| Retired as Player | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pirean | ||
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| Background Information | ||
| Name | Choi Jun-sik (최준식) | |
| Country of Birth | South Korea | |
| Birthday | April 9, 1998 (age 26) | |
| Residency | Korea | |
| Competitive | ||
| Role | Coach | |
| Soloqueue IDs | KR Pirean (KR), solo klng (EUW), SKT T1 Pirean (KR), HarryPotterWand (EUW) | |
| Social Media & Links | ||
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Choi "Pirean" (▶️ listen) Jun-sik (Hangul: 최준식) is a League of Legends esports player, previously coach for FUT Esports.
Team History
| Team | Start | End | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Team Impulse | Jan 20162016-01-07 | May 20162016-05-23[1] | 4mo 16d ejel | ||
 Phoenix1 | May 20162016-05-26[3] | May 20172017-05-15[2] | 1yr 20d ejel | ||
 Team EnVyUs | May 20172017-05-15[4] | Jul 20172017-07-21 | 2mo 6d ejel | ||
| Phoenix1 | Jul 20172017-07-21[5] | ≈Nov 2017≈2017-11-?? | ≈4mo 7d ejel | ||
 SK Telecom T1 | Feb 20182018-02-18[7] | Nov 20182018-11-19[6] | 9mo 1d ejel | ||
 SK Gaming | Dec 20182018-12-20[9] | Sep 20192019-09-30[8] | 9mo 10d ejel | ||
 Sengoku Gaming | Dec 20192019-12-12[14] | Nov 20202020-11-19[10] | 11mo 7d ejel | ||
 KGA | Jan 20212021-01-27 | Nov 20212021-11-15[15] | 9mo 19d ejel | ||
 Gen.G Academy | Apr 20222022-04-04 | Dec 20222022-12-16[16] | 8mo 12d ejel | ||
 All Knights | Dec 20222022-12-16[16] | May 20232023-05-17[17] | 5mo 1d ejel | ||
 FUT Esports | May 20232023-05-17[17] | Jul 20232023-07-17[18] | 2mo ejel |
| Team | Start | End | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team Impulse | Jan 20162016-01-07 | May 20162016-05-23[1] | 4mo 16d ejel | ||
| Phoenix1 | May 20162016-05-26[3] | Dec 20162016-12-07[19] | 6mo 12d ejel | ||
| Phoenix1 | Dec 20162016-12-07[19] | May 20172017-05-15[2] | 5mo 8d ejel | ||
| Team EnVyUs | May 20172017-05-15[4] | Jul 20172017-07-21 | 2mo 6d ejel | ||
| Phoenix1 | Jul 20172017-07-21[5] | ≈Nov 2017≈2017-11-?? | ≈4mo 7d ejel | ||
| SK Telecom T1 | Feb 20182018-02-18[7] | Jul 20182018-07-21 | 5mo 3d ejel | ||
| SK Telecom T1 | Jul 20182018-07-21 | Nov 20182018-11-19[6] | 3mo 29d ejel | ||
| SK Gaming | Dec 20182018-12-20[9] | Sep 20192019-09-30[8] | 9mo 10d ejel | ||
| Sengoku Gaming | Dec 20192019-12-12[14] | Nov 20202020-11-19[10] | 11mo 7d ejel | ||
| KGA | Jan 20212021-01-27 | Nov 20212021-11-15[15] | 9mo 19d ejel | ||
| Gen.G Academy | Apr 20222022-04-04 | Dec 20222022-12-16[16] | 8mo 12d ejel | ||
| All Knights | Dec 20222022-12-16[16] | May 20232023-05-17[17] | 5mo 1d ejel | ||
| FUT Esports | May 20232023-05-17[17] | Jul 20232023-07-17[18] | 2mo ejel |
News
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022
- 2023
 TIP | January 7, Feng, Procxin, Pirean, Mash, and Jason Pan (Head Coach) join. beibei and Ken join as substitutes. Gate (Mid to Support) changes position. Rhux, Syaka, For Our Past, and heavenTime leave. | |
| TIP | May 23, Feng, Pirean, Mash, Gate, beibei, Ken, and Jason Pan (Head Coach) leave.[1] | |
 P1 | May 26, zig, Inori, Pirean, Slooshi, Mash, and Gate join. Brandini joins as substitute.[3] | |
| P1 | December 7, Ryu, Arrow, and Fly (Head Coach) join. Charlie (Head Coach to Manager) changes position. Pirean moves to substitute.[19] |
| P1 | May 15, Pirean leaves.[2] | |
 NV | May 15, Nisqy and Pirean join.[4] | |
| NV | July 21, Pirean leaves. | |
| P1 | July 21, Zyto (General Manager) joins. Pirean rejoins. TheAkiri (Head Analyst to Assistant Coach) changes position.[5] | |
| P1 | November (approx.), Pirean, Allorim, and Reinfcmnt (Performance Coach) leave. |
 SKT | February 18, Pirean and Leo join as substitutes.[7] | |
| SKT | July 21, Pirean moves to starting roster. | |
| SKT | November 19, Thal, Untara, Blank, Pirean, Bang, and Wolf leave. Blossom's departure is confirmed.[6] | |
 SK | December 20, Werlyb, Selfmade, Pirean, Crownshot, and Dreams join.[9] |
| SK | January 8, Werlyb, Selfmade, Pirean, Crownshot, and Dreams' contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 17 November 2020. Sheepy (Head Coach)'s contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 19 November 2019.[20] | |
| SK | January 15, Werlyb, Selfmade, Pirean, Crownshot, and Dreams' contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 16 November 2020. Sheepy (Head Coach)'s contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 18 November 2019.[21] | |
| SK | September 30, Pirean leaves.[8] | |
 SG | December 12, Pirean joins. Blank rejoins.[14] |
| SG | January 31, apaMEN, Blank, Pirean, Yutorimoyashi, Enty, and Karen (Head Coach)'s contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 15 November 2020.[22] | |
| SG | November 19, Enty's contract is extended. apaMEN, Pirean, and Yutorimoyashi leave.[10][11][12][13] |
 KGA | January 27, Pirean (Coach) joins. | |
| KGA | November 15, Pirean (Coach) leaves.[15] |
 GEN.A | April 4, Casting, dinai, Poo, and Pirean (Coach) join. Mulgae leaves. | |
| GEN.A | December 16, Pirean (Coach) leaves.[16] | |
 AK | December 16, Pirean (Coach) joins.[16] |
| AK | January 27, Zothve, Chieftain, Minit, Karam (Head Coach), and Pirean (Coach)'s contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 21 November 2023. Viciun and Horus' contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 18 November 2024.[23] | |
| AK | May 17, Pirean (Coach) leaves.[17] | |
 FUT | May 17, Pirean (Coach) joins.[17] | |
| FUT | June 16, Ryka and Pirean (Coach)'s contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 20 November 2023.[24] | |
| FUT | July 17, Pirean (Coach) leaves.[18] |
Biography[]
2016 Season[]
Choi "Pirean" Jun-sik was a challenger Korean player when he joined Team Impulse as a mid laner in January of 2016, as part of a completely rebuilt roster. Facing visa problems for the first few weeks of play, their roster was unstable until week 4 of the Spring Season. After some early success with their substitute rosters, especially with Seraph in top lane, TIP ended the season in 9th place, losing a 5-13 record tiebreaker to Renegades based on their head-to-head matchup.
In the Promotion Tournament, Team Impulse requalified for the Summer Season with a 3-1 win over the Challenger team Apex Gaming; however, on May 8 they were faced with a competitive ruling banning them from continued participation in the LCS due to not paying their players on time and also not having proper contracts in place with players. The team was also fined $20,000 by Riot.[25] Along with Mash and Gate, Pirean joined the organization that purchased Team Impulse's NA LCS Summer Season seed, Phoenix1.[26] Faced with visa problems for intended starting jungler Inori, the team was forced to add a substitute jungler Zentinel to their roster, who competed for them for the first three weeks. In that time, Phoenix1 lost all of their series and won only two games total, cementing themselves in last place, behind Echo Fox. Their winless streak continued after Inori's return and through their first series of the fifth week, at which point they had a 3-18 game record and 0-9 series record. In the second series of that week, however, they picked up their first series win against Apex Gaming, with a comeback 2-1 victory after dropping the first game. After this first win, their record improved significantly, and in the second half of the season they went a combined 5-4 - not enough to keep them out of relegations, but enough to surpass both Echo Fox and NRG Esports in the standings for a top seed in the promotion tournament, where they requalified for the LCS with an easy 3-0 win over Echo Fox.
2017 Season[]
Pirean remained with Phoenix1 for the Spring Season as a substitute, but did not play in any games due to the team's acquisition of Ryu. Before the Summer Season, he joined Team EnVyUs, where he was expected to share playing time with European rookie Nisqy. However, with Nisqy unable to play for the first three weeks due to visa issues, Pirean began the season as the starter and helped the team get off to a 3-1 start, with his play on Taliyah looking particularly strong. However, the team dropped to 3-3 after that, and Nisqy's arrival meant that they began to split playing time. For Week 7, Pirean returned to the struggling Phoenix1 to replace Ryu, who announced he was burned out and needed a break. The team managed only a single match win with Pirean in the lineup and was still sent to the promotion tournament, which he did not play in. After Phoenix1 was announced to have not been accepted into the newly franchised LCS, he left the team.
2018 Season[]
After remaining unsigned throughout the offseason, Pirean joined SKT in February.
Trivia[]
Tournament Results[]
This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.
| Pirean Tournament Results | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Pl | Event | Last Result | Team | Roster |
| 2023-11-11 | 9 - 11 | International E-sports Festival 2023 | 0 - 2  RR |  HMPD | Helper, MooJin, Pirean, DeuL, Hoon |
| 2023-09-15 | 2 | IEF 2023 Korea Qualifiers | HMPD | Helper, MooJin, Pirean, DeuL, Hoon | |
| 2023-07-21 | 4 | TCL 2023 Summer | 7 - 7 RR |  FUT | StarScreen, Mojito, Tempt, Kaori, Asper, Pirean, MightySultan |
| 2023-03-21 | 6 | LLA 2023 Opening Playoffs |  AK | Zothve, Chieftain, Leza, Viciun, Minit, Karam, Pirean | |
| 2023-03-08 | 6 | LLA 2023 Opening | 8 Pts | AK | Zothve, Chieftain, Leza, Viciun, Minit, Karam, Pirean |
| 2022-08-06 | 9 - 16 | LCK AS 2022 August | 1 : 2 빈집다시 |  GEN.A | Casting, MilliM, Wannabe, Feliz, Akia, Pirean |
| 2022-06-19 | 9 - 16 | LCK AS 2022 June | 0 : 2 짜요짜요 | GEN.A | Casting, MilliM, Wannabe, Feliz, Akia, Pirean |
| 2021-04-18 | 17 - 27 | LCK AS 2021 April |  KGA.M | PAKA FAN7, kamel, DWG 강동희, 폐관수련하는원딜, Lepton, Pirean | |
| 2021-03-27 | 9 - 16 | LCK AS 2021 March | KGA.A | 똥과니, Apollo, 삼봉국밥, 의연하게대처하다, Manfeel, Pirean | |
| 2021-02-27 | 9 - 16 | LCK AS 2021 February | KGA.L | PAKA FAN7, 화려한 풀캠프, 순서변경이름, 의연하게대처하다, Lepton, Pirean | |
Media[]
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- July 21, SKT Pirean on Faker: "The way he prepares for matches and how he lives his daily life as a professional gamer... everything about him is of help to me." with Woo "Ready" Hyun on Inven Global
- July 25, SKT Blank: "We used a lot of tank champions in our previous matches. But, you know, we needed change." with Yudae "Akiin" Oak on Inven Global
- July 27, SKT Bang: "Using ADCs makes your macro game much better such as objective control or destroying turrets. If you can manage to maintain the advantage, the game becomes easier." with Joonkyu "Lasso" Seok and Yudae "Akiin" Oak on Inven Global
- July 29, SKT Pirean on the team's 5W / 1L in Round 2: "Blank knows quite well about the macro game; he makes a lot of the team calls and orders." with Byungho "Haao" Kim and Yudae "Akiin" Oak on Inven Global
- February 25, Pirean: "It's weird how Selfmade always wins MVP. But I don't care if we win. Only a little bit!" with Darius Matuschak on The Shotcaller
- May 21, Get to know Junsik 'Pirean' Choi: Midlaner. with SK Gaming on YouTube
Post-Match Interviews
| Date | Tournament | Match | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-07-25 | LJL 2020 Summer |  RJ vs  SG | Link |
| 2020-03-28 | LJL 2020 Spring Playoffs |  DFM vs SG | Link |
| 2020-03-07 | LJL 2020 Spring |  AXZ vs SG | Link |
| 2020-03-01 | LJL 2020 Spring |  CGA vs SG | Link |
| 2020-02-11 | LJL 2020 Spring |  V3 vs SG | Link |
| 2018-07-29 | LCK 2018 Summer |  SKT vs GEN | Link |
| 2018-07-27 | LCK 2018 Summer |  JAG vs SKT | Link |
| 2018-07-25 | LCK 2018 Summer | SKT vs  bbq | Link |
Images[]
TIP Pirean, NA LCS 2016 Spring
P1 Pirean, NA LCS 2016 Summer
P1 Pirean, NA LCS 2016 Summer
NV Pirean, NA LCS 2017 Summer
SKT Pirean, LCK 2018 Summer
SK Pirean, LEC 2019 Spring
SK Pirean, LEC 2019 Summer
SG Pirean, LJL 2020 Spring
SG Pirean, LJL 2020 Summer
AK Pirean, LLA 2023 Opening
Name Pronunciation
| Pirean | |
|---|---|
| Accuracy | Riot |
| Voiced By | Raafaa |
Redirects
The following pages redirect here:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Phoenix1's Profile Page lolesports.com
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Team Envyus picks up Nisqy and Pirean for mid lane espn.co.uk
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Phoenix1 replaces Team Impulse, picks up Gate, Mash, Slooshi, and more espn.go.com
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Team Envyus picks up Nisqy and Pirean for mid lane espn.co.uk
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Phoenix1's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 SK Telecom T1's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 SK Telecom T1's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 SK Gaming's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 SK Gaming's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Sengoku Gaming's Tweet (Japanese) twitter.com
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Sengoku Gaming's Tweet (Japanese) twitter.com
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Pirean's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Sengoku Gaming's Tweet (Japanese) twitter.com
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 【LoL部門】Blank選手、Pirean選手加入のお知らせ (Japanese) sengokugaming.com
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Pirean's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 All Knights' Tweet (Spanish) twitter.com
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 FUT Esports' Tweet (Turkish) twitter.com
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 FUT Esports' Tweet (Turkish) twitter.com
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Phoenix1 announces 2017 roster: Ryu, Arrow, Inori, Adrian, zig, and coach Fly esports.yahoo.com
- ↑ Archive Pages: before change - EU - 2019-01-07; after change - EU - 2019-01-08
- ↑ Archive Pages: before change - EU - 2019-01-09; after change - EU - 2019-01-15
- ↑ Archive Pages: before change - JPN - 2019-10-09; after change - JPN - 2020-01-31
- ↑ Archive Pages: before change - LAT - 2023-01-26; after change - LAT - 2023-01-27
- ↑ Archive Pages: before change - EMEA - 2023-06-15; after change - EMEA - 2023-06-16
- ↑ Competitive Ruling: Team Impulse lolesports.com
- ↑ Phoenix1 replaces Team Impulse, picks up Gate, Mash, Slooshi, and more espn.go.com