In the current professional League of Legends village, there are many players whose names have been associated with the history of the game and is a guarantee for the attraction of the tournament. For example, it is the case of Faker. He is not only a professional and mental leader for T1, but also the name “view sentence” number 1 for LCK and the tournaments that T1 participates. In particular, although at high age, Faker still shows the importance of T1's victories. Especially from the middle of the LCK Summer 2023 to the 4th World Championship in the career of “Demon King” is the most obvious evidence for the saying “the older the ginger the older the ginger”.
Faker is the most veteran player in the current professional League of Legends
However, according to Doinb – the Champion of Worlds 2019 recently said, he said that some players despite their reputation and impressive achievements, but the competition style has no longer met the requirements, even inferior to young players. In addition, the former Middle line Funplus Phoenix said many LPL and LCK players will retire next year. Areas such as LCK, LPL will cut costs and force teams to prioritize young talent training rather than holding veteran players who own high salaries but contribute is not equal.
But Doinb thinks that many “old generals” own high salaries and reputation in the past but no longer contribute much in the present.
Doinb's judgment is also reasonable when up to the present time, around the world, many professional League of Legends players in the elderly are still playing, while young players have not had the opportunity to show or are not eligible for more development. Even some areas such as LCS or PCS … are also considered as a “old nursing” place when teams pay high salaries but many of these players fall into the “old general”, such as Jensen, Jankos or Impact.
Impact is old but still fighting at LCS
On the other hand, young players today are also very few people can meet the requirements of the top teams. The case like the 2k2 star of T1 or Peyz of Gen.G is very rare. Right at T1, Poby showed how he “matched” when he replaced Faker last summer.
Poby was promoted to the first team of T1 last year, but for many reasons he did not have a good performance.
The changes are extremely necessary for the current League of Legends, especially when the golden stage of the “old village” players has passed for a long time. But on the other hand, teams also need to meet professional and in fact, not all young players can be suitable to play in the top environment.