Xmithie
| Xmithie | |
|---|---|
| Jake Puchero | |
| Status | Active |
| Born | May 10, 1991 |
| Current team | Counter Logic Gaming |
| Role | Jungler |
| League | North American League of Legends Championship Series |
| Games | League of Legends |
| Championships | 2016 NA LCS Spring |
| ??? - Feb 2012 | APictureOfAGoose |
| Feb 2012 - Aug 2012 | mTw North America |
| Aug 2012 - Oct 2012 | Monomaniac Ferus |
| Oct 2012 - Feb 2013 | Team FeaR |
| Feb 2013 - Oct 2013 | Team Vulcun |
| Oct 2013 - May 2014 | XDG Gaming |
| Aug 2014 - Nov 2014 | XDG Gaming |
| Nov 2014 - Dec 2014 | compLexity.Black |
| Dec 2014 - Present | Counter Logic Gaming |
Jake Kevin Puchero, known simply as Xmithie is a Filipino-American professional League of Legends player who is currently the jungler for Counter Logic Gaming of the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS). Xmithie won the 2015 Summer Split and the 2016 Spring Split of the North American League of Legends Championship Series with CLG.
Xmithie first entered the League of Legends in January 2011, quickly hitting level 30 and jumping into ranked duo queue, playing with his now ex-girlfriend. For a time during Season 1, Xmithie got stuck and hovered around the 1700 ELO range. However, once he began play solo in ranked, he sprang up to 2200 ELO, where he met other 2000 ELO players to form a team called Soldier Front. Team Soldier Front competed in small tournaments, eventually meeting APictureOfAGoose during a Go4LoL cup in October 2011. After playing against Team Soldier Front, A PictureOfAGoose invited Xmithie to join as their AD Carry substitute player, a position which he accepted.
As being a part of one of the teams that qualified through the North American Pre-Qualifier #1 for the IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Kiev, Xmithie planned to go with APictureOfAGoose to the event. But, due to family problems, LemonGoD was unable to attend the event. As a replacement, team captain Atlanta invited his friend cuRtoKy to join as the support player for APictureOfAGoose. Atlanta decided to change to the AD Carry position in order to play with cuRtoKy, since they were close friends and Atlanta believed he would synergize better with cuRtoKy more than Xmithie would. Xmithie took Atlanta's old position of jungler for the team. Despite the roster changes, APictureOfAGoose ended up not attending IEM Kiev.
Around one month after the departure of LemonGoD and the addition of Xmithie into the main lineup, APictureOfAGoose was acquired by mTw and became mTw.NA. This occurred while APictureOfAGoose was competing in the Alienware Arena North America: Winter, where they ended up placing third.
In the next few months, Xmithie found success with mTw.NA in various minor tournaments, taking first place in Go4LoL Cup #61, CSN playLEGENDS Points Cup 1, CSN playLEGENDS Points Cup 2, CSN playLEGENDS Points Cup 4, and the In2LOL Kickoff NA Tournament.
The first major tournament that Xmithie competed in under the mTw.NA banner was the 2012 MLG Pro Circuit - Spring Championship. At the event, Xmithie faced off in their first match against European powerhouse Counter Logic Gaming EU, who proved to be a tough opponent as CLG EU pulled out a 2-0 victory over mTw.NA. Dropping down to the loser's bracket, Xmithie and his team were able to take out vVv Gaming 2-1 to advance to the next round of the loser's bracket. But here mTw.NA fell to Team Dynamic 2-0, ending the tournament with 9th-12th-place finish.
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