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it's still true though
I think if there was some way to quantify it with real statistics then I'm positive that you'd see that female League players play female champions at some ridiculous percentage
probably has to do with the fact that females, as a majority, are extremely casual gamers and play games in ways that make them feel like they can identify with the game rather than actually be competitive

I just checked the 3 online females on my friends list:




but unrelated to all of that, I don't think there ever will be a female professional in the LCS simply because of how few there are at the competitive level, complications it may create in gaming houses, etc.

if there is then she has a lot of **** coming her way in the form of hate and harassment from this community, because garbage like the "Sirens" and Kaceytron have pretty much already set the standard for how seriously the majority are ever going to take females players in League

for reference, I decided to make a post in the League subreddit about Kea's game:


in about 10 hours, it was top 3 in the subreddit - I'm 100% sure it wouldn't have reached that point if I didn't make sure to point out she was a female (those italics, MVP)
I made the "Hi mom ~XD" edit so that mods would delete the post, because after a while she was getting all sorts of harassment from weird people

that's expected to happen though, because again, other well-known females in the community have already laid the groundwork for how seriously she'll be taken
nonetheless, managed to get her +3000 followers on Twitch and she's a known name in the Challenger community now from that post, so sometimes any attention is good attention

TL;DR: huge upside and downside to having a vag and being good at video games
AFK EU playoffs