According to new rumors, something amazing is happening at League of Legends. The number 6 in Europe, Team Vitality, is allegedly restructuring for 2022 and bringing back the best players from Europe from the USA: Midlaner Luka “Perkz” Perković (23) and Toplaner Barney “Alphari” Morris (22). They now want to compete for the championship.
This was rumored:
- A few days ago, it became known that the Croatian Midlaner Perkz would not extend his lucrative contract with the US team Cloud9.
- He is allegedly planning to build his own team that will compete for the championship. At Worlds 2021, all teams from Europe and the USA exited early.
- Earlier, there were already rumors that the Welsh Toplaner Alphari would leave his team, Team Liquid, after a year and allegedly wants to play alongside Perkz.
Sources: Perkz and Alphari join Team Vitality
This is the rumor now: According to information from the site Esportmaniacos, Perkz and Alphari are switching to Team Vitality: This is a French team that has not played a significant role in LoL so far. In the Summer Split 2021, they were only sixth. In the Spring Split 2021, “the Bees” were even at the bottom of the table.
The sources say: Perkz reportedly signed with the team a few days ago, and Alphari followed him.
At the moment, these are just rumors. The teams have not confirmed this yet.
What could the super team look like? Team Vitality had secured the services of the jungler “Selfmade” in the last season, the 21-year-old Pole is considered one of the best junglers in Europe. Together with Perkz and Alphari, they would have three of the best players in their respective positions.
Furthermore, it is said that the team is now looking for a world-class botlaner: It is likely that they could acquire from G2, after all, the legendary ADC Rekkles will leave the team.
On reddit, some believe that the current support of Team Vitality, the young Greek Labrov (19), could remain as support in the team.
“I have always been a fan of Vitality”
What’s behind it: With Team Vitality, it seems that a new “super team” is indeed forming, which is what they call it when star players, who have made a name for themselves in various teams, come together anew.
The idea behind it is that in Europe the “individual teams” are too weak to compete with South Korea and China at the Worlds, so forces must be combined.
Fans on reddit are currently joking that they would immediately switch to their favorite team. Some say they have always been “Die Hard Fans” of Team Vitality.
For Perkz, this is surely a situation where he chases a title again, after his path to the USA has rather led him away from a title. At 23, time is slowly running out for Perkz – the careers of LoL players at a world-class level rarely last beyond their mid-20s.
Perkz had already tried to form a super team in 2019 by bringing in another Midlaner, Caps, into his team G2 and switching to the bot lane:
LoL: Star player swallows his ego and teams up with his biggest rival
