The Twitch streamer Tyler “Tyler1” Steinkamp has completed the hardest challenges in League of Legends for two years: No matter how long it took, for two years he ranked every role in LoL to the highest rank. However, the latest challenge of playing SoloQ from Korea to Challenger was too much for him. His temperament got the better of him.
These crazy challenges Tyler1 has completed:
- Originally, the Twitch streamer Tyler1 was a “one-trick pony” in LoL: He was good in LoL but virtually only played the champion Draven, an ADC.
- To prove that all junglers he plays with are really idiots who cannot master the extremely easy role in the jungle, he decided to play the unfamiliar role at the highest rank “Challenger.” He accomplished this after 3000 games: An achievement that shows his enormous stubbornness.
- After achieving this, he brought all roles in LoL to the Challenger rank: He needed 2 years and 6000 matches for this. Riot even gifted him a chain. Tyler1 is anyway undisputedly number 1 on Twitch in LoL.
Tyler1 wanted to be among the top 300 in South Korea
What was the latest challenge? In mid-April 2022, Tyler1 set out to embark on a “boot camp” to South Korea, the motherland of LoL.
There, he aimed to reach the Challenger rank, which only 300 people in the region can achieve.
Tyler1 wanted to make it especially difficult for himself and always sign up as a “filler,” meaning he doesn’t claim any role for himself but plays what is needed at the moment.
By the end of April, his Korea adventure was supposed to begin.
Here Tyler1 was still in a good mood:
14 hours a day of LoL turns even Superman into just Clark Kent
How it went now: Almost 5 weeks after the start of his “Korea boot camp,” Tyler1 is totally done (via youtube).
In the last 30 days, Tyler1 played 427 hours of LoL, which is more than 14 hours a day, without a long break. About 35,000 people watched him, but the number steadily decreased over the month.
Tyler1 now seems just glad that the boot camp is coming to an end. He is totally fed up with Korea. In the chat, there was a request for him to stay longer in South Korea. But Tyler1 says:
Buddy, what do the “stay longer” kids want from me? Guys, what you don’t get: I’m jumping out of sheer joy, counting the minutes and seconds until I’m on the plane back home.
According to Tyler1, he learned absolutely nothing in Korea and is actually in the process of sabotaging everything he ever knew about LoL. He is getting worse in the MOBA. The trip to Korea was a “complete waste of time.”
Actually a tough guy, but Korea was too much for him:
Bad reputation brings Tyler1 to his downfall
Why is that? The Korean SoloQ has a bad reputation: This is said by South Korean professionals like Faker. When Koreans see a “celebrity,” some apparently begin to play poorly on purpose to annoy and sabotage the professional. Faker prefers SoloQ in Europe.
According to Tyler1 himself, he has a special bonus problem: When people play poorly, he freaks out and flames them. He says he “tilts” then.
However, Koreans perceive such freak-outs as an insult, remember the player’s name, and then sabotage him in the next match when they encounter him.
According to Tyler1, this has apparently happened to him:
This is how it went for Tyler1: Tyler1 was able to climb relatively quickly in the lower ranks and reached the Master rank after 10 days and 200 games with a win rate of 60%, but then apparently hit his limits (via dotesports).
He is currently still at the Master rank with a win rate of 53% (via op.gg). Even with his signature champion Draven, he only has a win rate of 52%.
Even though he performed better in the last matches before his return home, he experienced a losing streak of 9 games in a row just yesterday. Apparently, even the hardest Tyler1 finds it hard to deal with Korea. The path to Challenger in South Korea remains barred for him.
More success in South Korea had Twitch streamer Thebausffs, who has a rather strange way of playing League of Legends:
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