Career has never been the main character
If you say that the World Championship of Drx is a set of anime, the topic of Shounen overcoming difficulties to the peak, then Zeka is the main character, Kingen is the main thing, then Beryl plays the old uncle with a stained smile, specialized in tricks rather than muscular. Pyosik alone is a brave young boy with excess, enthusiasm with excess guilty without brain, specializing in reporting the two main characters, but in the end it is also burden.
But Deft, alone, Deft stood on one side, he did not have the aura of the main character, nor did he know how to hack the brain but pulled on the powerful god, not the leader of the card like Kaiba with a white dragon with blue -eyed dragon. In the journey of Drx, Deft is the least mentioned, Deft is like the character on the sidelines of the superficial side, who only need to appear and all will forget him immediately.
Like Faker, Deft also has 10 years of professional League of Legends, getting all the glory that a player has dreamed of. Even in a way, it is unprecedented, because he is the rare player to achieve the 4 most noble brands, LCK, LPL, MSI and the World Championship.
Faker may have 3 world championships, 2 times to the throne at MSI and 10 times sitting on the throne of LCK, but the Demon King will hardly be able to win the LPL. The person approaching Deft is his former teammate Pawn, when he also collected all 4 championships in the 4 most difficult tournaments in the world, but it is clear that Deft's journey is more emotional.
Throughout his career, Deft has never been the main character, from the beginning of his career, when Samsung still has two white and blue teams, then Deft is only a secondary compared to the IMP, a faint chess pieces in front of the world champion, a normal gunner standing in front of the most aggressive mouse in history.
Deft switched to LPL and won this tournament continuously, then the highest peak was defeating SKT T1 at MSI 2015, but even at that time he was still not the best, not the main character. Because right after that at the world finals of the same year, EDG with the hot atmosphere, into the same table as SKT T1 and even was considered as the above rafters, both Deft and Pawn were fed with dark onions.
Deft's most embarrassing moment, was the fact that Pick Jayce was going to the gunner, then the fight was so frozen that he pressed the wrong movement and stood still to death in the fight. That year, EDG lost to Fnatic 0-3, and for Deft, it was the tournament that never wanted to repeat again. This is one of the most famous mistakes in the history of the world final, during the following years it was always dragged out to sarcasm.
The players who migrated to LPL to this stage were always ungainly when coming out internationally, simply because LCK at that time completely dominated everything. Deft of course will never become the main role, when he reached the world final, he was led by the LCK teams. So when KT Rolster's super -line team was established, people thought of a new future, a future of the best players but not as championships like Deft, SMEB or Score.
Once again everything is still the same, Deft is still the background for Faker and Super Team KT only makes SKT's victory more flashy. Deft could not become the main force, becoming a burden as people expect. In fact, he is the one who is the most for the times when he met SKT T1, the scene of the KT team was released by Faker, and Deft ran in despair when his friend chased behind his back, it was extremely pathetic.
Until the summer of 2018, Deft had the LCK championship trophy in the return, KT – finally after nearly 2 years, did what they had to do in the first season. The world final that year, the main actor named The Shy and the strongest team was IG. SMEB has absolutely no door to his juniors, while Deft also takes the same version of JackKelove, it is like a cruel destiny of this player.
After the KT period, it felt like Deft accepted fate, when he gradually stepped to the other side of his career. Although it is still possible to play, Deft's skills are increasingly short of breath compared to emerging juniors. The miraculous thing here is that in a way, he still plays with the best people, especially for 2 years with ChoVy, in mid -range teams like Drx or HLE.
Until he won the championship in an unbelievable match, a match that everyone saw Gumayusi out of the Deft program completely, where he permanently could not have the glory of the main character, because it won for Zeka, for Kingen or Beryl.
But Deft has a much more important thing, that is respect and admiration from fans. 10 years, 10 years of dedication and pursuit of a championship, the tireless efforts of the gunner seemed to be no longer enough to play. Deft was the first to be noticed after Drx won, the admiration for him and the fairy tale of Drx, it was like Deft's whole life was forever a supporting actor, but the most memorable supporting actor in history.
People have nothing to lose
Together with Faker, Deft is one of the rare first players still playing, if the legendary SKT T1 squad that day has retired, and Bengi is being a coach for his former teammate; The Samsung family has not existed for a long time, Super Team KT every year is only Deft, when Score is working as a coach of Gen.G.
But unlike Faker, he still wants a last world championship trophy, to be able to close his glory, to become the greatest monument in the history of League of Legends, Deft has nothing to strive or achieve.
Faker lost his glory in 2014 with the SKT T1 squad, and then regained it on his own, built a seemingly impossible empire to collapse with new teammates. Deft is not like that, inherently he has never left a heritage or world -class achievements, maybe Deft is still the best gunner that EDG has ever owned, but it is quickly forgotten when VIPER helps them win the world.
As for many previous Samsung fans, when mentioning the gunner must be a person full of personality like IMP, not a faded Deft. The 2022 season with the oldest BOT pair of LCK, an old gunner who supports the anime game than playing alliances, the combination that only hears did not see a bit of hope.
For many Damwon fans, they regret for Beryl, because his talent absolutely deserves to go with a better gunner, not a person who has expired as Deft. Deft is really empty -handed if compared to the illustrious teammates he used to play with, and calculated with his schoolmate, who stuffed the long -term Gunner throughout his career as Faker, the difference is much bigger.
Faker participated in the World Final with the burning desire to win the trophy, the Deft is the opposite, wherever it goes, it is good to go there, because perhaps in his heart he also understands himself forever ungainly with the title. That is the difference in the thinking of the two of them, not Deft does not want to win, but simply not enough, and he has almost stopped trying to find it for a long time.
But everything in the world is unpredictable, Drx is the winner against T1, and Deft in the most important match of his career, he also paid both capital and words to Faker.
If in 2017, Ruler made Faker sobbing, when the ultimate moved the death of the Demon King, bringing Samsung Galaxy to the championship and breaking the SKT T1 Empire; In game 2 between Drx and T1, in a unfavorable situation because Zeka was lying down and the opponent ate Baron. It was Deft who saved everything, when Varus used the ultimate to hit Faker right in the cave, from which spread and tied up to 3 T1.
Deft was the one who shot down Faker, followed the Crown Prince Gumayusi, to end the game 2 and opened an unbelievable comeback for Drx. Perhaps all the most memorable moment in Deft's career, is not equal to this victory.
The weak is the last winner
In the new era of young gunner, Deft has never been shared with the tray. Since the next generation like Ruler, Teddy and then Gumayusi or Prince appeared, Deft has increasingly received less attention, until he simply doesn't need to be comparable anymore, because everything is too clear.
In this world final, too, we can tell so many beautiful words for the top gunner. The impressive return of Gumayusi, or Hope and Viper was disappointed, even Ruler suddenly had to carry ChoVy who only knew the soldiers … But whether it was good or bad, it still never had Deft's part.
During the group stage to the final, Deft confronted with three world champions, and the Crown Prince T1 was in the momentum of regaining his form. Regardless of whether you are a fan of Drx or not, before every match with the top eSports, and then EDG and Gen.G, DEFT is always underestimated, when he defaults he is inferior to the other colleagues on the other side.
Deft also seems to know this and accept, when he chose the generals using long -range skills, to be able to support his teammates and survival independently. In turn, the stronger Deft had collapsed in front of his muzzle, whether it was the defending champion of the Viper, the best LCK Summer Ruler or even a Gumayusi who was regaining his form.
Deft is not a highly appreciated person, not the main interest, but the last winner is the most important. The weak can hit the way of the weak, because if there is a proud thing in Deft is how good he holds the position in this tournament.
Although there is no terrible KDA like an Ruler or the ability to hold the network like Gumayusi, but very little makes mistakes to make his teammates take care of him. We saw Faker make mistakes, Zeus made a mistake and Pyosik was countless, but Deft did not.
He hit with a calm and tried absolutely, letting Beryl wholeheartedly go to Roam, without any protection for his gunner. It was the greatest sacrifice that Deft had for his teammates, even in the last moment at the thousand -year -old dragon cave, Deft still kept calm to set traps and shoot everything closer, keep the dragon for the team and thereby ending everything with T1.
Even after the tournament ended and the DRX won the championship, it was difficult for us to say Deft was the best gunner, but he was definitely the most worthy and full respect, not only from the audience but also the opponents he had confronted.
