A 66-year-old grandpa becomes a legend in LoL and a nightmare for Riot Games

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A 66-year-old musician from Brazil has dedicated himself to the MOBA League of Legends and has now become a local celebrity. He is on Twitch under the name “VoCorve”. In doing so, he causes fear and terror, not among his opponents in LoL, but among his fellow players.

This is the man’s story:

  • When he was 64, the man could no longer work as a guitar teacher and musician. The corona pandemic made this impossible for him in 2021 (via maisesports).
  • To support his family and because he always liked games, he turned to the world of games and became a streamer on the streaming service Twitch. He opened his channel there in 2018.
  • As of 2021, LoCorvo became a full-time streamer on Twitch and exclusively showed League of Legends there. He now has an average of 160 viewers when he streams LoL.

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    Strong players on fake accounts took away grandpa’s fun in LoL

    This is what happened to the man in LoL: If you start LoL in your mid-60s, you’ll have a hard time. LoL requires skill with the mouse and keyboard, as well as concentration, knowledge and overview, but the most important thing is mental flexibility: you have to be ready to question your own game at any time in order to get better.

    This is all hard enough.

    But today it’s even harder to be successful in LoL than it used to be. Because there are “smurfs”, that’s what it’s called when an actually good player who has already achieved a high rank intentionally plays with a weakly ranked account in order to get easier opponents. Some players also smurf to be able to play with their friends who have a lower rating or who have just started LoL.

    LoL’s matchmaking actually stipulates that you only compete with and against players of equal strength in order to win about 50% of the time and lose 50% of the time:

  • But if you smurf and cheat, you will only face easy opponents, feel powerful and achieve high win rates.
  • For the Smurfs’ opponents, however, this means the exact opposite: they face overpowering opponents, feel bad and constantly lose.

    • VoCorvo was shown his limits so often by much stronger games that he had enough and sought revenge.

    LoCorvo says of himself that he knows he is not a good player and is actually an “iron player,” but he found ways to get revenge.

    Trundle.

    You reap what you sow

    This is how he became a legend: The older gentleman was given a master account, which he then used to play with his favorite champion, Trundle. However, VoCorvo was far too bad to survive at this level.

    So every match he entered, he lost again and again.

    He quickly realized that this was a way to get revenge on the strong players who humiliated weak players like him: he became a “reverse smurf” who ruined the games of the higher-ranked players.

    VoCorvo says:

    After being massacred by talented players with smurfs in the lower ranks, I thought of a saying from my time: You reap what you sow. My primary account is rated Iron, but my secondary account is rated Master.

    It had these effects: VoCorvo became so popular on the server in Brazil that players began fleeing games when they saw a Trundle, the man’s favorite character, on his team.

    As millenium writes, many Brazilian streamers are not even mad at him, but can understand that he is only doing to the higher-ranking players what happened to him: he is ruining their games.

    However, Riot Games doesn’t seem to be taking it so easily. They say they spent months trying to suspend his account. The story of VoCorvo is also available in evil. The whole thing happens a little more meanly: The worst troll in LoL has already been banned 1,600 times – but he always comes back to destroy the next match

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