A music video for the LoL Worlds 2020 has been released for League of Legends. We explain who the characters in “Take Over” are: Riot has hidden former and current professional players like Faker, xPeke, Tian, or Mata here as LoL champions. It is full of references.
“Take Over” is the new video for the 2020 World Championship. For several years, it has been customary for Riot to incorporate numerous references to LoL stars in such a video. In 2018, the epic video “Rise” was already full of references.
For fans, it is a joy to go through the clips and see new hidden details that allude to former World Championships. The World Championship in LoL has been held since 2012, and over the years, several players have earned the “legend” status.
In the clip, a nameless protagonist plays a video game and faces various LoL champions who constantly knock him out. He then has to pick himself up and try again.
The special thing: The champions in the video are inspired by current and former LoL pros. We list who Riot Games has immortalized in the video.
The video begins with the protagonist crashing in a bike race. A mysterious figure helps him up and gives him a video chip.
The veiled man who invites the biker into the world of LoL is, of course, the Korean superstar Faker: the World Champion of 2013, 2014, and 2016.
This is also evident in the video, as the PC setup to which the protagonist goes is in the club “Demon King” – one of Faker’s nicknames.
Faker has missed participation in the LoL Worlds 2020 – but of course, he has to be in such a video.
The first opponent our hero faces is Enrique “xPeke” Martinez. The Spaniard was part of the first World Championship team in LoL, Fnatic, in 2012. xPeke plays Kassadin.
Next, Mata as Thresh awaits the hero, grinning slightly psychopathically as he stands there with a lantern and a scythe.. Cho “Mata” se-hyeong was part of Samsung White, who became World Champions in 2014. He was a great support player.
Mata ended his LoL career in 2019 and immediately became a coach.
So many World Champions in a LoL video
In an interlude, there are 3 short references:
- The hero is killed by Xayah – representing “JackeyLove”, the ADC who was 2018 World Champion with Invictus Gaming
- The shadow of Galio is attributed to “Crown”, the midlaner of the 2017 champs Samsung Galaxy White
- Caitlyn’s gun is supposed to belong to “BeBe”, who was part of “Taipei Assassins”, a strong team from 2012 that became World Champions at that time. If you look closely, you can see the Taipei Assassins logo on the rifle (via Twitter)
These 3 heroes symbolize champions that the hero defeats off-camera. This is evident from the fact that he carries their weapons as trophies.
A somewhat longer passage follows to conclude the sequence. The spear of Jarvan IV comes flying in. He represents Kang “Ambition” Chang-yong, who became World Champion in 2017 and was known for his play with Jarvan.
The final boss is the MVP 2019, the jungler Tian from FunPlus Phoenix, who is portrayed as Lee Sin. He played the champion in the finals at the LoL Worlds 2019, where he decisively defeated G2 Esports.
The video is doing really well on YouTube. It has already garnered 4.4 million views and over 393,000 thumbs up.
On social media, people are joking that almost all characters are clearly associated with a champ. Except for Faker: He just plays himself.
Many of the stars we see in this video have already ended their careers, or no longer play the strong role they once did. Even the 2019 World Champion, Tian, did not make it to the Worlds 2020.
Because in the strange corona year 2020, there was a favorite die-off among the LoL elite. Those who still made it to the World Championship, we tell you here:
