So recently, Rekkles joined T1’s academy team.
In the weeks since, a lot of people have been wondering how the European legend ended up on the same org as Faker and whether they’ll ever play together…
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Will rekkless replace the best support in the world that forced the world's meta around him and his unique champion pool? No definitely not.
Rekkles needs to master: Bard Caitlyn supp Jhin supp Kalista supp Abt 10 others
so rekkles has to master adc champs? hmmmm....... if only he knew a little about adc role@@tencive5749
@@tencive5749u forgot the include the synergy that guma and keria have which was about 3 year worth of it
You mean champion ocean
He can still play, but as a substitute if that's okay with him. Just play a handful of game whole year and it always depends if they want to swap you in or not so yeah it's possible if he's down being a substitute and just basically seated almost the entire time.
Rekkles as a veteran can help a lot of rookies. And playing support behind Keria will help him develop as a support. Seems like a win win for both sides
Imagine you are the "Veteran" with 27 years of age who plays behind the 21 year old World Champion and someone has inhaled a whole Copium Mine to think someone in the roster will give a flying fuck about Rekkles.
He is a 27 year old 'veteran' ad carry. He is a rookie support. Most people who think he will play for the main T1 team are deluded, and the people who think no one cares about Rekkles in T1 Academy are also equally deluded. And playing behind someone younger isn't really that bad, when that someone younger is quite literally in the running for the best support in the world, and you are just starting to play the role professionally. @@Vittrich
@@Vittrich Mechanicaly rekkles is close to or better than keria. It's just keria's synergy with guma that rekkles has to inherit and he'll definitely be just as good in the future.
Never happening he ain’t gonna be a top support in lck challengers no reason for t1 to play with a disadvantage with a player that wouldn’t even be a top 8 support in na
@@chatspam1238 sir, you are delusional on another level when you think Rekkles is even in the same Universe mechanicaly compared to Keria, because if, he would be the Support for a Worlds Team and not getting benched for a whole split by FNATIC.
considering if Rekkles has to fill in for Keria. ~them playing together, highly unlikely
Honestly, a really interesting move for his career. There’s no shame in him admitting he lost a step. He even says as much when talking about rejecting LEC offers. This 12 to 24 month experiment is a good way to challenge himself in the hardest/best region for the game. If he can prove himself to be a valuable asset to T1, there is no doubt in my mind a tier 1 roster will scoop him up
People wondering what T1 is doing and are ignoring the fact that Rekkles is there to learn from the best region and team in all of LoL.
Yeah, seems like an incredible move from Rekkles. Being able to soloQ in the best region while at the same time continue with professional training close to the current best team in the world, in their academy team benefiting from their facilities/infrastructure.
“I will win worlds” -rekkles
@@steich3016 "I achieved nothing in life" - steich3016
@@marcomonsanto Pot meet kettle.
Unless Keria stumbles in front of a bus, no.
even that they will replace keria with another lck support, not an LEC one unless T1 wants to finish bottom of the barrel next year
rekkles isn't even on the challeger team, he's on the academy one, he would be the third option
@@essschesss6471 No, I am pretty sure he's on the challenger team; the team is just called T1 Esports Academy I believe, and Rekkles will play with Poby the GOAT (who replaced Faker during the latter's injury this year).
@@doodle0211 you right, T1 rookies is actually the academy team, kinda dumb
Then the bus driver would take over the T1 sup, not Rekkles
I think he will be good for the young talent in the academy team and also it is a genius marketing strategy, Rekkles is probably one of the most marketable players of the west, imagine a promo video with Faker AND Rekkles. Worth the try in my opinion
Yay someone else gets it, yeah this is obviously about drawing in Western fans NOT improving the team.
100% in effort of increasing western fanbase - very smart move after winning worlds.
Rekkles is already playing with the greatest of all time: POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBY MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOAT
I'm happy for Rekkles and he change to support. I never thought you could carry with Support until Keria completely change my mind when he moved to T1 and got MVP from LCK and become one of the best player in the world.
You know, this is not going to happen but let’s see this from Rekkles’ perspective. He has wanted to win worlds since he first found this game, he was close in 2018 and his signing in 2021, following a team that was even closer to winning, must have given him hope. Then it all crumbled, and he went downhill. He swapped to support because he believes he can do better like that. Now, even if T1 meant it as a marketing move, he is close to the greatest team in the greatest league of the game. If he could only replace one other player, as good as he may be, only one other player. Then he could play in a team ready to win another championship. He could then have the single thing in this world that he’s wanted the most.
I don't think Rekkles needs to win to prove himself in LCK champions, I think he just needs to place like top 3 in playoffs
and thats an impossible task lol
he'll get to lec even if he end up last, whole point of this move
The thing with Academy teams is that they lack experience. Look at how Poby did when he was brought up to replace Faker. A team full of mechanical gods, that went 1-7. Rekkles brings experience in spades.
it's an actually win-win relationship
the answer is NO and it doesnt need 6 min video
true
bro's gotta pay the bills 💀
There's this guy called Keria...
it would be really good if he get a chance to play a series in lck season just for experience ofc.
They couldn't join forces on the team. Faker doesn't speak korean and Rekkless doesn't speak english. They couldn't communicate.
Faker Doesn't Speak English And Rekkless Doesn't Speak Korean**
@@corruptglitch9634r/whoooooooooosh
are you sure you're typing this properly? r/whoooosh
@@corruptglitch9634 woooooooooosh
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Why T1 bought rekkles for academy?! He's full of experience and he can make academy even better He can be best choice for changing roaster in some games between guma or keria and he would be the six man of team He's useful as an analyst And at the end he can show himself in LCK to show he never give up
hes not gonna play on the main team lol
Rekkles #1 enemy is language barrier
I could see that Rekkles contract has some kind of clause that makes him the substitute for next years worlds. I could see him playing one game there and that will be the only time we see him play on the main roster.
Unless keria goes into a vacation or smth that will have to necessitate a sub No they won’t. But I do see this as a major win for reckless, as he is with the best support currently in the world. Academy and main roster scrim A LOT It’s why good teams are likelier to have good rookies. Not only do they scout well, they also give the trainees quality practice. Also also. T1 is one of if not the best orgs at developing talent. Quite literally they have been churning out monsters like Zeus, Oner, Guma and berserker. So it’s a win for t1 as rekkles will bring a lot of marketing opportunities While rekkless gets to practice with t1.
The only way I see this happening is if Keria doesn't renew his contract and leaves after the 2024 season. Also, Rekkles would have to beat out both Cloud and CaNe while T1 doesn't sign any support during the 2024 offseason. It's not impossible, but it seems unlikely.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE. Even if everyone on the T1 roster and subroster mysteriously dies, T1 will just get new LCK players. Rekkles was one of the, if not the worst LEC player in the last years who had to play in a challenger team because no one wanted him and when returning to FNATIC almost got benched for the rest of the season immediatly because he got outclassed by every single ADC in the LEC. Him swapping to supp will not change this.
@@Vittrich he didnt get outclassed lol, he played about as well as he could with that awful fnatic team
@@srensen3081 sure and because he was so good and his team sucked, HE was the one to get benched. At least he himself aknowledged his prime was over and swapped to support, because the former LEC pro was struggeling in challenger series... keep coping lol.
@@Vittrich obviously he wasnt the best adc in the league, but he wasnt the worst either, and using him as a scapegoat for the lack of succes just isnt correct
I mean obviously, for them to play in an official game is when, like he side, Keria got sick or something. It only makes sense for that sub to happen, but considering rekkles still hasn't mastered hangul, Smash could support for T1, and rekkles on T1academy adc
maybe if Keria gets covid or any minor injuries but if we're talking about him outperforming Keria, well that probably never ever gonna happen
I don't think anyone is replacing Keria any time soon.
Theres a full year for 2024, things and miracle can happen we will see what is T1 or reckless cooking for the 2024
That's what you call an expert marketing play, the amount of Western fans T1 gets from this.
No rekkles can and will not replace Keeia the support with the DEEPEST champion pool… however he can be a banch player that can play 2 positions… he used to play ADC and now is learning support i would say that its pretty useful since thats 2 backups in 1 player
well if he is really aiming for the main roaster i am rooting for him
Na win a worlds before reckless is on T1 main roster tbh
the thing is they cant replace guma or keria cuz they literally are the best players in their respective roles
What if, instead of Rekkles, it was Bjergsen? Man, those days when Bjerg was considered to be 'almost' at the level of Faker, and they'd have these contents together back then. A huge Bjerg fan here, and I just miss those old days of league.
He wasnt even close to the best lol his prime was in NA..
The thing that will shock the most is if tyler1 signed a contract in T1 as a "coach", a fucking couch!!!!!
Rekkles is just the Michael Schumacher of League.
Rekkless could never replace T1 in terms of entertainment 🗣️
레클레스 멋있는 남자 엄청난 도전을 응원한다.😊
Rekkles watching gods by newjeans makes him wanting to become a god
a GOAT with the Hot Mulligan shirt
This is PR move. The rumors about them playing together is just a myth to get attention.
This will ONLY happen if either Guma/Keria get fully injured or like a very outlandish emergency
Not even that, rekkles is on the third team, so they still option before him even
Everyone has been pulling players from the lck and lpl but the real way for eu and na to win worlds is for them to go to the lpl or lck.
Sure they play together in flex que and maybe at a special event.
rekkles wanted to win worlds, thats why he went to g2, now he went to T1, it makes sense really if he still wants to win worlds
Honestly as lck fan I don't watch the challenger. With this move I think lckCL is drawing interest in CL. Big brain move by T1. I'll be watching CL games next year.
Xpeke is the most gigachad player EU had, if he was joining T1 people wouldint be scratching their heads but hype af
Yeah, sure bro, they will surely play together.
Nah.. that's just his training arc in Korea.
If skt wants any chance of going 2 in a row, they wont let rekkles anywhere near the live roster.
Good brand to have for the growth of Challengers. Bad choice in terms of talent development, especially if they can't retain Keria post 2024. I highly doubt that Rekkles will end up playing in the Main Roster unless Keria falls ill.
In some soloQ, surely... Rekkles is not going to give a level as a supp or on CK's team (They already brought another supp for that reason) He's going to end up being a T1 streamer by the end of the year
If you can't beat them, join them
Realistically nah, hes just there for different purposes.
if he join to the t1's wildrift team i guess wr will blowout.
What a long winded no...
People seem to forget that Keria is 21 years old and in Korea that means he needs to go and fulfill his military duty sooner or later. Examples enough of Korean pro players needing to take a break for this exact reason. Now lets assume Keria needs to get into the military next year, you have Rekkles role swapping and not getting a chance in europe. Rekkles a EU Icon as ADC who knows the bot lane inside out, Rekkles who is immensely popular in Asia and by this has good marketing value, Rekkles a true professional, who is always grinding and looking to improve. And then as T1 it would not be a strange move to sign him for two years. In the first year to show T1 if he is capable and in the 2nd to be a possible cheap consistent (Mister KDA, remember) Experienced (as a pro not as support) temporary replacement for Keria. Besides that Having so much experience in your academy team, can only benefit the young blood in there. So win/win. And Rekkles already said 5 or 6 years ago, he wants to play in Asia once, preferably China, but well you gotta take what you can take.
Keria is exempted - he won Asian games?
He would be a good sub for Faker so he can rest more.
Good marketing move, thats all.
King of the West & King of the East team up
unless keria decided not to extend his contract. 🤨🤨
no need hates for rekkless.. all his EU friends ex teammates keeps on laughing on him.. its not easy you can join or accepted in a T1 team for outsider.. i hope he will do well with T1.. i hope he will climb on top again if he have the will
only way would be if Keria gets injured and they have nobody else
sure they can, on soloq
You're telling the story wrong. Griffin got there first at T1 as the first foreign player in Korea
T1 brought him in to provide some much-needed leadership to that dreadfully mediocre academy team while also giving him time to learn support in a competitive environment.
Love the Hot Mulligan shirt
now all T1 needs to do is sign Doublelift or Bjergsen as a streamer or something and 2024 will be a great year for T1 content 😂
😴
He's the David Beckham of esports. He's so popular and handsome that he'll pay for himself in an org like T1.
Xpeke actually is
Rekkles is good enough to stay in the challengers team.
it is just business, rekkles is well recognized among lck fans, they can sell shirts, tickets etc. Money baby.
didn't pros from west do boot camp in korea during off season? since twitch have wrapped up business in korea, they can't do boot camp and still get income from streaming. This is the only option to experience KR ranked and pro scene while still having income
It’s either a PR move or rekkless paid T1 management, no way he’ll get the starting support role for the academy team than a young Korean in their server.
If keria have an injury like faker thats his only chance to play .
Lmao no one will ever replace Keria, he's already proved himself as top tier support. Rekkles is there just in case Keria is sick/cant play
haven't watched the video but the answer i absolutely not unless it's a showmatch like there is no universe where rekkles plays for the main team he is no where and i mean nowhere near the same guma or keria and i would be genuienly surprised if he even played the full season for the academy he wasn't good enough for Europe so why would he be good enough for the best team in the world with the most stacked botlane .... this is a marketing stunt. even still i hope he does alright in kr
Yeah no, doing extremely well on KR SoloQ does say quite a bit.
imo rekkles just went to lck challengers to further improve his skills and after he improves in lck he would go back to eu and dominate i think
honestly... i dont really care if T1 win anymore. Faker has got his 4th cup, basically something nobody will ever acheive. sure, they could win more, but I'm less invested in the 5th cup as i was for the 4th one. Although it would be nice to see the roster, get back to back worlds, making it the only team to ever win two worlds back to back with the exact same roster.
Or be the first to achieve a grand slam
Imagine Rekkles replacing Keria KEKW
1.- T1 does not need an academy support so they dont give a fk 2.- Rekkles personal brand is amazing for getting sponsors. 3.- Its a risk free move with a lot of upsides outside the game.
I honestly think that Rekkles is more of a backup for Faker and hear me out. Last year when Faker went down Keria was going to be moved to mid lane, and their academy support was going to move up, but Poby had been playing out of his mind so they kept Keria on support and moved Poby up. So if Faker were to go down again, they could now move Keria mid, and have Rekkles support. T1 lacked shotcalling and someone to reign in the rest of the team when Faker went down. So while mechanically Rekkles is clearly not their best backup mechanically, I think his experience, knowledge, and past accomplishments will help reign in the “kids” *cough* Oner *cough* Keria *cough* because mechanics was never the issue, a leader and stabilizing force when faker was out was left void, which I think Rekkles would fit.
One of the single most insane things ive ever read
@@gorvercelvland2322 wdym i think its a great idea to move the worlds best support off role
poby my goat
why did he even role switch to support? ADC Rekkles was goated and would’ve been more exciting if he was still ADC
Possible, imagine if keria gets injured or sick, Boom t1 rekkless main roster lets goooooo
They would not bring Rekkles to the main roster even if Keria can't play for some reason.. You want a guy whose just learning support to try and lane with Guma against Viper and Delight or Peyz and Lehends? They would be better off bringing Wolf back lol
@@chrissears5482 that's a major delusional take if you think a retired content creator for t1 wolf, is better than a current ACTIVE pro rekkles that hit challenger on the support role in KR ladder (tbf Tyler1 hit challenger all 5 roles and said support is the easiest). poby took over faker and they went 1-7 and we can guess faker does a lot of shot calling / glue that holds the mentality of the team together. since Rekkles is on the T2 team and NOT the T3 team. yes he WOULD be the first person to replace keria if said keria got injured like faker you're forgetting T1 the org is legit training rekkles.
@doubled99218 and your forgetting that Rekless is a huge western name thats a marketing ploy for T1 to bring western viewership to their academy team. He will never play in the LCK. Oh and by the way he got to challenger by spamming hail of blades Janna.. A champ that is never used in competition
@@chrissears5482 first off stop trolling 1) janna got buffed so obviously she is being used...so that last point u made is null and void already lose credibility when u said "never used in competition", where were u couple season ago?? janna got gutted from the nerfed a while ago. meta changes all the time. you should know this oh wait... 2) you're assuming rekkles joined t1 solely for branding when T1 is a bigger brand then him. if that was the case LEC teams would've picked up rekkles but he all saw how much of a failure that has treated him in the past couple years (you can make an argument for KCorp) rekkles himself has even stated he wants to win in the most competitive area of league (lck) and time will tell if he does win challenger leagues and moves up or even get picked up by a LCK team. you're making assumptions based off nothing except your own feelings towards a westerner getting picked up by the greatest org in League. and only time will tell if rekkles is able to success or not.
yeah no just the language barrier alone make it impossible
Rekkles does not have the level to compete with the goat.
Rekkless can contribute to T1 the EU playstyle.
It's gonna bring viewership its so obvious 😂
The question isn’t the actual topic of the video. The topic of the video is Rekkless moving to T1
if keria injured his hands
this did not need a 6 minute video lmao
It is a massive publicity stunt, they wanted the rekkles IP and all the Korean girls will fawn over him.
not one sane human being believes rekkles will replace keria in any shape or form lmao.
Short and long answer: no
Nobody can replace Keria lmao
Keria is the best support in the world. Keria has to be injured for rekkles to play.
Keria is light years ahead of rekkles so the answer is no, this is sort of like a tyler1 being a T1 member. It’s a media thing
You're right and right again, yet you still missed the point of it all. It's a marketing technique, obviously, he's not better, it's not about being better, it's about drawing in Western fans.
That implies keria benched, yea
wait did skt made a dumb move and released Keria?
hell no, keria still exists
Im sure its just good buissness. Korea dominates LOL in most aspects but one. Korea does not have interesting characters, and content creators like NA, and EU. NA and EU have players that are good at marketing themselves, and creating content. I really think Rekkles(Even though IM a rekkles fan) was mainly brought in to bring his fan base to T1 Acadamy and help get them some notoriety because...again im a Rekkles fan but he does not have shit on Keria the support that completely MADE the meta in worlds..aint happening.
Rekkles play with Faker is like a retired chinese basketball player play with LeBron James, even in academy, how the fuck do you think a retired chinese basketball player gonna teach a NBA rookie how to play the game? This is a pure marketing shit, and Rekkles might have one or two games play with Faker in those games that don't actually matter.
over keria? sorry, but never. nobody could replace keria anyway, and the 3 year long built synergy between zofgk, especially the guma keria bot lane, should not be messed with. i'd love for rekkles to chat with guma and keria though, that would be fun.