As the GEN.G team swept T1 3-0 in the 2022 LCK Summer Finals and won the championship, the "no crown curse" on the shoulders of the Gen.G digital players finally disappeared. The three players Doran, Chovy, and Lehends Finally, he realized his talent and won the championship trophy that was once within reach but out of reach. Although Griffin, the supernova who shined in the LCK back then, has fallen, his afterglow still shines on the court. Currently, among the six Griffins who are still active in the competition, only Tarzan and Sword have not won any major competitions.
In the 2018 LCK Summer Split, Griffin, the newly promoted team that had just been promoted from the secondary league to the top league, dazzled all viewers who paid attention to the LCK as soon as it appeared. This team is coached by CvMax and consists of five top high-scoring talented newcomers in the Korean server. Not only did they win and advance to the secondary league with an undefeated record, but they also had no discomfort in entering the LCK. It was like a new wind sweeping the league, and finally entered the playoffs with the second place in the regular season, winning 3:2 in the semifinals. After defeating AF, they unfortunately lost to the KT team in the finals 2:3. They almost completed the three consecutive jumps from the secondary league to the LCK championship and entered the S game in one season.
S8 The three teams in the LCK division suffered major blows one after another. People focused their future hopes on Griffin. However, they did not expect that the LCK runner-up was not the starting point for this team, but became the one that would haunt them for the next few years. A season-long nightmare. In the 2019 season, the Griffin team won the first place in the regular season in the spring and summer seasons with unrivaled performance. However, they all lost to SKT in the finals, completing the unprecedented achievement of three consecutive LCK runner-ups. Fortunately, this time they were able to advance to S9 as the second seed in the LCK with their points advantage. But on S9, they were defeated by IG in the quarter-finals.
When this highly anticipated team lost consecutive major competitions, doubts finally exceeded trust. In addition, after the summer split, Griffin's management and head coach CvMax suddenly broke out in internal strife and expelled him from the team. This supernova ushered in a 180-degree turn in a very dramatic way. Doran, Chovy, and Lehends collectively left the team after the contract dispute. After Griffin suffered a major blow, he quickly fell to the bottom of the league in the 2020 season. name, and was eventually eliminated in the relegation match and relegated back to the secondary league. Tarzan and Viper also chose to leave.
Sword, the only remaining member of the original team, was the core figure in the Griffin controversy. He sued the former head coach CvMax for the violence within the team. The LCK official decision to impose additional suspensions also caused hardships for CvMax and CvMax, who had just joined DRX. Chovy, Deft. As the LCK was about to undergo a league reform, the Griffin club, which had neither secured a seat in the league nor had the strength to compete for promotion spots, finally dismissed all its players and disbanded the League of Legends division. This team that once shined in the LCK and World Championships fell from the clouds and completely disappeared in just one year.
Former Griffin players are still active in the competition. Kanavi, a former Griffin youth training player who chose to stay with JDG after the contract turmoil, won consecutive first-team jungle titles in the spring and summer seasons in 2020, and led the team to win a championship and a second place. After Tarzan joined LNG in 2021, he was named a first-team jungler in the summer split and led LNG to S11 in the playoffs. Viper even shined in the EDG team, winning the 2021LPL Summer Championship and the 2021 Global Finals championship with the team. The three players Doran, Chovy, and Lehends finally had their hard work come to an end today and won their first career league championship in Gen.G.
Doran, Sword, Tarzan, Kanavi, Chovy, Viper, and Lehends were born in Griffin. Only Tarzan, who plays for LNG, and Sword, who serves as a substitute in BRO, have not won any top competition championship honors. However, LNG, JDG, and EDG have all qualified for at least the S12 Bubble Tournament, and GEN has also obtained the LCK No. 1 seed status. We hope to see former Griffin teammates on the stage of the 2022 Global Finals in the World Championship. Head-to-head confrontation on stage.When they gather they are like a ball of fire, when they are scattered they are filled with stars. We look forward to their even better performance in the future!
