Zaqueri Black (born September 8, 1992), better known by his in-game name Aphromoo, is an American retired professional ''

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'' player. Aphromoo won the 2018 Spring Split MVP award, the first time a support player had received the title.100 Thieves Aphromoo receives the 2018 Spring Regular Season MVP title.
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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.Aphromoo's Career: From AD Carry to Carrying Doublelift
/ref> He still rarely subs over to this role, but switched to Support in 2013 when he joined

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(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 Yiliang "Peter" Peng (), better known as Doublelift, is an American content creator, streamer, and semi-professional and former-professional ''League of Legends'' player. He previously played for Counter Logic Gaming, Team Liquid, Team SoloM ...

and later Stixxay. CLG would go on to win the 2015 NALCS Summer Split as well as the 2016 NALCS Spring Split. CLG also attended the

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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

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in a tiebreaker match, Aphromoo left CLG in November 2017. He joined

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, 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

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and finished the 2022 season with 597 games played.

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took the title from him during the 2023 season, and WildTurtle also returned to edge ahead of him on the all-time leaderboard.

Tournament results

Counter Logic Gaming

* 5th–6th —

2015 Spring NA LCS The 2015 NA LCS season was the third year of the North American ''League of Legends'' Championship Series. It saw an expansion of the league from eight to ten teams, as well as the introduction of championship points and the regional finals gau ...

playoffs (3rd in regular season) * 1st —

2015 Summer NA LCS The 2015 NA LCS season was the third year of the North American ''League of Legends'' Championship Series. It saw an expansion of the league from eight to ten teams, as well as the introduction of championship points and the regional finals gau ...

playoffs (2nd in regular season) * 12th–13th —

2015 League of Legends World Championship The 2015 ''League of Legends'' World Championship was an esports tournament for the multiplayer online battle arena video game ''League of Legends''. It was the fifth iteration of the League of Legends World Championship, ''League of Legends'' W ...

* 1st —

2016 Spring NA LCS The 2016 NA LCS season was the fourth year of the North American ''League of Legends'' Championship Series. It was divided into spring and summer splits, each consisting of a regular season and playoff stage. Regular season games were played in ...

playoffs (2nd in regular season) * 2nd —

2016 Mid-Season Invitational The 2016 Mid-Season Invitational was the second event of the Mid-Season Invitational (MSI), a ''League of Legends'' tournament by Riot Games. It took place from March 4 to March 15, 2016, in Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Pudong, Shanghai, Chin ...

* 4th —

2016 NA LCS Summer The 2016 NA LCS season was the fourth year of the North American ''League of Legends'' Championship Series. It was divided into spring and summer splits, each consisting of a regular season and playoff stage. Regular season games were played in ...

playoffs + regular season * 9th–12th — 2016 World Championship * 5th–6th — 2017 NA LCS Spring playoffs (4th in regular season) * 3rd —

2017 NA LCS Summer The 2017 NA LCS season was the sixth season of the League Championship Series (esports), North American ''League of Legends'' Championship Series (NA LCS), a professional esports league for the video game ''League of Legends''. The season was divi ...

playoffs + regular season

100 Thieves

* 2nd —

2018 NA LCS Spring The 2018 NA LCS season was the seventh season of the North American ''League of Legends'' Championship Series (NA LCS), a professional esports league for the video game ''League of Legends''. The season was divided into two splits: Spring and Sum ...

playoffs (1st in regular season) * 4th —

2018 NA LCS Summer The 2018 NA LCS season was the seventh season of the North American ''League of Legends'' Championship Series (NA LCS), a professional esports league for the video game ''League of Legends''. The season was divided into two splits: Spring and Sum ...

playoffs (3rd in regular season) * 9th–12th — 2018 World Championship

References

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