League of Legends is generally considered a toxic game. Nevertheless, there are some “Good Guys,” especially among the professionals. One of them used to be someone hardly anyone liked. His fame seemingly went to his head, but he has worked on himself.
Who is the player?
- Rasmus “Caps” Winther (23) is a Danish professional and is considered the best player in Europe.
- Currently, Caps plays as a mid-laner for G2 Esports, but has previously been with well-known teams like Fnatic and mousesports. Recently, G2 won a match with only a 0.6% chance of winning.
- Caps is known not only for his performance but also for the opposite: when he plays particularly poorly, his evil twin “Craps” supposedly plays for him.
This is how Caps behaved back then: The Spanish colleagues from 3Djuegos have unearthed some of Caps’s early chat logs and looked more closely at the professional’s development. There, the mid-laner does not come off particularly well.
In conversations with other players, he then became quite unfriendly. During a game, statements like: “You will never achieve anything in League, I will make sure of that, I will destroy your team. […] You have no idea how much influence I have over the rosters.” were made. (via X)
Moreover, the professional is said not to have shown insight for a long time. As another teammate shows in a log, Caps once said: “Come visit me in Germany next year. I don’t have to behave […] I was already chosen.” (via X)
Since he was signed by his first professional team, he is said to have behaved terribly. Team colleagues mentioned that he hardly focused on ranked games anymore, mostly only trolled, sabotaged or experimented.
Presumably significantly less controversial is the legendary Faker:
Toxic professional works on himself: “I am now a role model”
Shortly after Caps joined Fnatic, he posted an official apology together with his team (via TwitLonger). It states:
I would like to apologize for my recent behavior in the solo queue, both to the community and to the people I flamed. […] What I did not know before joining Fnatic is that being a professional means more than just being good in the game. I also need to be a good person and a role model for others.
Caps pledged to improve and wanted to work on his behavior together with his team. That seems to have worked.
Since then, there have been no notable incidents in which Caps would have stood out negatively. Even the world-renowned Faker recently trained with him. Caps’s biggest problem may have been that he became too successful too quickly, as 3Djuegos writes.
Whoever comes into professional sports at 17, receives an enormous salary, and moves to Germany without being prepared for it, has to first come to terms with it. Such a thing does not exist in traditional sports. Additionally, League of Legends generally has the reputation of not having the nicest community:
I played LoL for the first time – They are really as mean as everyone says
