In South Korea, LoL player Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok is something of a national treasure. He is considered the best League of Legends player of all time. But the 24-year-old is in crisis and his coach has benched him. Some supporters react to this with angry messages that the coach should kill himself.
What’s going on with Faker? Faker is apparently having trouble getting motivated and is not at his best. His team, T1, has coped well with the departures of two stars from the 2019 team and is doing quite well with 11-4 wins in the LCK, but Faker has had to take some criticism.
T1’s new coach, Kim Jeong-soo, has even benched him. Instead of Faker, a rookie is now starting in the midlane, rookie Clozer (17), and he’s doing a good job.
You can see that here in the Twitch clip, when T1 turns around a 3-5 against KT Rolster and that without Faker.
Coach likes his team better right now without Faker
Why is Faker out? The coach says in the interview with Inven, the change has several reasons:
- With Faker, there are too many people on the team who want to make announcements – rookie Clozer is quiet and just does what he’s told. That fits better right now
- Faker is stressed right now and not at his best, he said. He even has problems even if the opposing team bans only a few of its champions.
- With Clozer things are going well now. T1 has won 5 games in a row. Coach is having a hard time changing that, he said
However, Kim says, he has talked to Faker a lot now and criticized him. He says he has found new motivation in criticizing him and is training hard. In the training games, he says, Faker is in no way inferior to the rookie and the two are practically equal in strength.
It is rumored that Coach Kim is considering using Faker again against the best midlaners in Korea, as Clozer has yet to prove himself against them.
Faker hasn’t seemed as invincible in recent years as he once was.
“Why Don’t You Kill Yourself Now?”
These are the effects: Coach says both players and management get a lot of news every day. 80% of them are positive, but 20% are hate news, which is then talked about a lot.
Sometimes you’d get sent a gruesome picture of a ghost saying something like “Die – damn you.” in red letters.
He says it’s not even about how the team is playing right now. He’s already gotten messages saying, “If you don’t let Faker start in the next match, you might as well just kill yourself.”
Coach Kim says he blocks people who send messages like that as a matter of course, but it doesn’t feel good to have to read something like that.
The most famous LoL player in the world declares: If you do this, you just suck
Management threatens legal action
This is now the consequence: In a statement, T1 CEO Joe Marsh has addressed fans. He says the “online hate” has increased to the point where he can no longer remain silent. He says it’s understandable that decisions made by professional teams are criticized, but a line has clearly been crossed when it comes to threats of violence.
If this doesn’t stop, he said, T1 will begin to take legal action.
Here’s what’s behind it: At the moment, the “1st generation” of LoL stars is gradually dying off:
LoL pros who made a big name for themselves are now in their mid-20s and are being replaced by younger players. Especially since the star players seem to find it difficult to motivate themselves for normal league operations and to constantly deliver their top performance.
These “veterans” have earned huge fan bases over the years, and fans continue to believe in their idols. But time seems to stop at no one, not even the “unkillable demon king Faker.”
He already looked unusually vulnerable at the 2019 Worlds when he lost to “Europeans” and was eliminated, unthinkable in the past.
Faker is LoL’s flagship player. Normally, he is considered emotionless and stoic: a LoL machine who became world champion in 2013, 2015 and 2016. All the more memorable are images in which he fails and shows weakness.
LoL players are almost obsessed with the “crying faker” when he lost the final against Samsung Galaxy in 2017:
Everyone loves the crying LoL god before the Worlds – 3 videos stage Faker
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