The 27-year-old Cho “BeryL” Geon-hee is one of the best support players in League of Legends worldwide, and he is considered a nightmare opponent for the South Korean team T1, having eliminated them twice at LoL Worlds. BeryL became world champion in 2020 and 2022, joining a select group of players that has achieved this. But BeryL’s true passion belongs to the waifus in Genshin Impact.
How is BeryL known? The “support role” in LoL is the least noticeable in the game. Mid-laners are usually the stars, followed by junglers. Then come ADCs and top-laners, and at the end of the food chain are supporters.
But BeryL is an exceptionally strong supporter: in 2020, he was at the core of the then world-class trio of Damwon Gaming, alongside Showmaker and Canyon, and overwhelmingly won the world championship title.
In 2022, he was part of the underdog team DRX, which snatched Faker’s safe 4th world championship title away. He is the only player in LoL who has become world champion with 2 different teams, and neither of them was T1.
Faker and T1 simply cannot win against BeryL:
BeryL has a heart and a lot of money for waifus
This is his true passion: BeryL is, as is known, a huge fan of anime-MMOs like Genshin Impact or similar games that strongly focus on waifus. The anime ladies have captivated BeryL:
He spent $7,000 in the game Genshin Impact from his world championship victory in 2020.
He demanded from Riot that they create his Worlds skin for Leona 2020 based on his “waifu” Sasaki from Princess Connect Re:Dive.
For 2022, he requested from Riot his favorite character from Honkai Impact as a model for his heroine Ashe.
BeryL made his new contract wait because he was still at a Genshin Impact event
Here is his latest story: BeryL’s contract with KT Rolster had now expired, and he was looking for a new team. Most teams announced their commitments starting November 13. There, Keria signed with T1 – BeryL is considered his nightmare opponent, against whom even Keria simply cannot win.
However, BeryL took an astonishingly long time with his new commitment.
Only on November 19 was it revealed that he was returning to Damwon Gaming and to Showmaker, who apparently missed him painfully in recent years.
As it turned out later, DK had to wait a little longer for his commitment because BeryL wanted to participate in a promo event for Genshin Impact, which only lasted as long as he was not under contract with a LoL pro team.
BeryL is “The Genshin Bro”
This is how it is discussed: People are having a royal laugh on Reddit about the story. It is said that other professionals also call him “the Genshin Bro.” Before Genshin, he passionately played Princess Connect! Re: Dive.
Besides his enthusiasm for Genshin Impact, BeryL is mainly known as “The Kryptonite” for T1, as he eliminated T1 at Worlds in 2021 and 2022.
The European equivalent of BeryL and Genshin Impact is the Dane Wunder: he was considered for years the leading top-laner in Europe, but his heart actually beat for World of Warcraft, which even cost his team some money: LoL imposes a $1000 fine on G2 Esports because a pro played WoW Classic
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