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Aphromoo teamless for Spring 2023
Legendary support Zaqueri "aphromoo" Black, one of the greatest American "League of Legends" players of all-time, will likely take the 2023 Spring Split off, as all 10 League Championship Series (LCS) teams have reportedly finalized their rosters and the FlyQuest organization have announced the player's departure.
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Aphromoo is far from the first high profile player to take a split off, as Danish midlaner Nicolaj "Jensen" Jensen won the 2022 LCS Championship with Cloud9 after being teamless in Spring 2023, and both Soren "Bjergsen" Bjerg and Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng "retired" for one and two years respectively before rejoining LCS teams.
Over a decade of excellence
The 30-year-old aphromoo has played parts of every LCS split except Summer 2013, when he opted out of playing for Team Curse — now known as Team Liquid — after they dropped his friend, American midlaner Eugene "Pobelter" Park, from the team. While he's played the support role in each LCS split, he was originally a botlaner and role-swapped at the time of the advent of the LCS, which was then known as the NA LCS.
Aphromoo played with Counter Logic Gaming between 2013 and 2017, then played two years each for 100 Thieves and Dignitas before finally playing a year with FlyQuest.
The support was a finalist in the 2016 Mid-Season Invitational, won back-to-back LCS championship in Summer 2015 and Spring 2016, and won the 2018 LCS Spring Split MVP award to become the first of just two supports to win the award, the other being Team Liquid support Jo "CoreJJ" Yong-in.
FlyQuest hasn't officially announced their roster, but reports from independent reporters Travis Gafford and Brieuc "LEC Wooloo" Seeger indicate the team will run a roster of Impact-Spica-VicLa-Prince-Eyla in the 2023 LCS Spring Split. The team exited in 5th-6th and 7th-8th places in the 2022 LCS Spring and Summer Split respectively with a roster of Philip-Josedeodo-toucouille-Johnsun-aphromoo.
Featured photo courtesy of FlyQuest/Riot Games.
