Evilarthas, or as they used to call it, Papich, is the most popular Dota 2 streamer in the Russian-language segment “Twitch”. This article will discuss who Papich is.
Personal life
Papich’s real name is Vitaliy Gromyako, he was born on October 12, 1991, lives in Ukraine in the city of Vinnitsa, which he jokingly calls Venice. According to the stories of Vitaly himself, the first computer appeared at him very early, even at school age, and he immediately began to spend a huge amount of time playing games. In this regard, he had no friends, but only a couple of friends from school. In 2003, the current legendary Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne strategy was released, which plunged Vitaly into his world. At the age of 16, young Papich finds a new hobby for himself - poker, begins to learn to play "Hold'em". After several months of training, he creates an account on PokerStars and starts playing for real money. According to Vitaly, he did it well, in a month he could earn about 300 dollars.
Judging by how Vitaliy avoids questions on love topics in every possible way, we can conclude that for all 25 years of his life he had no serious relationship with the opposite sex. And this is not surprising, because Papich spends most of his time on games, as well as watching TV shows and films. Today, the main source of income for Papich are his streams. According to unofficial data, given the “Twitch” partner, donations from subscribers and advertising in public social networks, our hero makes about 70-80 thousand rubles a month.
Papic's achievements in DotA
In 2005, the first version of the Defense of the Ancients custom map for Warcraft III was announced, which Vitaly immediately liked, and he began spending almost all his free time behind it. In 2006, Papich registered at the first Dota gaming forum blizzard.ru under the pseudonym Arthas. But soon he gets a ban for insulting one of the users. After such a failure, Vitaly moved to the DC forum, and soon to Prodota, where he began to actively play on ICcup. The first recognition from the Dota Community Papich received precisely at Prodot. It was here that everyone knew who Papich was. His impressive results on the hero Luna 35–0 made him attract the attention of many players. After months of hard play, Papic will be in the Top 3 Seasonal Ladder Players.
EvilArthas on Twitch
At the beginning of the fall of 2015, Vitaliy, due to the high level of the game and MMR, breaks into Twitch. And almost immediately it gains popularity there, which grew more and more every day. And just a few months later, almost all of Dota Community knew who Papich was. In just six months, he managed to raise his rating from 5000 MMP to 7000. And in 2016, on one of the streams, he first revealed his face, and everyone could see who Papich was. Now this is no secret. Dota became the main game for him and, although recently he was distracted by the new PUBG game, no one has any doubt that he will return to the roots, that is, to the Dota game.
Papich as a cultural phenomenon
Thanks to his charisma, he was able to win the attention of a huge number of people. The constant "gameruiners", "streamers", and "geyb agents" that he came across in the game during the stream often pissed off Papich, and in a fit of anger he pronounced phrases to this day used by many doters. Even people who do not play Dota 2 could hear words such as: "next year", "solarium", "NYYA" and many others.
Finally
We hope that you were able to answer your question about who Papich is. Of course, the person is ambiguous. Even if you are not a Dota player, you still need to visit Papich’s stream, because Vitaliy is a very charismatic person, and during the stream you will smile more than once, and you can also draw a few phrases from him that instantly become cult.