Aphromoo

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Aphromoo
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Aphromoo at the 2015 League of Legends World Championship
Current team
TeamDignitas
GameLeague of Legends
RoleSupport
LeagueLCS
Personal information
NameZaqueri Black
Born (1992-09-08) September 8, 1992 (age 29)
NationalityAmerican
Career information
Playing career2011–present
Team history
2011Team OG Sout Rez
2011–2012v8 eSports
2012Epik Gamer
2012Team SoloMid Evo
2012mTw North America
2012Monomaniac Ferus
2012Team FeaR
2012–2013Counter Logic Gaming
2013Team Curse
2014–2017Counter Logic Gaming
2017–2019100 Thieves
2019–presentDignitas
Career highlights and awards
  • 2× LCS champion (2015 Summer, 2016 Spring)
  • 1× LCS MVP (2018 Spring)

Zaqueri Black (born September 8, 1992),[1] better known by his in-game name Aphromoo, is an American professional League of Legends player who is the support for Dignitas of the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS).[2][3] Aphromoo won the 2018 Spring Split MVP award, the first time it had gone to a support player.[4][5][6]

Career[]

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.[7] He still rarely subs over to this role,[8] but switched to Support in 2013 when he joined Counter Logic Gaming (CLG), the team he would be closely identified with for a long time.[7] 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.[7] CLG would go on to win the 2015 NALCS Summer Split as well as the 2016 NALCS Spring Split.[9] CLG also attended the League of Legends World Championship in 2015 and 2016, albeit with mixed results.

After a weaker performance for CLG in 2017, where CLG lost out the 3rd and final North American invitation to Worlds to Cloud9 in a tiebreaker match, Aphromoo left CLG in November 2017.[10] 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.[11]

Tournament results[]

Counter Logic Gaming[]

  • 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

100 Thieves[]

  • 2nd — 2018 NA LCS Spring playoffs (1st in regular season)
  • 4th — 2018 NA LCS Summer playoffs (3rd in regular season)
  • 10th — 2019 LCS Spring

References[]

  1. ^ Kim, Kyeongbeom; Woo, Hyun; Hong, James; Jang, David (January 3, 2018). "From Doublelift to LemonNation, the oldest players of the NA LCS". InvenGlobal. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
  2. ^ Esguerra, Tyler (December 5, 2019). "Aphromoo joins Dignitas as the team's starting support". Dot Esports. Retrieved December 14, 2019.
  3. ^ Ousley, Parkes (December 5, 2019). "League of Legends: [Official] Dignitas announces aphromoo as starting LCS support". Inven Global. Retrieved December 14, 2019.
  4. ^ 2018 NA LCS Spring Split Award Winners
  5. ^ 100 Thieves Aphromoo receives the 2018 Spring Regular Season MVP title.
  6. ^ Aphromoo named NA LCS 2018 Spring Split MVP: A support has won MVP for the first time ever!
  7. ^ a b c Aphromoo's Career: From AD Carry to Carrying Doublelift
  8. ^ Aphromoo will play ADC for CLG this week after Stixxay hospitalized
  9. ^ "G2 Esports, Counter Logic Gaming are the EU and NA LCS champions". yahoo.com. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
  10. ^ "Aphromoo leaves CLG". Dot Esports. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
  11. ^ NA LCS MVP: Updated winners list
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