At the present time, Faker is “Goat of League of Legends” and this will probably exist until the Riot game officially ends. Because, in terms of title, professional impact, influence on the team, organization, League of Legends in particular or Esports in general of Faker is no need to be discussed. Not to mention, Faker's persistent career is still something that not every player can do, especially in a harsh environment like LCK. There may be older players than Faker still competing (Impact, Corejj) but these players no one is playing in an extremely high competitive area like LCK.
Faker great thanks to his title, influence and durable career
Recently, in an interview on the occasion of preparing to become the first name to enter Riot's Hall of Legends, Faker has shared around his career as well as passion for the game since childhood. And the truth was revealed by Faker himself surprised many people: he played the game from the age of 5 and went to the net rooms and game shops to be able to play many different games. But in the past, the game he played at the time was at the Audition genre. Meanwhile, the game he played poorly was antagonistic games.
But Faker himself admitted that when he was young, he was not good at fighting games but only played or the genre of Audition games (dancing, dancing game)
This also surprised the audience. Because, League of Legends is a real -time action strategy game and can be considered a fighting game when the two sides also fight and fight with each other continuously. And in fact, Faker only came into contact with League of Legends at the beginning of the third year of the junior high school level (equivalent to 9th grade in Vietnam, then Faker was about 15 years old). He also said that, since he was charming with League of Legends, Faker had retired from all the games that had been played before.
But perhaps Faker himself did not expect to be charming with League of Legends (also the fighting game), he became the greatest player of Esports
This can be considered a surprise, but also shows: The genius like Faker is not innate, but he himself has made great efforts. Game skill may be available, but Faker has also turned “short” into a forte and even became the greatest player of all time of a game of antagonistic genre – a rare genre that he himself was not good at childhood.