“The Unkillable Demon King”. “The Greatest of All Time.” Lee Sang-hyeok has multiple nicknames, but “Faker” is the one that everyone will remember him by. Since becoming a professional League of Legends player for T1 as a prodigy in 2013, Faker has since become the most successful player in history.
He’s one of just two players to win the World Championship on three occasions, and his individual accolades far outweigh anyone else in any region. If you follow League of Legends esports, then you probably know about Faker, but here are 5 things you might not have known about the game’s best player.
Loyalty
Faker is almost synonymous with the T1 organization, having been there for such a long time and bringing them so much success. No one has more loyalty to a team than Faker, as he has had the longest career with a single team out of anyone in history.
He’ll be playing for them until at least 2023, marking 10 years with the org, and don’t be surprised to see him going far beyond that as well. There's a rumor that many LPL team has offered him millions of bucks just to play for their team but Faker decides to stay.
Mediocre
Riot Games makes a lot of money from people buying skins for their favorite League of Legends champion. But the game’s best-ever player hasn’t blown the bank on in-game cosmetics.
Faker almost never plays with a skin, preferring to let his flashy plays light up Summoner’s Rift, rather than the animations of the characters he’s playing.
Friendly
51 million people live in South Korea, so what are the odds that Faker would have gone to the same high school as one of League of Legends’ other top players? He attended school with Kim ‘Deft’ Hyuk-kyu, and they even joined the League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) at the same time, in 2013.
They’ve ended up facing each other on Summoner’s Rift dozens of times over the last seven years, but we’ve never found out who was the better student. Despite his fame, he never boasts his talent.
A true demon in the rift
Not many players have been around as long as Faker, so it’s understandable he holds a number of records when it comes to League of Legends. The mid-lane maestro is always involved in the action, and he became the first player in the LCK to reach 2,000 kills back in March this year.
The unfortunate player on the receiving end was Afreeca Freecs’ support Son ‘Jelly’ Hy-gyeong, who fell to one of Zoe’s tricky Paddle Stars.
But not really
However, for as bloodthirsty as Faker is, he’s only ever achieved one pentakill in a professional game. Perhaps it’s because by now the enemy team is scared to even go near him, but it’s still a surprising statistic.
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