One of the big winners on Twitch this week is the LoL streamer Tyler “Tyler1” Steinkampf. He has taken on a new challenge in League of Legends: He will now play Jungler. The streamer is behaving as badly as ever. Previously, he was banned from LoL for this, but today fans love it on Twitch.
How is it going for Tyler 1? The LoL streamer Tyler1 (24) has been one of the big winners on Twitch in the last 7 days. Tyler1 has nearly doubled his viewer hours, but he also streamed twice as much as in the 7 days prior.
To offer something to the fans, he has set himself a special task.
Tyler1 Becomes Jungler
This is the special action: Tyler1 is actually primarily an ADC in LoL. For a while, Tyler1 was known for his rage, toxicity, and Draven play.
Now, however, he has set himself the goal of learning a new role. On a second account, Tyler1 is now playing Jungler and is using champions like Lee Sin or Olaf.
Tyler1’s thesis was that there are only losers in the jungle of LoL, as the worst players of League of Legends are there. Therefore, he wanted to show everyone how to jungle properly.
After Tyler1 struggled for a long time in Platinum, rising to Platinum 2, but temporarily falling back to Gold after 6 consecutive losses, he finally managed to work his way up to Diamond.
He celebrated the moment exuberantly, screamed as one knows him, and flexed his muscles. After the match, he praised the Katarina, his own jungle play, and shouted “Fuck You Riot.”
While doing so, he types almost in rage something in the chat, of course all in caps, and loudly shouts it out at the same time.
What he particularly likes: Tyler1 is engaging in a private feud with more or less all other LoL streamers on Twitch. However, he particularly has it out for the streamer Rabia “Nightblue3” Yazbek (26), who won the last Twitch Rivals tournament.
Nightblue is a trained jungler, and Tyler1 was nearly bursting with schadenfreude when he saw that Nightblue3 reached the same rank on his main account as he did on his twink.
Tyler1 is the Rage King of Twitch
This is the background: What is interesting about Tyler1 is that he was actually permanently banned from LoL by Riot Games in 2016, because he was too toxic and flamed. At that time, he had only 99,000 followers, today there are 3 million.
Tyler1 was actually only unbanned because he was so popular and a Riot employee insulted him harshly. A LoL designer had drunk too much and announced on a Discord server that Tyler1 would die from a cocaine overdose or from testicular cancer from all the steroids.
The LoL designer was subsequently fired, and Tyler1 returned to League of Legends as “reformed.”
By now, Tyler1 is as bad as ever, but a celebrated star in the LoL scene and on Twitch. The difference from before is probably that Tyler1 now has free rein and it is seen as a show and part of his appearance that he behaves this way, and not as truly “toxic” behavior.
Tyler1 has elevated “flipping out in LoL” to an art form.
