Lourlo
Samson Jackson (born March 24, 1998), better known by his in-game name Lourlo (/ˈlɔːrloʊ/ (
| Lourlo | |
|---|---|
| Samson Jackson | |
| Personal information | |
| Born | March 24, 1998 |
| Nationality | American |
| Career information | |
| Status | Active |
| League | LCS |
| Current team | Dignitas |
| Games | League of Legends |
| Role | Top Laner |
| Career history | |
| 2012 | Severity Gaming |
| 2014 | Also Known As |
| 2014–2015 | Storm |
| 2015 | CLG Black |
| 2016–2017 | Team Liquid |
| 2017–2018 | Golden Guardians |
| 2018–2019 | Echo Fox |
| 2019–present | Dignitas |
Career
Samson "Lourlo" Jackson started gaming with World of Warcraft and has since played Hearthstone, Diablo, Bloodline Champions, and League of Legends. In 2012, he played on Severity Gaming, but it wasn't until 2014 that he joined his first serious team.
2015 Preseason
Lourlo joined Storm in September 2014 as one of the team's founding members, along with hairyabs, mandatorycloud, xPecake, and babyeator. The team was initially going to attempt to qualify for the 2015 spring LCS via the Expansion Tournament. However, because Lourlo would not turn 17 until March 24, 2015, the team decided to keep Lourlo on the roster and play in the Challenger scene for one split instead.
2015 Season
Lourlo left Storm and later joined CLG Black after Westrice left, beginning to play for them in the second week of the NACS Spring Season. The team placed 6th and last in the season, after losing a tiebreaker game to TSM Darkness. CLG Black retained their summer season qualifier seed from having participated in the spring season, receiving a first-round bye. However, after defeating Maelstrom, they lost to Cloud9 Tempest and then to Magnetic, missing out on the NACS summer season.
2016 Season
In January, Team Liquid announced Lourlo as their top laner for the 2016 NA LCS Spring Season, filling the gap left by Quas's suspension. Liquid's spring split started out rocky, with an 0-2 first week and cumulative winrates of 50% or worse after each of the first eight weeks. Eventually, their new roster started to solidify, and they climbed into a fourth-place regular-season finish, behind the newly formed and almost-undefeated Immortals, CLG, and Cloud9. Their quarterfinal series was an easy 3-0 over NRG, but in the semifinals, they lost a narrow five-game series to CLG (the eventual champions). In the fifth game, Piglet was caught out in mid lane by a double-teleport from both Darshan and Huhi at the same time to the same ward and died. While Liquid were already behind in that game, it was this play that sealed the win for their opponents. In the third-place series against the tournament-favorite Immortals who had been knocked down in an upset by TSM, Liquid lost once again, this time 0-3, to finish the playoffs in fourth place overall and continuing their "fourth-place curse."[3]
As Team Liquid's season seemed to be on an upswing, as they had taken MSI finalists CLG to 5 games, they bootcamped in Korea in order to increase the skill of their players. During this time, Lourlo's rocky rookie split was brought into question and Team Liquid Academy top laner 'Zig' was brought to Korea to fight for his spot. Lourlo won his spot back but jungler 'Dardoch' was suspended from the team for poor behaviour. Team Liquid started their season with Moon in the jungle but failed to live up to their expectation and Dardoch was brought back in. A rocky start and rising tension between coach 'Locodoco', World-Champion 'Piglet' and Dardoch caused Piglet to voluntarily leave for their Academy team, and ADC 'Fabby' was brought to their main team. With Piglet gone, Lourlo was able to establish himself with some of the best in the League as a carry top-laner and his powerful synergy with Dardoch caused them to look to claim a World's spot at the end of the season. After a rough last 2 weeks, Team Liquid finished fifth after losing a 10k gold lead against CLG which further heightened the tensions between Dardoch and Locodoco. Team Liquid were to face CLG in the first round of playoffs, when they were down 0-2, Fabby's poor performance finally caused him to be benched for unknown player 'Jynthe'. Team Liquid were only able to win one game back before losing the set. In the Regional qualifier, Dardoch was subbed out for mid-laner 'Arcsecond'. Despite having good early games against Team nV, Team Liquid lost the set 3-0 and caused them to fall short of World's again.
References
- "League of Legends: Immortals & Dignitas boast surprising value for fantasy LCS week 5". InvenGlobal. July 10, 2020. Retrieved July 23, 2020.
- "League of Legends: [Official] Lourlo signs with Dignitas Academy for 2020". InvenGlobal. January 7, 2020. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
- http://espn.go.com/esports/story/_/id/14863619/team-liquid-lourlo-adjusting-rookie-season-na-lcs-league-legends
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