Li Minhao (Game ID: Crown), South Korea《League of Heroes》E-sports professional player, born in Korea on February 28, 1995, is a professional single player.[3]
In May 2015, Crown joinedSSGBattalion.In 2016, he won the first place in the LCK summer competition and the second place in the S6 global final. In 2017, he won the first place in the LCK spring season, the first place in the LCK summer competition and the champion in the S7 global final.[17]
On December 1, 2020, Crown officially announced its retirement.[1]
Crown, whose real name is Li Minhao, was born in South Korea on February 28, 1995. He was also a professional player of StarCraft at the earliest, but he did not even play a formal professional game as a team trainee at that time.Later, because of the cancellation of the tournament, he became a LOL professional player. At the beginning, he was not invited by any South Korean team, so he had to go to the Brazil League to join a team called 58ers.[20]
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In 2014, Crown Brother officially started his career in the Brazilian League. At that time, his ID was Shadow instead of Crown, but only three months later, 58ers announced its dissolution.Later, he was invited to join the Kabum Black Team. After playing for a short time, he returned to South Korea at the end of the year to join Hyper in the secondary league and changed his ID to Crown.[3][20]
In 2015, the Hyper team did not get the LCK quota. After the spring game, the team was disbanded, and then Crown joined the SSG team.In the summer game of the same year, although SSG ranked the seventh in the league with a 6-12 record and failed to enter the playoffs, Crown's total number of hits and single hits were only second to Faker, ranking second in the LCK.[21]
In 2016, SSG had a record of 10 wins and 8 losses in the LCK spring game. Although it made progress compared with last season, it still failed to help them enter the playoffs.[22]In the summer game of the same year, coach Edgar decided to use newcomer Ruler, and CoreJJ transformed into assistant.SSG ranked fourth in the regular season with 12 wins and 6 losses. The reorganized SSG entered the playoffs for the first time. It defeated AFs 2-0 in the first round and lost to KT 0-3 in the second round. Finally, it directly entered the second round of the bubble game with points.The bubbling match first let one chase three defeats AFs, and then fought against KT for five games. The following beat KT 3:2 in gram, and won the third ticket of the World Cup.[23]2016 League of Heroes Global FinalsSSG came out first in the group with 5 wins and 1 losses, and beat C9 and H2K to enter the finals with two 3-0 defeats respectively.When facing SKT in the final, SSG let the two catch up with the two. When the last step of the three, the decisive Faker took out Victor, Crown's own hero, and hit nearly three times the damage of Crown Snake Girl. In the end, SSG2:3 lost to SKT and ranked second.[20]
In 2017, Crown led the MVP scoreboard of the whole LCK Spring Competition, and finally won the MVP honor of the 2017 LCK Spring Competition by beating Score, Faker and others.SSG also entered the third round of the playoffs directly with the second place in the regular season, but when facing KT in the playoffs, SSG lost 0-3 to the opponent and was eliminated.[24]Crown's status in the summer race began to decline gradually, and SSG was eliminated by SKT3:0 in the first round.With the status of spring season champion and summer champion, the points obtained by SSG throughout the year made them enter the bubble game again.The bubbling match first let two chasing three beat AFs, then swept KT 3-0, and entered the global finals for the second time.[25]
On November 4, 2017, Crown followed SSG3:0 to defeat SKT and win the S7 global final championship.[26]In the Kespa Cup at the end of the year, SSG lost 2-1 to KT in the semi-finals.[19]
On December 1, 2017, KSV eSports officially acquired the SSG League of Heroes team, and SSG was renamed KSV.[27]
In 2018, KSV got on the last bus of the LCK spring post season with 9-9 losses, but lost 1:2 to SKT in the first round.[19]summerThe KSV team was officially renamed asGen.GAt the same time, Fly, the Korean aid Chinese single of Fly team in NA competition area, was introduced, and Crown began to serve as the substitute Chinese single.By the end of the summer regular season, Gen. G had entered the playoffs with the fourth place in the regular season, and was eliminated after losing to AFs 0-2 in the first round.[28]Crown once again served as the starting middle single in the bubble race, helping the team to beat SKT, GRF and KZ successively to complete a series of three, and get the last lead2018 League of Heroes Global FinalsTickets.In the S8 global final, Gen. G ranked the bottom of the group with 1-5 achievements and was eliminated.[29]
In November 2018, Crown went to North America to join the Optic team.[30]
In November 2019, Crown joined the CLG team.[31]
In March 2020, Crown returned to South Korea and joined the OZ Gaming team of the secondary league.OZ ranked third to last in the sub league in the summer and failed to enter the LCK league.[19]
On December 1, 2020, Crown officially announced its retirement.[1]
Crown led Samsung into the final stage of the world finals for two consecutive years, and won the championship trophy at the Bird's Nest.Crown's performance in the S7 finals fluctuated greatly. He was in poor condition and played a relatively blue collar role in the team's single finals. Malzaha and Rock Sparrow were his most commonly used heroes, and also his most stable magic weapon.(Tencent Sports Review)[32]
From the pool of heroes, Crown is very dependent on Victor. Although he can use many heroes, Victor is still the most skilled one.In addition, he can also use Lisandra, Kalma and Marzaha.(Jiuyou online review)[18]
