Thread 718997992

>this is the greatest gamer ever according to experts
Does /v/ agree?

Just came here to say I don't know any gamers other than Fatality and Sonicfox.

too bad he lost the genetic lottery

Billy Mitchell is the greatest of all time but all his achievements are long ago

What did he fake?

>>718997992 (OP)
no but he can take that decade award.

>>718997992 (OP)
Flash would have won.

>>718997992 (OP)
It's between him and Flash. Maybe Nigel Richards.

>>718997992 (OP)
I know nothing about him

>>718997992 (OP)
What's he gonna do for work when he's no so good anymore? Commentator?

>>718998541
he's set for life from earnings alone

>>718998572
the bug family will milk him for everything he's got with their "respect your elders" and "don't you want your parents to be happy" bullshit and what ever other bug lies they come up with. He'll be broke inside 5 year.

>>718998642
haha what an insane jealous faggot

>>718998541
He's already not good anymore. Riot just rigs tournaments for him because his legion of 3rd world fans boost their stream numbers. He's the Pessi of LoL

Always assumed league of legends is Dota for kids and Americans? No that I enjoy any moba, but I really doubt this genre is the epitome of gaming (for me its truly ass

>>718998541
his net worth is 8 figures usd, why would he work?

>>718997992 (OP)
>not heaton
>not fifflaren
>not bomber
>not perplexity
>some literal who league fag

>>718998698
sorry you have to care for your elderly parents who are milking you for everything you got and despite working 18 hours its still not enough for them hopefully you get some relief soon kim woo

>>718998541
Whenever he streams the fucker never says anything I doubt he will ever commentate anything

>>718998541
he makes 5 million a year in salary (not including endorsements) and his contract just got renewed till 2029

>>718997992 (OP)
**Where's Showmaker??**

>>718998541
>wagey can't imagine a life without working

>>718997992 (OP)
Can he play Starcraft?
Yeah, didn't think so.

>>718997992 (OP)
Never heard of him. What does he play?

>>718998731
OH TWAIN

>>718998572
>>718998541
he started investing everything the moment he started earning seriously
he even taught his teammates to be careful around female fans and girlfriends

>>718999136
Ah, but that's where you're wrong. What Faker does is as good as playing Starcraft.

>>718999215
>to be careful around female fans and girlfriends

Damn he's actually based.

fake it 'til you make it, eh?

>>718997992 (OP)
>>718998541
>>718999174

>>718999308
asmon brutally mogs him last couple years

>>718998343
His career is fake because he plays League of Legends. The tiny Korean brain can't handle Dota so they play the easier version.

>>718998898
not him but i will never take care of my parents
45% of what i earn already goes towards the oldest strata of the population, which in exchange keeps voting against me, and actively despises me
my parents themselves only ever voted for their own interests, and they always gloated about it
my country is pretty much funded by the few young people working for the pensions and medical care of old people
my parents and my friends parents started living the good and wasteful life so they will not leave anything to their kids anyway

>>718997992 (OP)
Which fucking decade? Like the previous 10 years, or 2010s or something else entirely?

Make way for the real champion

>>718998862
> fifflaren and heaton
lol

>>718997992 (OP)
>awards
>esports awards

>>718999308
dud dud dud chat what do you mean my address was leaked? i blocked the view when i was driving!

>>718999353
isn't the dota2 one the international, while the lol one a regional championship?

>>718999473
When was the last time he won a major?

>>718999352
he was proven to heavily viewbot. Over half his viewers came from viewbots

>>718997992 (OP)
He's won the world championship in (one of) the most competitive video game 5 times over a span of 11 years.
Nobody keeps up with the natural increase of competitive skill as well as Faker has, every other gaming "legend" either becomes washed up or the game is irrelevant enough that they manage to keep up.

>>718998862
>fifflaren
we are in 2025 gramps

>>718999308
>>718999352
>>718999526
I was watching a streamer that was testing something with raiding on twitch. They hit the raid random person button multiple times and each time it picked to raid xQc.
So yeah I can only assume hes being propped up by Twitch

>>718999512
That screenshot is from Esports World Cup, where both games were played. LoLfags told me their game was more popular for like a decade, until I finally saw a tournament with both games and LoL paid less.

Koreans = tiny brain, big lies

>>718999215
yeah I see why he won

>>718999353
Cope and seethe. If League is the "easy" version, explain how Faker's been bodying world-class players for over a decade. Dota has its complexity, sure, but unless you're farming neutral camps for 30 minutes in a dead game, you're not doing much. League's tighter mechanics and faster pace filter you guys hard. Tiny Korean brain? Nah, it's your attention span that needs a patch.

>>718997992 (OP)
no
good at multiplayer brown poopie crap is not skill

>>718999676
>Esports World Cup
that means literally nothing

>lol thread
>dota2 inferiority complex shit up the thread
every single time
every time
all the times

>>718999857
It's not a LoL thread. Someone tried to say a Korean is the greatest gamer of all time. It's okay, I'm leaving anyway. I did my Koreanigger check and only a nuke on Korea could save this thread.

What makes him better than Notail? Who won far more money, played in more tournaments, played more than one game and was active for far longer.

>>718999771
NTA, but playing skillshot heavy champions like Nidalee and Jayce is very satisfying but I haven't played league since season 8

>>718999919
the award is for esport pc player of the decade
it doesn't mean he's the greatest player

>>718999771
>Tiny Korean brain? Nah, it's your attention span that needs a patch.
grok is that you?

>>718999974
>Who?
>HoN and Dota2
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

He and his team have performing poorly lately though. They fell off.

>>718999919
It was always going to be a Korean. The only question was whether Faker surpassed Flash and yes, by 2023 he definitely has.

>>718999974
Faker won worlds 5 times. There is nobody who can come close to matching this.

>>718999526
Where's your evidence? Twitch just fucked up their viewer count for a few days. Even then Asmon is still bigger than XQC.

>>718999401
i miss 2010-2012 so much. thats when the internet and esports peaked

>>718998898
any more fantasies you have that make it easier for you to cope that some people get to live life on easy mode?

>>719000193
>There is nobody who can come close to matching this
His four other teammates?

league is also the best game for homosexuals does v agree

>>718999780
>single player cope
The simplest PvP games take more skill than any of your sp baby mode shit by the nature of it being a human on the other side

>>718997992 (OP)
Why do all korean men have this retarded fucking haircut?

>>718997992 (OP)
you just know this loser has less than 4 inches

>>718999974
That's the thing he's not.
Faker has a salary from Riot, I wouldn't be surprised if Riot fixes matches for him to prevent him from becoming irrelevant because creating another idol like figure that thousands of turdworlders worship is basically just luck.

>>719000331
it's state mandated

>>719000270
he is the only constant

>>719000270
His teammates from which decade?

>>718997992 (OP)
it's flash

>>719000358
He has a salary from Comcast. Riot only mandates a minimum, it's up to the orgs to pay.

>>719000295
so you agree youre brown
lol

>>719000331
>the women have the same face
Kek.

>>718997992 (OP)
who? I only know fatal1ty

>>718999597
All of the Melee gods held on for like 20 years but it's a Nintendo party game so you don't care.

>>718997992 (OP)
seems like a pretty obvious take, he's a Lebron-tier celebrity in South Korea

>>719000569
well yeah Melee has about a dozen players total, League has hundreds of millions

>>719000573
A clown that fakes injuries?

>>718999352
luckily for xqc a decade is 10 years, not two

>>718997992 (OP)
>faker
>good
Literally gets carried by his team every year.
i'll never understand why people see him as the greatest when he jobs to other mid lane carries almost every match

>>718997992 (OP)
All that just to live in a country that will collapse in 30-50 years, shame

>>719000569
Melee falls into the "irrelevant" side of things. Not because it's bad or shallow, but it being LAN only is a huge barrier of entry. Case in point, as soon as Slippi came out you started seeing many new names climbing the ranks and outcompeting the "gods".

>>718997992 (OP)
Its Flash though.

>>718999473
Forever my presidente
>Get to grand finals so guaranteed to be in the true sight
>Lose so badly they stop making true sights
Being a secret fan is suffering

>No Saiyan
>No Walshy
>No StrongSide
>No OGRE 1
>No OGRE 2
pathetic

>>718997992 (OP)
ENTER

>>719000869
He was already a jobber in 2015 anon

>>719000828
Halo is some of the earliest professional e-sports, it doesn't get enough credit for sure. I watched people play Halo professionally on television in 2006 or so.

>>718997992 (OP)
Picrelated is the only relevant one. Big companies BEND their games to suit him exclusively.

>>719000934
The fact that he still actively competes is crazy though, even if Drivegauge Fighter 6 wasn't build for old men like him

>>718999597
>>719000627
yeah it's mostly these points that legitimize him
>top of his game when there are thousands (not a dozen) at the pro level trying to match him
>still at his prime and arguably getting better
>long track record, not some one shot wonder

You cannot find someone that matches him. They're going to check some boxes, but not every single one like he did.

>>718997992 (OP)
man I wish I could play LoL again
but I ain't installing Vanguard on my computer

>>718997992 (OP)
He plays the shit game that has no competitive edge. Being the best in LoL is like being the best in hobbyhorsing or some shit.
He wouldn't achieve anything in Dota that's for sure

>>719001192
Old man by old man's sake at least name Tokido who still manages to score a few wins against the best in the game right now.

>>718997992 (OP)
I am 100% a better gamer.
He might be more skilled at a single game but I 100% know outside of that specific game I am better. I'm twice his age too, it doesn't matter. I've been NEET for so long he does not compare.

>>718999308
it should be sodapoppin
that dude has made so many metas on twitch

>>719001306
>Magnus isn't the GOAT, he could never make it in checkers

>>718999353
All MOBA's are for retards

>>718997992 (OP)
>be an autistic nerd gook who only knows how to play a videogame and doesn't even know how to brush his hair
>become more famous than most celebrities for some reason
>gets paid millions by corporations to play for them
>millions of gamers worship him as some kind of deity
>get thousands of korean fangirls worshipping him and want to bear his children
>all this just for playing a fucking videogame

Why would a just god allow this?
Explain this to me, christians

>>719002203
>Why would a just god allow this?
because it's funny

>>718998541
Matchfixing like every pro

>>719002203
Lol this is just an harmless autist who's happened to be good at video game
There's many literal subhumans (rappers) who are way way more famous than him over in America

>>719001724
Everyone knows LoL is checkers

Can't wait for Trump to get rid of all these limp wristed useless faggots who wasted their entire life on a kike tool (videogames and tranime)

>>718999597
Soulkey is on his 4th ASL win, overtaking Flash's record for wins, although not close to his overall record.

>>718997992 (OP)
>Faker

>>719000193
Flash has won 3 ASLs, Soulkey has won 4, and that's literally only ASL, and doesn't account for the pre-ASL era.

>>718997992 (OP)
It's Justin Wong

>>718997992 (OP)
he looks like someone who eats a lot of cheese beef bowls

>>719003038
post-kespa BW is a similar case as Melee where nobody really cares anymore

>>719003038
>pre-ASL era.
so irrelevant in the context of eports player of the decade (2015-2025)

>>719003038
Flash is 1000000% worse than Faker. Faker is still relevant in modern play where flash has been ducking for years

>oh look the guy who have multi billion dolla world companies backing him up win

what a shocker...

>>719003301
>tranime

>>719000216
He's making an observation about brown/yellow people. It's completely correct. They've been brainwashed thinking they owe their parents shit when it's the opposite

forsen

>>718999215
wtf i love faker now

I genuinely know nothing of normalfag sports so I really don't know the answer to this.
But does normalfag sports do this kind of crap too?

I find the very notion of
>Best Esports Player of the Decade
to be ridiculous when they play different games from each other and typically have little and normally no overlap whatsoever between games or genres.
Who decides if the person who has no-lifed League of Legends is a better "esports" player than the person who no-lifed Street Fighter or the person who no-lifed Splatoon or whatever the fuck.
Do normalfag sports give out awards like
>Best Sportsball Player of the Decade
Even if that player only has a career in soccer or whatever and has never picked up a basketball or tennisball, or a curling mop or whatever the fuck in their life? Because that would be pretty silly. At that point you're effectively saying that one game is better than the others.

>>719003463
thing is, flash plays an actual RTS game that solely relies on the one person playing it. Where as Faker plays a fucking RTS-lite game. So no, Flash >>>>> Faker. Now and forever. Cope little assfaggots baby

>>719004390
The thing is, no, that’s not true. Flash does not play RTS because he is actively ducking competition because he’s a gimmicky washed up fraud

>>719003676
no he's not. asians ending up broke isn't a thing.

>>719004216
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlete_of_the_Year#List_of_athlete_of_the_year_awards

>>718999353
dota is not a video game, it's an online casino for children

>>718997992 (OP)
mickymouse awards, its legitimately safe to assume that whoever they award is not actually deserving of it.
awarding a player of the decade award in fucking 2025 is obviously retarded but i guess they were founded in 2015 and theyre just using any opportunity to award faker and t1 shit that they dont deserve. faker probably ouldve deserved player of the decade if it was 2010-2020 but 2015-2025 is extremely debatable in my opinion.
anyway fuck the esportsawards, every actual knowledgable person on the board left years ago. complete clownshow, fuck em.

>>718999352
not after asmomdead lost his viewbots KEK

>>719004667
>dota
>online casino
>children
You are confusing a lot of things.

>>718999216
literal reddit narritive lmao

>>719004707
Wonder what humiliation ritual he turned down, you think he’d do anyone after he immolated his mother

>>718999353
all moba's are for subhumans. Dota vs lol fags is similar to pajeets talking about brahmins and dalits. to every normal person you're just mobakeks.

>>719002867
>>719003038
Flash also has 4 ASLs, check the list of winners, against Sea in 2, Shine in 3, hero 4, and Snow in 8, along with the 2ed aginst Effort and the 3ed as random (basically counts as another win imo) what are you talking about?

>>719000135
theyre unironically in the best shape theyve been in years outside of worlds. in the past like 3 years t1 has notoriously been rather shit and plagued with issues during regular season. spring was a mess as well but post smash benching (they completely fucking destroyed his career for 0 reason as is t1's way of course) t1 generally played at a pretty high level.

>>718999676
Ah yes EWC, the irrelevant sportswashing slop put out by the Saudis. Weird how Dota, which has terrible viewership metrics, would get a larger prizepool than the biggest esport in the world. Unless perhaps there was some ulterior motive to do so, such as the Saudi government owning (buying) a competitive team in one and being irrelevant in the other. Wait who was that in second place in the dota placement again? Fucking kill yourself dotard shitter

Who the hell is Flash? Genuinely never heard if this dude until thos thread

>>719004639
That's weird as hell.
Who decides what sport matters more?

>>719000640
the industry astroturfing and kpopification of t1's lineup in particular has done irreperable damage to the scene. like 90% of these deranged parasocials on xitter only started following t1 and faker in 2023 so they hilariously missed the parts of his career when he was ACTUALLY incredibly good individually.

lmao at this one guy glazing some korean nerd for 50 posts in this thread lol

Why do /v/irgins claim to be hardcore but seethe at esports?

>>719005395
I was going to call you out but it feels like a decade since we've last had a korea time thread.

>>719001215
>still at his prime and arguably getting better
now thats some horseshit
hes been great at staying at the top of his game but inarguably his prime ended a long fucking time ago. like post 2017/2018 faker has become a completely different player which is commendable in its own way.

>>719002203
Being a professional esport gamer is so boring, imagine playing same shitty game and don't get any time to experience anything different

>>719000640
Is there a good example of Faker jobbing to other midlanes? I'm not baiting or anything, I stopped caring about and watching LoL back in like 2013 and my impression of Faker was always that he just abused the most overpowered champions of the patch and out-muscled his opponents purely by statchecking them.
Granted, this was back in the day when pros were retarded and didn't bother to play overpowered shit because they didn't realize how strong it was.

>>718999676
LoL players get paid salaries. The prize pool is just a bonus as opposed to DOTA where if you're not winning you're broke.

Soulkey is about to win his what 3rd asl in a row and niggas be glazing flash for beating mailmen and plumbers decades ago

>simping for random gook
I think everyone in this thread needs to fucking touch grass

>>719000527
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-race_effect

I'm sorry, but title of "best esports player" goes to Goichi "GO1" Kishida.
https://liquipedia.net/fighters/GO1

Wins in major tournaments not just in one game and its iterations, but across multiple games of all varieties. Multiple EVO titles. Multiple world championships. So many victories in smaller games that they're not even counted.

Not to mention, fighting games are the pinnacle of video game skill. You're not with a team, it's just you against the world, one fight after another. Team games are poor indicators of skill and talent, as most skilled and talented people know.

>>719005835
faker has jobbed to many elite mids at this point.
he stopped being the dominant individual player he was early on his career. by now he has become more of the archetypal leader figure, his best weapon know is his game knowledge.
chovy routinely rails his ass (every time of the year outside of worlds tbf)
realistically he stopped being an elite midlaner (purely on individual level basis) after 2018. post that point his teams sucked for a good while as well until they built the current core of the team in 2021/2022.

>>719005857
Don't dota players also get salaries, albeit set by their org and not by the game company like Riot does?

>>719005412
Presumably the people who vote on it.

esports is so embarrassing

>>719006117
mogged by SonicFox

>>719006205
How are league salaries set by Riot?

>>718997992 (OP)
I don't care.

>>718997992 (OP)
LoL is a dead gayme and this faggot sucks ass. He plays like shit never wins lane but feeds and gets carried by teammates. They carry him like a dead horse just for his name and aura.

>>718997992 (OP)
You can only be the greatest gamer if you're the best at every video game. This retard plays league of legends, a game balanced around female players.

>>718997992 (OP)
>shitskins don't produce good football
>they just buy all the footballers
>nobody in the west watches them play
>shitskins don't produce any good gamers
>they just buy all them
>nobody in the west likes their teams

that will never be not funny, wonder what happens if their oil and gas dries up.

>>719005582
there was one today. >>718994037

>>718997992 (OP)
>Saudi owned """"""""""awards""""""""""""" show

LMAO

>>718999401
the esports awards started in 2015 so it's 15-25

Figuratively and literally who

>>719007827
What the hell

>>718997992 (OP)
hes the real deal. he also is extremely good at sc, close to pro level as a casual. he could have chosen any esport and dominated, he chose the most popular one at the time with the most competition

>>718997992 (OP)
Esports are not games. Esports players are not gamers.

>>718999308
it should've been LIRIK.
the fact that xqc (a kick streamer) won it is a yoke

>>718999308
I can't watch that guy for more than a second, he talks like a complete moron. How did this guy become popular again?

>>718997992 (OP)
Faker is on another level so this is entirely justified
those who know, know

>e-sports
>gamer
lel

>>719008531
if we are rating 2015-2025 like the esportsawards are then its s1mple over faker any day of the week and its not close.
2010-2020 faker wins though

>>719009187
wrong

>>719009187
>CSGO shit
ah yes, the game with the known millionaire faggot cheater who got away with everything

>>719009397
who would that be

>streamers
>ecelebs
>exports
huge red flags. Get some real friends you virgin faggots

>>719009187
should be Pasha as he managed to stay healthy and not look like a complete potato while winning occasionally

>>719009481
shroud

>>719009554
ok but who even gives a fuck about shroud in current year man
and youre saying he cheated just to be dogshit at lan? i mean maybe but even if, does he fucking matter in the grand scheme of things?

>>718997992 (OP)
Yeah, second could be one of the CS guys or the sc2 guy (serral) then third the sc1 guy (soulkey)

>>719002203
he's pretty good at it

>>719002203
>>>become more famous than most celebrities for some reason

asked your mom who he is.

>>719006205
The average salary of a pro DOTA player is at best 50k a year discounting prize money. LoL players in the top leagues average around 200k.

literally who

>>718997992 (OP)
It's crazy how LoL and Roblox are at the top of slop games in their own age groups. Why anyone gives a shit about LoL, let alone the fag esports scene is beyond me.

>>719006205
It's a double edged sword, some get salaries but their sponsor gets the prize money, there are completely independent teams who pocket all of the prize money(coincidentally those teams tend to perform the best).
But then again this discussion is moot, since the only metric that should matter is the total earnings from tournament wins.

>>718998541
library attendant

>>718997992 (OP)
never heard of him so cant be that great

>>719011173
sounds like a peaceful life

>>719000331
hand holding unprotected sex with haerin

>>719011368
keep it down anon

>>719011474
s-sorry...

>>718997992 (OP)
>loses a 2v2 against a literal who that was platinum

>>718997992 (OP)
No, it's a low skill game.

>>718999215
mvp in the game and in real life

>>718999308
kwab

>>718998541
>What's he gonna do for work when he's no so good anymore?
He owns an office building in Seoul that he leases out and his company works from the top floor. He'll be okay.

HUGE ENTER

>>719005089
in a row

>>719000527
it's so weird how people are proud to be completely face blind (and thusly retarded).

>>719002203
>entertainment isn't worthwhile if I personally don't like it

I never heard of him before this thread.

I bet he can't beat Battletoads in Battlemaniac

>>719000331
Gooks always make feel schizophrenic because I can’t tell their faces apart.

>>719000527
I'm not asian and I can tell the difference.

>>719003038
>ASLs
lol
dumb zoomer faggot

>>718997992 (OP)
nobody here cares or plays esports slop

>>718997992 (OP)
OHMYGODFAKER

FAKER

WHAT

WAS

THAT

>>719001697
Every time he gets cucked by his girlfriend, he loses more respect from his viewers; at this point, it's nonexistent
its sad cause I believe he is a genuinely good guy

>>718999018
it's shoemaker
forever

>>718999387
what, you don't like boomers voting to battery-farm the country full of arabs and africans, send half the money to ukraine and enjoy cushy retirements?

>>718997992 (OP)
Literally who?

*blocks your path*

>>718997992 (OP)
OH MY GOD KIM YUN COCK!

>>718997992 (OP)
I don't even know who this guy is. Is he as dominant in his field as Zain is in melee?

>>719002203
> considered the best at one of the most popular games in the world
>consistently at the top after years of playing
what are you good at, anon? Please enlighten us

How can Faker be the best if he was solokilled by the Messi of league?

Not even close kid

>>718998541
Fucking boomer retard doesn't realise how much money these korean LoL pros are making

>>719004795
nah, it's just another valve online casino for children and turdies where they farm lootboxes and sell them on third party websites

>>719018348
*SOLO BOLOOOOD

>>719017576
Based

reminder that nobody outside the league world cares about his achievements, in a conversation with regular people nobody would be impressed by him other than his money.

>>719002203
Because no matter how rich and famous he gets, you can make a hand symbol with 2 fingers and make any gook seethe with rage and inferiority

>>718997992 (OP)
Nah, it's me.

>>718997992 (OP)
Who and who? Never heard of them.

>>719019482
the league world is like 200 million people

>>719019763
That's bigger than Austin, Texas.

>>718998541
working at LG or Samsung

>>719019763
>people
maybe 5 million tops, and 195 million flavors of asians from SEA who don't count as people

>>718998343
His accomplishments because he's a fucking League of Legends player. Any player of a team-based game, especially a shitty one like that, has no claim on being the best. If he's playing shit like fighting games, Starcraft or whatever then maybe.

You really should think about kys if you're playing league in 2025

>>719020405
I play urf/aram league as a friendslop game

Why are there so many bitter contrarians here on r/v/? Faker is without a doubt one of the GOATs of all time.

>>719020629
Silence gook

>>719014919
He’s a legend not better than GO1 who someone posted earlier, I’m glad he’s finally competing seriously in SF and showing how good he is

>>719020926
But you are brown tho?

>>719020629
L-Let my idol alone

>>719018431
>player of the decade
Flash retired 10 years ago anon

>>719021379
Oh you're a Ryu fanboy then. I see.

>>718999308
誰?

>>719002203
>Why would a just god allow this?
Because all roads lead to him.

>>718997992 (OP)
I can beat his ass in Dark souls 3 PvP

>>718998262
That stops mattering when you've got infinite money and therefore bitches

Well there's Koreans in here warning and banning people for "racism". What a pathetic race.

>>718997992 (OP)
I think you're the fake hedgehog around here

>>718999352
Asmon gets brutally mogged by a bar of soap

>>718999473
>completely stops being relevant since 2021

>>718997992 (OP)
>that fucking haircut

>>719000331
Koreans and individuality are two completely incompatible concepts.
They can't even listen to music if there's not at least 3 (preferably 6) identical people dancing and lipsyncing on stage

Does Riot still have money to shill shit like this? I haven't seen nor heard of LOL in at least 5 years, probably closer to 10.

>>718998541
>working past 35 when you have over 50 million in assets
Only if you're a NFL retard who blows through all their money within 10 months

>>719017576
>goes from imminent school shooter to swole rich gigachad who fucked and bred his qt asian wife

No trophies can beat this.
I fucking kneel, my god

>>719000331
they cant make it brocolli like american zoomers

>>719019763
>no publicly accesible stats
>arbittrary metrics
>viewership stats from 90% of their viewerbase in CN are not only viewbotted but completely manipulated
40 million and we're being VERY generous

>>719017576
This dude's got that shounen villain energy

>>719023484
In China and Korea, yeah.
LOL and MOBAs in general are fucking dead in NA and slightly less so in EU, and in SEA they got obliterated by MLBB

>>718997992 (OP)
>player of the decade

What a stupid award. Esports trying to force relevance is embarrassing. No one knows who this is or will remember him by next year.

>>719017576
member OG vs chink finals it was kino

>>719017576
>>719023717
>>719019412
>>719024296
>marries a random gook muslim in a third world country
>gets pussywhipped by his gook wife to convert himself, and his entire family to islam
>here's your gigachad bro

>>719000331
They're an asian enigma. Koreans practicing unhinged capitalism AND unhinged communism on one peninsula speaks volumes about their psyche.

>>719024520
nordics are either cucks or that

>>719024238
That makes sense. Third world shitholes are generally decades behind civilized nations.

>>718997992 (OP)
Flash looks less gay so he wins.

>>719021626
He's coming back to ASL soon anon trust

I know faker dominated a stagnant game but what else has he done? Just that can't possibly award anyone with """"player of the decade""""""

He got consistently beat by that one dude who got banned because he kept boosting people's accounts.

>>719024520
>pretend to believe in whatever meme sky wizard just to glaze these tits everyday
Yeah, worth

>>718997992 (OP)
>Esport
Cannt believe people actually use this word.
I get that there's a professional competitive scene, and that's how they should call it. Vidyas aren't sport.

>>718997992 (OP)
Lol hard to put him there when you realize riot has helped him with the patches not saying he is bad but having a meta change at the right time that happens to benefit you is massive

compared to valve that target nerf whatever team that has been doing great example GG when they were dominant

ENTER.

>>718999771
A true dota game starts at draft. That is the current level of complexity dota is at right now

>>719014919
He is the strongest for sure.

>>718999771
Faker is bodying world-class players because he is good and riot helps propping up his gameplay to milk the esports marketing. League boils down to winning one fight and snowballing. There is less champion diversity, less skill plays and no ways to comeback. Team composition or drafting hardly matters, teamwork is streamlined and there is realistically two cookiecutter strategies to win every game.
Meanwhile in dota the right support, without any items, has more potential impact in a game than what mid or adc you picked in your league game.

>>719027174
This. Force Faker to spend one year playing Dota and he'll not reach Divine.

>>718998541
He's a Korean celebrity and can do brand deals if he feels like it. Asian esports players aren't fucking rookie NFL/NBA players who blew all their shit in the first year.

>>718997992 (OP)
the king of ASSFAGGOTS?
so he's the least retarded of them?

>>719029234
he clears everyone on any game

>>719029234
>ASSFAGGOTS
Dota eat and spit mechanical divas with no sense of team play

LoL has lots of competition but it's a very low skill game, nothing they do is that impressive. I'd go with Flash from broodwar, he dominated for a long time and it's an incredibly difficult game.

>>718997992 (OP)
>>719002203
the fact that the chinks have never beaten him even once is so fucking funny to me

>>719023097
sadly thats not how life works outside movies. An ugly guy with money, will still be a loser without bitches. Just look at jeff bezos.

>>719030361
>force every meta around le epic meme man
>he wins
:O

FAKER? I THINK YOU'RE THE FAKE HEDGEHOG AROUND HERE

I'm thoroughly convinced that they grow these ghastly lil zoomers in vats

>>718997992 (OP)
Esports are for faggots, Id rather have some speedrunner that autistically plays the same game every day as a "greatest gamer"

>>719030951
>blocks your path

>>718997992 (OP)
Who?

>>718997992 (OP)
League is a joke. Wouldnt be surprised his company paid for the award.

>>719030502
>Just look at jeff bezos.
A guy on his second marriage with 4 kids?

>>718999308
DUDUDUDUDUDUDUUD U R PPOOOOR HAHAHAHAHHAh

>>719033302
>second marriage

>>719017423
i liked soda in 2012-13 mop feral era. getting drunk and throwing glass at his wall. now hes a cuck for his gf like you said

>>718999215
Wise man

>>718999215
I retract everything bad I said. He's based

esports arent videogames

>>719033386
Unironically peak zoomer humor

>>718998541
this is smash or fighting games. he can already retire if he wants to

>>719033267
that top earners? honestly league is such an awful game for "esports". None of the champs are remotely balanced for an even gameplay.

>>718997992 (OP)
That not kacho

>>719025297
If golfing is a sport then bing bing wahoo is a sport, sorry boomer.

>>718998541
why would he need to work when he's got millions more than enough to retire with?

>>719033267
>>719034409
Faker earns 5m/year. I don't even think players get prize money it's like football it all goes to the org, and the orgs pay salary.

>>718998541
>work

>>718999974
League is way more of a team game but even acknowledging that, he's been the only common denominator in 5 different iterations of the SKT team and each iteration has been either contending for the championship or won it for 11 years.

>>718997992 (OP)
Literally don't know who he is. What game does he play?

>>719030502
Bezos has a legit 10/10 Latina trophy wife. What the fuck are you even saying?

>>719030502
>t. coping wagecuck that """""peaked""""" at HS

>>719037962
Autism

>>718997992 (OP)
The greatest competitive gamer has to be a fighting game player. It's the highest form of competition, and there's no team to blame for your mistakes or make up for your weaknesses.

>>719002203
hes still a mental retard like most bug men and still has to simp for more money >>719037962
>>719038153

>>719038159
He is 31 tho

>>718997992 (OP)
>not Flash

I bet he wasn't even a nominee

>>719038282
If you check the picture it's of the decade, OP just wrote of all time mistakenly.

>>719038153
Man the same face is real for asians

>>719034409
they don't have to be perfectly balanced, it is a 5v5 game and both teams have access to the same champion pool

>>718998541
He makes 5 million a year solely on salary, discounting any brand deals and other shit. He owns a business complex building in Seoul and rents out like 90% of it. He's set for life, retard

>>718997992 (OP)
I sometimes still think about the Zed vs Zed fight he had with that one guy and I hate that fucking game. Also that Gragas ult into the red barrel. He's certainly the best at league imo.

>>719037962
based passionate competitor

>>719039724
you can be passionate without slamming your own head into a wall multiple times because you cant manage your emotion nor have any capability for future thinking

>>719040456
right but you could also be passionate and slam your head into the wall. it doesn't have to be your way

>>719040610
the point is slamming of the head making him a retard, him being passionate like every other player is irrelevant

>>719040805
no one cares though. everyone else has already forgot about this and still has a positive opinion of him

>>718997992 (OP)
>keep going
>don't stop
>we trust in you
>quake is best
>and by the way you have nice shoes
cooller
https://youtu.be/1aODGJJaQ4g?t=4628

>>718997992 (OP)
His eyes and face look fake lmao gottem

>>718997992 (OP)
That's not Rapha
t. quake boomer

>>718997992 (OP)
The greatest gamer of all time? My hero, Demetrius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTomMm61Ixw

>>719041201
lmao

>>719041387
Thresh is more widely known.

>>718997992 (OP)
>>719005395
>Most decorated player with the most absurdly high consistent winrate against the best of the other professional Korean players (75%+ winrate in every matchup) to this day, in a 25 year old game
>Comes back to Starcraft: Brood War after messing around in Starcraft II for a bit when he saw they started doing Starleagues again
>Wins 3 Starleagues vs the best Korean players, including the best Zerg and the best Protoss, in a row
>When he won his 3rd Starleague in a row, in the reward ceremony (happens immediately after the finals are finished) they presented him with an addional special trophy with his name congratulating him on the achievement, which meant they had it made BEFORE the finals were even played because it's Flash and of course he'll win 3 Starleagues in a row
>They start sabotaging him so hard by making maps so dogshit for Terran so he won't win again, which results in every other Terran getting BTFO in every tournament
>One of the maps literally had 0% winrate for Terran in TvZ. He somehow wins another Starleague a few seasons afterwards, so they sabotage maps again
>He says fuck it, swaps to Random which means he has to learn and practice 3 races instead of 1 and 9 different matchups instead of 3, beats the 2nd best Terran in the world 3-0 in a Best of 5, once with every race, gets 3rd place in that Starleague on his first try with Random
>They panic and make him go to the military to do the mandatory military service that men have to do in South Korea

He's doing this with his wrists falling apart and requiring surgery multiple times. He'll hopefully come back in the next season and win it with Random.

Lets see Soulkey winning multiple starleagues in a row when the tournament organizers create dogshit maps for Zerg like they did for Terran when Flash was winning, and when he stops dodging every ZvZ he possibly can every tournament.

>>718997992 (OP)
>Gook faggot only good at playing a single game with 4 buttons
Lol
Any StarCraft player mogs this coconut head chigga

i look like this

>>719038153
>mohammed bin salman al saud
holy cringe. thats pathetic even for a bug.
>>719038532
>they don't have to be perfectly balanced
yeah i like how in football, chess, etc one team has a broken champion with zero skill shots or frame clipping abilities. makes it really fair.

>>719041986
>>719041807
SC BW is just the same 20 koreans and artosis playing it. Once you beat the other 19 koreans once you know you can beat them over and over.

this dude's been seething all day hahaha

>>719042618
Anon... the white has the advantage on chess. The home team also has an advantage on football. And yet it is somehow balanced because you play multiple games before deciding who is the winner

And not to mention that there is a ban phase in lol. Even in a hypothetical scenario where a champion is so OP it wins 100%, it would be banned immediately by the 2nd team

>>719000331
CODE?!

>>719043071
>ASSFAGGOTs players are so bad at their own game they have to ban characters mid-tournament because they are "too good"

this entire genre is a fucking joke lmao

>>719043216
>ban characters mid tournament
You don't know how pro tournament games are drafted don't you.

>>718997992 (OP)
HE'S DOING THE SIGN
IYKYK

>>719043643
THIS CHINKY NIGGA GOT GROOMED BY MASONS 100%

Really tired of the astroturfing surrounding League. It's never been a good game and only girls and simps play it. Riot literally controls the meta, which hasn't changed ever and match fixes to keep this soulless gook relevant.

>>719043734
That sounds like some schizo shit. I don't care about League at all but they pump money into it so they get players. Simple as that. Valve did the same shit with DotA2 and CS.

>>719041807
>They panic and make him go to the military to do the mandatory military service that men have to do in South Korea
I mean that generally happens to everyone. Is faker the sole exception? How come he got one? I guess lol is a lot more profitable compared to sc

>>719043875
Faker has gold medal from the Asian Games a while back. Korea gives exemptions to all gold medalists

>>719041807
>They reduce the chokepoints that makes it easy mode for terran and makes it impossible to lose except Zerg plays exceptionally well
>Terrans are going apeshit
Kek

>>719044013
Sparkle had 0% winrate in TvZ. Zero percent winrate for Terran.

>>719043859
Valve funded one tournament a year and shilled the DPC which they ended up dropping. As far as CS goes, all they do is make stickers for tournaments. Both CS and Dota gained their popularity organically and still thrive despite Valve's best efforts to never update them. League's 'popularity' has always been manufactured.

>>719044059
>Valve funded one tournament a year
Valve funded the biggest prize pool tournament a year for years.

>>719044128
>Valve funded
The playerbase funded it with a battlepass. The 40Million TI only had 1.6Million from Valve and 38.4Million from players buying battlepass levels.

>>719043071
>he white has the advantage on chess. The home team also has an advantage on football.
This is nowhere near the same level as a syndras stun being instant, busted champs that can go 1/15/2 and sit top and become unkillable like illaoi. I played league anon, you arent going to convince me its balanced.
>some champs have no mana and thus no penalty to missing skill shots
>some champs can just build tank and roll everyone via true damage or lifesteal mechanics
>garen ult
>garen in general
>the 20 videos on my youtube feed about how a champ ruined the league tourney that year
its a bullshit game and always will be because unlike chess or football they arent trying to sell a new champion with power creep for income.

>>718998541
>What's he gonna do for work when he's no so good anymore?
Glue factory.

>>719044050
Maybe terran players should just get better at game and stop relying on "I sieged 2 tanks here and now it is safe for eternity".

Zerg players adapted to several nerfs that hit them all over the place. They have to play more aggressively and the game is generally less forgiving for their mistakes

>>719006318
go1 is an actual multi-game god
sonicfox only thrives in mk and the first month of a new game's release

>>719044128
Valve funded the 1.6 million initial prizepool. The rest was funded by the playerbase.

>>719044342
>Zerg players adapted to several nerfs that hit them all over the place
zerg players are the best thats why. In both sc2 and 1. Nerf after nerf and they can still sweep. Protoss are the retard players.

>>718997992 (OP)
Hungrybox

>>719044342
There is no "get gud" in an island map when the Zerg starts with 2 gasses.

>>719044307
I never claimed individual champions are balanced
>they don't have to be perfectly balanced, it is a 5v5 game and both teams have access to the same champion pool
Op claims the champs are unbalanced and thus it is not a. "even gameplay" which I believe incorrect

>>718997992 (OP)
It's flash

>>718997992 (OP)
>esports slop
I couldnt care less

>>718997992 (OP)
I mean his first world championship win was 2013, his last was 2024.
Is there any other pro that managed to have a wins across a period of 11 years?

>>718997992 (OP)
Who?

>>719044645
Flash.

>>719044645
>>719044735
>1st Starleague victory
2008 Bacchus OSL (March 2008).
>Latest Starleague victory
ASL Season 8 (September 2019).
Literally.

>be zerg
>the race with the highest apm requirement
>all your units are very fragile and specialized
>one misstep and you lose half your army in a second
>need to have +3 bases compared to the enemy so you can keep up while enemy has several options to scout and harass you
>all your good units are hit by nerfs after nerfs
Yet they are still winning, how do they do it terran bros?

>>718997992 (OP)
Faker is also the only man that has ever been inside Emiru.

>>719045406
>nerf after nerf
Last gameplay patch was in 2002.

>>719045519
>Last gameplay patch was in 2002.
SC2 zerg got nerfed 6 months ago.
>>719045406
>how do they do it terran bros?
zerg players are just better but ultimately its not terran thats the problem its protoss. A race for shitters who think theyre good.

can someone explain to me how team liquid signed the top chess player? are chess players that poor or did tl somehow get a bunch of money? I remember when the best players they had were nony and haypro.

>>719041807
also his first tournament win was when he was 14 and he got the nickname "child labor" for carrying his team in pro league.

>>719045836
Was anyone talking about SC2? Only Starcraft pros I saw mentioned were Flash and Soulkey and they both play broodwar.

>>718998541
He's a millionaire already

>>719046094
sc2 and serral have been mentioned several times in the thread. not sure if he was referring to BW or not.

>>718997992 (OP)
>mobashit
disgusting how this shit is still relevant espoop

>>719045514
>only
a random anon could claim that he also was inside her and the odds of that being true wouldn't even be low

>becomes a challenger in korea with his unconventional play style and shaming the entire country
>riot had to make very targeted and extreme nerfs against his champion and playstyle and save the honor of south korea

whyt the FUCK was this fag's face being spammed in twitch's ads during the speedruns events?
>muh no ad
it fucking broke every time and streamlink didn't want to work for some reason.

>>719045406
>le balanced race of winning every macro game
>le shitting out 24 units at once without even needing to take up space with production buildings
yeah i wonder why they keep winning

>>719046570
skill issue

>>719046317
assfaggot/RTSGODS are the highest avg IQ of any genre
you simply got filtered, monkey

>>719045514
Probably his only worthwhile accomplishment

>>719046440
Well yeah Riot has to fix shit for retarded Koreans.
It's also funny people praise their low IQ strategies every time when they're all essentially just run at your opponent and hope you skill gap them and if it doesn't work just give up and spam surrenders to go next.
That's why the game is designed around it and instantly nerfing anything that requires actual strategy or thought.

>>718999974
Notail isn't even the most legendary player from OG, everything he did FuckingMad did too only more impressive since Mad came out of retirement off the coaching bench to play on short notice, same goes for Ana. Notail is the most carried player in esports history, he was even playing second fiddle to Mad as morale hype man

>>719048378
>CEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...EEEEEEEEEB

>>718998541
He fucking owns the company my dude

>>718997992 (OP)
He plays boring faggot games but you have to respect the skill, He has a fucking TOWER

>>719032852
>Number1 in the world in his first year of tier1
>Highest ever performance at tier1 event for his first ever tier1 event
>Won the big 3 in less than a year and a half of competition
>youngest major winner in history
>highest major rating in history
>second highest rating ever in Cologne history by 0.01
>highest rated rookie of all time far above zywoo
>won 10 MVPs in less than 2 years of play, most MVPs won in such short timespan
>first pure rifler hltv top1 since 2015
>Biggest carry in the history of the game with highest rating difference between him and his teammate
>Only player ever to put 2 maps at 2+ rating a grand finals of a tier1 event
>highest number of ace in a major
>all of that playing entry, the hardest role in counter strike to get stat with

When we ended 2023 we were truly not ready for what donk was about to achieve. He might be the most gamechanging competitor in the history of any competitive discipline be sports or esports. It's like if rookie Messi won every championship possible for his first ever season and was the player of the year as well.

>>718999308
ABLOOBLOOAGFSJSNDGSSBLLOOABLOOBLOO
BLOOBLOO

>>718999308
and no one cried

not even top 10 highest paid esports players
including if you exclude dota

Not even sure why people bother watching any league shit when only one player matters. Everyone else is so shitty it's a travesty.

>>718997992 (OP)
>Only plays one game, or one genre of game
>gamer
Lol. LMAO even.

>>718997992 (OP)
>masonic vow of silence

>>718997992 (OP)
The most shilled esports player in the world by far. Maybe if he was playing a complicated game then maybe Id respect him but hes playing lol a baby version of dota which is already a baby version of wc3 which is a baby version of AoE