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

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

Over the previous few years, there’s been an excessive amount of effort put into creating environments the place girls can thrive as professional players, however that is usually achieved by separating girls from males by creating a completely completely different professional circuit.

Valorant’s Game Changers tournament is a good instance, and has put many feminine execs within the highlight enjoying for large prize swimming pools in entrance of an enormous viewers. But it surely’s uncommon that girls get the prospect to play within the huge leagues that dominate esports.

Jeon ‘DangMoo’ Su-jin, a feminine assist 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 group.

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 recognized for way more than her skill 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 recognized for each her high-level assist 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 stepping into the world of pro play to place her expertise as a assist participant to the take a look at towards a few of the strongest gamers South Korea has to supply.

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

Nonetheless, DangMoo isn’t the one assist participant on LSB’s Challengers group. 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 group.

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 could possibly be a route into the LCK that permits her profession as a professional participant to flourish.