Today's Best of 2s were illuminating. For one thing, Snake finally shook off their AD carry-centric compositions for an alternate path to success. Gamtee and Energy Pacemaker look unlikely to escape the Promotion tournament. OMG performed more like a team with Uzi than they have all split.

One conclusion looms over all others: Edward Gaming is growing more and more monstrous, and it seems impossible that any team in LPL will be able to knock them off the top.

Beast gets an overdue moment in the spotlight

The first game between LGD and Snake, LGD banned out every asset Snake had to offer. Lulu dropped to remove the Juggermaw, Nunu's zone control went by the wayside, and BAKA's Xerath power vanished. They won the game with a heavy Cho'Gath and Graves composition that ripped open Snake's team fighting without the zoning kRYST4L usually earns.

In Game 2, LGD left Xerath open, and Snake showed something new; they played a poke composition centered around Beast's play-making on Nidalee. He proved he can play the carry with BAKA to back him up on Xerath and kRYST4L on Corki. We1less had an impressive highlight quadrakill, but Beast was almost always in control, and he justly won the most MVP points for the match.

Energy Pacemaker and Gamtee lose spectacularly

Gamtee and Energy Pacemaker split 1-1. In the first game, Gamtee picked an immobile mid lane Annie without warding the lane against ganks. The game quickly got out of control with Drizzle pressuring the pick.

In the second match, Energy Pacemaker seemed to refuse to make plays against a Kog'Maw centric composition. It seems unlikely we'll see either of these teams break into top eight for the playoffs.

Edward Gaming is the strongest team in China since WE at the end of 2012

Last year, those who didn't pay the closest attention to the LPL regular season counted Edward Gaming's list of titles and called them completely dominant. During both regular seasons, OMG looked like the strongest team for significant chunks of time and only lost out in the Playoffs.

This year, Edward Gaming are dominant. Invictus Gaming got the rug ripped out from under them in Game 1. In Game 2, KaKAO tried to make proactive plays, but Clearlove and a couple cohorts always came from close by to tip the odds in EDG's favor. Applying that sense of presence against KaKAO is intimidating. With this series and the one against LGD, Edward Gaming are looking unstoppable on multiple styles and compositions. Good luck to the rest of LPL. You'll need it to topple them.

Cool Dades Dade

Dade has developed a reputation for choosing his best champions into any matchup. Cool has recently developed the same tendency, recently choosing Twisted Fate into Veigar and Nidalee. Today Cool choose Ahri into Dade's Leblanc: not the hardest of matchups, but still a counter. Cool rushed a negatron cloak to compensate, but otherwise went on a tear, ending the game with a score of 12/1/15.

Dade also played an exceptional game for his time in China, singling out targets and amassing a score of 7/7/3 (a nice pickup, given the level of devastation OMG wrought). OMG with three of five members on their all-time greatest champions was too hard to combat, and Master3 fell back into the Promotion tournament danger zone.

As for OMG, their coordination is finally showing signs of improving with Uzi. Assuming Snake has better bans tomorrow, they face a much tougher task to end their week.