Vietnamese skilled League of Legends participant Đỗ ‘Levi’ Duy Khánh has formally introduced his retirement from aggressive play.
The participant made the announcement via a video on his birthday, hanging up his mouse and keyboard after ten years of competing. Inside that point, the participant established himself as one of the crucial revered opponents from Vietnam.
Within the video, the Vietnamese participant said he had thought of retirement for fairly a while. Regardless of successful 10 home (VCS) championships, a gold medal on the thirty first SEA Video games, in addition to having a number of MSI and Worlds appearances, Levi nonetheless holds some remorse for not main a Vietnamese organisation to nice worldwide outcomes.
“There’s one factor I actually wished to do, and that’s to assist VCS go additional in worldwide tournaments,” he mentioned. “For instance, seeing a VCS staff make it to not less than the highest 8 at Worlds. However proper now, I’ve to depart with out having achieved that.”
Levi added that he suffered from abdomen points, and he additionally began experiencing points together with his proper hand this 12 months. That mentioned, he defined that the retirement was resulting from his want to spend extra time together with his mother and father and household, and probably begin a household of his personal.
On the finish of the video, the participant talked about that he’ll transition to streaming, turning into a full-time content material creator and probably co-stream official matches sooner or later.
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Beginning as a professional in 2015, Levi emerged as probably the greatest junglers from the Vietnamese area when he joined Gigabyte Marines, main the staff to each MSI and Worlds appearances.
His aggressive and skirmishing-heavy playstyle caught the eye of a number of tier-one groups, with North American staff 100 Thieves deciding to choose him for the 2018 season. He then joined JDG within the LPL for the 2019 spring cut up, turning into one of many two Vietnamese gamers to play within the Chinese language league (the opposite one being Lê ‘SofM’ Quang Duy).
That mentioned, Levi didn’t go away a mark in China and later returned to his dwelling area that very same 12 months to play for GAM Esports. He in the end spent the final six years of his skilled profession with the Vietnamese organisation. Whereas the participant had nice success domestically, GAM didn’t repeat itself on the worldwide stage.
This 12 months, GAM missed out on Worlds qualification after getting knocked out by PSG Talon within the LCP Season Finals, placing an finish to the staff’s 2025 marketing campaign.
With Levi retiring, GAM will now must discover a new jungler for the brand new season. At the moment, solely three gamers are signed for the approaching season, as GAM may also have to lock in a brand new help for 2026.
