{"id":3047,"date":"2020-03-05T16:12:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T16:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/faker-first-player-2000-kills-lck"},"modified":"2024-07-19T13:53:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T13:53:40","slug":"faker-first-player-2000-kills-lck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/league-of-legends\/faker-first-player-2000-kills-lck","title":{"rendered":"Faker becomes first player to achieve 2000 kills in the LCK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{fdd762d4-5559-4ec3-877e-f5dfcf97b9ba}{65}\" paraid=\"1730352162\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Lee &ldquo;Faker&rdquo; Sang-hyeok&nbsp;has cemented his historic legacy within League of Legends with a new record, becoming the first player to achieve 2,000 kills in the LCK.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{d9a65053-bf97-4e51-a8ee-139d28f67c7e}{142}\" paraid=\"1681004453\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The South Korean player achieved the record during T1&rsquo;s match against Afreeca Freecs in the 2020 League&nbsp;Of&nbsp;Legends Champions Korea Spring Split.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{38531f05-f27c-455f-8175-a815435bfce0}{156}\" paraid=\"207547126\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Over the course of the match, Faker achieved 12 kills in&nbsp;total;&nbsp;picking up nine kills with Orianna in the first game, while earning an additional three with Zoe in the following game.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{66cbeeb7-62eb-4102-b7fc-7fe6f7e4a6c4}{31}\" paraid=\"95148921\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">This pushed Faker&rsquo;s total kill count in the LCK to 2,000, with the official&nbsp;lolesports&nbsp;Twitter account celebrating the milestone.<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lolesports\/status\/1235590076140314624\">\n<blockquote align=\"center\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Faker Faker Record Breaker:<\/p>\n<p>The first player to hit 2,000 career kills in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LCK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LCK<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rpDI3sV684\">pic.twitter.com\/rpDI3sV684<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; lolesports (@lolesports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lolesports\/status\/1235590076140314624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{66cbeeb7-62eb-4102-b7fc-7fe6f7e4a6c4}{31}\" paraid=\"95148921\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{9df23796-231f-4c98-a03d-833d26cc144b}{215}\" paraid=\"466440893\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Faker, who signed with T1 in 2013, has become the face of League of Legends esports across the world, having won three World Championships with the team.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{ca3ff61b-aa3c-45e3-bfc8-92bf45b23da0}{190}\" paraid=\"1854113585\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Earlier this year, Faker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/league-of-legends\/faker-part-owner-t1-contract\">extended his contract with T1<\/a> for three additional years and became part owner of the team &ndash; ensuring his loyalty to the&nbsp;organisation&nbsp;even after retirement.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{934bcb8f-9790-43c5-b3b7-bcee86b0fac4}{191}\" paraid=\"843184036\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">This new record comes ahead of the LCK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/league-of-legends\/lck-hiatus-coronavirus\">going on indefinite hiatus from 6th&nbsp;March<\/a> due to the Coronavirus, which will also temporarily end weekly talk show Sunday Night LCK.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee &ldquo;Faker&rdquo; Sang-hyeok&nbsp;has cemented his historic legacy within League of Legends with a new record, becoming the first player to achieve 2,000 kills in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":601,"featured_media":3048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-of-legends","genre-moba","content_type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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