Danny (Kyle Sakamaki)

Danny
Retired
Danny
Background Information
Name	Kyle Sakamaki
Country of Birth	; United States
Birthday	December 4, 2003 (age 22)
Residency	NANorth America
Competitive
Role	; Streamer
Competitive IDs	Shiro, Dan
Soloqueue IDs	NA: Monty de la Cruz, Dan 7
Social Media & Links

Overview

Tournament Results

Stats

Match History

Kyle "Danny" Sakamaki is a retired League of Legends esports player, previously content creator for Evil Geniuses. He was previously known as Shiro and Dan.

There is a disambiguation page associated with the name Danny. Three other players share this ID.

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team	Start	End		Notes
NA	⁠⁠Zenith Esports	Aug 20202020-08-01	Dec 20202020-12-11^[1]	4mo 10d	ejel
NA	⁠⁠EG Prodigies	Dec 20202020-12-11^[3]	May 20212021-05-14^[2]	5mo 3d	ejel
NA	⁠⁠Evil Geniuses	May 20212021-05-14^[2]	Feb 20232023-02-27^[4]	1yr 9mo	Inactive ejel
NA	⁠⁠Evil Geniuses	Feb 20232023-02-27^[4]	≈Jun 2023≈2023-06-10^[5]	≈3mo 11d	ejel

	Team	Start	End		Notes
NA	⁠⁠Zenith Esports	Aug 20202020-08-01	Dec 20202020-12-11^[1]	4mo 10d	ejel
NA	⁠⁠EG Prodigies	Dec 20202020-12-11^[3]	May 20212021-05-14^[2]	5mo 3d	ejel
NA	⁠⁠Evil Geniuses	May 20212021-05-14^[2]	Sep 20222022-09-06^[6]	1yr 3mo	ejel
NA	⁠⁠Evil Geniuses	Sep 20222022-09-06^[6]	Feb 20232023-02-27^[4]	5mo 21d	Inactive ejel
NA	⁠⁠Evil Geniuses	Feb 20232023-02-27^[4]	≈Jun 2023≈2023-06-10^[5]	≈3mo 11d	ejel

News

2020
2021
2022
2023

NA	⁠⁠ZEN	August 1, Gible, RoseThorn, Dan, and Ido (Coach) join. Aspect rejoins. Daption joins as substitute. e
NA	⁠⁠ZEN	December 8, Dan renames to Shiro. e
NA	⁠⁠ZEN	December 11, Srtty, Tomio, Aspect, Shiro, Mist, Jojopyun, Loyal, and ido (Coach) leave.^[1] e
NA	⁠⁠EG.P	December 11, Srtty, Tomio, Aspect, Shiro, Mist, and ido (Head Coach) join.^[3] e
NA	⁠⁠EG.P	December 29, Srtty, Tomio, Aspect, Shiro, and Mist's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 6 November 2021.^[8] e

NA	⁠⁠EG.P	May 14, Shoryu and SkyTec join. Mist leaves. Shiro leaves for main roster.^[2] e
NA	⁠⁠EG	May 14, Shiro joins from academy roster. Deftly leaves.^[2] Shiro renames to Danny.^[2] e
NA	⁠⁠EG	May 17, Danny's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 21 November 2023.^[9] e
NA	⁠⁠EG	December 23, Danny's contract is extended.^[10] Danny's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 19 November 2024.^[11] e

NA

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⁠EG

September 6,
Kaori joins from academy roster.
Danny becomes inactive.^[6]^[7]

e

NA	⁠⁠EG	February 27, Danny (Bot to Content Creator) changes position.^[4] e
NA	⁠⁠EG	June 10 (approx.), Danny (Content Creator) leaves.^[5] e

Biography

2021 Season

Danny's first team was the amateur organization Zenith Esports, which he joined at the beginning of the season and with whom he played using the ID Dan. After strong performances in RCL Season 10 and UPL 2020 Fall, the entire Zenith roster was acquired by Evil Geniuses and renamed to Evil Geniuses Prodigies. At this time, Dan renamed to Shiro. The team played in the LCS Proving Grounds 2021 Spring and finished 5-6th, with Shiro being a standout performer. Although only 17 and having never played in Academy, Shiro was promoted to Evil Geniuses' LCS squad to replace Deftly for the Summer Split. Upon his promotion, he renamed again, this time to Danny.

Trivia

Started playing League of Legends when he was 6 years old, first reached Challenger when he was 14, and debuted in LCS when he was 17.
Looks up to Ruler.
Is from Honolulu, Hawaii.

Individual Awards

LCS 1st All-Pro Team (2022 Summer)
LCS 2nd All-Pro Team (2021 Summer)
LCS Rookie of the Year (2021)

Pentakills

Date	Region	Tournament	Champion	Pos	W/L	KDA	SB	VOD
2022-04-23	NA North America	LCS 2022 Spring Playoffs	Jinx	Bot	W	8/2/0	Link	Link
2022-04-17	NA North America	LCS 2022 Spring Playoffs	Zeri	Bot	W	5/1/8	Link	Link
2022-02-05	NA North America	LCS 2022 Spring	Zeri	Bot	W	7/1/4	Link	Link
2022-01-23	NA North America	LCS 2022 Lock In	Senna	Bot	W	7/0/10	Link	Link
2021-03-11	NA North America	Giant Slayer Gauntlet 2021 Spring	Samira	Bot	W	10/0/6	Link	Link

Click here for a full list of pentakills by all players.

Tournament Results

This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.

Danny (Kyle Sakamaki) Tournament Results
Date	Pl	Event	Last Result	Team	Roster
2022-09-10	3	LCS 2022 Championship	2 : 3⁠⁠100T	⁠⁠EG	Impact, Inspired, jojopyun, Danny, Kaori, Vulcan, Rigby, Turtle
2022-08-14	1	LCS 2022 Summer	15 - 3⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠EG	Impact, Inspired, jojopyun, Danny, Vulcan, Rigby, Turtle
2022-05-27	3 - 4	MSI 2022	0 : 3⁠⁠RNG	⁠⁠EG	Impact, Inspired, jojopyun, Danny, Vulcan, Turtle, Rigby
2022-04-24	1	LCS 2022 Spring Playoffs	3 : 0⁠⁠100T	⁠⁠EG	Impact, Inspired, jojopyun, Danny, Vulcan, Turtle, Rigby
2022-03-27	4	LCS 2022 Spring	9 - 9⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠EG	Impact, Inspired, jojopyun, Danny, Vulcan, Turtle, Peter Dun, Rigby
2022-01-30	2	LCS 2022 Lock In	0 : 3⁠⁠TL	⁠⁠EG	Impact, Inspired, jojopyun, Danny, Vulcan, Turtle
2021-08-19	5 - 6	LCS 2021 Championship	0 : 3⁠⁠C9	⁠⁠EG	Impact, Contractz, Svenskeren, Jiizuke, Danny, IgNar, Peter Dun, Artemis
2021-08-01	3	LCS 2021 Summer	28 - 17⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠EG	Impact, Svenskeren, Contractz, Jiizuke, Danny, IgNar, Peter Dun, Artemis
2021-04-18	5 - 6	LCS Proving Grounds 2021 Spring	0 : 3⁠⁠100.A	⁠⁠EG.P	Srtty, Tomio, Aspect, Shiro, Mist, ido
2021-03-16	3	Giant Slayer Gauntlet 2021 Spring	0 : 2⁠⁠GG.A	⁠⁠EG.P	Srtty, Tomio, Aspect, Shiro, Mist, ido

Media

2021
2022
2023

April 5, The TOP 5 HOTTEST NA PROSPECTS in the LCS Academy and Amateur Scene - Proving Grounds Coverage by Tim Sevenhuysen on YouTube
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June 5, [LCS Summer Split] EG Danny: "I really respect and look up to Gen.G Ruler the most [of any ADC]." with Nick Geracie on Inven Global
e
July 6, EG Danny: “I relied on possible connections to enter the League of Legends scene.” with Sage Datuin on esports.gg
e
July 21, Rookie of the Year contender EG Danny: 'The talent pool can run really deep in North America' with Travis Gafford on YouTube
e

January 29, EG Danny: "I think jojopyun has shown in the Lock In that he's a top 2 [LCS] mid laner." with Nick Geracie on Inven Global
e
May 21, EG Danny: 'I've been pretty disappointing and I hope to bounce back' with Travis Gafford on YouTube
e
June 25, Danny: how EVIL GENIUSES work to keep Jojopyun humble with Travis Gafford on YouTube
e
July 17, EG Danny: “From here, I think our only contenders are Team Liquid and maybe 100 Thieves. So we’ll definitely get [to Worlds]” with PiraTechnics on esports.gg
e

February 27, Ignored Warnings?! On Pay-Roll to "Make Amends"? - What Happened to Danny? - League of Legends by Thorin on YouTube
e
February 27, ‘Completely on me’: Danny breaks silence on EG absence and what’s next in his LoL career by Isaac McIntyre on Dot Esports
e

Post-Match Interviews

2021
2022

Date	Tournament	Match	Link
2021-03-09	Giant Slayer Gauntlet 2021 Spring	GG.A vs EG.P	Link
2021-04-08	LCS Proving Grounds 2021 Spring	DIG.A vs EG.P	Link
2021-06-12	LCS 2021 Summer	EG vs IMT	Link
2021-06-27	LCS 2021 Summer	DIG vs EG	Link
2021-07-25	LCS 2021 Summer	EG vs CLG	Link
2021-08-14	LCS 2021 Championship	100T vs EG	Link

Date	Tournament	Match	Link
2022-02-05	LCS 2022 Spring	TSM vs EG	Link
2022-04-10	LCS 2022 Spring Playoffs	EG vs FLY	Link
2022-04-23	LCS 2022 Spring Playoffs	TL vs EG	Link
2022-04-24	LCS 2022 Spring Playoffs	100T vs EG	Link
2022-05-14	MSI 2022	ORD vs EG	Link
2022-05-23	MSI 2022	T1 vs EG	Link
2022-06-19	LCS 2022 Summer	FLY vs EG	Link
2022-07-02	LCS 2022 Summer	TSM vs EG	Link