The American Tyler1 lives League of Legends. He streams almost exclusively LoL on Twitch, sees himself as the face of the game, and has achieved the highest rank in all roles. On October 16, he achieved a victory in the solo queue against Chovy, a young Korean whom many consider one of the top 5 players in the world. Tyler1 tells the pros what they are doing wrong – it’s actually very easy to win against them. To him, the pros from the LPL and LCK are all “frauds,” cheaters.
This is currently the situation: The LoL Worlds 2022 are taking place in the USA: Riot Games has set up a special solo queue where the best players in the world can play against each other in random teams in their free time or for practice.
As a result, “normal mortals” also have the chance to play against the biggest stars from League of Legends from Asia, such as against Faker.
Who was playing? In a match of the solo rank 5vs5 on October 16, Tyler1 faced 2 pros from the LCK:
- The Twitch streamer and LoL rage monster Tyler1 played as “Cookiemonster” the bulky champion Sion in the mid lane. His team also included world-class jungler Oner from T1, who played Nidalee.
- Chovy appeared as “Jeremy Bernstein” in the mid lane on Azir (via trackingthepros).
Chovy is considered one of the top 5 LoL players in the world
Who is Chovy? The 21-year-old Chovy is a South Korean who has been the best player for years in weak teams that he led to the Worlds. This year, he ended up with Gen G, who were already one of the best teams in South Korea without him: Chovy promptly became the 2022 champion in the LCK.
Chovy is considered an almost perfect mid laner who is known for playing an incredibly wide champion pool and being mechanically perfect.
Experts often rate him as one of the top 5 individual players in the world, alongside players like Keria, Showmaker, Viper, or Canyon – all players from the LPL (China) or LCK (South Korea), the two dominant regions in League of Legends.
In the Worlds now, Chovy has already achieved 31 kills and 33 assists with only 5 deaths.
This gives him a KDA of 12.8 – placing him 4th. Only the bot lane from T1, Keria and Gumaysui, and his own jungler Peanut are performing better.
Gen G. is indeed a favorite to win the LoL Worlds: In the group stage, they won their group D. In the quarter-finals, DWG KIA with Showmaker and Canyon awaits – a first major highlight of the Worlds.
Tyler1 wins the match but doesn’t stream it on Twitch
What does Tyler1 say about how the match went for him? The ironic thing is that Tyler1 didn’t stream the match against Chovy on Twitch.
Tyler1 presents the match to his fans as if he “schooled” Chovy so hard that he stopped playing mid lane. He reads a message from the chat aloud and responds:
So you schooled Chovy? – Stop saying that. It sounds weird. But yes, I beat the crap out of him!
He then looks at Chovy’s statistics and states: Chovy must have stopped playing mid lane after the match against him (via op.gg).
Tyler1 concludes that it must be the case when you lose against the “best of the best”, meaning him. Chovy surely thought:
“Oh my God, so this is what it’s like to play against the best – I will never be at the level of this guy.”
Yes, exactly – that’s what Chovy must have surely thought.
In reality: Chovy outplayed Tyler1, he died 3 times in the first 10 minutes
How did the match actually go for Tyler1 against Chovy? To Tyler1’s great misfortune, the match that he didn’t stream was recorded by a YouTuber.
In reality, the match went a bit differently than Tyler1 remembers:
It started poorly for Tyler1: After just under 4 minutes, Chovy got a solo kill on Tyler1, who played too aggressively and wanted to set up a gank, but overdid it and was taken out by Chovy. The gank against the disciplined player Chovy also went wrong.
At 6:30 minutes, Tyler1 looked very old against Chovy again: Chovy outplayed him on Azir, but Tyler1 received help, causing Chovy to go down as well. Although Chovy dies in the process, he comes out of the situation with another kill for Azir.
After that, Chovy practically pins his opponent under his tower – Tyler1 has no room to play on the lane.
After 9 minutes, Tyler1 had 59 creeps and 0/2/1. Chovy was at 82 creeps and 2/1/0. However, Tyler1’s bot lane with Kai’Sa and Amumu was already significantly superior to the opponents.
At minute 10, Tyler1 died for the 3rd time when he overextended in the mid lane and got taken down by 3 players.
In the midgame, the game then developed more in favor of Tyler1’s team, although he himself could hardly contribute effectively to the game: But especially the outstanding bot lane of his team tip the scales. In addition, T1 jungler Oner with Nidalee constantly ruins the opponents’ turret with his spears.
After 25 minutes, the teams were relatively even at 16:16 – with a small gold lead of 1,400 gold for Tyler1’s team.
At that point, Chovy had already died 5 times, apparently having difficulties coordinating well with his team and playing significantly looser and riskier than during professional matches. It almost looks like he is “tilting” because he is losing patience with his teammates.
Although Chovy clearly has strong skills with Azir, he also cannot win 1vs4 situations, which he attempts to achieve to turn the game around.
In the last minutes, Chovy could not turn the game around anymore, died in solo actions quite stupidly and the game ended after 32 minutes:
- Chovy had 4/8/3 with Azir
- Tyler was at 2/5/11 – his ADC with 15/3/3 and pro jungler Oner with 4/4/8 had decided the game for his team
“Very easy to win – All cheaters”
How did Tyler1 perform? In the laning phase, Tyler1 was clearly inferior, but it is also a difficult match for him against Azir – every time Tyler1 played a nuance too aggressively and ventured too far from the tower, Chovy punished it.
To the streamer’s defense, it should be said: Tyler1 played a tank Sion, designed to draw fire and die if necessary.
However, the team play of Tyler1’s team was better, while it seemed that everyone from Chovy’s team played for themselves and there was almost no cooperation.
But it was by no means a game where Tyler1 “schooled” anyone.
How did Tyler1 see the match? In a stream, Tyler1 is asked how he managed to beat Chovy. How did that happen? He reads a message from the chat aloud and responds (via youtube):
So, you showed your strength against Chovy? Exposed him as a cheater? Bro! I played against Chovy or whatever that guy is called. The guy is sick. I beat him. Of course! I beat the bastard! It’s so easy to play against him. He will never miss waves – he goes so far that it negatively affects his team.
Tyler1 explains that Chovy allegedly plays too passively, making him very predictable and not willing to sacrifice himself and possibly miss a wave to secure victory for his team.
He claims to have practically completely deciphered Chovy:
I pushed a side wave and thought: I bet he teleports here. He teleports and I slow-pushed a 3-stack wave in the top lane – I had Oner on my team – and we dove him, even though all the others from my team were in the bot lane. Bro, so easy, oh my God. These players from LPL and LCK are all cheaters.
That Oner did the main work and that the South Korean is also one of those “cheaters from the LCK” doesn’t seem to bother Tyler1 in his logic.
The Twitch streamer Tyler1 apparently hopes that a clip of the fight never appears where people take a closer look at how the match really went.
While Tyler1’s statements always stem from his role as a “2-meter super alpha”, a closer look reveals that it’s not quite as it seems:
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