Instinct (Tony Ng)

Instinct
Instinct
Background Information
Name	Tony Ng
Country of Birth	; United States
Birthday	July 14, 2004 (age 20)
Residency	NANorth America
Competitive
Role	; Bot Laner
Competitive IDs	Acilion
Soloqueue IDs	NA: Instinct#0714; BR: Instinct#FXS
Social Media & Links

Overview

Tournament Results

Stats

Match History

Tony "Instinct" Ng is a League of Legends esports player, previously bot laner for Fear x Starforge. He was previously known as Acilion.

There is a disambiguation page associated with the name Instinct. One other player and one team share this ID.

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team	Start	End
NA	⁠⁠Horizon Esports	Jan 20202020-01-13^[1]	May 20202020-05-17	4mo 4d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Mirage Esports	Jun 20202020-06-05^[3]	Sep 20202020-09-27^[2]	3mo 22d ejel
NA	⁠⁠100 Next	Dec 20202020-12-09^[5]	Nov 20212021-11-05^[4]	10mo 27d ejel
NA	⁠⁠TSM Academy	Nov 20212021-11-24^[7]	Jul 20222022-07-12^[6]	7mo 18d ejel
NA	⁠⁠TSM	Jul 20222022-07-12^[6]	Nov 20222022-11-11^[8]	3mo 30d ejel
NA	⁠⁠FLY FAM	Jan 20232023-01-13^[10]	Apr 20232023-04-28^[9]	3mo 15d ejel
NA	⁠⁠CCG Esports	Feb 20242024-02-22^[12]	Jun 20242024-06-04^[11]	3mo 11d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Fear x Starforge	Jun 20242024-06-04^[11]	Oct 20242024-10-04^[13]	4mo ejel

	Team	Start	End
NA	⁠⁠Horizon Esports	Jan 20202020-01-13^[1]	May 20202020-05-17	4mo 4d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Mirage Esports	Jun 20202020-06-05^[3]	Sep 20202020-09-27^[2]	3mo 22d ejel
NA	⁠⁠100 Next	Dec 20202020-12-09^[5]	Nov 20212021-11-05^[4]	10mo 27d ejel
NA	⁠⁠TSM Academy	Nov 20212021-11-24^[7]	Jul 20222022-07-12^[6]	7mo 18d ejel
NA	⁠⁠TSM	Jul 20222022-07-12^[6]	Nov 20222022-11-11^[8]	3mo 30d ejel
NA	⁠⁠FLY FAM	Jan 20232023-01-13^[10]	Apr 20232023-04-28^[9]	3mo 15d ejel
NA	⁠⁠CCG Esports	Feb 20242024-02-22^[12]	Jun 20242024-06-04^[11]	3mo 11d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Fear x Starforge	Jun 20242024-06-04^[11]	Oct 20242024-10-04^[13]	4mo ejel

News

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024

NA	⁠⁠HZ	January 13, Regedice, Stonewippen, iStupid, AcilioN, TSMxPLUX, Glutez (Head Coach), and Every (Founder,Manager) join.^[1] e
NA	⁠⁠HZ	May 17, UndefeatedOne, stonewippen, iStupid, AcilioN, TSMxPLUX, Glutez (Head Coach), and Every (Founder,Manager) leave. e
NA	⁠⁠MIR	June 5, Acilion joins.^[3] e
NA	⁠⁠MIR	September 27, Dragoon, KingGeorgie, and JohnathanForLong join. Tony Top, Acilion, and Plux leave.^[2] e
NA	⁠⁠100X	December 9, Cozy, Goo, Young, Instinct, and Busio join.^[5] e
NA	⁠⁠100X	December 29, Cozy, Goo, Young, Instinct, and Busio's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 5 November 2021.^[14] e

NA	⁠⁠100X	November 5, Young and Instinct are removed from the GCD.^[4] e
NA	⁠⁠TSM.A	November 24, V1per and Instinct join.^[7] V1per's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 21 November 2023. Instinct's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 19 November 2024.^[15] e

NA	⁠⁠TSM.A	July 12, S0ul and Instinct leave for main roster.^[6] e
NA	⁠⁠TSM	July 12, Chime joins. S0ul and Instinct join from academy roster. Tactical and Mia leave for academy roster.^[6] e
NA	⁠⁠TSM	November 11, Instinct leaves.^[8] e

NA	⁠⁠FLYF	January 13, lunacia, Goo, Blazze, Instinct, and Sword join. Mgutis and Lunar join as substitutes.^[10] e
NA	⁠⁠FLYF	April 28, ⁠⁠FLY FAM is disbanded. lunacia, Hyper, Blazze, Instinct, Sword, Maniac, Lunar, Brandini (Head Coach), and Julius (Assistant Coach) leave.^[9] e

NA	⁠⁠CCG	February 22, Yukino, Bradley, and Instinct join. Flocon and EU Red move to substitutes. Vakin, Rain1, and Sushee leave.^[12] e
NA	⁠⁠CCG	June 4, Instinct leaves.^[11] e
NA	⁠⁠FXS	June 4, eXyu, Ablazeolive, Instinct, ido (Assistant Coach), TauPiPhi (Analyst), and Torok (Positional Coach) join.^[11] e
NA	⁠⁠FXS	October 4, Instinct leaves.^[13] e

Biography[]

Trivia[]

Began playing in the North American amateur circuit at age 15.

Pentakills

Date	Region	Tournament	Champion	Pos	W/L	KDA	SB	VOD
2024-07-12	NA North America	NACL 2024 Summer	Zeri	Bot	W	7/1/3	Link
2022-07-17	NA North America	LCS 2022 Summer	Zeri	Bot	W	8/0/6	Link	Link
2020-06-11	NA North America	Challengers Uprising Season 1	Ezreal	Bot	W	13/0/9	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.

Instinct (Tony Ng) Tournament Results
Date	Pl	Event	Last Result	Team	Roster
2024-09-21	2	Americas Challengers 2024	2 : 3⁠⁠PNG.A	⁠⁠FXS	Philip, eXyu, Ablazeolive, Instinct, Winsome, Kiao, ido
2024-09-08	2	NACL 2024 Summer Playoffs	0 : 3⁠⁠DSTL	⁠⁠FXS	Philip, eXyu, Ablazeolive, Instinct, Winsome, Kiao, ido
2024-08-11	2	NACL 2024 Summer	6 - 3⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠FXS	Philip, eXyu, Ablazeolive, Instinct, Winsome, Kiao, ido
2024-04-05	Q	NACL 2024 Summer Promotion	3 : 1⁠⁠LIT	⁠⁠CCG	Crimson, Yukino, Bradley, Instinct, Trevor, Argentum
2024-03-24	1	NACL 2024 Spring Qualifier 2 Playoffs	3 : 0⁠⁠MISS	⁠⁠CCG	Crimson, Yukino, Bradley, Instinct, Trevor, Argentum
2024-02-25	2 - 6	NACL 2024 Spring Qualifier 2	4 - 1⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠CCG	Crimson, Yukino, Flocon, Instinct, EU Red, Trevor, Argentum
2023-04-21	NQ	NACL 2023 Summer Promotion	0 : 2⁠⁠TLF	⁠⁠FLYF	lunacia, Hyper, Blazze, Instinct, Sword, Brandini
2023-03-14	13 - 16	NACL 2023 Spring Playoffs	0 : 2⁠⁠IMTC	⁠⁠FLYF	lunacia, Hyper, Blazze, Instinct, Sword, Brandini
2023-03-06	15	NACL 2023 Spring	1-3-11⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠FLYF	lunacia, Goo, Maniac, Hyper, Blazze, Instinct, Sword, Brandini
2022-09-02	5 - 6	LCS 2022 Championship	2 : 3⁠⁠EG	⁠⁠TSM	Solo, Spica, Maple, Instinct, Tactical, Chime, Chawy

Media[]

2020
2022

July 9, League of Legends North American Amateur Spotlight: Acilion by Prussian on YouTube
e

July 18, TSM Instinct following dominating victory: “There were a lot of doubters and haters against us, we proved them wrong” with Jordan Marney on esports.gg
e

Post-Match Interviews

Date	Tournament	Match	Link
2022-07-17	LCS 2022 Summer	FLY vs TSM	Link
2022-03-18	LCS Proving Grounds 2022 Spring	MU vs TSM.A	Link
2022-03-10	NA Academy 2022 Spring	TSM.A vs EG.A	Link
2022-03-04	NA Academy 2022 Spring	GG.A vs TSM.A	Link
2022-02-05	NA Academy 2022 Spring	TSM.A vs DIG.A	Link
2021-06-21	RCL 2021 Summer	100X vs WCB	Link

Images[]

TSM.A Instinct, NA Academy 2022 Spring
TSM.A Instinct, NA Academy 2022 Summer
FXS Instinct, Americas Challengers 2024

Redirects

The following pages redirect here:

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Horizon Esports' Tweet twitter.com
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Upsurge Premier League 2020 Fall Official Spreadsheet docs.google.com
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Big League Season 3 Official Roster Sheet docs.google.com
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Archive Pages: before change - NA - 2021-11-04; after change - NA - 2021-11-05
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 100 Thieves' Tweet twitter.com
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 ^6.4 ^6.5 TSM's Tweet twitter.com
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 ^7.2 TSM's Tweet twitter.com
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 TSM's Tweet twitter.com
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 ^9.2 FlyQuest's Tweet twitter.com
↑ ^10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2 FlyQuest's Tweet twitter.com
↑ ^11.0 ^11.1 ^11.2 ^11.3 ^11.4 ^11.5 Fear x Starforge's X Post x.com
↑ ^12.0 ^12.1 ^12.2 NACL Spring Qualifier #2 Public Rosters docs.google.com
↑ ^13.0 ^13.1 ^13.2 Instinct's X Post x.com
↑ Archive Pages: before change - NA - 2020-12-28; after change - NA - 2020-12-29
↑ Archive Pages: before change - NA - 2021-11-23; after change - NA - 2021-11-24

[News/2020-01-13_ref_47-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Horizon Esports' Tweet twitter.com

[News/2020-09-27_ref_4-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Upsurge Premier League 2020 Fall Official Spreadsheet docs.google.com

[News/2020-06-05_ref_49-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Big League Season 3 Official Roster Sheet docs.google.com

[News/2021-11-05_ref_21-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Archive Pages: before change - NA - 2021-11-04; after change - NA - 2021-11-05

[News/2020-12-09_ref_27-5] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 100 Thieves' Tweet twitter.com

[TSM_Changes_July_2022-6] 6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 ^6.4 ^6.5 TSM's Tweet twitter.com

[News/2021-11-24_ref_22-7] 7.0 ^7.1 ^7.2 TSM's Tweet twitter.com

[News/2022-11-11_ref_13-8] 8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 TSM's Tweet twitter.com

[News/2023-04-28_ref_14-9] 9.0 ^9.1 ^9.2 FlyQuest's Tweet twitter.com

[News/2023-01-13_ref_16-10] 10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2 FlyQuest's Tweet twitter.com

[FxS_Roster_June_2024-11] 11.0 ^11.1 ^11.2 ^11.3 ^11.4 ^11.5 Fear x Starforge's X Post x.com

[News/2024-02-22_ref_5-12] 12.0 ^12.1 ^12.2 NACL Spring Qualifier #2 Public Rosters docs.google.com

[News/2024-10-04_ref_2-13] 13.0 ^13.1 ^13.2 Instinct's X Post x.com

[News/2020-12-27_ref_66-14] Archive Pages: before change - NA - 2020-12-28; after change - NA - 2020-12-29

[News/2021-11-24_ref_37-15] Archive Pages: before change - NA - 2021-11-23; after change - NA - 2021-11-24

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