His ID is an abbreviation of the Chinese word "小学生" (Xiao Xue Sheng), which means "primary school pupil" – perhaps emphasising his potential and willingness to learn rather than already being a fearsome warrior.īe that as it may, Xxs' teammate Ye ' BoBoKa' Zhibiao chose the opposite side in the "confident or humble" debate. A humbler example is Team Aster's player Lin ' Xxs' Jing. Interactive Entertainment / ValveĬhoosing his name after a literal fighting machine with muscles of steel, JerAx surely took a rather confident approach to his gamer tag. That's right, the name JerAx is actually based on the 29-year-old's name Jesse, but ends on "Ax" as a tribute to Mortal Kombat character Cyrax.Ĭyrax has been a playable Mortal Kombat character since MK3 in 1995. His solution: Always carrying a part of another great game with him in his Dota gamer tag. Sounds like a sad story? It might be! And that's probably also what Jesse ' JerAx' Vainikka thought. Imagine playing Dota professionally and having to leave your other favorite games behind in favor of countless training hours and competitive success.
Muscles or brain? Names of power in Dota 2 Let's explore what some players wanted to dedicate their entire career name to. Some gamer IDs, however, have a more meaningful background to them and were chosen deliberately. His nickname was created by childhood friends, but nobody really remembers why it came to be in the first place. A classic nickname story.īrazilian caster José "Jasam" Almeida has a similar tale to tell. Febby would be called February at the beginning of his career, but then decided to abbreviate it to Febby. The two of them first played together in 2013 for FXOpen, after that once again with For Our Utopia and later in 2015 with MVP Phoenix*. Kim ' Febby' Yong-Min's name, for example, came from his former teammate Tae Won ' March' Park. That's also the case for some people in the Dota scene. We all know one person with a great nickname, whose origin is nothing more than "They just started calling me that".
The most basic source of established nicknames are friends.
Let's take a look at some of the pros' names and see where they came from! Some names' origins are quite simple and just came into being – others, however, are rather adventurous or have pretty wild backgrounds. Posted by aliasalina, Gamer tags are the foundation of an esports pro's identity.