Viper leaves Edward Gaming to return to his former LCK team
Staff, 2022-11-23 00:48:20,
He’s back in South Korea.
Bot laner Park “Viper” Do-hyeon first made a name for himself in the LCK on Griffin in 2018. In 2020, he was part of Hanwha Life Esports for half a season before making a big career move to join Edward Gaming in the LPL in 2021.
In the last two years with the Chinese organization, he’s won a domestic LPL championship, as well as the prestigious 2021 World Championship, which earned him an EDG Aphelios skin.
For the 2023 season, he returns to Hanwha Life Esports in the LCK. “We warmly welcome Viper, who has won the world championship and has excellent aggression,” HLE wrote in a Tweet.
Viper to compete in LCK 2023 with Hanwha Life Esports
Viper’s debut year in the LPL was an extremely successful one. By the end of LPL Spring 2021, he was top three in terms of KDA, kill share, damage share, and gold share, and top five in gold, experience, and CS differentials at 10 minutes, as well as damage per minute, according to statistics from Orcale’s Elixir.
Together with Edward Gaming teammates Li “Flandre” Xuan-Jun, Zhao “Jiejie” Li-Jie,. Yu “JunJia” Chun-Chia, Lee “Scout” Ye-chan, and Tian “Meiko” Ye, they won 2021 LPL Summer, defeating FunPlus Phoenix 3-1 in the final.
Qualifying for Worlds 2021 as LPL’s first seed, they finished second in their group and went through a hard-fought journey to the final. In the quarterfinals, they edged out fellow LPL team Royal Never Give Up 3-2 before overcoming LCK powerhouse Gen.G 3-2…
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