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EternaLEnVy retires from every little thing Dota 2, one final stream as ultimate hurrah

  Published Date: May 4, 2023

Jacky “EternaLEnVy” Mao proclaims his retirement from every little thing Dota 2 associated. That features his skilled profession, streaming, and the Dota 2 memes he’s related to.

EternaLEnVy is a legend, revered by many old-school gamers and followers alike. Throughout his prime years from 2012-2016 he was a part of Dota’s elite and a contender at most main occasions. He hasn’t had the very best profession run lately, and his drive to be a aggressive participant has seemingly come to an finish.

Decade of Greatness

EternaLEnVy has been within the aggressive scene for a really very long time, largely “serving” the notorious North America area. The Worldwide 2014 model of Cloud 9 is one among EternaLEnVy’s most distinguished highlights of his profession, when he used to play alongside all-stars, equivalent to Wehsing “SingSing” Yuen, Kurtis “Aui_2000” Ling and Johan “pieliedie” Åström.

Moreover, he additionally often ventures into different areas, competing for Crew Secret in Western Europe and Fnatic in Southeast Asia. Though he’s a NA participant, followers keep in mind his prime days in Crew Secret, when he received the Shanghai Main 2016.

Crew Secret wins the Shanghai Main 2016

As for his time in Fnatic, one could argue that it wasn’t his finest skilled profession to be related to the “Pizza Social gathering” Dota 2 meme. For the uninitiated, “Pizza Social gathering” is a reference to EE’s choice to kick Khoo “Ohaiyo” Chong Xin for Saahil “Universe” Arora over a pizza social gathering.

Since then, EE remained largely in his native area, NA, the place he switched between ten groups all through a mere four-year timeline. Whereas unlucky, most followers nonetheless imagine EE’s persistence in his professional profession is noteworthy.

Phrases from different Dota 2 professional gamers

EternaLEnVy goes by many names, however his most famed one is “EE-sama”. The Japanese time period, “-sama” is commonly used to handle a person of upper rank and is derived from his curiosity in anime.

Followers now lose on the chance to spam EE-sama within the chat when the Dota 2 prodigy delivers an distinctive play in his sport. At the least they’ll all the time spam “fEEd” in reference to EternaLEnVy’s notoriously hot-tempered behaviour in his video games. Whereby, most of the time, EternaLEnVy is infamously feeding to the opponent staff at any time when the sport doesn’t go as he anticipated.

EE-sama is memorable even amongst his Dota 2 rivals and pals. One former teammate, Aui_2000 sends his nicely needs, acknowledging EE’s improvements in drafts and meta.

And we are able to definitely take the International 2015 Champion’s phrases, that EE is actually one of the deserving professional gamers recognized for his crafts.

Rocky relationships

After all, in such a aggressive panorama, even the nice EE has his haters. Placing apart Ohaiyo, many NA gamers most likely have many issues to say about their experiences with EternaLEnVy.

Notably, Nicolas “Gunnar” Lopez who received the identical remedy as Ohaiyo when he was kicked by the latter simply weeks earlier than the Disneyland Paris Major. Kyle “melonzz” Freedman additionally known as EE out throughout an interview in stated main for his unethical kicking of Gunnar.

Moreover, the standard beef between EE and Samuel “Sammyboy” Anderson goes manner past aggressive video games. As the 2 NA gamers usually discover themselves in comparable ranked video games, Sammyboy despises EE’s poisonous conduct.

As all issues ultimately involves an finish, we bid farewell to EE, and want him all the very best in his future endeavors as a software program engineer.

Author: Ronnie Neal