At the All-Star Event of the League of Legends 2019, there was a special play during the game between LCK and LPL. With Faker, TheShy, and MadLife involved, three LoL legends participated – and a fourth legend was honored. A historic play in League of Legends.
What kind of event was it? This weekend, the “All-Star Event 2019” of LoL took place in Las Vegas. This is an event where League of Legends celebrates itself. Active professionals from around the world participated, but streamers and influencers also came to Vegas.
They then compete against each other in some not-so-serious formats in LoL.
One of the games was LCK vs. LPL. A mixed team of professionals and “personalities” from the Korean league played against one from the Chinese LPL.
2 learned junglers in the team, but Faker goes into the jungle
What was special? When North America played against Europe, Europe had fun banning the champions of the US streamers consistently. They banned half of the champion pool around Draven from Twitch streamer Tyler1, and streamer Yassuo was also not allowed to play his “signature” hero Yasuo.
In the Asia duel, they skipped the ban phase. Everyone should play the hero they felt comfortable with.
Nevertheless, it was somewhat strange: The midlaner from SKT1, Faker, did not play in the midlane, but in the jungle with Lee Sin.
The jungler from SKT1, Clid (now at Gen. G), played on the top lane. Another former jungle partner of Faker, Peanut, was also at the event but not allowed in the jungle; he played midlane.
It was all a bit upside down.
Faker performs legendary jungle play
This was the play: In the play, the Koreans Faker (Lee Sin), NaRaKyle (Cassiopeia), and MadLife (Thresh) are retreating from a tower. Hong “MadLife” Min-gi (27) is a legendary support player who was a star in the early days of LoL around 2012 – he is now a caster.
The opponents TheShy (Kalista) and cat (Senna) are on the heels of the 3 Koreans. The players from the Chinese league are actually clearly in control, as Cassiopeia and Thresh have low health points and could easily be caught.
Faker performs the Insec, a famous Lee Sin play
Then, however, Faker’s big hour strikes: He uses a technique of Lee Sin, for which a legendary jungler was known. “He performs an Insec”:
In this technique, the Q is used to jump to the opponent, then a ward is placed behind the opposing ADC, jumping to this ward with the W skill, and kicking the opponent with the ultimate into your own team. This is a rapid sequence of skills, where you isolate the “most protected player” from the opponent’s team and take them out of the team fight.
Faker shortens it a bit against TheShy but lands the kick perfectly. The special thing is that MadLife on Thresh anticipates this kick and precisely hits the spot where TheShy is kicked by Faker with his own skill shot. This tears TheShy apart in no time.
Twitch clip has already over 275,000 views
Why is the play so special? Even TheShy, who is the one caught here, can only laugh about this action because it is perfectly executed.
The Twitch clip with the play has now had over 275,000 views.
Faker, actually a midlaner, proves here that he masters the “signature move” of a legendary jungler. And he performs it against one of the best current players in the world, TheShy.
This happens in conjunction with MadLife, one of the greatest support players of all time, who is actually no longer a LoL pro but returns for the All-Star event.
The action makes LoL veterans rave: On reddit, it is said that three legendary names are mentioned in one sentence: “Faker Insec into MadLife.”
Just the fact that MadLife and Faker play on the same team would have been unthinkable in 2013:
- At that time, MadLife was considered one of the greatest LoL players. He reached the finals of the Worlds in 2012 with “Azubu Frost.”
- Faker won his first world championship in 2013 with SK Telecom T1.
How did the game end? That was more or less secondary, but the Koreans won clearly. In the end, it was 37 to 12 in kills. Faker played 8/5/11, NaRaKyle on Cassiopeia 19/0/3, and MadLife on Thresh 6/1/19.
