Doinb’s agent revealed the transformation!

Following LPL’s repeated defeats at world championships in recent years, the event’s popularity has steadily decreased. In the new season, LPL has consecutively lost multiple sponsors, and this downturn directly led a major streaming platform to abandon buying the LPL broadcast rights for this year. Against this backdrop, many LOL streamers on the platform have nearly faced “unemployment” — most rely on casting LPL matches for their livelihood, and losing the event rights makes it difficult to attract esports viewers and spark discussions. The streamer most affected by this is likely DOINB.

As a result, many LOL streamers began trying to pivot, with the most successful being world champion player Doinb. Many predicted that after losing the event casting rights, Doinb’s streaming popularity would quickly decline, since his “Big B Manor” mainly depended on match commentary to sustain its heat. However, unexpectedly, Doinb switched to streaming DOTA2, and his DOTA2 streams even once surpassed the heat of the official LPL streams, with many viewers praising DOINB as a streaming genius.

Recently, Doinb’s agent revealed on personal social media that besides wanting to become a DOTA2 streamer, Doinb also hopes to lead his LOL friends to participate in the TI15 China qualifiers for DOTA2. After this news broke, many LOL fans found it unbelievable — after all, Doinb is already a world champion in LOL, and switching to become a professional DOTA2 player means starting from scratch. Many fans frankly said that DOINB would embarrass himself competing, since he has played the game for less than half a year.

Strong support from many industry veterans for DOINB

After DOINB’s agent personally confirmed this, many esports figures posted their support for DOINB. Many believe that with DOINB’s esports talent, he will definitely achieve good results once he switches to DOTA2. Several DOTA2 streamers also publicly recommended themselves, hoping DOINB will consider them when forming a team. (From my observation, the entry barrier for the TI15 China qualifiers is quite low — anyone can form a team to compete. Of course, if these DOTA2 streamers team up with DOINB, it would surely attract massive attention, as a world champion switching to DOTA2 is definitely a highlight.)

Of course, some LOL fans consider DOINB a “traitor,” since he rose to fame through LOL, and now that LOL’s popularity is declining, DOINB is abandoning LOL to switch to another hero game. However, many DOINB fans have come forward to defend him, arguing that LOL’s official side has been too harsh on DOINB. When DOINB tried to establish the LBL league, LOL officials intervened to stop it, and to compete with that, LOL even organized the “Old Man Cup.”

Besides fans criticizing LOL officials, DOINB himself has repeatedly complained about LOL’s unfair treatment during his streams. DOINB said he has now cut ties with LOL officials because, during a previous commercial event, LOL officials didn’t notify him and removed his promotional video, even refusing to let him appear offline. DOINB pointed out that other game companies would sponsor events financially, but LOL officials expelled him from the commercial event guest list once they saw he was playing other games.