Those close to Uzi share the same claim that retiring is not a voluntary decision by Uzi.
Chinese LoL community questioned Uzi was forced to retire?
The story of a farewell to Uzi’s player career has not been closed, when some sources from China recently shared that Royal Never Give Up had an impact on Uzi’s future.
As we know, RNG Uzi, ADC of RNG announced his retirement on personal Weibo. His statement appeared almost at the same time as RNG’s farewell post. The reason Uzi retires is attributed to his health problems, a persistent hand injury, and diabetes.
However, some opinions of the panda community have shown that Uzi has no intention of retiring. With no place left at RNG, Uzi has plans to find a new stop. However, the leadership of Royal Never Give Up used the contract in the contract with Uzi, which has not expired, to prevent him from doing this.
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The requirement was with Uzi: either he announced his retirement or RNG would keep Uzi until the expiry of his contract. And as we all know, Uzi chose the first option.
However, the aforementioned hypothesis may sound a bit cruel for Uzi, but in fact, many people have thought that RNG must “play an evil” to treat this player’s stubbornness. In Uzi’s retirement, he mentioned being asked by his doctor to pay attention to his daily routine to avoid complications from diabetes.
Uzi did not want to retire and still aspires to play. However, if he continues to play professionally, it is impossible to rebalance his daily life. Moreover, Uzi’s hands also need to rest after 8 years of operation with tremendous intensity.
Whether RNG wants to hold Uzi or let him go to another team now doesn’t matter too much. It is true that in terms of image, the retirement of Uzi in RNG shirt will mean a greater meaning, but the important thing of his health should be guaranteed.
RNG has been holding onto Uzi for more than a year despite his traumatic injury, and that may indicate that the management of this team always wants to give the best to him, even if they have to play the villain.
About Uzi
Jian Zihao (Chinese: 简自豪; born April 5, 1997), better known by his in-game name Uzi, is a Chinese retired professional League of Legends player. During his career he was best known as the franchise player for Royal Never Give Up and its predecessors, although he also played briefly for OMG and Newbee.
Widely regarded as one of the best AD carries of all time, he is renowned for his plays on champions such as Vayne, Kai’Sa, Ezreal and Kog’Maw. He has been credited by some as the second best League of Legends player in history, after Lee “Faker” Sang-Hyeok.
Uzi has played in the World Championship grand finals twice, both times with Royal Club. He won his first international title at the 2018 Mid-Season Invitational with his team Royal Never Give Up, after defeating the LCK champion Kingzone DragonX.
Uzi officially announced his retirement from professional play on 3 June 2020.
Uzi began his professional career on the Chinese team Royal Club. Widely considered as one of the best AD carries during seasons three and four, Uzi demonstrated his great mechanic prowess and carried his team to two consecutive second-place finishes at the League of Legends World Championship in both 2013 and 2014.
Despite their success at Season 3 Worlds, the departure of Tabe prompted Uzi to switch to the mid lane at the start of Season 4 before returning to the ADC role during the summer. Renamed to Star Horn Royal Club, Uzi with Korean imports inSec and Zero rose to the challenge and finished second at worlds with a 1:3 series against one of the best teams ever, Samsung White. And he left the Royal club for the communication problem with Korean imports.
Season 5 however, proved to be a slump in Uzi’s career after moving to OMG. Despite being touted as one of the biggest talent transfers of the offseason, OMG incurred difficulties in integrating Uzi to the team. Coupled with the decline of Gogoing and Lovelin, Season 5 was a disappointing one for Uzi. Uzi was picked up by Qiao Gu Reapers and was their sub for Peco.
QG was invited to IEM Katowice in March 2016 where they beat Fnatic in their first best of one but were then subsequently eliminated in the group stages following a loss to SK Telecom T1 and then losing to Fnatic 1 – 2.