It was an emotional scene on the LCK Summer 2022 finals. Gen.G had lastly overcome their demons to defeat T1 3-0 for the championship title, the first-ever home win for 4 of their gamers.
Because the gamers left their sales space, mid laner Jeong “Chovy” Ji-hoon was all smiles. Bot laner Park “Ruler” Jae-hyuk let his emotions go, and took a second to squat by the LCK trophy, whereas help Son “Lehends” Si-woo shed tears of pleasure as he adopted his teammates onto centerstage.
Throughout the broadcast interview with caster Jeon “Jun” Yong-jun, the newly-crowned LCK champions shared their ideas on what this championship win meant to them and what went on behind the scenes as they ready for his or her rematch with T1 within the grand remaining.
Chovy, Ruler, Lehends, and Doran win their very first home title on the LCK Summer season 2022 finals
For Ruler, who has been competing within the LCK since 2016 and received Worlds in 2017, that is his first home title. He believed that their probabilities of successful towards T1 this time round had been “excessive.”
For former Griffin gamers Lehends, Chovy, and Choi “Doran” Hyeon-joon, who reached the LCK finals a number of occasions since Summer season 2018, it’s been 4 years within the making.
Griffin, who was led by head coach Kim “cvMax” Dae-ho, got here so shut on so many events, dropping 3-2 to KT Rolster on the LCK 2018 Summer season finals, and SK Telecom T1 twice within the LCK 2019 Spring and Summer season finals.
Understanding how shut Chovy had come over the previous years, Caster Jun requested the star mid laner the way it felt to lastly contact the trophy for the primary time ever.
“I’m so pleased that I’m lastly standing right here,” he replied. “And at last, I’m not the “ceaselessly second” sort of participant.”
Junger Han “Peanut” Wang-ho has been competing within the LCK since Spring 2018, and had beforehand received a number of LCK titles with completely different groups: ROX Tigers, SK Telecom T1, and Kingzone DragonX. As soon as a younger rookie, he’s now one of many oldest members on the Gen.G squad.
“I used to be the youngest once I received LCK prior to now. I used to be led by different older gamers and so they helped me a lot,” he shared with caster Jun. “I used to be capable of do a great job for the group based mostly on that have.”
When requested about what recommendation he gave to his fellow Gen.G gamers earlier than the collection, Peanut replied, “Let’s take this chance yet another time and by no means miss out once more!”
Though Gen.G swept T1 within the best-of-five collection, video games one and three had been shut. Neither group managed to surmount a big gold lead within the early sport, and a lot of it was determined when Gen.G managed to outplay their rivals in group fights round Dragon and Baron.
Gen.G and T1 are qualified to Worlds 2022, which can run from September 29 to November 5.
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