First week of LPL comes to an end with showdown between two reformed legendary Chinese squads

If you're simply interested in spoiler-free VODs :

EP vs. LGD Game 1

EP vs. LGD Game 2

WE vs. RC Game 1

WE vs. RC Game 2

VODs can also be found on the official Twitch page, albeit at much lower quality.

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Coverage

**Games are played on patch 3.15.

Picks were pretty standard in game one, perhaps what in China would be considered "unusual." LGD decided to do a 2v1 swap top lane, utilizing the harassing power of Lucian and Annie's long range auto attacks. An early gank from Buping would trade a kill to both sides, but ultimately giving Energy Pacemaker's lane an advantage due to their top lane picking up the kill while TaoBao's support Annie picked up the kill for LGD.

LGD attempted to make advances into Energy Pacemaker's jungle, but the team was fast to move and things ended poorly for EP. Energy Pacemaker's bottom lane showed massive improvements as not only did Caitlyn receive a 2v1 double kill, but also taking down the top tower, giving Energy Pacemaker a 3 tower lead after their rotation mid. With all outer turrets down, the map advantage was greatly in favor of Energy Pacemaker.



His barrier isn't going to be enough to save him from this one.



From here on out, Energy Pacemaker's map control was overwhelming. They were freely able to take baron and had a significant tower advantage, with LGD only having taken one down by 28 minutes. Even LGD trying to engage with favorable odds was not enough as EP utterly destroyed them. Only 30 minutes into the game, LGD's nexus turrets were being hammered.

LGD were able to hold out just a little bit longer and keep two of their inhibitors up, though EP simply retracted and grabbed another free baron. LGD were not safe to move anywhere in their jungle as it was fully warded, and EP quickly put an end to LFG's turtling with another 5 man push.

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Game two brought the top laners back to top and the duo laners back to bottom. LGD started off with the advantage this game from an early first blood at the hands of YYY's LeBlanc. Quan also managed to find a kill in the top lane, but Energy Pacemaker were quickly fighting back with Kane finding a lane advantage bottom and Superc4t pushing YYY out of lane.

Once again, Energy Pacemaker's bottom lane was showing up, being 3 of their 4 kills early on despite the camp from Quan's Lee Sin. LGD were taking the edge in teamfights, but Energy Pacemaker's strong teamplay showed with their objective focus and having two towers to one despite the kill disadvantage. Nevertheless, LGD were putting up a much greater fight this time around.



LGD showed some impressive roaming, but still fell behind in towers.



LGD's biggest obstacle was Superc4t's Ziggs, who was 6-1-3 at 27 minutes. Even though YYY was more fed on his LeBlanc, Ziggs' waveclear ensured that no towers could be taken down. LGD were feeling confident though, as Ezreal had picked up a Sword of the Occult. Superc4t took notice of this and answered with a Mejai's.

Superc4t went legendary after a bad engage from LGD at baron allowed him to land his ultimate on the entire team. Energy Pacemaker was easily able to clean up off of this and push down middle inhibitor. LGD immediately went back for a desperate baron and managed to aqcuire it, but Ziggs poked them down enough to where Energy Pacemaker could easily clean up.

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Royal Club and World Elite clashed with entirely different rosters to finish off week one of LPL. The game had a relatively passive start for the first 8 minutes, which changed when Sukim greatly outfarmed and ended up killing Uzi on Nidalee, while Weixiao got a kill on Rui. Royal Club were not able to keep up with World Elite's early game aggression.



Towers were a non-factor for World Elite, and dives were simply a matter of time before happening.



World Elite quickly pushed down turrets with no answer from Royal Club. The safety of their turrets were non existant and World Elite were easily able to dive and rotate, focusing a lot of their midgame efforts on doing a 4-1 split put bottom and mid. World Elite had a noteable lead in every lane for farm, average around 30 above in each respective lane.

On top of being 6 towers to 0 around 29 minutes in, World Elite easily were able to take baron even with Nidalee and Lee Sin alive. All players on World Elite had a significant item lead and were able to tank the base towers of Royal Club. Royal Club did not put up much of a fight when baron was acquired, and World Elite were able to stomp decisively through game 1.

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World Elite entered game two with a physical only composition while Royal Club got their hands on Kassadin, a champion nearly never allowed through in competitive play. Suk1m's Zed was able to easily shove in Uzi to his tower, more than doubling his CS. The game was once again fairly passive, but with World Elite having a very small lead in farm over the opposing laners.

World Elite took the initiative in making plays, with Ruo ganking bottom and swinging back up to take the first dragon of the game, pulling ahead nearly 3.000 gold at only fourteen minutes. Caomei's Rengar was developing itself to be a huge threat left uncontested in the top lane and even bullying Nct's renekton. Unfortunately, Rui's Blitzcrank wasn't making the plays needed either.



Royal Club deceived by a potentially good engage, but all would go downhill after this.



Overall, Royal Club was sitting idly, not playing too badly but also not making any plays and basically letting World Elite engage onto them instead of the other way around. During the mid-lategame transition, Royal Club tried to counteract World Elite by building armor, but it wasn't enough. The only hooks Rui was landing was on Conan, which spelled disaster for Royal Club when they did try to engage.

Once again, World Elite was able to easily grab another baron. A final engage onto Royal Club would spell defeat while World Elite would only lose their jungler. World Elite were able to quickly decimate the remains of Royal Club's base and show their reformation has been infinitely more successful so far. LPL ended in a week full of 2-0s.

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STANDINGS Team M W D L P OMG-LoL 14 11 3 0 36 EDG.LoL 14 9 3 2 30 WE 14 7 4 3 25 iG 14 3 8 3 17 LGD.LoL 14 4 4 6 16 RC-LoL 14 3 3 8 12 Energy PM 14 1 5 8 8 PE 14 1 4 9 7 Matches and results