Echo Fox have signed Jang “Looper” Hyeong-seok as their starting top laner, according to Yahoo Esports' Taylor Cocke.

Best known for winning the 2014 League of Legends World Championship with Samsung Galaxy White, Looper most recently played with Royal Never Give Up in China's LPL. He will replace Park “kfo” Jeong-hun, who served as the team's top laner for the 2016 seasons.

"Looper has won a championship as a player with Samsung," team owner Rick Fox told Yahoo Esports. "We always want to compete at the highest level and against the best, and in order to do that you have to put yourself in the position to pitch individuals like Looper.

“You don’t bring a championship experience player like Looper on, you don’t bring one of the top laners in the world, you don’t bring someone who is notorious for Teleporting like he does when you definitely needed that and missed that, and not call on his leadership. And not call for his guidance in what has been successful in the places he’s been in and the teams he’s been on.”

While with RNG, Looper posted a 3.58 KDA in the 2016 LPL Summer Split. At the 2016 League of Legends World Championships, he posted a 3.13 KDA, averaging 1.8 kills, 2.5 deaths and 6.0 assists.

On the flip side, kfo posted a 1.28 KDA in the 2016 NA LCS Summer Split as a member of the 1-17 Foxes.

You can watch Cocke's full interview with Fox in the video below.

Sean Tepper is the Senior Supervising Editor at theScore esports. You can follow him on Twitter.