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Six lengthy years have handed since Bengi, the legendary former jungler of SK Telecom T1, final competed in a League of Legends World Championship. This season, the three-time Worlds winner returns to the event. Bengi is taking over the mantle behind his gamers, serving as his longtime house group’s head coach throughout the season’s most vital aggressive occasion.
“Contemplating the truth that T1 is what it’s and the legacy that it’s offered for me, I used to be a bit nervous, but it surely was positively value a shot,” Bengi advised Dot Esports about his new function.
Simply final month, the thought of Bengi serving as the pinnacle coach of T1 seemed like a far-and-away dream. The workforce was recent off one other journey to the LCK grand finals and had locked up Korea’s second seed on the World Championship below former head coach Polt.
However simply days after the workforce’s grand last loss to Gen.G, T1 CEO Joe Marsh made the “intestine resolution” to promote Bengi to the pinnacle coach place. Marsh cited that Bengi “is aware of what it takes to win” as the rationale for the previous champion’s elevation.
And admittedly, there’s no higher participant in League historical past to win World Championships than Bengi. Though one month earlier than Worlds appears like an inopportune time for a workforce to check out a brand new head coach, the event is Bengi’s pure component.
Alongside his former teammate (and now pupil) Faker, Bengi gained three World Championships between 2013 and 2016. Faker and Bengi are the one two League gamers in historical past to every have three World Championships below their belt. No different gamers have greater than two—and so they’ve all claimed a minimum of a kind of titles with Faker and Bengi as teammates.
Bengi nonetheless believes that regardless of a change in relationship, he and Faker nonetheless have synergy that would propel them to a World Championship. That synergy was at its peak throughout the 2016 World Championship—the final of Bengi’s profession earlier than departing the professional League scene for his obligatory Korean navy inscription.
Going through elimination within the semifinals of Worlds 2016, Bengi was subbed in for SKT forward of a pivotal fourth sport. He subsequently led SKT to victory in one of many biggest come-from-behind victories in skilled League historical past. His now-famous Nidalee decide makes up a small margin of the mythos surrounding the arguably best League match ever played.
Now, with over half a decade separating Bengi from his final look at Worlds, “the sensation is absolutely recent proper now,” in accordance with the previous jungler. So recent that Bengi “generally thinks [he] may nonetheless be a participant.”
Within the case of 2022 T1, a workforce with younger gamers throughout the board (T1’s average player age is simply over 20 years previous, even with the 26-year-old Faker within the equation), the 2 biggest gamers within the franchise’s historical past imagine it to be crucial that their former successes are handed right down to the group’s subsequent era.
“We each have gained a number of World Championships collectively, and since now we have a motive like that, it’s good to encourage our careers collectively to different youthful gamers,” Bengi stated of Faker.
And Bengi isn’t any stranger to working with youthful gamers. Final season, he served as the pinnacle coach of T1’s Challengers workforce. He labored alongside gamers like Mowgli, Mireu, and others who’ve discovered teaching or enjoying jobs within the LCK and past.
No former T1 Challengers participant has earned as a lot world recognition as Cloud9 AD carry Berserker. As destiny would have it, Bengi and Berserker may have the possibility to reunite at Worlds 2022, as Cloud9 and T1 have been placed into the same group throughout the event’s principal occasion.
“Berserker is a extremely nice participant,” Bengi stated. “I’ve at all times been pondering that once I coached him on the Challengers workforce. I at all times anticipated him to be a participant who may play on a top-tier workforce, and he truly made it. It’s actually good to see him once more, and clearly, I wasn’t fallacious that he might be an incredible participant.
Bengi may have the chance to make his head teaching debut for T1’s principal roster in opposition to the defending world champions Edward Gaming on Oct. 7. He’ll go up in opposition to Berserker and C9 on Oct. 9.
