LS

LS
LS
Background Information
Name	Nick De Cesare
Country of Birth	; United States
Birthday	September 15, 1993 (age 31)
Residency	KRKorea
Competitive
Team	⁠⁠FlyQuest
Role	; Streamer
Favorite Champs	; ; ;
Competitive IDs	Last Shadow
Soloqueue IDs	KR: Twitch Prime, Exodia, Ermac, Cookies and Milk
Social Media & Links

Overview

Tournament Results

Casting History

Nick "LS" De Cesare is a League of Legends esports personality, currently content creator for FlyQuest. He was previously known as LastShadow.

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team	Start	End
EU	⁠⁠SUPA HOT CREW	May 20142014-05-12^[2]	Dec 20142014-12-08^[1]	6mo 27d ejel
EU	⁠⁠Gamers2	≈Jul 2014≈2014-07-??	≈Aug 2014≈2014-08-??	≈1mo ejel
EU	⁠⁠MeetYourMakers	Dec 20142014-12-08^[4]	Jan 20152015-01-05^[3]	28d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Roar	Jan 20152015-01-21^[9]	Feb 20152015-02-10^[5]	20d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Gravity	Feb 20152015-02-19^[12]	Jun 20152015-06-05^[10]	3mo 14d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Tempo Storm	May 20172017-05-16^[13]	≈Nov 2017≈2017-11-??	≈6mo 7d ejel
KR	⁠⁠Incheon	Aug 20182018-08-18	Aug 20182018-08-19	1d ejel
NA	⁠⁠CLG	Nov 20182018-11-30	Nov 20202020-11-24^[15]	2yr 24d ejel
KR	⁠⁠bbq Olivers	Dec 20182018-12-13^[17]	Jun 20192019-06-05^[16]	5mo 23d ejel
KR	⁠⁠XYZ	Nov 20192019-11-21^[20]	Dec 20192019-12-15	24d ejel
KR	⁠⁠T1	Nov 20202020-11-24^[22]	Dec 20212021-12-01^[21]	1yr 7d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Cloud9	Dec 20212021-12-01^[21]	Feb 20222022-02-19^[23]	2mo 18d ejel
NA	⁠⁠FlyQuest	Mar 20232023-03-22^[24]	Present	1yr 6mo ej

	Team	Start	End
EU	⁠⁠SUPA HOT CREW	May 20142014-05-12^[2]	≈Jul 2014≈2014-07-??	≈1mo 20d ejel
EU	⁠⁠Gamers2	≈Jul 2014≈2014-07-??	≈Aug 2014≈2014-08-??	≈1mo ejel
EU	⁠⁠SUPA HOT CREW	≈Jul 2014≈2014-07-??	Dec 20142014-12-08^[1]	≈5mo 7d ejel
EU	⁠⁠MeetYourMakers	Dec 20142014-12-08^[4]	Jan 20152015-01-05^[3]	28d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Roar	Jan 20152015-01-21^[9]	Feb 20152015-02-10^[5]	20d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Gravity	Feb 20152015-02-19^[12]	Jun 20152015-06-05^[10]	3mo 14d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Tempo Storm	May 20172017-05-16^[13]	≈Nov 2017≈2017-11-??	≈6mo 7d ejel
KR	⁠⁠Incheon	Aug 20182018-08-18	Aug 20182018-08-19	1d ejel
NA	⁠⁠CLG	Nov 20182018-11-30	Nov 20202020-11-24^[15]	2yr 24d ejel
KR	⁠⁠bbq Olivers	Dec 20182018-12-13^[17]	Jun 20192019-06-05^[16]	5mo 23d ejel
KR	⁠⁠XYZ	Nov 20192019-11-21^[20]	Dec 20192019-12-15	24d ejel
KR	⁠⁠T1	Nov 20202020-11-24^[22]	Dec 20212021-12-01^[21]	1yr 7d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Cloud9	Dec 20212021-12-01^[21]	Feb 20222022-02-19^[23]	2mo 18d ejel
NA	⁠⁠FlyQuest	Mar 20232023-03-22^[24]	Present	1yr 6mo ej

News

2014
2015
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023

EU	⁠⁠SHC	May 12, LS (Coach,Analyst) joins.^[2] e
EU	⁠⁠G2	July (approx.), LS (Analyst) joins. e
EU	⁠⁠SHC	July (approx.), XJ9 (Assistant Coach) joins. LS (Coach/Analyst to Head Coach) changes position. e
EU	⁠⁠G2	August (approx.), Brokenshard (Analyst,Coach) joins. LS (Analyst) leaves. e
EU	⁠⁠SHC	December 8, Mimer, SELFIE, MrRalleZ, ShLaYa, Haydal, and LS (Head Coach) leave.^[1] e
EU	⁠⁠MYM	December 8, Mimer, H0R0, MrRalleZ, Nisbeth, and LS (Head Coach) join. SELFIE rejoins.^[4] e

EU	⁠⁠MYM	January 5, LS (Head Coach) leaves.^[3] e
NA	⁠⁠RR	January 21, LS (Coach) and KaizenMaster (Assistant Coach) join.^[9] e
NA	⁠⁠RR	February 10, v3lv3t (Analyst) joins. Inori, LS (Coach), and KaizenMaster (Assistant Coach) leave.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8] e
NA	⁠⁠GV	February 19, LS (Head Coach) and Yeremy (Head Analyst) join.^[12] e
NA	⁠⁠GV	June 5, LS (Head Coach) and Yeremy (Head Analyst) leave.^[10]^[11] e

NA	⁠⁠TS	May 16, SELFIE and LS (Head Coach) join. Hatrixx moves to substitute.^[13]^[14] e
NA	⁠⁠TS	November (approx.), ⁠⁠Tempo Storm is disbanded. Zentinel, LS (Head Coach), and Cella (Coach) leave. e

KR	⁠⁠ICN	August 18, Roster for KeG 2018 is formed. 정산, 진정용, 정수환, 오명진, 정상현, and LS (Head Coach) join. e
KR	⁠⁠ICN	August 19, Roster disbands. 정산, 진정용, 정수환, 오명진, 정상현, and LS (Head Coach) leave. e
NA	⁠⁠CLG	November 30, LS (Streamer) joins. e
KR	⁠⁠bbq	December 13, HeoKong, Malice, autumn, wind, Rebel, Zzus, Quest (Head Coach), and LS (Coach) join.^[17]^[18]^[19] e

KR	⁠⁠bbq	June 5, JackPoT, Racoon, Tank, Rain, Mocha, KAGE (Head Coach), Gizmo (Coach), and Saroo (Coach) join. Heokong, autumn, wind, Rebel, and LS (Coach) leave.^[16] e
KR	⁠⁠XYZ	November 21, Team is formed. Heokong, Malice, Selfie, MyeongJin, autumn, and LS (Coach) join.^[20] e
KR	⁠⁠XYZ	December 15, Team disbands. Heokong, Malice, Selfie, Reven, autumn, and LS (Coach) leave. e

NA	⁠⁠CLG	November 24, LS (Streamer) leaves.^[15] e
KR	⁠⁠T1	November 24, LS (Streamer) joins.^[22] e

KR	⁠⁠T1	December 1, LS (Streamer) leaves.^[21] e
NA	⁠⁠C9	December 1, LS (Head Coach) joins.^[21] e

NA

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⁠C9

February 19, Max Waldo (Position & Strategic Coach to Head Coach) changes position. LS (Head Coach) leaves.^[23]

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NA

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⁠FLY

March 22, LS (Content Creator) joins.^[24]

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Biography[]

Born in Rhode Island, LastShadow first got into competitive gaming playing Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Super Smash Bros. Melee and then transitioning into StarCraft. When he was 18, he permanently moved to South Korea and played with multiple gaming organizations there, living with Samsung (including when it was still MVP) for two years. During that time he became close friends with imp, who encouraged him to switch to League of Legends. Though he has never played League competitively, he is Masters on the Korean server and offers coaching services to players and teams.

2014 Season[]

On May 5, LS joined Supa Hot Crew as a coach/analyst, and his position was announced publicly on the 12th.

LS was the subject of Thorin's 43rd Reflections interview, recorded on June 25 and released almost two months later on August 11.^[25]

On August 7, LS announced that he had not been working with SHC for the past three weeks, though there were no hard feelings between himself and the organization.^[26] However, after SHC's loss to ROCCAT in the Summer Playoffs, LS began coaching them again to help them avoid relegation. SHC beat Millenium 3-0 in the fifth-place match and retained their LCS slot.

G2 Scandal[]

Concurrently, LS had been working with Gamers2, ocelote's team. Ocelote had approached him initially in mid-July, and on July 29 LS began to coach the team, first in preparation for their match against H2k in the EUCS Summer Series 2 playoffs and then in preparation for their match against Unicorns of Love in the Summer Playoffs. Gamers2 beat H2k due to a forfeit but then lost to Unicorns of Love.

Over the next several weeks LS tried to get ocelote or Gamers2 to pay him but was unable to secure payment. In a conversation broadcasted on LS' Twitch stream, ocelote claimed that he was never going to pay LS.^[27]^[28]

On November 3, LS offered to give his records of Gamers2's communications and scrim information to any team playing against them, citing several reasons for his decision to do so.^[29] The next day, popular comedian and entertainer Sky paid LS the amount owed him by ocelote.^[30]^[31]^[32]

2015 Preseason[]

LS stayed with SHC through their acquisition by Meet Your Makers. On January 5 his departure from MYM was announced.^[33] A few weeks later, right before the start of the NA LCS, LS joined Roar to coach them remotely from Korea.^[34] However, after Roar failed to qualify for the NACS, he left the team.^[35]

LS joined Gravity Gaming soon after he left Roar, replacing former coach SoulDra.^[36] As their head coach, he was required to attend LCS games to assist with the pick/ban phase, and so he commuted biweekly between Seoul, where he still lived, and the United States.^[37] One week into the summer split, he left the team.^[38]^[39]

Ahead of the 2016 Summer Split, when SpoTV joined OGN as an LCK broadcaster, he and Rapid joined SpoTV as their English casting team. He and PapaSmithy then became the two English LCK casters chosen by Riot for the English broadcast for the 2016 Worlds.

Trivia[]

When he was 12 years old during his Brood War career, he was caught in at least 2 instances of cheating - once by rigging maps,^[40] and once by colluding with another player, KawaiiRice, on Ventrilo.^[41] However, he earned forgiveness from the TeamLiquid.net community and was unbanned after four years.^[42]
Is very open to the public and regularly allows people to add him on social media, in game, Skype, etc.
Can speak and write Korean.
Favorite champions are Shaco, Ryze, and Kassadin. At one point he only played Teemo.
Invented the no-boots Kassadin build played by SUPA HOT CREW in the 2014 Season LCS Summer Split.
At one point after moving to Korea, had to resort to playing poker in order to make money.
Played Terran and Zerg for Team GosuGamers and Decerto.
Won a 2014 Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament in Seoul against the likes of DoA, MonteCristo, Chobra, Wolf and StarCraft casters Dan Stemkoski (Artosis) and Nick Plott (Tasteless) and pro gamer Sasha Hostyn (Scarlett) held for Artosis' 31st birthday.^[43]
In December 2018, he became the first foreigner to join a Korean team in an official capacity, when he became bbq Olivers' head coach.
Has keratoconus, which causes thinning of the cornea that can lead to doubled or blurred vision.
Both his friends and detractors sometimes joke about what the acronym LS stands for.
- These include Low Standards, Literal Savant, Loves Soraka, and Liandry's Salesman.
Known for mentoring and promoting many players of Korean solo queue, including Western players who come there to improve.
Along with the rest of the LCK broadcast, used a number of special terms, including names for certain neutral camps. A partial list is available here.
Known for being a passionate advocate of Liandry's Torment over Morellonomicon in many scenarios, earning him the title of Liandry's Salesman in the community.
- As of March 2021, using the search term "Last Shadow" in the in-game shop results in two items displaying: Liandry's Anguish (successor to Liandry's Torment) and Morellonomicon.^[44]

Casting History[]

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Casting History - LS
Date	Event	Round	Team 1	Team 2	Score	VODs	PBP	Color
2023-09-24	Drututt Ultimate Showdown	Round 2	NNO	PDW	3 - 1		Drututt	LS
2023-09-23	Drututt Ultimate Showdown	Round 1	L5	PDW	0 - 3	1, 2, 3	Drututt	LS
2021-08-20	Unified Grand Prix 2021 Summer	Grand Final	DIG.A	GG.A	3 - 2	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	CaptainFlowers	LS, Nemesis
2021-08-19	Unified Grand Prix 2021 Summer	Round 6	TSM.A	GG.A	1 - 3	1, 2, 3, 4	Nemesis	LS
2021-03-04	Unified Grand Prix 2021 Spring	Grand Final	SF	NO	0 - 3		CaptainFlowers	LS
2021-03-03	Unified Grand Prix 2021 Spring	Round 4	ZOO	NO	0 - 3		CaptainFlowers	LS
2020-10-15	Worlds 2020 Main Event	Quarterfinals	DWG	DRX	3 - 0	1, 2, 3	Atlus	LS
2020-10-10	Worlds 2020 Main Event	Day 7	GEN	FNC	1 - 0	1	Atlus	LS
2020-10-10	Worlds 2020 Main Event	Day 7	LGD	TSM	1 - 0	1	Atlus	LS
2020-10-10	Worlds 2020 Main Event	Day 7	FNC	LGD	1 - 0	1	Atlus	LS

Tournament Results[]

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LS Tournament Results
Date	Pl	Event	Last Result	Team	Roster
2023-09-24	2	Drututt Ultimate Showdown	1 : 3⁠⁠NNO	⁠⁠LIP	Dzukill, Kesha, Nemesis, Dealersz, Netherim, LS
2022-03-27	2	LCS 2022 Spring	13 - 5⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠C9	Summit, Blaber, Fudge, Berserker, Winsome, LS, Reven, Max Waldo
2020-01-22	5 - 8	Twitch Rivals NA Team Draft II	2 - 4⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠THE	Sanchovies, LS, Yassuo, Benji, Starsmitten
2019-04-04	3 - 4	CK 2019 Spring Playoffs	1 : 3⁠⁠APK	⁠⁠bbq	Heokong, Malice, autumn, wind, Zzus, LS
2019-04-01	5	CK 2019 Spring	6 - 8⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠bbq	Heokong, Deus, wind, Malice, autumn, Zzus, Rebel, Quest, LS
2018-12-25	9 - 12	KeSPA Cup 2018	0 : 2⁠⁠SKT	⁠⁠bbq	HeoKong, Malice, autumn, wind, Zzus, LS
2018-08-19	9 - 16	KeG Championship 2018	0 : 1⁠⁠KSL	⁠⁠ICN	정산, 진정용, 정수환, 오명진, 정상현, LS
2015-04-19	5 - 6	NA LCS 2015 Spring Playoffs	1 : 3⁠⁠TIP	⁠⁠GV	Hauntzer, Saintvicious, Keane, Cop, Bunny FuFuu, LS
2015-03-29	5	NA LCS 2015 Spring	10 - 8⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠GV	Hauntzer, Saintvicious, Keane, Cop, Bunny FuFuu, SoulDra, Ginko, Samurai, LS, David