Thus, yet another World Championship has passed in the career of Gen.G’s superstar mid laner Chovy, and just like previous times, he left the tournament empty-handed. It can be said that if in the LCK, Chovy is still one of the top mid laners in his position, stepping onto the international stage has shown a 180-degree opposite performance. Chovy at the international tournament has performed extremely poorly. In fact, in his last three appearances, Gen.G and Chovy were both considered championship contenders, but ultimately, it all ended in disappointment.
Clearly, the most important thing that Chovy lacks is the championship mentality. In the matches where Gen.G failed, when his teammates needed Chovy the most, he clearly showed a disappointing performance. In fact, compared to his young teammate Peyz, who is stepping into a world tournament for the first time, Chovy is significantly underperforming. In a statistic that Chovy is supposed to excel in – the minion score – he even ranked lower than Zeus, the top laner of T1.
Undeniably, Chovy is still very talented and is the only mid laner, after Faker, to have three consecutive LCK championships. However, when discussing Chovy’s chances of winning the World Championship in the future, fans are not optimistic. Accordingly, on a forum, there was a topic titled: “The Truth About Chovy”. In it, one opinion compared Chovy to Khan – a former LCK star who is seen as one of the players unlucky with international titles in the League of Legends scene.
Specifically, this fan commented: “Deft also took a long time to win the World Championship (2022). But in reality, Deft has had luck with international tournaments since he won MSI 2015. Chovy might be similar to Khan in some way. However, Khan surpassed Chovy in that he became famous much later and only had a short period of competing at the highest level. But both Chovy and Khan have been mocked with the titles ‘Khan of international tournaments’ or ‘Chovy version of international competitions’… Although no one knows what the future holds, I truly don’t think Chovy’s chances of winning the World Championship are high.”
It can be said that after many years, even Chovy’s fans are starting to lose hope that he will win at least one international title. Chovy emerged as a “prodigy” at Griffin, but after many years, only three consecutive LCK championships are his highest achievements. Chovy still has a few years left, but the audience cannot be patient for that long.