Rekkles

Carl Martin Erik Larsson (born 20 September 1996), better known as Rekkles (pronounced "reckless"), is a Swedish professional League of Legends player for T1 Esports Academy.

He has played for Fnatic, Alliance, G2 Esports and Karmine Corp.

He is the first player to have reached both 1,000 and 2,000 kills in the LEC and the European player with the most pentakills (10).

He is considered the best AD Carry player in European history and one of the best in the world.

Originally from Älvängen, near Gothenburg, he became interested in video games after he injured his cruciate ligament playing football.

His esport career began in 2012, when he played for League of Legends teams Playing Ducks, PAH, Team BLACK (as a substitute) and SK Gaming.

In November 2012, he joined Fnatic as their starting AD Carry.

His performance allowed him in November 2012 to join Fnatic as their starting AD Carry.

Because of age restrictions in the European version of the League Championship Series he was not yet allowed to play for Fnatic in the EU LCS.

At first a new team with the name "Fnatic.Beta" was formed around him, but after a few month it was disbanded.

However, Rekkles was unbable to participate in the 2013 EU LCS for Fnatic, due to being too young.

Because of this, a secondary Fnatic squad, Fnatic.Beta, was created around him.

However, the team was disbanded after a few months.

In May 2013, he started playing together with YoungBuck, Shook v2, cowTard, and Unlimited as PrideFC, and after the team got signed by Copenhagen Wolves, he agreed to continue playing with them as a stand-in.

On 22 November in 2013, Rekkles officially retook the starting AD Carry position in Fnatic from puszu, as he was now old enough to participate in the EU LCS.

On 22 November 2013, Rekkles officially retook the AD Carry position.

During the 4th season, Rekkles and Fnatic participated in the IEM Season VIII - World Championship, and ended up second place after losing to KT Rolster Bullets during the Grand Finale.

Rekkles briefly left Fnactic then to play for various teams with the agreement to join again for the 2014 season, in which he would be eligible to play.

At the beginning of 2014 season Spring Split, Rekkles played very well and received the MVP prize weekly.

Fnatic had won each of their four superweek games, and this was mainly due to the great performance of Rekkles playing Jinx.

They ended the Spring split in 2nd place, losing to SK Gaming, but secured themselves a spot in the Spring Playoffs.

The whole team raised their game for the playoffs, and they emerged victorious after a win against Alliance in their semifinals matchup, and against SK Gaming in the Grand Final.

Fnatic endured a rocky start during the beginning of the Summer Split.

They could not make it into the top 2 until Week 7 of the Split, while their main rivals Alliance were already at considerable distance ahead of them in the race for 1st place.

Throughout the games, Rekkles managed to impress with his plays with Lucian and Vayne, picking up the Weekly MVP Award for Week 9.

On 24 November 2014, Rekkles joined Alliance as starting AD carry, after many rumours.

His first event with Alliance was IEM San Jose.

During the IEM, Fnatic ended up in the semifinals, however team lost their match against Cloud9 and placed third after playing against Team SoloMid.

During the event, Rekkles was nominated for the MVP award along with PowerOfEvil, Vizicsacsi, Kikis, and Sneaky; however the final vote went to Sneaky.

In order to comply with new LCS regulations, Alliance would have to change their name for the upcoming season.

On 8 January, it was announced that the team had rebranded as Elements.

Rekkles returned to Fnatic for the 2015 Summer EU LCS.

They went undefeated all summer and won the playoffs in August, qualifying for the 2015 League of Legends World Championship.

In the 2016 Spring EU LCS, they made it to the semifinals.

Overall he appeared on 7 international S-tier tournaments : 6 times at the World Championship (the most of players from Europe along with Perkz, Hylissang, Caps and SOAZ) and 1 time at MSI

However, on the 28th of April 2023, after two hard splits with Fnatic, Rekkles announced his decision to roleswap from AD Carry to Support.

On 11 December 2023, he officially became a player of the T1 Esports Academy team, which plays in the LCK Challengers League.

This makes him the first high-profile player from a Western region to play in Korea.

Rekkles competitive career started at age 16 with the teams Playing Ducks and PAH.

He was also as a substitute player for both Team BLACK and SK Gaming.