The League of Legends World Championship is currently taking place. For days, players have been fascinated by a clip that shows the LoL world champion, Faker on Sylas, fighting against one of the best players in the world, Chovy.
This was the situation in the clip: It was the semifinals of LoL Worlds 2024 between top South Korean teams T1 and Gen G. 5 million people watched at the top:
Old master Faker (28) played on the Champ Sylas. At the beginning of the clip he barely has any life points left. Normally his only option is to teleport to the base. Faker is considered the best and most famous LoL player ever, but it has been said for years that he is actually past his peak.
Faker’s team has had a difficult year in 2024. The champ himself looked ailing after a wrist injury and even lost control after a defeat. T1 got off to a rocky start in the main round of the World Cup and immediately lost its first game.
His opponent Chovy plays on the Champ Ahri and has around 80% life points. Chovy is currently considered the best player in the world and the legitimate successor to Faker. His team, Gen G., was the favorite to win before Worlds and played the main round flawlessly.
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What do you see in the clip? Even though Faker has so few life points that any mistake he makes would be fatal and Chovy only has to catch him once with Ahri, Faker plays the situation perfectly.
He dodges Ahri’s attacks while striking precisely with a hit-and-run tactic and is safe again when Chovy attacks.
Ultimately, Chovy has to retreat to the safety of his own tower on Ahri, who clearly loses the duel.
Faker’s clip isn’t shown on a large broadcast, but it still goes viral
That’s how it’s going to be a commentrt: The 20 seconds in the clip were not shown in the official broadcast, but the scene was so significant that it was discovered first in South Korea and then worldwide. The scene was the most popular clip on Reddit last week.
It is also analyzed here why Faker seeks the fight even though he has hardly any life points. The strategic situation of the map requires that Faker ties Chovy in the midlane so that he cannot support his team in other lanes.
On Reddit it is believed that Faker played a “mind game” with the younger Chovy throughout the series and made it clear to him with his style of play that Faker is still the alpha of LoL and is in a league of his own. In another scene he even chased Chovy into the groups. It’s believed on Reddit that all of this left Chovy unsettled and unsettled.
The players are also so impressed by the scene because Faker has shown weaknesses all year but appears to be at his best when it counts.
Some on Twitter are chuckling at the scene, which shows Faker’s perspective of the fight. It couldn’t be real at all. Everyone knows that when Faker plays LoL, he also has 3 other games open and does his taxes. This alludes to the South Korean’s peculiarity of quickly changing the viewing angle in LoL so that he can keep an eye on everything: Normal people see Faker’s screen during a World Cup game – they can’t figure it out