Aphromoo

Aphromoo
Zaqueri Black
Born (1992-09-08) September 8, 1992
Hometown Whittier, California
Nationality American
Current team 100 Thieves
Role Support
League North American League of Legends Championship Series
Games League of Legends
Championships 2015 NA LCS Summer, 2016 NA LCS Spring
Professional career
??? 2011 - Oct 2011 Team OG Sout Rez
Oct 2011 - Apr 2012 v8 eSports
Apr 2012 - May 2012 Epik Gamer
May 2012 - Jul 2012 Team SoloMid Evo
Jul 2012 - Aug 2012 mTw North America
Aug 2012 - Oct 2012 Monomaniac Ferus
Nov 2012 - Dec 2012 Team FeaR
Dec 2012 - May 2013 Counter Logic Gaming
Oct 2013 - Oct 2013 Team Curse
Jan 2014 - Nov 2017 Counter Logic Gaming
November 30, 2017- 100 Thieves

Zaqueri Black, better known by the name Aphromoo, is an American professional League of Legends player. As of 2018, he plays in the Support position for the team 100 Thieves in the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS).[1] Aphromoo won the 2018 Spring Split MVP award, the first time in that award's history it has gone to a Support player.[2][3][4]

League of Legends career

Aphromoo played for a number of teams in the early years of professional League from 2011–2012. During this period, he also played the AD Carry bottom lane position.[5] He still rarely subs over to this role,[6] 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.[5] Aphromoo played for CLG in the spring split of 2013 as well as from 2014–2017, during which he supported AD Carries Doublelift and later Stixxay.[5] CLG would go on to win the 2015 NALCS Summer Split as well as the 2016 NALCS Spring Split.[7] 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.[8] 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.[9]

Tournament results

Counter Logic Gaming

100 Thieves

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

References

  1. ↑ @100Thieves (December 4, 2017). "It brings us great pleasure to announce that we've signed @aphromoo to 100 Thieves!
    WATCH: youtu.be/HscWasQ7V-0"     (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ↑ 2018 NA LCS Spring Split Award Winners
  3. ↑ 100 Thieves Aphromoo receives the 2018 Spring Regular Season MVP title.
  4. ↑ Aphromoo named NA LCS 2018 Spring Split MVP: A support has won MVP for the first time ever!
  5. 1 2 3 Aphromoo's Career: From AD Carry to Carrying Doublelift
  6. ↑ Aphromoo will play ADC for CLG this week after Stixxay hospitalized
  7. ↑ "G2 Esports, Counter Logic Gaming are the EU and NA LCS champions". yahoo.com. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  8. ↑ "Aphromoo leaves CLG". Dot Esports. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  9. ↑ NA LCS MVP: Updated winners list
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