Viper (Park Do-hyeon)

Viper
Viper
Background Information
Name	Park Do-hyeon (박도현)
Country of Birth	; South Korea
Birthday	October 19, 2000 (age 20)
Residency	KRKorea
Competitive
Team	⁠⁠EDward Gaming
Contract Expires	2021-11-16
Role	; Bot Laner
Soloqueue IDs	KR: viper3; vaemqrlcxvz; EUW: Mystery Sign; Cóbb
Social Media & Links

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team	Start	End
KR	⁠⁠Griffin	Nov 20172017-11-19^[2]	May 20202020-05-17^[1]	2yr 5mo ejel
KR	⁠⁠Hanwha Life	May 20202020-05-18^[4]	Nov 20202020-11-16^[3]	5mo 29d ejel
CN	⁠⁠EDward Gaming	Dec 20202020-12-16^[5]	Present	10mo ej

	Team	Start	End
KR	⁠⁠Griffin	Nov 20172017-11-19^[2]	May 20202020-05-17^[1]	2yr 5mo ejel
KR	⁠⁠Hanwha Life	May 20202020-05-18^[4]	Nov 20202020-11-16^[3]	5mo 29d ejel
CN	⁠⁠EDward Gaming	Dec 20202020-12-16^[5]	Present	10mo ej

News

2017

KR

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⁠GRF

November 19,
Viper and
Lehends join. cvMax (Coach to Head Coach) and Kang Dae-hee (Head Coach to Coach) change positions.
Jin moves to substitute. Build (Coach) leaves.^[2]

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2018

KR

⁠

⁠GRF

May 30,
Sword,
Tarzan,
Chovy,
Rather,
Viper,
Lehends, and cvMax (Head Coach)'s contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 16 November 2020.^[6]

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2019

KR

⁠

⁠GRF

January 25,
Sword,
Tarzan,
Chovy,
Rather,
Viper,
Lehends, and
Kabbie's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 15 November 2021.^[7]

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2020

KR	⁠⁠GRF	May 17, Untara, Ucal, and Viper leave.^[1] e
KR	⁠⁠HLE	May 18, Viper joins.^[4] e
KR	⁠⁠HLE	May 21, DuDu's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 21 November 2022. Viper's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 16 November 2020.^[8] e
KR	⁠⁠HLE	November 16, Viper and Lehends leave.^[3] e
CN	⁠⁠EDG	December 16, Viper joins. Hope moves to substitute.^[5] e

2021

CN

⁠

⁠EDG

June 22,
Flandre,
Scout, and
Meiko's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 22 November 2022.
JieJie and
Xiaoxiang's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 21 November 2023.
Viper,
Clearlove, and
JunJia's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 16 November 2021.^[9]

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Biography[]

Trivia[]

He can speak English.
During his time on Griffin (Korean Team), he was known for being a bot laner who was able to play unusual mage picks, such as
Viktor and
Taliyah. Which he famously played in the LCK 2019 Spring Playoffs.
Second player after imp to score pentakill both in LCK and Worlds.

Pentakills

Date	Region	Tournament	Champion	Pos	W/L	KDA	SB	VOD
2021-03-13	CN China	LPL 2021 Spring	Tristana	Bot	W	8/4/2	Link	Link
2021-02-23	CN China	LPL 2021 Spring	Samira	Bot	W	9/0/8	Link	Link
2019-10-26	INT International	Worlds 2019 Main Event	Xayah	Bot	W	8/0/6	Link	Link
2019-01-23	KR Korea	LCK 2019 Spring	Kai'Sa	Bot	W	10/0/4	Link	Link

Click here for a full list of pentakills by all players.

Trivia Statistics

List of Games with One Player Receiving All Kills on the Winning Team

Tournament Results[]

This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.

Viper (Park Do-hyeon) Tournament Results
Date	Pl	Event	Last Result	Team	Roster
2021-09-02	1	LPL 2021 Summer Playoffs	3 : 1⁠⁠FPX	⁠⁠EDG	Flandre, Jiejie, JunJia, Scout, Viper, Meiko, Maokai, CorGi, KenZhu
2021-08-08	2	LPL 2021 Summer	12 - 4⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠EDG	Flandre, Jiejie, Clearlove, JunJia, Scout, Viper, Meiko, Maokai, CorGi
2021-04-13	3	LPL 2021 Spring Playoffs	2 : 3⁠⁠RNG	⁠⁠EDG	Flandre, Jiejie, Scout, Viper, Meiko, Maokai, KenZhu
2021-03-28	2	LPL 2021 Spring	13 - 3⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠EDG	Flandre, Jiejie, Scout, Viper, Meiko, Maokai, KenZhu
2020-08-23	9	LCK 2020 Summer	2 - 16⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠HLE	CuVee, DuDu, Haru, CaD, Yeongjae, Lava, Mireu, Viper, Lehends, Kezman, NoFe, Max
2020-04-29	NQ	LCK 2020 Summer Promotion	0 : 2⁠⁠SB	⁠⁠GRF	Sword, Untara, Tarzan, Ucal, Viper, WADID, Irove, GBM, Rather
2020-04-16	10	LCK 2020 Spring	5 - 13⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠GRF	Sword, Hoya, Untara, Tarzan, Ucal, Naehyun, Viper, Irove, H Dragon, GBM
2019-12-30	5 - 8	KeSPA Cup 2019	0 : 2⁠⁠SB	⁠⁠GRF	Untara, Tarzan, Naehyun, Viper, Kabbie, H Dragon, GBM
2019-10-26	5 - 8	Worlds 2019	1 : 3⁠⁠iG	⁠⁠GRF	Sword, Tarzan, Chovy, Viper, Lehends, Chaos
2019-08-31	2	LCK 2019 Summer Playoffs	1 : 3⁠⁠SKT	⁠⁠GRF	Doran, Tarzan, Chovy, Viper, Lehends, cvMax, Chaos

Media[]

2018
2019
2020

April 20, Griffin Viper on the LCK Summer Split: “I’m looking forward to go against PraY.” with Ki-Baek "Juneau" Nam and Yudae "Akiin" Oak on Inven Global
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June 12, Griffin Viper: "It’s really hard to scale ADCs nowadays and even with the growth, there’s no big advantage to it." with Youngbo "Roxyy" Sim and Dasol "Viion" Jang on Inven Global
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June 14, Griffin Viper: "I’m confident about making it to the playoffs." with Yudae "Akiin" Oak on Inven Global
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June 16, Griffin Viper: "It doesn’t make sense for us to get caught off guard by those surprising picks in the current meta." with Joonkyu "Lasso" Seok and Yudae "Akiin" Oak on Inven Global
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June 22, GRF Viper: "It’s such an honor (to be called the 'next Faker'). I think I’m lucky because the current meta is making me shine." with Yudae "Akiin" Oak on Inven Global
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July 13, Griffin Viper on the Team's Improvement: "I didn’t expect that we’d improve this much." with Sihoon "Maloo" Lee, Hee Eun "Youii" Yoo, , and Yudae "Akiin" Oak on Inven Global
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July 19, GRF Viper: "Lucian isn't that hypercarry champion; he shouldn't get all the CS. It would have been much better if Vladimir took all the CS." with Byungho "Haao" Kim and Yudae "Akiin" Oak on Inven Global
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July 26, GRF Viper - "My goal is to win LCK and go to Worlds. We can do it. We will do it" with , and on Ashley Kang
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August 4, Griffin Viper: "We’re trying to think about when we first joined the LCK since we think our identity is the most important aspect." with Yudae "Akiin" Oak on Inven Global
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August 8, Griffin Viper: "A lot of people compared LCK junglers with foreign junglers. They said that foreign junglers have better playmaking abilities. I thought that it’s not true for our team." with Minyoung "Irro" Jang, Hee Eun "Youii" Yoo, , and Yudae "Akiin" Oak on Inven Global
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December 27, GRF Viper: "I did prepare something non-ADC... I had to show my pick first so that's why I couldn't use a non-ADC champion." with Youngbo "Roxyy" Sim, Hee Eun "Youii" Yoo, and Yudae "Akiin" Oak on Inven Global
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December 29, Griffin Tarzan & Viper: "We don’t have any preference for certain team comps because we can adapt to playing and absorb everything regardless of what type" with Ji-Eun “Meii” Paek on Inven Global
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January 3, Griffin's Viper talks winning KeSPA Cup and retribution against Gen.G with Ashley Kang on ESPN
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January 19, Griffin Viper: "We wanted to display a game with different quality and fun from other games for people who will be watching." with Joonkyu "Lasso" Seok and Ji-Eun “Meii” Paek on Inven Global
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January 23, Griffin Viper on the first Pentakill in 2019 LCK: “Before I noticed, they were all dead.” with Ashley Kang on Korizon Esports
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January 23, Griffin AD carry Viper finds the first pentakill of the 2019 LCK season by Malcolm Abbas on Dot Esports
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January 24, Viper on Griffin’s state-of-the-teamfights: “It’s the individual skills of the players as well as the trust between the players.” with Ashley Kang on Korizon Esports
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February 2, GRF Viper on his next match against KT Rolster: “As long as I don’t bring back the memories of [2018 Summer finals], I should do fine.” with Kevin Kim on Korizon Esports
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February 15, GRF Viper on Griffin dropping a game against SANDBOX Gaming: “[League] is a game where you learn more when you lose.” with Ashley Kang on Korizon Esports
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February 15, Viper on Patch 9.3: "I don't think it brought a significant change to the bot lane meta." with Woo "Ready" Hyun on Inven Global
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February 22, Griffin’s Viper on what he will do during the break: “I will be watching the other teams play, and take note of champions or strategies that look good.” with Ashley Kang on Korizon Esports
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March 10, Viper overwhelmed with emotion after beating SKT: 'I was convinced we lost' with Ashley Kang on ESPN Esports
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March 10, GRF Viper Talks about Crit-Based ADCs, Compares Chovy vs Lehends on Galio, and the Moment of Victory Against SKT with David "Viion" Jang on Inven Global
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March 23, Griffin Viper: "It'd be nice if DAMWON heads to the finals. We do have a good record against them so I think they'll feel more pressured." with Beom "Nswer" Park, Yeonjae "Arra" Shin, and Yudae "Akiin" Oak on Inven Global
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July 26, Viper believes Griffin still has a long way to go after snapping loss streak with Ashley Kang on ESPN Esports
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October 18, [Worlds 2019] GRF Viper: "It feels good that we had revenge on G2... It felt we overwhelmed G2 through our prowess." with David "Viion" Jang on Inven Global
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February 14, GRF Sword: "We’ve been showing bad performances from the beginning of the season; we’ll do our best to show better synergy." with David "Viion" Jang on Inven Global
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February 14, GRF Viper talks about changes in the team, making mistakes, and why he stayed in Griffin with Joonkyu "Lasso" Seok and Byungho "Haao" Kim & David "Viion" Jang on Inven Global
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April 5, GRF Viper and Untara talks about stopping their 10-game losing streak with Byungho "Haao" Kim & David "Viion" Jang on Inven Global
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April 16, GRF Ucal: "I'm disappointed that we couldn't drag down HLE with us to the Relegations tournament." with Daniel "Quest" Kwon on Inven Global
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April 16, GRF Viper: "I think that the gap between the LCK and CK has closed quite a bit." with Daniel "Quest" Kwon on Inven Global
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May 26, [Interview] HLE Viper: "Since Lehends was already in the team, I decided to take HLE’s offer... But I'm not that close with him."" with Ki-Baek "Juneau" Nam and Yeonjae "Arra" Shin & Daniel "Quest" Kwon on Inven Global
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July 20, Viper on his leadership as HLE broke its 9-match losing streak [Korean] with Ashley Kang on Korizon Esports
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Post-Match Interviews

Date	Tournament	Match	Link
2021-10-12	Worlds 2021 Main Event	T1 vs EDG	Link
2021-08-26	LPL 2021 Summer Playoffs	LNG vs EDG	Link
2021-06-29	LPL 2021 Summer	UP vs EDG	Link
2021-02-02	LPL 2021 Spring	V5 vs EDG	Link
2021-01-09	LPL 2021 Spring	OMG vs EDG	Link
2020-04-16	LCK 2020 Spring	GRF vs HLE	Link
2020-04-05	LCK 2020 Spring	GRF vs APK	Link
2020-02-14	LCK 2020 Spring	GRF vs APK	Link
2020-02-12	LCK 2020 Spring	GRF vs SB	Link
2019-10-18	Worlds 2019 Main Event	G2 vs GRF	Link
2019-08-11	LCK 2019 Summer	GRF vs KZ	Link
2019-08-02	LCK 2019 Summer	SB vs GRF	Link
2019-07-25	LCK 2019 Summer	KT vs GRF	Link
2019-07-05	Rift Rivals 2019 LCK-LPL-LMS-VCS	GRF vs DBL	Link
2019-06-22	LCK 2019 Summer	SKT vs GRF	Link
2019-06-20	LCK 2019 Summer	GRF vs KT	Link
2019-06-14	LCK 2019 Summer	GRF vs HLE	Link
2019-06-06	LCK 2019 Summer	GRF vs AF	Link
2019-02-22	LCK 2019 Spring	KT vs GRF	Link
2019-02-02	LCK 2019 Spring	GRF vs SB	Link
2019-01-23	LCK 2019 Spring	HLE vs GRF	Link
2018-12-29	KeSPA Cup 2018	GRF vs DWG	Link
2018-08-04	LCK 2018 Summer	SKT vs GRF	Link
2018-07-28	LCK 2018 Summer	GRF vs MVP	Link
2018-07-24	LCK 2018 Summer	GRF vs KZ	Link
2018-07-19	LCK 2018 Summer	HLE vs GRF	Link
2018-07-11	LCK 2018 Summer	GRF vs AF	Link
2018-06-22	LCK 2018 Summer	GRF vs SKT	Link
2018-06-16	LCK 2018 Summer	bbq vs GRF	Link
2018-06-14	LCK 2018 Summer	MVP vs GRF	Link