DangMoo makes historical past as first ever feminine League of Legends professional in Korea

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Liiv SANDBOX’s crew within the LCK Challengers League has signed DangMoo, marking the primary time any League of Legends crew in South Korea has put a feminine professional participant on their roster.

Over the previous few years, there’s been a substantial amount of effort put into creating environments the place girls can thrive as professional avid gamers, however that is usually finished by separating girls from males by creating a wholly totally different professional circuit.

Valorant’s Sport Changers event is a good instance, and has put many feminine execs within the highlight taking part in for large prize swimming pools in entrance of an enormous viewers. Nevertheless it’s uncommon that girls get the prospect to play within the large leagues that dominate esports.

Jeon ‘DangMoo’ Su-jin, a feminine help participant in League of Legends, has been signed to Liiv SANDBOX Challengers. This marks the primary time a lady has been signed to a South Korean professional crew.

DangMoo turns into first feminine LoL professional in Korea

Whereas DangMoo was signed largely due to her sturdy play on Enchanters like Yuumi and Lulu, she’s identified for way more than her capability to play League of Legends. She’s additionally a preferred content material creator, with over 200k subscribers on YouTube and 186k followers on Twitch.

On stream, she’s been identified for each her high-level help play and her selection content material, the place she performs another video games and, at occasions, does drawing streams. She even has her personal, green-haired authentic character full with a VTuber mannequin.

However now, DangMoo is moving into the world of professional play to place her abilities as a help participant to the take a look at towards a number of the strongest gamers South Korea has to supply.

Whereas this isn’t fairly as large as being signed to the LCK correct, loads of world-class gamers frolicked honing their abilities within the Challengers league. Gamers like Cloud9’s Kim ‘Berserker’ Min-cheol and Vitality’s Kyeong ‘Photon’ Gyu-tae each frolicked with T1’s Challengers crew, as an example.

Nonetheless, DangMoo isn’t the one help participant on LSB’s Challengers crew. Her signing got here a number of weeks after the announcement of their full roster, elevating some questions on whether or not or not she is going to in reality begin for the crew.

Liiv SANDBOX Challengers League roster (image taken weeks earlier than DangMoo announcement)

On one hand, DangMoo might should compete with Hong ‘PlanB’ Jun-seok for the prospect to play. On the opposite, this may very well be a route into the LCK that permits her profession as a professional participant to flourish.