Pirean

Pirean
Pirean
Background Information
Name	Choi Jun-sik (최준식)
Country of Birth	; South Korea
Birthday	April 9, 1998 (age 26)
Residency	KRKorea
Competitive
Team	⁠⁠Sengoku Gaming
Role	; Mid Laner
Soloqueue IDs	KR Pirean (KR), solo klng (EUW), SKT T1 Pirean (KR), HarryPotterWand (EUW)
Social Media & Links
Team History
Jan 2016 - May 2016	; ⁠⁠Team Impulse
May 2016 - Dec 2016	; ⁠⁠Phoenix1
Dec 2016 - May 2017	; ⁠⁠Phoenix1
May 2017 - Jul 2017	; ⁠⁠Team EnVyUs
Jul 2017 - Nov 2017	; ⁠⁠Phoenix1
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018	; ⁠⁠SK Telecom T1
Jun 2018 - Nov 2018	; ⁠⁠SK Telecom T1
Dec 2018 - Sep 2019	; ⁠⁠SK Gaming
Dec 2019 - Present	; ⁠⁠Sengoku Gaming

A checked version of this page, approved on 12 December 2019, was based on this revision.

Overview

Tournament Results

Stats

Match History

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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 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
2023-11-11	9 - 11	International E-sports Festival 2023	0 - 2⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠HMPD	Helper, MooJin, Pirean, DeuL, Hoon
2023-09-15	2	IEF 2023 Korea Qualifiers	0 : 2⁠⁠AWE	⁠⁠HMPD	Helper, MooJin, Pirean, DeuL, Hoon
2023-07-21	4	TCL 2023 Summer	7 - 7⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠FUT	StarScreen, Mojito, Tempt, Kaori, Asper, Pirean, MightySultan
2023-03-21	6	LLA 2023 Opening Playoffs	0 : 3⁠⁠INF	⁠⁠AK	Zothve, Chieftain, Leza, Viciun, Minit, Karam, Pirean
2023-03-08	6	LLA 2023 Opening	8⁠⁠Pts	⁠⁠AK	Zothve, Chieftain, Leza, Viciun, Minit, Karam, Pirean
2022-08-06	9 - 16	LCK AS 2022 August	1 : 2⁠⁠빈집다시	⁠⁠GEN.A	Casting, MilliM, Wannabe, Feliz, Akia, Pirean
2022-06-19	9 - 16	LCK AS 2022 June	0 : 2⁠⁠짜요짜요	⁠⁠GEN.A	Casting, MilliM, Wannabe, Feliz, Akia, Pirean
2021-04-18	17 - 27	LCK AS 2021 April	1 : 2⁠⁠SACE	⁠⁠KGA.M	PAKA FAN7, kamel, DWG 강동희, 폐관수련하는원딜, Lepton, Pirean
2021-03-27	9 - 16	LCK AS 2021 March	0 : 2⁠⁠SR	⁠⁠KGA.A	똥과니, Apollo, 삼봉국밥, 의연하게대처하다, Manfeel, Pirean
2021-02-27	9 - 16	LCK AS 2021 February	0 : 2⁠⁠SHA	⁠⁠KGA.L	PAKA FAN7, 화려한 풀캠프, 순서변경이름, 의연하게대처하다, Lepton, Pirean

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