Hey guys, today i´ll be introducing to the biggest name in League of Legends history as a competition. For you who don´t know who Faker is i´ll be talking about who is he, his achivements and how he became the face of the most popular online game.
Who is he?
Lee "Faker" Sang-Hyeok is a 24 year old South Korean League player for T1. He has the reputation and the recoignition from the comunity and from other competitors as the greatest of all time. To see how far he has gone in his carrier we have to go back seven years to his beginnings.
Career
Faker is what in football is known as a "one club man" he has been with the same team all his career, who singed him back in 2013 when he was just 17. He started in the second team as a promising prospect from the game´s ladder, just a cupple of month´s after he was included in SKT Telecom T1 first team. But where Faker really introduced himself to the worlds was at the Korean summer finals, where he displayed a magnificent performance all across the series and making his lane oponent look like a rookie. Not only that he leave what is probably the most iconic moment and most famous outplay of all time and also the most known and remembered cast of this game.
With this victory SKT T1 went to the international stage as one of the heavy candidates to win the 2013 world championship and so it was, Faker not only won his first international competition but he devour what was considered world class mid laners at that time. They went back to Korea and show no other thing but dominance winning another domestic tittle in commanding fashion.
After some poor performances they didn´t attemp to world´s 2014, they restructured the team leaving Faker as the only member from the last roster taking him as the key member for a restructure.
After this restrucuturation he had competition for his place at the team, but not only competition he also loosted his place at the main roster and the team won the spring split without him playing in the finals. Thery went to the new international competition as again the favourites. This time they went to the final against the chinese champions and faker did not play the first 3 games, when theyr where down and at match point he was subed in and forced a game 5. In this game happend a decition that would go down in history, they picked a champion in wich Faker have ever lost with, but in the end it was a bait and they lost the tournament. Back in korea the again won the split in a better way than they did in spring but this time he was undisputed at his role.
From 2015 to 2017 they won everything. They won 2 world championship and 2 MSI, also completing what is known as a "Grand Slam" wich consists of winning all big 4 tournaments (spring split, MSI, summer split and Wrold´s) in the same year, being to this day the only team to achive this. Faker was named by the community as "The unkillable demon king" due to his dominence and playstyle.
In 2017 he was again at a World´s finals but this time he lost, giving us a picture to remember, the first time Faker lost a best of 5 at world´s wich let him destroyed, and also showing a human part it was almost ignored all across his career. He went from "unkillable demon king" to a boy crying in front of 75 million people. From here to this day he has won 5 domestic titles but internationaly is a different story.
Why is he the face of the most famous competitve game?
In this same picture we see up here another team won the competition ending with the most winning team in history, shuting down a 4 international title streak, but from this tournament this is the moment that is remembered. In 2019 World´s semifinals they were eliminated by a incredible team but the what will be remembered from this other torunament is Faker shaking after he made a mistake.
A lot of players don´t care or don´t follow the competitive scene of the game but they care if Faker goes to World´s or not, if he is winning.
I have a friend that started playing 4 or 5 months ago and he told me that in the fourth game he ever played he already saw Faker written down in the chat.
He is the face of a game the indisputable G.O.A.T of the game the "idol" and objetive for all the players. Throughtout the years a new Challenger approached but the Challenged never chaged.
Outside the game he is also known for being the best a lot of people who play other games also know´s him, so you can imagine how far he has come, how a guy who just plays videogames tunerd into a athlete.
Lee "Faker" Sang-Hyeok is probably the most know character in history of esports.
Álvaro Eugenio
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