got the best support and Luo "Ferrari 430" Feichi got the best ganker.

The replacements were Lin "June" Shiyang and old time veteran Li "CHisbug" Chen after two years of inactivity.

[citation needed] On 7 August, the predecessor of Invictus Gaming, Catastrophic Cruel Memory won the title of 2011 WCG China Regional Finals.

Sun "XiaoXiao" Yalong, Zong "Luffy" Yuan, Wong "Tabe" Pak Kan, Lo "Wh1t3zZ" Pun Wai and Siu "ChrIs" Keung formed the Invictus Gaming's LoL squad.

In November of this year, Chen "illuSioN" Xin-Lin and Yang "BlackWeapon" Ao joined the team while Zong "Luffy" Yuan left.

Wong "Tabe" Pak Kan, Lo "Wh1t3zZ" Pun Wai and Siu "ChrIs" Keung left the team while [28] former Ehome player Liu "PDD" Mou, Liu "Zzitai" Zhi-Hao and former HanGong Clan player Ge "Kid" Yan joined the team to replace them.

[citation needed] Invictus Gaming's LoL squad were the runner-up of World e-Sports Masters and became champions of CPL from September to December of this year.

[30] However at Season 3 China Regional Finals on 8 September, Invictus Gaming was successively defeated by team Oh My God and Royal, which was led by their former players Wong "Tabe" Pak Kan and Lo "Wh1t3zZ" Pun Wai, thus losing the opportunity to S3 World Finals.

They beat the Korean team CJ Entus Frost and became the champions of Intel Extreme Masters Singapore.

PDD's amazing performance with Kyle helped them triumph over team Oh My God 2–1 in semifinals,[34] but in finals they lost to Edward Gaming 0–3.

However, on 29 March they were knocked from defending the title, swepted 3-0 by Edward Gaming, the team which dominated the series with no loss, thus having place second.

[39] On 27 April, with Kid's Pentakill Invictus Gaming won the third place of LPL Spring after beating Snake 3–0.

[40] On 29 April, in the finals of International Esports Tournament Invictus Gaming defeated, World Elite, and won their first title of the year.

[41] In the 2016 LPL Summer Tournament, the IG team constantly replaced the players on the road, and finally got tough in the playoffs.

[52] In the 2019 LPL Spring Split Invictus Gaming finished the regular season in second place with a record of 11 wins and 4 losses.

They finished their MSI Group Stage with a record of 9 wins and 1 loss, losing only one game to SKT.

They managed to make it to Worlds as the LPL's third seed after 3:2's against JD Gaming and Top Esports in the Regional Qualifier.

Invictus Gaming finished first in the 2020 LPL Spring regular season with a record of 14 wins and 2 losses.

They then lost 1:3 to LGD Gaming in the finals, rendering them unable to participate at the 2020 League of Legends World Championship.