How a 19 Year Old Changed Pro League of Legends

Behind the baby face and innocent attitude is a true monster. The man that strikes fear into every opposing team he faces. The man who rewrites entire drafts to his will. At his peak, simply the most skilled and complete support player league of legends has ever seen. Keria. The 19 year old that changed the game forever.
Keria began his career as the trainee support player for DRX before being promoted at the tail end of 2019. He made his debut at the KeSPA Cup where the team scored a 2-0 victory against KeG and Keria won the MVP of the match. In his first career match, he was already shining brighter than everyone else.
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[@oplolreplay]

The Genius Monster.. enjoy!

[@SamirPlayzXYZ]

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[@JQuill116]

The crazy champions and mechanics are pretty easy to notice, but I think what people often underrate with Keria is his shotcalling. Sure, he maybe isn't quite on the level of a Beryl, but he is the main shotcaller on T1, the other players have said so. Obviously, Faker does a ton too especially with setting up the map, but I think it speaks insanely highly of Keria that Faker trusts enough in him to be their main shotcaller.

[@bynflew8552]

I managed to get tickets for the finals in 2023 and got to see T1 lift their 4th trophy. I loved every second of it it was one of the best experiences i've ever seen in person. I watched T1 lose to DRX in 2022 and i cried when I saw Keria break down on stage after their loss so seeing them win the next year in person was an incredible thing

[@queensforever7498]

Ashe is pretty much perma banned against Keria 😂

[@Vergil955]

Just a little improvement suggestion : targeting the player on the screen so we can easily identify who we have to watch is a big ergonomic plus. Thanks for the vid :)

[@jvmc25]

Yes, like a cross hair of a scope

[@oplolreplay]

Noted!

[@uros7320]

​@@oplolreplay ye maybe just point them out at the staft of the fight for a second

[@micko046]

yes I couldnt find keria with 10 champions rampaging skills

[@lecamtu7092]

He was exempted from military service. Hope he will achieve more and have the lux skin this year.

[@farinthefuture2178]

Lux? Dont you think lux has enough skins already😂?

[@uncledomek]

@@farinthefuture2178 It's not about how many skins Lux has. Keria said he really wanted a Lux skin but could not pick it because he did not play her in the tournament.

[@user-iw9sr4cb5t]

​@@farinthefuture2178We'll give Keria a pass. HE deserves that Lux skin, not Lux.

[@thedefinitionofhumble1877]

Bro he better get that Lux skin. Poor kid seemed so down on stream that day when he told fans he was denied it.

[@terms109]

why does this guy sound like he is whispering some magical tale.... or he dont want anyone one else in the house to hear him

[@raulansbach5238]

You know a player is GOOD when he plays support and people debate if he is/was the best in the world at some point

[@lockonking338]

Gotta give Cvmax credit for the amount of talents he found and developed over the years. Chovy, Tarzan, Kanavi, Viper, Keria, Lehend, and Doran.

[@kaiwen]

cvmax isnt the sole reason why keria got picked was more Deft who is a friend of him and told cvmax that he wants to play with them

[@Hoshiguru]

You forgot to mention how hes a new jeans fan😂

[@GunjanBaba]

7:55 THE MISSING LINK WAS ZEUS 🗿 ⚡

[@godoglove115]

ik this is about keria, but at 7:35 when i saw khan... man that hit hard

[@GunjanBaba]

YOU MISSED THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT, HOW HE PLAYED KALISTA SUPPORT, ASHE SUPPORT AND OTHER HEROES.

[@Kilouboy974]

I think you should mention beryl 2022 final and world. He lead the way for keria rissing in 2023 by how unique he played. Then adc/heimer bot all spring and keria being the verry best at it.

[@nguyenminhanh2913]

my baby keria is the GOAT

[@emilycarozzini1815]

I love how in the intro sequenze the Gen G logo isnt shown LOL

[@lovelyn2947]

Keria😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@osukasuyi1825]

wait SKT created their own band with faker as lead singer???????!!!??!?!

[@dixeldoo]

god i wanna see them win again!

[@glen3001]

Maybe might be good to show some of his top plays in last years finals like with bard.

[@VorTexow]

This voice sounded familiar, it’s my goat cinematicesport

[@seanpaul1054]

only t1 will have a team overall performance like that and still be criticized and called "fell short, not enough and/or underperforming". You just know everyone knows that they are the best thats why anything but a championship title is "underperforming"

[@lancethederp]

Bro learned from BeryL and became a monster

[@TheDexi256]

Nice to see @cinematicesports here

[@gnocchi5107]

Awesome vid, amazing editing! was hoping you could get a new mic to make the vids even better quality

[@oplolreplay]

thanks for the feedback, will make sure to improve on that!

[@muntokki]

my king keria😌

[@clajmate69]

this should be nice vid but why the footage have so low res?

[@Thomassando]

Not mentioning how he spread the lethality ADC support meta epidemic starting with Dark Harvest Jhin then Hail of Blades Cait/Kalista/Varus etc

[@chriswoolard7962]

Crazy at 0:54 chovy is in top lane. I forgot he played top on stage a rare few times.

[@finnlegolas7193]

I was so confused and googeld for like 10 minutes what happend back then. I first thought there were 2 chovys :D

[@monakasan7486]

honestly I wouldnt be surprised if he plays mid in the future, whether to substitute Faker when he retires or get recruited by LPL

[@Slashresto]

Mid? Nah man if anything he wil be an ADC xD

[@mr.fortunewr8399]

I want to see a peak keria once again. Faker already passed his peak. Gumayusi has been always peak. Zeus just got his peak record last year worlds with oner.

[@rachelheke5737]

I want to see them all peak for the rest of the year lol

[@aleno525]

Bro we forgetting about beryl

[@Zyra_Cameron]

being a support back then was just boring, nowadays being a support is like everything.

[@natka6764]

I had no idea he was this young...

[@jamesm.261]

Aside from Faker, everyone was younger than 20 at the time. Crazy to see, can’t wait to see them at MSI

[@knpark2025]

What kind of SPT is Keria? *Fire Support.*

[@digestmymind]

He's so cute.

[@wooperlovesbts2987]

And he is so goddamn cute while doing it

[@thewallsarebreathing2509]

great video but i gotta say that thumbnail is hilarious lol

[@JN-lh6qq]

it's stolen from Wayton Piklin

[@JoppedeZeeuw]

What is the footage at 3:45 from?

[@jaydog12353]

They were robbed at msi Playing in front of a stadium cold af vs in the comfort of your practice room, heater turned on, along with wearing a sweater

[@ermirhalitaj5346]

Weren't their opponents doing the same thing?

[@jaydog12353]

@@ermirhalitaj5346 wdym? T1 played at an outdoor stadium with fans watching them perform live

[@ermirhalitaj5346]

@@jaydog12353 Yes, but didnt their opponents also do that?

[@khoohao9659]

@@ermirhalitaj5346 u mean MSI RNG?? They play without headset, Refree, Camera and using 35 PING to barely win agasint T1 with a 3-2 but got demolished in worlds with a 0-3. That 2022 MSI Final was like T1 playing against 5 Photo lol

[@mikelytou]

This voice sounds nothing like "I'm OP...."

[@oplolreplay]

It's our host @cinematicesports for the documentaries! Thanks for watching!

[@juju12701]

still think berryL is one of the most underrated player all time

[@rachelheke5737]

This is about Keria though

[@juju12701]

@@rachelheke5737 wait? for real?

[@kevin1510vn]

Hải lùn ơi a biết nhà của mày chỗ nào đấy. Hỏi xúc xích hòa 😂😂🎉🎉

[@Dyna1One]

As someone who came back to League in s13, holy smokes did I miss Keria Deft Chovy???

[@xoaingo9164]

Nice vid but narrator is whispering and I'm half deaf 😢

[@reaksachan5838]

why is the quality of the video so bad

[@testbug01]

So Keria is over 18?

[@akinaotome2533]

It's the stolen thumbnail for me :/

[@pfefferminz715]

just curious where did he steal it from ?

[@crystaltytk3900]

@@pfefferminz715stole it from Wayton Pilkon’s channel. It’s called “how a 16 year old changed pro rocket league” if u want to check it out

[@finger1079]

@@pfefferminz715Wayton Pilkin “How a 16 year old changed pro rocket league”

[@clydiancecht5410]

I sometimes find my self comparing Keria to EU's Mikyx when it comes to campions pools.

[@DurgrBubble]

pretty sure keria's champ pool is way deeper and he plays them all at a higher lvl than the EU support

[@dimiscionofdark7875]

One of the best support but unstable without faker and we all show what happens 😢

[@KenKasaya]

hey, i really apreciate this vid, its so strong and full of truth. but i see u have lost a significant information. Faker is not faker because he changed midlane, he changed the whole game, he was so much better as one player then the enemie teams, for years, until they catched up. but yes, i agree, even now, Keria is the Faker of Support. but faker changed the game, not the mid.

[@diamondgurung9720]

I think he is the best.. Faker legacy is insane but if we put 1v1 I think keria is gonna win Aginst faker chovy whoever in every champ..

[@zedshockblade7157]

What keria is doing now as a support is what faker doing in midfield on his heyday.

[@blurr3d755]

You can't even compare an IGL for that long against a support player , both are amazing players but cannot compare at all

[@diamondgurung9720]

@zedshockblade7157 lmao Me: trust me✌️

[@reyrey9752]

Keria is not being faker ESPECIALLY not chovy in a mechanical 1v1 insane take

[@omegalord777]

@@reyrey9752 peak chovy, peak faker maybe. people want to say faker got back to if not surpassed his peak at 2023 worlds. that's simply not true, peak faker was a horror film and the only player that could ever fight evenly with peak faker (Dopa) was banned from professional play for life. i've never seen any other league player that can reach the pure level of speed and consistency that these two did at their best. honestly... that's only natural. the ones that can usually end up playing pro SC2 instead, and don't get me started on that lol. i simply cannot comprehend how the SC2 gods can process so much information so quickly AND maintain 500+ apm for hours on end. once you get below about 145ms, reaction speed has less to do with reflex-response time and more to do with game sense and intuition. you respond to things BEFORE they happen by using a combination of misdirection and prediction to manipulate the enemy, and that's why you can exceed the limits of reflex-response time. once you get below 75ms... it's more like a flow state, you can't do it at will. what made peak Faker and Dopa simply built diff was their ability to find their way into that flow state often enough to create the illusion of consistency. modern Faker simply can't seem to get back there anymore, but the experience he gained from 3 worlds titles and a laundry list of Bo4 and Bo2 finishes makes him terrifying for an entirely different reason. but as far as pure mechanical skill is concerned, he's probably closer to Oner or Keria and BELOW Zeus and Guma. 2023 was hype as shit, but if i'm being honest the reason they won wasn't faker, and it wasn't keria. it wasn't even Zeus. even with all of the flashy plays and pure ridiculousness T1 put on display that year, they would have lost to JDG. the reason they got to lift that trophy is the one thing about T1's roster that no one focuses on: Peak Guma. Gumayusi as a player... is problematic. honestly i don't know how to fairly assess his value, his low end is still easily Top 10 ADC in the world... but it's his high end that i find is an issue. Gumayusi has the ability to hit the same kind of flow state that Faker and Dopa could at their peak, but Peak Guma can actually reach an even HIGHER level of speed and mechanical skill. the issue is that Gumayusi can't get into that flow state anywhere near as easily. for Faker and Dopa, it was kind of like trying to throttle an engine. you HAD to stop them before they got going, because if they built momentum they would find their rhythm and then a 1v3 was simply 3 free kills and a highlight reel. but Peak Guma can't do that, he's closer to players like Ruler or Lehends. the way to think about monsters like Peak Faker or Peak Dopa is they had an ability to get into a rhythym around about 84-90% of their limits, and then from time to time they could just go nuts and spike to 125%. players like Ruler, Lehends, and Guma spend much more time around 64-72% of their limits. the main difference between Guma and players like Lehends or Ruler is that when ruler or lehends "go nuts" they're just playing closer to 100%. guma on the other hand seems to progressively get more and more crazy if you can't break his rythym. he goes from hovering around 64-72% the way Lehends and Ruler typically do to hovering around 84-90% the way Faker and Dopa used to. and his spikes seem to be relevant to where his rythym is at the specific moment, but what makes it interesting is that he has another level even beyond Peak Faker or Peak Dopa. he can find a specific rythym around 92-96% of his limit, and when he's at that level he can jump up past 150% during moments of insanity where his play spikes to a degree that simply makes it impossible to properly assess the threat he can pose during those moments. no other player on T1 can reach that level, no other player IN THE HISTORY OF THE GAME could do so on the world stage. Ruler's legendary Xayah games managed to reach the same level as Peak Faker's LB or Peak Dopa's TF. but Guma's Varus is a terror that can reach a level even further beyond that. when Gumayusi plays on-hit varus... his play can even surpass Peak Fakers legendary Zed or Riven moments. it's not simply that the APM is faster, but the reads he has are even sharper. we've only seen small hints at how terrifying he can become on that pick. you need to kill him, camp him, shut him down and make him completely unable to farm. tilt him, break his rythym and never let him get going. it's not about what WILL happen otherwise, but rather what can. honestly... it's a good thing he can't reach that level so easily. because if he could... well, he has Keria as his support so you know exactly what would happen lol. drafts would be forced to a 100% pick/ban for Varus vs T1... and then it probably depends on the coaches. i've always prioritized focusing on enabling playstyle rather than adapting to the meta, so i'd put him on picks like Vayne or even Quinn bot and completely ignore meta ADC drafts.

[@horsebox5138]

Please get a better mic bruh 😭

[@juliannnnnn__]

Bros SKT T1 Wolf means you nothing?

[@greytrax]

never heard of him will never hear of him again thank you

[@TheMioSquad]

first comment

[@tomsetberg4746]

Then they got dumpstered by gen g in spring 2024

[@corvair5454]

Classic T1 i suppose

[@rachelheke5737]

um no GenG if they so good and strong shouldn't it have been 3-0 oh nah because once T1 camped on chovy and killed him the rest of the team choked hence why T1 won 2 games but still yes GenG won but it was close at one stage could have gone either way and after game 5 GenG deserved that win because T1 were outplayed hard but still whatever I would not call it dumpstered

[@gregoirepellaton6468]

bro please, speak LOUDER

[@reyrey9752]

Kinda sad this comes out now when he's having a shit year

[@clubskitzhardstyle]

Lowkey faker is over rated, fan boy it or not go back watch over the vods faker cost them their first finals they lost Keria and deft is amazing, riot wont let apdo / dopa vs faker cause they dont want their icon to get completely shown wrong they praise lol around faker

[@theear2182]

ur so dumb lol

[@doubaoa6428]

Overrated lmao. Every one know what his performance without faker looks like. On and Delight are much better.

[@matthewhater]

hes 12 yo btw realy bad player

[@BaronSamedii]

Most overrated player of all time

[@einnormalergooglenutzer3843]

Why?

[@reynaldojuaneza7952]

🧢

[@oplolreplay]

Nice bait

[@SheepyPanda95]

Imagine copying TheScore eSports thumbnail style to get more views. Crazy.

[@bootylooklikedissize]

good video. i would only say, speak up, or work on ending your sentences louder. otherwise gg!