(*) If we exclude unofficial 2011 “Phreak Basement” tournament with only first NA and EU teams, then Faker is the youngest player to win Worlds. He won S3 Worlds in the age of 17 years 4 months and 27 days.
Yesterday he with a big margin became the oldest one too bypassing last year’s Deft result by more than one year (Deft was a bit over 26 years old). Faker won a title in the age of 27 years 6 months and 12 days.
10 years difference and a decent gap from both sides, what a legend.
(*) If we count “S1”, then the youngest one should be ShuShei, he was only 16 years old when Fnatic won that tournament, which now is even illegal to play this game at the competitive level.
Unofficial? You cannot call one of the stepping stone of the history of league esports unofficial lmao.
And I think Cyanide was the youngest ever.Wait why should S1 not be counted?
As a fan, this is already a reach. “If we dont nclude season 1”, did you listen to yourself before typing it out?
Faker already achieved a lot. No reason to embellish his legacy.
l hope OP realises that if league lasts 100 years then people will look back on the Faker era and call it the basement era. Its how they treat Pele now . Better to respect all the winners
S1 will count as much as fakers legacy does as timem goes on