Santorin’s remarkable career spans nearly a decade, with a journey that started in 2013.

Although he initially gained recognition in Europe, his career truly took off when he joined the LA LCS in 2014.

Playing alongside iconic names like Bjergsen and Dyrus, Santorin achieved impressive domestic success with TSM and established himself as one of the premier junglers in 2015.

Santorin’s career has seen its fair share of ups and downs, marked by notable highs and lows.

He consistently delivered strong performances, earning him a reputation as one of the top junglers in North America, despite a brief hiatus due to health concerns.

Over time, however, his dominance began to wane. His stint with Dignitas proved particularly challenging and would ultimately be his last professional team.

In 2023, Santorin parted ways with Team Liquid and sought new opportunities.

He joined Dignitas in an attempt to form a “super team” alongside ?rfan ‘Armut’ T��kek and Nicolas ‘Jensen’ Jensen.

Unfortunately, Dignitas fell far short of expectations in the spring of 2023, finishing last with a 3-15 record.

Although they showed improvement in the summer split recording seven wins and 11 losses, they were unable to secure a playoff spot.

After enduring two challenging seasons with Dignitas, Santorin has decided to step away from professional play and shift his focus to full-time streaming.

In his retirement announcement, he expressed heartfelt gratitude to his fans and hoped for their continued support in this new streaming journey.

Santorin’s retirement marks the end of a remarkable 10-year career in professional League of Legends, during which he played for teams such as TSM, FlyQuest, and finally, Dignitas.

While his retirement may have surprised many LCS fans, Santorin’s decision had been brewing for some time.

In his announcement, he opened up about the personal sacrifices and challenges he faced as a professional player, including missing important family events and dealing with health issues.

Like several other retired League pros, Santorin reached a point where he had to choose between his personal life and his professional career.

Despite the lows he encountered in his career, Santorin also enjoyed numerous highlights.

These include competing at the highest level with renowned teams, playing a total of 602 professional games throughout his career, and earning the title of “rookie of the split” when he first entered the North American competitive scene with TSM back in the 2015 LCS season.

Although Santorin won’t be gracing the pro stage anymore, he plans to transition to full-time streaming while continuing to play League and other esports titles, ensuring that fans can still enjoy his presence in the gaming world.

This is bittersweet to write and feels a bit surreal, but I have decided to retire from professional play.

I'll never forget my first year in the LCS at Worlds when Dyrus decided to retire and announce it publicly on stage after we were knocked out. His decision shocked me��

— Lucas Larsen (@Santorin) October 8, 2023

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Santorin is a 25-year-old Danish national who presently represents Team Liquid and has played for top esports teams since making his professional League of Legends debut in 2014 while playing for Fox Sound. The Danish jungler was part of Team Coast, NRG Esports, H2K, and FlyQuest before he transferred to Team Liquid in November 2020, making his stay with the team elapse for a period of two years. The player has made more LCS appearances than any other tournament and was part of FlyQuest when the team won back-to-back second places at the 2020 LCS Spring and LCS Summer, in which the team won a prize pool of $50,000 respectively.

Santorin and Team Liquid also replicated the same success in the 2021 LCS, where the team emerged in 2nd place at both the LCS Summer and Spring, garnering the same $50,000 prize pool.

On the other hand, Jensen is a Danish player from Cloud9 who started his professional career in 2012 with the founding roster of the now-disbanded Team Solo Mebdi before moving on to SK Gaming in 2014. Jensen has hit numerous milestones in his League of Legends journey, as he was named the three-time LCS champion, MVP at the 2019 LCS Summer Finals, and the 6th player to reach 1000 kills in the LCS behind Yiliang “Peter” “Doublelift” Peng and a host of 4 others.

Santorin and Jensen will be joining other players in Diginitas such as the top laner Lee “Hoon” Jang-hoon, who joined the team in July this year, jungler Lawrence Lin “eXyu” Xu, bot laner Trevor “Spawn” Kerr-Taylor, and Canadian support player Vincent “Biofrost” Wang.

Dignitas was unable to make headway in tournaments this year. At both the Spring and Summer LCS tournaments, their League of Legends roster was eliminated in the group stage. Although reports say that, this new addition to the roster is a move to salvage their unimpressive performance and not just a means of replacement for the members who recently exited the team.

The team announced that they have parted ways with Ersin “Blue” G?ren, AD Carry To��n “Neo” Tr?n, who was in the team��s academy, and their strategic coach Joshua Alan “Mabrey” Mabrey, who has been with the organization since last February.

During this offseason, Dignitas has reportedly been involved in a number of different transactions. Although the organization is yet to make official statements on these signings, it is likely that they are waiting to unveil a full roster all at once. Another report earlier this week revealed the American team had also reached an agreement with Cloud9��s Turkish top laner ?rfan Berk “Armut” T��kek.

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