LoL: The biggest player in Europe gets 4 new friends – Because his team kicks everyone but him

In League of Legends, the transfer season is in full swing: teams are regrouping for 2023. The most successful and well-known professional player in Europe is the Croatian Luka “Perkz” Perković (24), who has been incredibly successful for years. But his plan to form a new super team in France went really wrong in 2022 – in 2023 Team Vitality wants to do everything new, at least almost everything: Perkz can stay.

Why is Perkz considered the biggest player in Europe?

• Perkz played for Team G2 Esports from 2015 to 2020, first in the mid lane, then in the bot lane – and won almost everything there.
• Perkz was an 8-time LEC champion, teamed up with his biggest rivals Caps and even took G2 to the Worlds 2019 finals. When he left G2 (for allegedly 5 million euros), he quickly won a championship in the USA with Cloud9.
• Perkz is seen as an absolute leader and someone whose engine is always running at 100%. When he left G2, the team collapsed and to this day has not fully recovered from it: in 2021 they did not qualify for the Worlds at all, in 2022 G2 disappointed.

Super team in France should disassemble everything – disassembled itself

Then what was the plan? In 2022, Team Vitality was supposed to be a super team in France, i.e. a team with outstanding individual players. They bought the best European LoL that was on the market, even brought Perkz and top laner Alphari back from the USA, but it just didn’t work.

Despite the assembled firepower, the team did not harmonize and did not play a particularly good role in the LEC: Perkz and Alphari were even said to have lost some of their class in the USA, still lagging behind their form.

So the strategy was changed and some Koreans and Chinese were brought in, but even that just wasn’t enough.

Team Vitality, which was supposed to lead Perkz to a world title, failed in Europe. They couldn’t even qualify for the playoffs.

This is the plan now: Team Vitality has now let 4 of the 5 regular players go: only Perkz remains from the old squad. In addition, they keep the substitute jungler Bo, the South Korean seems to have enormous potential.

According to reports, 3 players are now added to Perkz and Bo:

• Photon, a top laner who plays for T1’s junior team
• Neon, a carry formerly active for Misfits
• The German supporter Kaiser, who just came from Mad Lions

How are the players reacting? Above all, the sorted out top laner Alphari, who was actually planned as a “co-star”, sounds disappointed. He first tweeted, “Who is Photon and why are people saying I’m taking a spring break?”

In the meantime he actually put it on record: He was taking a break at the start of 2023, wasn’t even looking for a new team, but was freeing up. He’s been playing for 6 years now and his life has revolved around winning a split where he’s always failed. It’s getting harder and harder to motivate yourself (via twitter).

Perkz, on the other hand, seems to be looking forward to 2023: A “Banger Team” was put together there (via twitter).

This must also be a change for Perkz, at G2 he played with the same 4 people for years, the core group around him, Caps, Wunder, Jankos and Mikyx seemed like a tight-knit squad, now he has the next new teammates in 3 years itself.

Perkz is also not entirely without critics in international LoL:

LoL: Koreans make scathing judgment about the best player in Europe