It seems everyone knows that world championship (Worlds) winning players will have their own honorary skins, including substitute players who have played at least one match. Moreover, players will have the chance to advise and contribute to Riot’s design team to create skins that match their personalities and preferences. There’s even no problem if they draw inspiration from other games, like the recent case of DRX Ashe designed by BeryL.
However, recently, a number of T1 fans jokingly said: “Someone please tie Faker up and take him out for hot pot on the day they’re going to Riot headquarters to work on the skins. Sang-hyeok, you said the championship is for your four teammates, so please don’t ruin their Worlds skins as well.” The comment from hardcore fan T1 received a lot of likes. Some even quoted that Gumayusi had to laugh when mentioning the “rainbow t-shirt” that Faker previously helped design.
At this point, everything became clear. Perhaps many League of Legends fans, especially hardcore T1 fans and Faker, still remember that the T1 Mid Laner once participated in designing a clothing product for the famous fashion brand Nike, for which he was a model. However, according to T1 fans, this t-shirt was truly a design… “crappy looking shirt.” Because on a plain white shirt, Faker’s name was embroidered in five colors with an asymmetrical arrangement. The shirt is still available for sale on the specialized site Ruten, with a price of around 2,200 yuan (about over 7.5 million VND).
Perhaps it is precisely because of Faker’s association with this “disaster” design that T1 fans want him to “let go” of the design for the first Worlds skin of his juniors. But perhaps these are just humorous comments from fans, and Faker will also carefully consider the upcoming Worlds skin. Moreover, in the past, skins of Faker with SKT T1 like Ryze, Syndra, or Zed have all been highly regarded. Among them, SKT T1 Ryze is still very popular among T1 and Faker fans to this day.