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Revenge Retires From Professional League of Legends

Revenge Retires From Professional League of Legends

League of Legends
8 Feb
Foo Zen-Wen

North American LCS veteran Mohamed “Revenge” Kaddoura had announced his retirement. The 24-year-old League of Legends player announced it in a Twitter/X post, stating that he intended to retire and pursue other interests in his life, including further education.

Revenge is not the first LCS veteran to retire this off-season, but his departure does hit particularly hard. Quietly considered one of the more underrated talents in North American professional League of Legends, his retirement announcement comes just months after the conclusion of arguably his best split - performance-wise – in the LCS. He last played for Evil Geniuses prior to the organization's exit from the league and scene.

The Story of Revenge

Having played since 2016, Revenge did not find much success either domestically or internationally. After briefly competing in 2016 in the North American Challenger Series, he returned in 2019 under FlyQuest on their Academy team. (The break marked the first time Revenge retired.)

There, he competed until late 2020, where a Head Coach - André “Guilhoto” Pereira Guilhoto - took a chance with him as part of a complete roster revamp for Immortals. There, Revenge remained until late 2023, where he moved to Evil Geniuses. And well…we know the ending to that tale don’t we?

Despite the somewhat sour ending, Revenge was still part of the Evil Geniuses League of Legends roster(s) that restored to the team a small part of the organization’s once illustrious history in the North American scene. Having placed 3rd in the Summer Split, this was the peak for both Revenge and EG before the latter’s eventual downfall.

In late November-early December, Revenge announced that he would not be playing in the next LCS Split for 2024. A large part of this was of course the late blow that came with EG’s departure from the LCS at the end of the year – after most of the LCS rosters had locked in their new members already.

Calling in the Cavalry

After EG’s failure at Worlds 2022, despite delivering strong results domestically, a change was called. Key piece Danny had departed, with the organization citing mental health issues (we later find out the veritable iceberg that the statement hid). Ssumday came in for a split in the Top Lane before he was in turn replaced by Revenge. With Revenge, EG achieved their highest placement that year, finishing 3rd in the Summer Regular Season.

Retirement Calls: A Career Well Played, An Ending Well Earned

Despite the tumultuous nature of his career throughout his time in North America, ultimately, it was the combination of lack of options heading into the start of the 2024 Spring season and a desire to pursue other aspirations outside of esports that led to Mohamed’s serendipitous realization that he desired retirement from the scene.

“When I left school to become an LCS player, I told myself that I would do this until I felt my career wasn’t going on an upward trajectory anymore... I know I still had more to show competing in LCS, and still wanted to reach my goal of making Worlds someday, but my decision and timing to retire still feels right to me and makes me happy. I really look forward to announcing some exciting things soon in the future about my life/journey going back to university, and hope that you guys will support that too.”

As Revenge bowed out, he took a special moment to thank his first LCS coach, André Guilhoto for taking a chance on him. He also promised a follow-up soon, citing an interview with journalist Ashley Kang was in the near future.

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