He’s been there, performed it, and received the medals – final month, streamer Tyler ‘Tyler1’ Steinkamp turned solely the second League of Legends participant ever to finish the five-role Challenger gauntlet after hitting the highest rank as a help. You’d assume after an accomplishment like that, you’d wish to take a while away to replicate, to loosen up, and to seemingly relaxation your battered carpal tunnel. However Tyler1 is ploughing on and grinding as exhausting as ever, and is now up into the highest 50 gamers on the North American server on his help account.
Tyler1’s ‘COOKIEMONSTER123’ account presently sits (on the time of writing) at 47 on the NA leaderboard, seeing him rub shoulders with a few of the continent’s greatest gamers and professionals from the LCS.
90% of his video games on this account have been as a help, and whereas he’s beforehand blasted the function for being too straightforward, he’s not slowing down. Regardless of finishing his problem nicely over every week in the past, Tyler1 has nonetheless performed 125 video games of LoL prior to now seven days, in keeping with his OP.gg web page.
Whereas this does embody a couple of cheeky Draven botlane video games (that is Tyler1 we’re speaking about right here) the overwhelming majority of those are nonetheless as a help, displaying he’s both nonetheless devoted to utterly mastering the function, or he’s taking full benefit of how straightforward it’s to play (in the event you imagine his evaluation of the function).
These current matches have all primarily hinged round his three most important help picks from this season: Nautilus, Pyke, and Karma.
Tyler1 clearly needs to see how far he can climb up the LoL ranks this season as a help. Clearly, the plaudits of changing into a five-role Challenger haven’t stifled his starvation for candy, candy LP.