Yesterday, the new song for the World Championship in LoL, the LoL Worlds 2024, was introduced. The song “Heavy is the Crown” comes from Linkin Park and features the world champion of League of Legends, T1, and their midlaner Faker as stars. One detail in the trailer gives one goosebumps if one recognizes it.
This is the idea behind the anthem of the Worlds: Every year, Riot Games releases a new anthem for the LoL Worlds. An animated music video accompanies it. The video serves to hype up the mood before the championship.
The video stylizes the story of last year’s World Championship. The professional players appear as versions of the champions with whom they achieved the most important successes in the last Worlds.
So the current video revolves around the 2023 champions, T1 and their path to the crown.
Legendary quote from Faker is hidden in the video
This is the detail that excites people: It is hardly visible, and if you don’t happen to know Korean, you won’t recognize it anyway; but in a scene at around minute 2:43, the four players of T1 are almost defeated when midlaner Faker emerges from a tower and appears as the great savior.
In this scene, for a brief moment, the face of the champion Azir can be seen, with which Faker achieved great successes at the Worlds 2023.
Next to the face of Azir, the words “All paths lead to me” appear in Korean.
One of the biggest matches in LoL has produced one of the coolest quotes
Why is this such a special sentence? The sentence is a reference to the semi-final of the LoL Worlds 2023. At that time, T1 faced the team of the hour, the Chinese powerhouse JDG.
The botlaner of JDG, Ruler, is considered a great rival of Faker since he spoiled T1 and Faker’s planned 4th World Championship in 2017. Back then, one even saw Faker crying.
In the run-up to the semi-final, Riot Games promoted the match in a video as a great opportunity for JDG to win the “Golden Road”, meaning to have a flawless season and win all titles, something no team has achieved before.
The scene is at 3:47 minutes:
In a video before the match, Ruler said: “Our path inevitably leads us to final victory.”
Then Faker was shown, who said, “Ruler, don’t forget: All paths lead to me.”
This is considered by many to be one of the “ultimate Faker moments” and a quote that has remained memorable.
The original conflict that all this goes back to is the World Championship 2017. It was firmly expected that Faker’s dominating team in LoL would secure the 4th World Championship in 5 years, but Samsung Galaxy won. The dynasty around Faker with T1 seemed over, and it took many years until Faker had this iconic moment and avenged himself on Ruler: The Worlds in LoL brought dragons and a god to cry
