Faker is not the one who earns the most money from the game.

Faker is only ranked 70th on the list of people who earn money from playing games. Photo: Lol Esports .

Faker and T1 have just won the 2025 World Championship in China. Thus, the GOAT position (best player of all time) cannot fall out of this player's hands. Not only in the game, Faker's influence reaches even non-gaming communities. He is considered a national treasure of Korea, equal to the group BTS or football player Son Heung-min.

However, the income earned directly from the game of this player is quite modest. Data from eSports Earning shows that Faker earned about 1.9 million USD in 13 years of competition. With this amount of money, he is also the top League of Legends athlete. At the same time, Faker ranked number 1 in the list of Korean gamers.

But compared to the industry as a whole, the T1 players earned a rather modest amount of prize money. Specifically, with 1.9 million USD , Faker only ranked 70th in the list of people who earned the most from the game.

In the list, the first 40 positions belong to DotA 2 players. The game from Valve has a prize structure dozens of times larger than League of Legends . In addition to cash from the game's creator, every year when The International season comes, the developer also sells exclusive items for users around the world to buy. The proceeds will be shared into the prize fund. Therefore, during the peak period, the total income of the TI teams shared up to tens of millions of USD.

The amount of money Faker earns is far less than that of top DotA 2 players. Photo: Esports Earning.

Currently, former OG members, champions of The International 2018 and 2019, are the top earners in eSports. N0tail, JerAx, ana, Ceb and Topson are all in the top 10. Team Spirit players replicated OG’s achievements in 2021 and 2022. However, the rewards have decreased during this period.

In fact, the operating model of eSports DotA 2 and League of Legends is not the same. The income of Valve's game players depends almost entirely on the prize. In which, those who go deep and win TI will take for themselves a huge profit.

Riot Games, on the other hand, builds a multi-tiered, regional professional competition system. They distribute benefits to tournament participants, rather than focusing on prize money that only one team receives.

With its gradual expansion and huge viewership worldwide, League of Legends eSports brings in copyright and advertising revenue for participating teams. Top players in China and Korea receive huge salaries, instead of depending on championship bonuses.

For example, Faker is the face of many brands such as Samsung, Razer and Mercedes. The organization's jerseys are currently covered with sponsor logos from many fields.

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