Today, Hanwha Life Esports announced that ADC Park “Viper” Do-hyeon will leave the team at the end of the 2025 season.

Official statement:

“Hanwha Life Esports will part ways with Park Do-hyeon (Viper) after the 2025 season. We extend our deepest gratitude for his dedication and effort over the past three years and sincerely wish him the very best in his future career and new challenges.”

The farewell video closed with:

“Even as time passes and the past becomes memory, everything we created together feels even more special. To Viper, Park Do-hyeon — the one who willingly became our light in the darkest nights — for being the beginning and the reason behind all these glories, we offer our deepest thanks.”

Selected Reddit reactions (r/leagueoflegends)

• “Thank you, Viper 🙁
• LCK 2024 Summer champion
• LCK Cup 2025 champion
• First Stand 2025 champion
• 3× All-LCK Second Team (2024 Spring, 2024 Summer, 2025 Season)
• 1× All-LCK Third Team (2023 Summer)”
• “Salute to Viper. No more Viper Life Esports.”
• “Next names incoming:
• Life Esports
• Guma Life Esports
• Aiming Life Esports”
  → “The last one is literally impossible, please.”
• → “Have some faith in Aiming bro.”
• → “Did nobody watch 2024 DK? Their entire strategy was to funnel everything into Aiming and pray. Like every other team that has tried to funnel Aiming, 2024 DK achieved absolutely nothing and didn’t even come close to a title. Dude is the most generational fraud ever, but he wins the regular season and takes all the resources, so he gets hyped to the moon.”
• “Viper to BLG is basically done. Saw a photo of him holding a BLG jersey on Xiaohongshu (could be an old jersey swap). Chinese fans are saying seeing Viper at BLG feels like seeing your ex working at a nightclub. They love him so much over there that they literally call him “husband” (老公).”
  → “Elk is also called “husband” because Viper already claimed that title. Viper replacing him is poetic.”
• “A recent poll showed most Chinese fans don’t want Viper at BLG — not because they hate him, but because they love him too much and think he deserves better.”
• “If HLE had found a proper Zeka replacement, we might not have lost Viper. Hope he signs a 1-year deal at BLG and comes back next year when BDD is finally free — HLE could run a legendary roster.”
  → “Unless he goes T1/Gen.G, there probably isn’t a better option. Maybe AL, but I want to see how they look without Tabe. On the bright side, he finally gets a real mid laner again.”
  → “On the downside, his support is ON and the jungle rotation issue might still exist.”
  → “XUN is very likely coming back, and the jungle rotation tech was invented because of his shotcalling gaps, so I trust it gets fixed. ON is also a global top 3-4 support outside of international events. Delight wasn’t noticeably better on the world stage anyway.”
• “Very sad to see Viper leave the LCK again.”
• “Imagine if he stayed in LCK and went to KT or something. The ADC pool would be Viper/Ruler/Guma/Peyz/Deft/Smash/Hype/Aiming/Deokdam.”
• “Congrats, Viper, on escaping Zeka.”
  → “It’s insane how fast Zeka’s reputation flipped in a single year. Everyone used to call him Mr. Clutch, now he’s just a coinflip inter.”
• “Welcome to HLE, Gumayusi!”
  → “Can’t wait to follow HLE this year now that Zeus AND Guma are there. Guma vs Keria is going to be crack.”
  → “I usually don’t have time to watch full regular seasons outside G2, but I’m definitely tuning in for T1 vs HLE matches.”
• “HLE BDD would actually be scary strong.”

The LCK → LPL ADC exodus continues — and the 2026 roster shuffle is already looking insane.

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