G2 Welcomes Hafu To Their Teamfight Tactics Lineup

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G2 Welcomes Hafu To Their Teamfight Tactics Lineup

G2 Esports has announced that Teamfight Tactics player Hafu will be joining their roster as a streamer, with the potential for competitive play. via:twitter.com/G2esports G2 Esports has announced that Teamfight Tactics player Hafu will be joining their roster as a streamer, with the potential for competitive play down the line. Hafu is already both one of the top content creators and one of the most skilled players in Teamfight Tactics, and this is merely the latest chapter of her longtime professional gaming career. Hafu began as a World of Warcraft pro, eventually on Team Fnatic in the inaugural 3v3 Arena tournament at BlizzCon 2008. She then found success at Hearthstone, which she played competitively since the game's initial beta release. During her Hearthstone career she was by Cloud9 gaming. THEGAMER VIDEO OF THE DAY She also streamed League of Legends around this time, including a win in a casual against TSM League pro Bjergsen. Hafu's early success as a pro gamer led to her competing on the Pizza Hut-sponsored pro gaming online reality show Legends of Gaming . While she has entered a few Hearthstone tournaments over the years, post-World of Warcraft, Hafu shifted her focus to streaming as her priority. At her peak, Hafu has ranked among the on Twitch. Just as she was an early adopter of Hearthstone, Hafu began playing and streaming Teamfight Tactics shortly after its release. When Riot transitioned Teamfight Tactics from solely being playable on the PBE (Public Beta Environment) to available across all League of Legends servers, they revealed the players with the top MMR (Match Making Rating), and among them, Hafu . More-or-less coinciding with her transition to Teamfight Tactics around its PBE release, Hafu's number of average Twitch viewers from around 2,300 in May to a peak of around 12,400 in August. Hafu is among a number of Teamfight Tactics streamers with an , to which she generally posts games in which she placed first or second. They also include commentary explaining her in-game decisions from when they were live-streamed. Getting better at auto battlers, more so than most other types of games, requires understanding decisions made by top level players, so both streams and videos like hers are valuable resources for anyone hoping to climb the Teamfight Tactics ladder. While G2 has signed Hafu as a streamer, in her stream following the announcement that she will "hopefully be competing," so a trajectory similar to her streamer-first, competitor-second Hearthstone career is not out of the question.