Id: | Smeb |
송경호 | |
Name Trans: | Song Kyung-ho |
Birth Date: | 30 June 1995 |
Nationality: | South Korean |
League: | LCK |
Games: | League of Legends |
Role: | Top laner |
Career Start: | 2012 |
Career End: | 2020 |
Years1: | 2012 |
Team1: | Nab |
Years2: | 2013–2014 |
Team2: | Incredible Miracle 1 |
Years3: | 2015–2016 |
Team3: | ROX Tigers |
Years4: | 2017–2019, 2020 |
Team4: | KT Rolster |
Highlights: |
Song Kyung-ho (Korean: 송경호; born June 30, 1995),[1] [2] better known as Smeb, is a South Korean former professional League of Legends player.
Song began competing in League of Legends in 2012.[3] He joined the Tigers in 2014, upon the team's formation.[4] Smeb got his first penta kill recorder of top solo laner; on June 13, 2015, he achieved his penta kill by playing Riven against Jin Air Greenwings.[5] KOO Tigers finished second at the 2015 League of Legends World Championship.[6]
He was named MVP of the 2016 LCK season.[7] Before the beginning of the 2016 League of Legends World Championship, he was ranked the No. 1 player in the world by the Worlds analysts and the No. 2 player in the world by ESPN.[8] Despite, his performance, the ROX Tigers lost 3–2 to SKT T1 on the semifinals.
Smeb was the sixth player to achieve 1,000 kills of LCK overall after Faker, Pray, Bang, Score and Kuro. He achieved 1,000 kills in the second round against KONGDOO MONSTER on March 1, 2018, during League of Legends Champions Korea 2018 Spring Season.[9] He was selected as a 2018 PyeongChang Olympic torch relay runner along with the kt Rolster members.[10]
On December 17, 2020, he announced his retirement from professional League of Legends.[11]
Team | Year | Domestic | Mid-Season Invitational | World Championship | ||
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League | Spring | Summer | ||||
Incredible Miracle | 2013 | Champions | 11th–12th | 13th–16th | Did not qualify | |
2014 | Champions | 9th–12th | 13th–16th | Did not qualify | ||
ROX Tigers | 2015 | LCK | 2nd | 3rd | Did not qualify | 2nd |
2016 | LCK | 2nd | Did not qualify | 3rd–4th | ||
KT Rolster | 2017 | LCK | 2nd | 3rd | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
2018 | LCK | 3rd | Did not qualify | 5th–8th | ||
2019 | LCK | 9th | 8th | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | |
2020 | LCK | 6th | Did not qualify |