In League of Legends , the South Korean Jeong “Chovy” Ji-hoon (20) is considered one of the 3 best mid laners in the world. Right now, he is preparing in Iceland for the start of the LoL Worlds 2021, and occasionally visits the Solo Queue. The results are quite monstrous.
This is Chovy:
- The South Korean Chovy has managed to qualify for 3 World Championships with 3 different teams in only three years. In 2019 he was with Griffin, in 2020 with DRX, and in 2021 he is competing with Hamwha Life.
- Chovy is considered an outstandingly strong player in an otherwise weak team. His team “Hamwah Life” is also known as “Church of Chovy”.
- According to experts, Chovy is among the 3 best mid laners in the world, alongside his compatriots Doinb (FunPlus Phoenix) and Showmaker (DWG Kia). Unlike the other two, Chovy has relatively weak teammates and is therefore not considered a favorite to win the 2021 World Championship. Therefore, Chovy will have to play in the Play-Ins that start tomorrow.
19 out of 20 Ranked games in LoL won
This is what Chovy has achieved: Currently, the best players in the world are gathering in Iceland to participate in the World Championship, which starts on October 6. Most of the time, the top players train and compete in “scrimmages” against other teams under competitive conditions.
But in their free time, foreign LoL stars like to create new accounts and play with them in the unfamiliar European Solo Queue. Often, they also switch roles for fun.
For someone like Chovy, who is used to the brutal South Korean Solo Queue, this must be like Superman competing under a yellow sun:
- Of his first 20 games in the Solo Queue, Chovy won 19.
- He entered matches with an average rank of Diamond 4, reached Diamond 2 in 3 games, then briefly fell after a single loss, only to ruthlessly climb back up.
- By match 13, Chovy had reached “Master”.
- In the games, he achieved the “MVP” title of a match 14 times with champions like Diana, Yone, Yasuo, LeBlanc and managed a Penta Kill and a “perfect KDA” each.
After the first 20 games, however, things did not go as well: In the next 7 games, Chovy only won 2 – but got a kill in those 7 matches 4 times and achieved a KDA of 16.5 and 9 in the two wins. But at a certain point, even a Chovy can’t handle everything alone anymore.
Here’s the discussion: On Reddit, it is said that it is particularly impressive that Chovy really played solo, without often taking a strong duo partner with him. He was only occasionally accompanied by his jungler Willer.
The one game he lost was against world-class players from FunPlus Phoenix and Edward Gaming, who were also active in the Solo Queue.
Currently, LoL fans are raving about the kind of prominence one encounters in the Solo Queue in LoL. Players like Showmaker, Viper, Canyon, or Canna are around and quite impressive. Even Faker has been spotted.
One of Chovy’s hottest competitors at the LoL Worlds 2021 will be Doinb:
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