EP vs. PE
RC vs. iG
WE vs. LMQ ?- - - End Game Builds & MVP Scores ? ?
Coverage
OMG vs. YG
The extremely dominating OMG faced off against Young Glory for the first game of the day. OMG was able to grasp some of their strongest champions, a difficult situation for Young Glory to cope with. Young glory did have the advantage of a first blood, with Otto being up 1 kill and Ogoing dropping to an extremely early level 3 all in.
Young Glory was looking like a reborn team, constantly improving in the same fashion that they did last week. 9 minutes into the game, Young Glory would find their 6th kill to OMG's zero, somehow managing an absolute early game stomp. It was a bad day for Ogoing, starting off 0-4 and not catching any breaks in the top lane.
Otto was absolutely destroying in the top lane.?Young Glory would harness their advantage for the use of objective control, not letting a lead slip early and making sure to secure dragon. Cool's Zed was the only champion offering a ray of hope for Young Glory, but Young Glory's flanking ability would soon come into fruition, turning even favorable engages into suicide for OMG.
Eventually, Young Glory's sieges turned into dives. With 6 towers up to 1 and an inhibitor down for OMG, Young Glory was completely stomping OMG before the 20 minute mark. The team was looking much stronger than it's ever been in the split, eventually taking OMG by storm and performing in a massive upset.
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EP vs PE
The underdogs would find an early advantage once again as Energy Pacemaker started their game off against Positive Energy with an early kill followed by another kill in the mid lane, suffering only a death to Nami in all the exchanges. JoJo's Lissandra would be finding the most difficulty on PE, suffering a second death to SuperCat's Ahri.
Plenty of action went off in the bottom lane, with both top laners participating in fights. Positive Energy had the global advantage however, taking a dragon with all 5 members of the team. The action never really stopped leaving the bottom half of the map, with Malphite essentially camping there due to him defeating his lane's tower already.
Bot lane was where all the action was at with constant pressure from top on both sides.?Energy Pacemaker's excellent roaming allowed them to secure the second dragon while also acquiring a 4 to 1 tower lead. The team continued the fight afterwords to go 3 for 3., with a dragon advantage for Energy Pacemaker. Positive Energy still had two globals and a farmed Kog'Maw to hold them over, however.
The "protect the Kogmaw" would be the perfect Ace up the Sleeve for Positive Energy, with Namei showing some incredible kiting ability to decisively win the final fight of the game. Though the skill seems to have evened out a bit between the two teams, Positive Energy's micromanagement gave them the victory in the end.
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RC vs. iG
Another day, another support Annie pulled out by Royal Club's Tabe, a champion he's been favoring heavily in the bottom lane. Royal Club were able to acquire a first blood on Uzi's Vayne at the exchange of Tabe's life in a profitable tower dive, causing Thresh and Ezreal to lose a handful of minions to tower and gimping their XP.
Outside of Kid's Ezreal, Royal Club were holding the clear advantage in gold distribution, acquiring kills and assists across the board with the exception of Godlike's top Shyvana. The game was close for both sides, but a fight at dragon would even the odds even more, with both teams only having a 700 gold difference at around 17 minutes.
While Shyvana lacks in CC, she's excellent in zoning carries in early dragon encounters.?Royal Club were the superior team in securing objectives with their kills, shoving down two middle turrets in one of their sieges. Royal Club amassed enough of a lead to continue sieging and taking out towers while diving beforehand. The team was full of burst, making short work of single targets in their composition.
After acquiring a baron, Invictus Gaming lacked the capacity to assert any map dominance. With Invictus Gaming helpless to act, Royal Club grabbed yet another baron and with the help of incredibly fed carries, Royal Club rolled through the opposition to take Invictus Gaming down, continuing iG's slump.
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WE vs. LMQ
The last game of the day would be LMQ Tian Ci vs. World Elite, with both teams starting out a kill up in seperate lanes. While World Elite found a second kill of their own, LMQ would grab two more with the help of the immense amount of pressure NoName's Jarvan was putting onto the map. LMQ found themselves in a slight gold lead early game against World Elite.
It would not be long before World Elite would even up the kill score, taking the first turret of the game and heading for dragon to grab it for free. The two continued to stay relatively even throughout the course of mid-game.
LMQ's sieging was relentless and World Elite couldn't be off their toes for a second.The two continued to have a stalemate until a big turnour around for LMQ as well as a superior AoE comp would put World Elite at their toes. With enough peel for Vayne but enough engage with the help of Nami, Kennen, and Jarvan, teamfights would not go in World Elite's favor and they'd often be dropped quickly.
After a once even midgame had ended, LMQ rampaged through World Elite, nearly doubling their score and crushing them in the turret lead. The team took a turn for the best in their end-game improvement and were able to close it out, leaving World Elite with another loss in this split of the LPL.
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