Aphromoo

Lore & Background

Aphromoo played for a number of teams in the early years of professional League from 2011 to 2012. During this period, he also played the AD Carry bottom lane position. He switched to Support in 2013 when he joined Counter Logic Gaming (CLG), the team he would be closely identified with for a long time. Aphromoo played for CLG in the spring split of 2013 as well as from 2014 to 2017, during which he supported AD Carries Doublelift and later Stixxay. CLG won the 2015 NALCS Summer Split and the 2016 NALCS Spring Split, and attended the League of Legends World Championship in 2015 and 2016. After a weaker performance for CLG in 2017, where CLG lost the 3rd and final North American invitation to Worlds to Cloud9 in a tiebreaker match, Aphromoo left CLG in November 2017. He joined 100 Thieves, a new team made after the NALCS adopted a new franchising system. Aphromoo's veteran leadership and strong individual performance was credited as major reasons behind 100 Thieves' success; they placed 1st in the NALCS in regular season, and took 2nd place overall after the playoffs. This helped Aphromoo win the MVP award, despite the position of Support usually being neglected in this vote since the MVP award started in 2014. Aphromoo announced his retirement from professional League in January 2023. He held the record for most number of LCS games played from August 2022–March 2023; he had slightly nudged ahead of WildTurtle and finished the 2022 season with 597 games played. Bjergsen took the title from him during the 2023 season, and WildTurtle also returned to edge ahead of him on the all-time leaderboard.

In Their Own Story

The LAN venue smelled of energy drinks and warm plastic. It was one of those small, under-lit hotel-ballroom events where the crowd was maybe two hundred people and the stage lighting was borrowed. In the back row, a kid with a C9 patch still slightly crooked on his jersey watched the monitors glow, hands clasped, waiting for his name to be called. The crowd noise was a low hum, not a roar. Someone in the front row was already streaming, their face a pale rectangle in the dark. The kid's name—Aphromoo—was printed on a laminated card that would later be lost in a drawer somewhere in a team manager's office. He never saw it again. But for those forty-five minutes, under the fluorescent buzz of a Tuesday-night qualifier, he was exactly where he was supposed to be: in the room, on the list, part of the thing. The monitors flickered. The next match loaded. And the hum of the crowd stayed low, patient, waiting for someone to make it loud.

Reader's Guide

Aphromoo is a retired support player. His tournament results with Counter Logic Gaming include: 5th–6th — 2015 Spring NA LCS playoffs (3rd in regular season); 1st — 2015 Summer NA LCS playoffs (2nd in regular season); 12th–13th — 2015 League of Legends World Championship; 1st — 2016 Spring NA LCS playoffs (2nd in regular season); 2nd — 2016 Mid-Season Invitational; 4th — 2016 NA LCS Summer playoffs + regular season; 9th–12th — 2016 World Championship; 5th–6th — 2017 NA LCS Spring playoffs (4th in regular season); 3rd — 2017 NA LCS Summer playoffs + regular season. With 100 Thieves: 2nd — 2018 NA LCS Spring playoffs (1st in regular season); 4th — 2018 NA LCS Summer playoffs (3rd in regular season); 9th–12th — 2018 World Championship.

Did You Know?

• Aphromoo was the first support player to win the LCS MVP award.
• He played AD Carry before switching to Support in 2013.
• He held the record for most LCS games played from August 2022 to March 2023.