Hangul 이영호 Hometown Daejeon, South Korea McCune–Reischauer Yi Yong-ho Name Flash Flash | Revised Romanization I Yeong-ho Hanja 李泳浩 | |
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Date of birth (1992-07-05) 5 July 1992 (age 23) | ||
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Lee Young-ho (born 5 July 1992 이영호) is a South Korean StarCraft: Brood War and StarCraft II player who played Terran for the Korean pro-gaming team KT Rolster under the alias By.FlaSh or simply Flash. He is widely considered the best StarCraft player of all time. Lee began playing StarCraft II competitively in 2011, until his retirement in December 2015. He subsequently returned to playing Starcraft: Brood War, and started his personal broadcast in February 2016 on the AfreecaTV personal broadcasting platform. Since returning to Brood War, Lee has won first place in both Season 2 and Season 3 of the Afreeca Starleague.
Contents
- The flash video game running combat sample
- The flash video game tour fan made
- Career
- Individual
- KT Rolster
- KeSPA awards
- StarCraft Brood War
- StarCraft II
- Records
- References
The flash video game tour fan made
Career
Lee joined KT Rolster in 2007 at the age of 14. He quickly established himself as a top player, carrying KT in the Proleague team competition and achieving fourth place in the 2007 Daum OnGameNet Starleague. The following year, he won the Bacchus OnGameNet Starleague, becoming the youngest player to win a premier Korean tournament - a record still unbroken. His career arose to new heights in the 2009-10 season, when he reached the finals of seven premier tournaments - every one held that season - and won five. Three of those victories were against Lee Jae-dong, a famous rival of Lee Young-ho and the second-best player of the time. These achievements have cemented him as one of the greatest players of all time.
When he first emerged as a professional gamer, Lee received criticism for his use of gimmicky "rush" strategies. However, he soon developed a versatile and well-rounded play style which revolved around strong mechanics, defensive play, and exemplary late-game army control. Choi Yeon-sung has praised Lee's strategic depth, saying that "there aren't many players who set strategic moves, and in the case of [Lee], I think he's looking about 10 games ahead." Lee is famous for coming back in games where he was at seemingly insurmountable disadvantages by playing defensive and exploiting small mistakes in his opponents' play to regain the advantage.
Lee Young-ho set numerous records in StarCraft: Brood War professional competition. He has both the highest career win-lose ratio and highest peak ELO of any player, at 71.74% and 2443 respectively. He has won six OnGameNet Starleague (OSL) and MBCGame StarCraft League (MSL) tournaments (a record shared by only one other player), and won four of those in twelve months (a record unmatched). He has also won the most number of games in the Proleague competition and has done so with the highest win-lose ratio of any player.
Lee Young-ho announced his retirement on December 1, 2015. He subsequently returned playing Starcraft: Brood War, and started his personal broadcast in February 2016 in Afreeca (personal broadcasting platform). Lee would go on to win the Afreeca Season 2 Starleague later that year.
In 2017, Lee competed in the Afreeca Season 3 Starleague and won first place.
Individual
KT Rolster
KeSPA awards
StarCraft: Brood War
Records as of February 7, 2013; statistics are according to the TeamLiquid Progaming Database.
StarCraft II
Records as of June 23, 2015; statistics are according to the Aligulac Database.
Records
Most consecutive wins against Terran: 22 consecutive wins
Flash also holds the longest winning streak for TvP (12 wins) in sanctioned games.