Perhaps in the village of League of Legends, it will be difficult to find a special player like Beryl. The player currently wearing KT Rolster is the second support in League of Legends history, besides Wolf, twice won the World Championship. But especially more than Wolf, Beryl won with two different teams and the Drx in 2022 was also known as a miracle when no one thought the team came to Worlds thanks to the regional qualifying capacity could go a circuit to the final and defeat the powerful T1 to the throne. It can be said that Beryl is the most special support for League of Legends.
Beryl is the only support in the history of League of Worlds Championship twice with 2 different teams
But if only considering achievements will be difficult to turn on the speciality of Beryl. Perhaps those who regularly watch LCK understand: Beryl is a player very rarely livestream climbing rank. Instead, he pays attention to his favorite games like Honkai Impact 3RD or Genshin Impact. Even, the former Drx's former coach SSONG has confirmed that Beryl does not climb rank but will study through the Patch Note, watch the match again: “He will find out the characteristics of the players, observe and capture data like the way, also analyze the YouTube videos of some prominent names. Basically, he will do many different things.”
But his free time will be for his favorite games like Genshin Impact, not to climb League of Legends
Explaining himself with less climbing rank, Beryl has recently given the core cause: “For example, at the current rank of high ranks, there are too many people. Of course there will be real people. But I feel that the players in the previous years are not like now. There are many good players before, but maybe now they are no longer playing. The current level of players is not as good as old players.”
Beryl explained that he now finds the rank is no longer a quality environment when the player's level is not equal to the previous one.
In fact, over time, the problem of breaking games or buff elo is no longer too strange and not only Korean rank but almost every server in the world records more or less these cases. And certainly, these people's qualifications cannot be compared to those who climb their ranks with their strength. Not to mention, there is also the situation of buying accounts that make many people play at ranks more than their actual level.
Players like Faker play rank just to practice skills are the main
Moreover, as the former Drx coach has affirmed above, Beryl also has other ways to study League of Legends. And not only the support of KT, other professional players like Faker are not so important. For them, the rank is a place to practice skills and research on play rather than to achieve high ranking. Therefore, whether or not to climb rank or not, perhaps only a very small part that affects the competition of professional League of Legends players.