so stop talking about who’s the best or so, Faker’s the best. Aside from the aforementioned incident in granting Faker the top rank to end Season 3, Apdo has also openly stated that “I can’t win my lane against Faker, he’s too good. It’s easy to see why such a player would garner Apdo’s respect or attention.īeyond Ambition, Apdo has shown marked respect for Faker. Ambition’s stock as a competitive Mid laner has been dropping ever since 2013, and he has since role-swapped to Jungle for CJ Entus, but the former Blaze star is famed for seemingly always maintaining a top 10 rank in Challenger, showing that his mechanical and strategical understanding of the game has always remained consistently elite, at least from an individual point-of-view.
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Blaze would go on to lose the series 2:3, with Ambition falling in a mirror match-up on LeBlanc against Shield’s Ggoong. More recently, Apdo placed an illegal bet of 200,000 Won (~$185) on CJ Entus Blaze to win their semi-final match-up against NaJin White Shield in OGN Spring 2014. Apdo has even stated that he only uses mid or late game champions, eschewing those which attempt to dominate the lane early as he does not consider himself a particularly good laner. His success and style is predicated more on the cerebral than mechanical aspects of the game, though he naturally has a high raw skill level as well. While not known as someone who dominates the Mid lane directly with every champion, Apdo is considered excellent at countering OP champions and being able to play in disadvantageous match-ups. This style, combined with his intuitive sense for when to make plays, has been a primary factor in his incredible success in repeatedly winning Challenger games and climbing accounts in seemingly record time, putting together 20-30 game winning streaks. Using this style, he is able to apply massive amounts of map pressure and find kills elsewhere on the map, not being limited to having to try and dominate the mid lane each and every game. Apdo also played Orianna and Ahri back during that time.Īs a Mid laner, Apdo is known for a style based around heavy roaming and rotating into other lanes. Reaching 70-80% win-rates on the champion, it has been speculated that he was a primary reason behind the champion’s popularity and heavy banning in both solo queue and OGN competitive play. His Kassadin was famed for being so deadly that he could instalock it as a first pick and still dominate any attempt to counterpick him, such as with an AD Mid lane champion. Competition is fierce and players are required to play a number of champions and at least two roles, with “one trick ponies” (specialists on a single champion), rarely reaching that high on the ladder, instead stuck around Diamond 1.Īpdo is best known for his play on AP Mid lane champions, particularly Kassadin, Ryze and Twisted Fate during Season 3. Challenger in Korean soloqueue is almost exclusively made up of pros, semi-pros and ex-pros. In contrast, Faker is only really known for being good at Jungle outside of his usual Mid lane position, rarely needing to play any other roles due to being first pick the majority of the time and other players giving him Mid to increase their chances of winning the game. Apdo won an amateur tournament and would apply to take part in the Season 4 OGN Champions online qualifier with the same team, also featuring another infamous Elo booster. In September he began streaming on Afreeca, a well known Korean streaming service. He would then rename the account to Odpa, an anagram of Apdo, hinting directly at his real identity. With his main account suspended, Apdo began playing on a smurf and at the beginning of August hit D1 99LP, eventually entering Challenger with it. No evidence was found of Mima’s involvement in any boosting, so no action was taken against him and his team reached the quarter-final of that season of Champions.
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The infamous Korean went as far as to claim that there were professional players who had taken part in boosting, even going as far as to out Mima (former MVP White player), who was playing in that season of OGN (Champions Summer) with CTU. During his 30 day ban, Apdo wrote a long post on inven in which he provided information about Elo boosting.
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