Pirean

Pirean
Pirean
Background Information
Name	Choi Jun-sik (최준식)
Country of Birth	; South Korea
Birthday	April 9, 1998 (age 23)
Residency	KRKorea
Competitive
Role	; Coach
Soloqueue IDs	KR Pirean (KR), solo klng (EUW), SKT T1 Pirean (KR), HarryPotterWand (EUW)
Social Media & Links

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team	Start	End
NA	⁠⁠Team Impulse	Jan 20162016-01-07	May 20162016-05-23^[1]	4mo 16d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Phoenix1	May 20162016-05-26^[3]	May 20172017-05-15^[2]	1yr 20d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team EnVyUs	May 20172017-05-15^[4]	Jul 20172017-07-21	2mo 6d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Phoenix1	Jul 20172017-07-21^[5]	≈Nov 2017≈2017-11-??	≈4mo 7d ejel
KR	⁠⁠SK Telecom T1	Feb 20182018-02-18^[7]	Nov 20182018-11-19^[6]	9mo 1d ejel
EU	⁠⁠SK Gaming	Dec 20182018-12-20^[9]	Sep 20192019-09-30^[8]	9mo 10d ejel
JP	⁠⁠Sengoku Gaming	Dec 20192019-12-12^[14]	Nov 20202020-11-19^[10]	11mo 7d ejel
KR	⁠⁠KGA	Jan 20212021-01-27	Nov 20212021-11-15^[15]	9mo 19d ejel

	Team	Start	End
NA	⁠⁠Team Impulse	Jan 20162016-01-07	May 20162016-05-23^[1]	4mo 16d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Phoenix1	May 20162016-05-26^[3]	Dec 20162016-12-07^[16]	6mo 12d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Phoenix1	Dec 20162016-12-07^[16]	May 20172017-05-15^[2]	5mo 8d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team EnVyUs	May 20172017-05-15^[4]	Jul 20172017-07-21	2mo 6d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Phoenix1	Jul 20172017-07-21^[5]	≈Nov 2017≈2017-11-??	≈4mo 7d ejel
KR	⁠⁠SK Telecom T1	Feb 20182018-02-18^[7]	Jul 20182018-07-21	5mo 3d ejel
KR	⁠⁠SK Telecom T1	Jul 20182018-07-21	Nov 20182018-11-19^[6]	3mo 29d ejel
EU	⁠⁠SK Gaming	Dec 20182018-12-20^[9]	Sep 20192019-09-30^[8]	9mo 10d ejel
JP	⁠⁠Sengoku Gaming	Dec 20192019-12-12^[14]	Nov 20202020-11-19^[10]	11mo 7d ejel
KR	⁠⁠KGA	Jan 20212021-01-27	Nov 20212021-11-15^[15]	9mo 19d ejel

News

2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021

NA	⁠⁠TIP	January 7, Feng, Procxin, Pirean, and Mash join. beibei and Ken join as substitutes. Gate (Mid to Support) changes position. Rhux, Syaka, For Our Past, and heavenTime leave. e
NA	⁠⁠TIP	May 23, Team Impulse transfers its NA LCS spot to Phoenix1 and disbands. Feng, Pirean, Mash, Gate, beibei, and Ken leave.^[1] e
NA	⁠⁠P1	May 26, zig, Inori, Pirean, Slooshi, Mash, and Gate join. Brandini joins as substitute.^[3] e
NA	⁠⁠P1	December 7, Ryu, Arrow, and Fly (Head Coach) join. Charlie (Head Coach to Manager) changes position. Pirean moves to substitute.^[16] e

NA	⁠⁠P1	May 15, Pirean leaves.^[2] e
NA	⁠⁠NV	May 15, Nisqy and Pirean join.^[4] e
NA	⁠⁠NV	July 21, Pirean leaves. e
NA	⁠⁠P1	July 21, Zyto (General Manager) joins. Pirean rejoins. TheAkiri (Head Analyst to Assistant Coach) changes position.^[5] e
NA	⁠⁠P1	November (approx.), Pirean, Allorim, and Reinfcmnt (Performance Coach) leave. e

KR	⁠⁠SKT	February 18, Pirean and Leo join as substitutes.^[7] e
KR	⁠⁠SKT	July 21, Pirean moves to starting roster. e
KR	⁠⁠SKT	November 19, Thal, Untara, Blank, Pirean, Bang, and Wolf leave. Blossom's departure is confirmed.^[6] e
EU	⁠⁠SK	December 20, Werlyb, Selfmade, Pirean, Crownshot, and Dreams join.^[9] e

EU	⁠⁠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 18 November 2019.^[17] e
EU	⁠⁠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.^[18] e
EU	⁠⁠SK	September 30, Pirean leaves.^[8] e
JP	⁠⁠SG	December 12, Pirean joins. Blank rejoins.^[14] e

JP	⁠⁠SG	January 31, apaMEN, Blank, Pirean, Yutorimoyashi, Enty, and Karen (Head Coach)'s contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 15 November 2020.^[19] e
JP	⁠⁠SG	November 19, Enty's contract is extended. apaMEN, Pirean, and Yutorimoyashi leave.^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13] e

KR	⁠⁠KGA	January 27, Pirean (Coach) joins. e
KR	⁠⁠KGA	November 15, Pirean (Coach) leaves.^[15] e

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.^[20] Along with Mash and Gate, Pirean joined the organization that purchased Team Impulse's NA LCS Summer Season seed, Phoenix1.^[21] 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 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[]

Has the same given name as Bang.

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
2021-04-18	17 - 27	LCK Academy Series 2021 April	1 : 2⁠⁠SACE	⁠⁠KGA.M	PAKA FAN7, 쫌비킹, DWG 강동희, 폐관수련하는원딜, 도구는원딜의것, Pirean
2021-03-27	9 - 16	LCK Academy Series 2021 March	0 : 2⁠⁠SR	⁠⁠KGA.A	똥과니, Apollo, 삼봉국밥, 의연하게대처하다, Manfeel, Pirean
2021-02-27	9 - 16	LCK Academy Series 2021 February	0 : 2⁠⁠SC	⁠⁠KGA.L	PAKA FAN7, 화려한 풀캠프, 순서변경이름, 의연하게대처하다, 도구는원딜의것, Pirean
2020-09-05	3	LJL 2020 Summer Playoffs	0 : 3⁠⁠DFM	⁠⁠SG	apaMEN, Blank, Pirean, Yutorimoyashi, Enty, Karen
2020-08-05	2	LJL 2020 Summer	10 - 4⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠SG	apaMEN, Blank, Pirean, Yutorimoyashi, Enty, Karen
2020-05-04	2	LJL 2020 Spring Playoffs	1 : 3⁠⁠DFM	⁠⁠SG	apaMEN, Blank, Pirean, Yutorimoyashi, Enty, Karen
2020-03-12	2	LJL 2020 Spring	9 - 5⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠SG	apaMEN, Blank, Pirean, Yutorimoyashi, Enty, Karen
2019-08-17	7	LEC 2019 Summer	7 - 11⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠SK	Sacre, Selfmade, Pirean, Jenax, Crownshot, Dreams, Realistik
2019-03-30	5 - 6	LEC 2019 Spring Playoffs	1 : 3⁠⁠SPY	⁠⁠SK	Werlyb, Selfmade, Pirean, Crownshot, Dreams, Realistik
2019-03-16	6	LEC 2019 Spring	9 - 9⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠SK	Werlyb, Selfmade, Pirean, Crownshot, Dreams, Sheepy, Brokenshard, Realistik

Media[]

2017
2018
2019

June 8, Pirean: “When I first joined (Envy), I read things on the internet like ‘Nisqy is better,’ or ‘He’s no different from Ninja,’ so I prepared even harder to prove them wrong.” with , and on Slingshot Esports
e

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
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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
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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
e
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
e

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
e
May 21, Get to know Junsik 'Pirean' Choi: Midlaner. with SK Gaming on YouTube
e

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