Everyone is raving about a midlaner – but in 2024, after 11 years, it will no longer be Faker

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In South Korea, the Spring Split 2024 at League of Legends came to an end and, when the dust settled, it was not world champion Faker and his T1 at the top, but the new competitor: Gen G. with Jeong “Chovy” Ji- hoon is ahead again. Gen G. won probably the strongest league in LoL – Chovy is the man of the hour.

That is the situation:

  • The 27-year-old South Korean Faker has been the international star of LoL since 2013. He is considered the best player in the world and was even able to crown his career with the 4th World Cup in 2023 after not being able to shine for a few years. Fans believe that he had weak teammates.
  • He’s been challenged over the years and has suffered some bitter defeats, but Faker has always been the star of LoL, an icon. Grown, successful men in their 30s are beside themselves at the prospect of competing against Faker at Summoner’s Riff for once in their lives.
  • But that seems to be changing slowly but surely. The replacement at the top could finally be due in 2024.

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    Chovy wins regular season and Player of the Split awards

    Who is the new star? “Chovy”, who is 4 years younger, played another strong season in South Korea in 2024 and held his own against a faker in top form:

  • Chovy and his Gen G. won 17 games and lost only 1 match, against KT Rolster. A total of 34 rounds were won and only one lost.
  • Faker and T1 are 15-3 games and have lost 8 rounds

    • Chovy also prevailed in the individual statistics, with 1,300 points he was named “Player of the Split” – Faker reached second place with 1,100 points.

    What is another sign of the changing of the guard? Before the 2023 World Cup, the “Asia Games 2023” took place, where South Korean professionals with a gold medal were able to avoid mandatory military service, which would otherwise herald a sudden end to their careers.

    Faker and Chovy both played for South Korea, who won the tournament comfortably, but Chovy played the majority of the games while Faker was only used once.

    At the World Cup, it was Chovy who came up short and had to settle for 5th-8th place after Gen G. was surprisingly eliminated in the quarterfinals.

    This is how people rave about Chovy: In a thread on reddit, the otherwise die-hard western LoL players are now raving about Chovy:

  • He had a statistically outstanding season
  • At the same time, he is extremely dominant in his lane, but roams into other lines like no other – that’s just crazy
  • Chovy plays perfectly and almost never makes mistakes – and if at all, they are only minor positional errors. Whenever you watch him, he delivers impressive gameplay.

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    From insider tip to legitimate successor to the throne

    This is what lies behind it: Chovy has been the absolute insider tip for LoL connoisseurs since his time at Griffin in 2018, but he hasn’t had a strong team around him for years.

    Since 2021 he has had a top team with Gen G. Despite this strong team, Chovy only has one flaw: he still needs a world title to finally catch up with Faker. Strangely, Chovy was unable to assert himself on the highest stage, the Worlds 2023.

    Maybe 2024 – after so many years – will finally be the year when someone other than Faker will be at the top of LoL for the long term.

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