Former G2 League of Legends ace Croatian bot laner Perkz officially announce retirement..

Former G2 League of Legends ace Croatian bot laner Perkz announced his immediate retirement on Saturday through his personal official X (Twitter) account.

Perkz said in his official tweet: "In six months, I will welcome the tenth anniversary of my professional career. This is also a special new chapter for me because I am about to become a father. I am very much looking forward to the new chapter of my life, which is obviously what you are looking forward to."

"I am retiring from the professional e-sports circle. I retired at the age of 26. It sounds crazy, but this is the norm in the professional e-sports circle. The reason is simple. I don’t have time to allocate, and the various pressures brought by the game also make me very uncomfortable. I don’t want to endure it anymore."

"It’s been a very exciting journey. I am also very happy to leave it behind."

About Perkz

Perkz, only 26, whose real name is Luka Perkovic, was born in Croatia on September 30, 1998. He mainly plays as a bot laner, but can also play as a solo mid or top laner.

Perkz, who was only 16 years old at the time, joined G2 in 2016 and became a professional League of Legends e-sports player.

During his five-year spell with G2, Perkz won four LEC tournaments with the team and scored a pentakill in a 2018 EU LCS Summer against Schalke 04.

Between November 2020 and May 2024, Perkz played for Cloud9 (C9), Vitality and Heretics, winning the 2021 LCS Summer with the former.

In January 2025, Perkz joined The Ruddy Sack (RS).

During his six-month spell with RS, Perkz participated in the 2025 NLC Winter with the team, but lost 2:3 to Bulldog and being eliminated in the quarterfinals.