Korean solo queue player does Faker dirty
In some parts of the internet, it would be called blasphemy. Fortunately for the player, Lee 'Faker' Sang-hyeok is a merciful God and accepts repentance.
05th Oct 2023 15:15
Image via Riot Games
Korean solo queue player does Faker dirty
In some parts of the internet, it would be called blasphemy. Fortunately for the player, Lee 'Faker' Sang-hyeok is a merciful God and accepts repentance.
05th Oct 2023 15:15
Image via Riot Games
Some things are holy, and when defied, require repentance. In a ranked game on the Korean server featuring League of Legends GOAT Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok, the legend of the esport had a pentakill rudely stolen by one of his teammates.
Cloud9's Jesper "Zven" Svenningsen, who also was on Faker's team, signalled immediate allegiance against the robbery. The Dane later shared a screenshot of the culprit apologising profusely.
What happened?
As a general rule of thumb, a pentakill only happens in 1 out of 150 games. Factor in that there are 10 players in each game who could be scoring a penta, and you are looking at a 1:1500 odds for each player in a game to achieve one.
Sure, the likelihood for Faker to score a pentakill is significantly higher than the average player, even against top-tier opposition, but the chances are still not exactly high.
This has brought forth an etiquette of granting teammates the pentakill during the cleanup phase of a fight when finishing off the last remaining opposition is all but trivial.
During the specific situation Faker found himself in, the South Korean legend turned a fight around on Kennen and dispatched four players of the opposition. With the last enemy on low HP and almost surely unable to escape Faker, his team's jungler dives in to end the opposing Rakan before he can, denying the penta.
Hilarious aftermath
As the fight concludes, a brief moment of shock settles in, during which none of the champions on Faker's team are moving and are only awkwardly staring at each other.
Eventually, Faker breaks the silence by wasting his Flash in protest of the play, finding support in Zven, who mimics the GOAT with Flash of his own only a fraction of a second later.
Realising what he has done, Gragas starts writing up a storm, apologising profusely. Zven even went to Twitter to report on the interaction, writing, "Bro this gragas that stole Faker's pentakill in my game wrote a paragraph in-game in Korean and then this apology in the post-game lobby like he insulted the president."
It is plausible that the Gragas player did not intend to steal Faker's last hit, as his champion himself was low. In a moment of stress, it is possible that he didn't realise that Faker was on a kill streak, just trying to secure a kill for his team.
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Sascha Heinisch
Sascha "Yiska" Heinisch is a Senior Esports Journalist at GGRecon. He's been creating content in esports for over 10 years, starting with Warcraft 3.
