The British Twitch streamer “NoArmWhatley” is a phenomenon in League of Legends: The streamer had a serious accident in August 2024, falling from the third floor of a building and hitting his head. Since then, he has had trouble seeing anything. But he has learned to deal with it.
How did the accident happen? The streamer suddenly disappeared from Twitch in August 2024 but returned to his fans after about two months, in October 2024, via Twitter: He had suffered a serious accident. He wanted to close a window, but the window broke, and he fell from the third floor to the ground.
NoArmWhatley wrote: He hit his head and fractured his skull. He summarized his injuries at the time, such as brain hemorrhages and various fractures, in a tier list. The streamer said he had a craniotomy: the doctors had to open his skull to relieve pressure. “A messed-up surgical procedure,” emphasized the Brit.
He concluded the post in October 2024 with: “Also, I now have a bald head, lol.” Clearly, a S-tier problem.
Streamer can hardly see anything
That was his biggest problem: When NoArmWhatley woke up from the coma, he reportedly said: “I can’t wait to play League of Legends again.” But that turned out to be difficult after his severe injury.
As the streamer narrated in his first streams on Twitch, he had extreme difficulty seeing anything at all. A large part of his vision was blocked by bleeding. He could only see what was happening in the Rift peripherally, out of the corners of his eyes.
Since October 2024, he had been on the road to recovery, but the problem with his field of vision remained. A solution had to be found.
LoL: Twitch streamer says he can “break blindness”
This is his success: NoArmWhatley is a so-called OTP, a One Trick Pony in LoL. He only plays Tahm Kench. Although NoArmWhatley can see very poorly, he has nonetheless managed to be among the top 0.5% of players in Europe in LoL with the big fish Tahm Kench.
He himself says in response to a surprised player asking how he can play so well despite his visual impairment that he uses “animation canceling” to temporarily interrupt his blindness.
Streamer’s trick impresses his eye doctor
This is what his trick looks like: The streamer says he trained in the hospital for 2 months to be able to see again. He says he learned to blink and simultaneously roll his eyes strongly, so that the blood flows down, giving him good eyesight for 4 to 5 seconds.
When my eye doctor looked at the inside of my eye, I did my trick, and he freaked out. He said he had never seen anyone control their blood like that.
NoArmWhatley says: In an article from Dexerto, he is compared to the blind hero Lee Sin, but in his view, he is much more like a blood mage like Vladimir.
How is he doing now? On March 19, 2025, NoArmWhatley provided a health update on X: He is recovering well, his skull has healed, and he only has “slight brain damage” left. Although he is still almost blind – which is annoying – everything else is getting better.
Furthermore, he no longer has a bald head. One S-tier problem has already been solved. A silver lining: Since the accident, his viewer numbers on Twitch have doubled: LoL is the number 1 game on Twitch, sacrificing sports integrity to stay that way
