On April 6, 2013, a once-in-a-generation prodigy debuted in Champions Korea. A genius known as Faker made his debut in front of a thunderous crowd and dismantled title contenders CJ Entus Blaze in his first professional match.

On that same day, another extraordinary talent would also make his first appearance as a pro-gamer. This 17-year-old's debut didn't have the same fanfare or excitement, and his first game did not end in applause or praise. He finished his first game against ahq e-Sports Club Korea with a 0/5/6 scoreline on Renekton. His name?

Ssumday.

By the end of 2013, Faker became the best player in the world, hoisting the Summoner's Cup high in front of thousands at Los Angeles' Staples Center. He would go on to win the 2013 World Championship as the MVP in his rookie season.

By the end of 2013, Ssumday was a bench player. He had to watch from the bench as Faker began his legacy by beating his own KT Rolster Bullets in the finals of the spring Champions Korea final. When the Bullets lost to SKT T1 for a second time in the Korean Regional Finals to qualify for the 2013 World Championships, Ssumday could do nothing but watch from the sidelines as another young player who debuted on the same day as him lived the golden life.

Ssumday's ascension as an elite player was the opposite of Faker's journey. While Faker was a genius that only comes into an eSport once in a blue moon, Ssumday worked hard to get to the level that Faker is at today — not through pure innate skill, but a mixture of tireless work ethic and talent.

In 2013, Ssumday was an inexperienced rookie that watched from the bench.

In 2014, he won his first domestic title with the KT Rolster Arrows, evolving from a bench player into a necessary role player behind the star tandem of KaKAO in the jungle and Rookie in the mid lane.

Now, in 2015, he stands on the world-stage for the first time alongside Faker. This time it's not from the sidelines or as a background character, but as equals — a pair of aces on two of the best teams at the 2015 World Championships. Finally, after countless losing seasons, differing rosters, and endless practice, Ssumday has reached the top of the mountain.

Thus far, KT Rolster's ace has been unstoppable in the top lane. He's currently sitting at a KDA of 16 with a 15/2/17 stat line through three games. Ssumday started off the tournament on a high note, selecting the strong-if-used-correctly-but-not-many-teams-do Darius and actually make the pick work against Team SoloMid, deleting member after member from the North American team off the map.

The only loss that KT suffered in the opening week was against Origen, a game that was lost in spite of Ssumday's impressive performance on Olaf. He repeatedly solo killed Soaz's Fiora in duels around the map, and his teleports and engagements were stellar as he would routinely pick off straggling Origen members in the jungle with his bullet train of a viking. KT and Origen played a game of hot potato with the lead until Arrow on Kog'maw was caught out checking a warded bush near Baron river and killed instantly.

After watching KT's first three games, their strengths and weaknesses are transparent: they're an extremely strong team when it comes to vision control and end-game map movement, but they lack when it comes to their strength in the middle lane. Nagne has been the biggest negative for the Korean team through their first week, as he's constantly getting muscled out of lane, not to mention that he was solo killed by Bjergsen in their opening game. When they tried to give him Ekko, an influential assassin champion, he was anything but influential, losing in CS, map pressure, and teamfighting against Origen's xPeke.

For KT Rolster to win it all in Berlin come Halloween, Ssumday is going to need to assert himself as the best player in the world. Arrow and Nagne can be strong carries if they are given comfortable laning phases, but Ssumday is the only carry on the team that can truly take the game over by himself. Like Faker, he is the type that can take a small advantage given to him by his teammates or by his opponent and punish it in a split-second, stretching that tiny victory into a flawless win.

From 2013 to now, Ssumday has grown up as a pro-gamer in the KT organization. When the chips are down and the game is the line, Ssumday is the savior that KT look upon to rescue them from imminent doom. He didn't start out as a once-in-a-lifetime figure like Faker, he created his own heroic legacy through blood, sweat, and tears.

From the angelic carry in the top lane, we move down to the bottom lane to meet KT Rolster's second all-star: the devilish and unpredictable Piccaboo at the support role.

Piccaboo doesn't have a heartfelt story like Ssumday where he started out as a bench player and slowly worked his way up the ladder until he finally became recognized as an elite player. Piccaboo entered the professional scene by being what he is today — an explosive playmaker that plays the game like no other support in the world. When the rest of Korea's supports would stick with their AD Carry and protect them in lane, Piccaboo would be the anti-support, leaving his Xenics Storm and current bottom lane partner Arrow to fend for himself while he roamed the map looking for a kill somewhere on Summoner's Rift.

The Xenics Storm team that Piccaboo and Arrow started on became a team made up of some of the world's top players. The mid laner on that team, Coco, has gone on to become one of the best mids in the world on CJ Entus, almost single-handedly carrying them to this year's World Championships. Swift, the team's mechanical marvel at the jungle role, went to the finals of this summer's LPL finals, barely losing to LGD Gaming in a close 2-3 set. And the forgotten member of that Storm team, Gimgoon, recently carried his Chinese team from the secondary league to the premiere league for 2016's spring LPL.

When you watch Piccaboo play, he is either the best support player in the world or someone who looks like he shouldn't be a pro-gamer. If Piccaboo's aggressiveness on the map can work out for him and he can safely leave Arrow on the map during the first 10 minutes, then there isn't a more influential support at the World Championships. He will create picks, set up team fights, and be a support player that can carry a team through his impulsive shot calling and beautiful assists.

The problem with Piccaboo comes when his fiery play doesn't work out. KT Rolster have become a very First Blood reliant team since Piccaboo has joined the squad. When they get the inaugural kill and can snowball that advantage, Rolster are one of the best teams in the world. They know how to move around the map effortlessly when Score and Piccaboo win the war in the jungle, and this lets the team's weakest members, Arrow and Nagne, have a comfortable time farming into the mid and late-game.

However, when Piccaboo goes for one of his trademark plays in the early-game and it fails, that's when KT Rolster can fall completely apart. KT Rolster only win around 35% of the games where they give up the First Blood. The issue with Piccaboo is that he doesn't relax when he messes up. A lot of supports will lose confidence or wisely hide in their shell and play defensively when their early-game tactics fail. That isn't Piccaboo — if he messes up a combination with his champion and dies at the fifth minute, he'll be back at the eighth minute attempting the same attack with the confidence he'll succeed.

The times where Piccaboo is simply held down and neutralized in the early-game, KT Rolster look lost. Ssumday will usually be able to at least go even or better in his matchup, but the problems stem from having to rely on Arrow and Nagne, two carries that simply aren't adept when it comes to the lane phase. Arrow has never been good at farming since his rookie days with Storm, and he is at his best when he either gets an extremely early kill thanks to Piccaboo or is safely left to his own devices in the lane phase until he can be a factor in the mid-game with his topnotch team fighting. The same goes for Nagne in the middle lane; when Nagne is pressured and isn't allotted the assurance of Piccaboo and Score winning the jungle, he can falter quite easily, like how he got solo killed by Bjergsen this week or got outplayed by xPeke in their Origen match.

For the majority of the tournament so far, Piccaboo has been just as impressive as Ssumday. His Alistar play has been great, and his movements along with Score have allowed the roaming pair to routinely rack up picks along the map and help Arrow with Nagne get into the mid-game where they can do well in team fights.

Nevertheless, as we saw in the game against Origen, Piccaboo is prone to mistakes. After KT got caught on the bottom side of the map and Origen went for a nicely timed Baron, Rolster with Piccaboo paraded towards the objective looking to stop it. They were too late and Origen got the Baron, but Piccaboo had a chance to pick up at least one kill in the pit and get something back from the outmaneuver from OG. Piccaboo messed up his combo, sent xPeke flying out of danger, and KT Rolster were left with nothing while Origen escaped with all their members holding the Baron buff.

Don't let that scare you, though. That's how Piccaboo plays. He will mess up a combo like that, but he'll return the next game and amass 20 assists by dissecting every enemy on the map with his engagements.

His play is crazy, unpredictable, and sometimes disastrous — but KT Rolster will need both their angelic carry in the top lane and their devilish shot caller in the bottom lane if they want to attain the Summoner's Cup.

Tyler "Fionn" Erzberger is a staff writer for theScore eSports. You can follow him on Twitter