The League of Legends off-season has begun and rumors are already swirling concerning the subsequent cease for gamers like Park ‘Ruler’ Jae-hyuk, who has been linked with a high-profile move to EDG.
The League of Legends off-season has began in earnest as a number of world championship-winning gamers and high-profile stars have hit the open market as free brokers.
Many groups within the LCK have cleared a number of spots on their rosters regardless of first rate success internationally, and it looks as if the identical factor is occurring within the LPL. JD Gaming, who positioned prime 4 on the League of Legends World Championships and received the Mid-Season Invitational this 12 months, have a number of gamers with contracts who’ve ended and are free brokers as of now. Not to say their head coach resigning instantly after their Worlds 2023 loss.
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Ruler, Seo ‘Kanavi’ Jin-hyeok, Zhuo ‘knight’ Ding and Bai ‘369’ Jia-Hao are all on the open market and are free to signal with the workforce of their selecting. Ruler, who final performed for Gen.G earlier than making a move to China, has already been linked with one other Chinese workforce this off-season to this point.
Ruler denies move to EDG following rumors of a move
A submit to the League of Legends subreddit mentioned that there was a rumor going round that EDward Gaming, who didn’t make any worldwide occasions this 12 months, had been going all in on a roster surrounding Ruler and different Korean stars.
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Ruler’s company, Supergent, has since denied the rumor, telling South Korean news outlet Naver that the participant remains to be contemplating his provides presently.
Colin Young-Wolff/Riot GamesRuler and JDG misplaced 3-1 to T1 within the Worlds 2023 semifinals.
“We are at present receiving provides for groups that need [Ruler],” Supergent advised the publication.
A move to the Chinese workforce might not be out of the realm of risk, however with so many gamers in the marketplace and so many groups within the combine this off-season, Ruler is understandably protecting his choices open.
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The off-season for League of Legends is heating up within the East as a number of squads wish to construct the following tremendous workforce to problem for a world title.
