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Riotis a very popular and an extremely skilled American player in Geometry Dash, known for beating several difficult levels such as Ice Carbon Diablo X,[1] Crimson Clutter,[2] and Cataclysm.[3] However, he isn't much of a creator and doesn't have many rated levels. His most famous achievement to date is his verification of the legendary Extreme Demon mega-collaboration, Bloodbath.[4]

Riot started playing Geometry Dash on April 28, 2014, during Update 1.6, when he first uploaded a video of himself beating Ystep by Darnoc, one of the oldest Easy Demons.[5] He then uploaded videos of himself beating the original 1-10 levels by the next day as well as Clutterfunk v2 by Neptune, rated a Medium Demon today.[6] As you can see, he started off small, mainly beating Easy Demons at that time.

On May 21, 2014, when Update 1.7 came out, Riot beat Electrodynamix, which is somewhat important in his history due to his main icon being the Electrodynamix icon.[8] Four days later, he reached 100 subscribers, a small but significant milestone for his Geometry Dash career. However, he did not make many significant achievements over the next five months, mainly beating Easy Demons and uploading them to YouTube.

On October 14, 2014, Riot beat Doomsday II by Neptune on mobile, one of the most significant achievements done on mobile.[9] Even though Riot became a legend on the PC, this was still a significant achievement especially seeing as it was done on a phone.

On December 21, 2014, when Update 1.9 was released, Riot beat his last Demon on mobile - Speed Racer.[10] Afterward, Riot switched to the Steam version of Geometry Dash, where he would begin the main part of his Geometry Dash career.

On December 28, Riot beat his hardest Demon at this point - Deadly Clubstep by Neptune. It took him around 17,000 attempts.[12] Whereas Andromeda and other players beat it much more quickly and in fewer attempts, this was a very impressive achievement at that time, significantly increasing Riot's fame.

On May 14, 2015, Riot beat Astronaut 13 by Minesap, the first Nine Circles level he ever beat. At that time, he also promised that he would beat all rated Circles levels.[14] Even though people thought it was a hollow promise at that time, Riot surprised everyone even more by beating three very difficult demons in four days, starting off with Cataclysm, which he beat on May 20th after under 33,000 attempts.[3] He was the third person to beat it after Sandstorm[15] and Giron,[16] who all beat it on the same day. On May 21, Riot beat Necropolis by Neptune after 20,690 attempts - another great achievement.[17] On May 23, Riot beat Ice Carbon Diablo X by Roadbose, thus becoming the first person to legitimately complete it on stream.[1]

Following this achievement, Riot was receiving more and more popularity as one of the best Geometry Dash players. On May 31, 2015, Riot released a preview of an upcoming mega-collaboration, which we now know as Bloodbath. A week later, Riot released a second preview, showing the intense straight fly gameplay.[18][19] Riot promised to release this before Update 2.0, but in the meantime, Riot started beating more Hard Demons and continued to make his progress on the Nine Circles Levels.

On June 8, 2015, Riot beat Stalemate by Nox, a 1.9 Insane Demon featuring very difficult timings and memorization.[20] He then later beat Fire Temple[21] and Shadow Temple,[22] two of the first installments in the Temple series by Michigun. On June 14th, Riot beat Windy Landscape by Woogi1411, a challenging 1.9 Insane Demon as well as one of the most famous demons of all time.[23]

Shortly after beating Windy Landscape,[23] Riot started making progress on the Nine Circles levels, firstly beating Figures[24] and then Poltergeist - a very difficult Nine Circles level by Andromeda that was one of the hardest Nine Circles level at that time.[25]

Riot then later beat Supersonic,[26] Fairydust,[27] Nine Circles,[28] and other easy Nine Circles Levels as well as more difficult ones. However, when he took a break from the Nine Circles levels in June 2015, he focused his attention on Bloodbath. On June 25th, 2015, Riot got a record of 48% on Bloodbath - an excellent run considering he only recently started practicing.[29] On July 6th, 2015, Riot released a cinematic preview of Bloodbath and achieved a new best of 58% seven days later.[30] Riot continued to progress, getting a record of 65% on August 3.[31] Afterward, on August 6th, he fluked from 65% to 90% (citation needed). On August 8, he got a record of 94%, his biggest Bloodbath fail ever.[32] However, four days later, on August 12, Riot finally verified Bloodbath - the hardest 1.9 Demon of all time.[4]

After this achievement, Riot became known as one of the best players in Geometry Dash history - a legend. His achievements didn't stop there, as on August 18th, Riot beat Crimson Clutter by RedUniverse - completing his goal to beat all rated Nine Circles Levels (note that this was during Update 1.9).[2]

Shortly after Riot completed Crimson Clutter,[2] Update 2.0 was released, so Riot maintained his position as the Number 1 player by beating the most recent featured levels and other hard levels such as Old Down Bass[33] and Galatic Fragility.[34] With Cyclic leaving and Andromeda confessing to hacking on August 19th,[35] Riot was the best player for a while. However, Riot officially quit Geometry Dash on September 12th due to him being accused of hacking. Surprisingly, this quit only last five hours long. Not many people believe this was an entire quit-and-come-back, because of how short it was.

Once Riot returned, he once again started slaying demons, starting with Ultrasonic by ZenthicAlpha and more on October 2nd.[36] Also, on November 5, Riot beat Creeper Force by CreeperMLK, an extremely difficult remake of Hexagon Force.[37] For the rest of 2015, Riot generally didn't beat many more harder demons, but when 2016 came, Riot buffed and reverified Cataclysm by Ggb0y, adding three user coins in the process.[38] However, several users did not like the new update due to the buffs making the gameplay more inconsistent and bad placements for the coins. However, many other users liked it too.

Riot started to develop RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) on his finger from playing so many demons, so Riot started to play with his other finger. He started making progress on Sonic Wave, the hardest Nine Circles level at the time, and after 5 years, it is still in the top 70 at the time of editing. People had been asking him to do this ever since he beat all the rated 1.9 Nine Circles Levels and Cyclic, a cheater who had returned to Geometry Dash, fully supported Riot on practicing Sonic Wave.

Riot continued to practice Sonic Wave, but he noted that he might play Geometry Dash less occasionally because he was starting to get bored of the game. However, Riot still beat Hard Demons every now and then, firstly beating Theory of Xoanon by Noobas, rated an Insane or Very Hard Demon back then.[39]

A big shock came to the community when Cyclic quit the game for the second time, confessing to having hacked Sonic Wave and The Hell Zone.[40] On Skype, when Riot questioned Cyclic, he claimed that he had hacked every single one of his demons. This was a big deal to Riot, because as he had said on his Skype, "That means I've been competing with a hacker this whole time". This basically confirmed Riot as the "Best GD Player" for a while.

After beating Labnity by Jo2000 on March 5th,[41] Riot announced that he would be showcasing a new level soon. A little while later, Riot started uploading parts of the 2.0 mega-collaboration Yatagarasu.[42] It was conceived as one of the hardest levels ever. Many believed Riot wouldn't beat this, but that's what they also thought with Bloodbath.

After a little while, nearly all of the 23 creators participating had uploaded their parts and Riot occasionally streamed the level for practice, showing the community pretty much all of the level. However, Riot was working on another level - Sonic Wave Infinity by Cyclic, Viprin, and Riot himself. It was a redesign of Sonic Wave that Riot asked Viprin to make due to him not liking the original level's decorations. When Riot focused his attention to this, Riot started dropping progress on Yatagarasu.

Riot started making some progress on Sonic Wave Infinity, getting a record of 39-100% on March 30th,[43] then 72% on April 23rd.[44] However, Riot started to fall off the Top 100 Leaderboards when he started investing more time in Yatagarasu and Sonic Wave Infinity. Not only that, but Surv also started eclipsing him as the "Best GD Player" when he started dominating the Top 10 Demons. But still, Riot occasionally beat Hard Demons that came out recently, beating Retention by Woogi1411[45] and A Bizarre Phantasm by Team N2.[46]

Riot also had two more projects besides Sonic Wave Infinity and Yatagarasu - Quantum Processing and Red World Rebirth. Riot originally tried to beat Quantum Processing first, but eventually quit from getting too annoyed at that level and decided to try Red World Rebirth instead. After just below 5,000 attempts, he verified it on May 22nd, 2016.[47]

After Red World Rebirth, Riot started practicing the original Sonic Wave once again. He got a record of 73% on October 12, 2016, and he then practiced Audio Excursion, a very hard demon mega-collaboration, which he beat on November 14, 2016. He then continued practicing the original Sonic Wave, getting a record of 76% then 96%- his worst fail on Sonic Wave.[48] After the 96% fail, Riot kind of quit Sonic Wave and also quit Quantum Processing and decided that Artificial Ideology would be his last frontier before he officially quit. So he passed on Yatagarasu to Surv, the (next?) best player after Riot. Having beaten all Top 10 hardest demons, Surv seemed like the appropriate choice.

On March 15, 2017, Riot released Buffbath, a buffed version of Bloodbath with a secret way. A week later, he beat Curse Calling by Minesap, a very hard 1.9 Demon. Two weeks later, Riot released a full preview of the original Quantum Processing, which had far different gameplay than the final version and was somewhat easier than the current version now.[49] On July 15, Riot uploaded his part for an upcoming level that would turn out to Night Rider a year later.[50]

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