OMG and EDG fight to determine China's strongest, LGD look to continue their upswing

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RC vs, LGD Game 1

RC vs. LGD Game 2

EDG vs. OMG Game 1

EDG vs. OMG Game 2



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VS

nct

LeY

kmi

XJJ

Uzi SHR.lol (Defunct) Red vs LGD.LoL Blue LuciferYYY •

Styz

Star.lol

Quan

Pyl Bans * This player was a stand-in for this match

The LPL kicked off today with Kmi grabbing Jarvan and a passive start within all lanes. Royal Club is still a team that has been struggling while LGD has been rising, but Royal Club's solo lanes were able to apply pressure to their counterparts. Kmi found the first blood and an early advantage for Uzi in the mid lane after a gank onto Quan, who also suffered the loss of his ghost.

Only one tower was down after the 10 minute mark, and while LGD were tunneling on the top lane with their attention, Royal Club managed to give Rena a hard time in the mid lane. Things were looking solid for Royal Club once they took the middle tower down and spoonfed kills onto Uzi. The midgame transition was relatively passive between the two teams up until a massive teamfight following a dragon pick up from LGD, where Royal Club came off very ahead.



LGD Attempting to disengage from a dasterdly fight.



Despite a massive gold and kill lead, LGD were still the ones leading in towers at 20 minutes and only had a 3k gold deficit despite a 1-7 score. Royal Club became confident with their gold lead by aggressively invading, but weren't paying special attention to dragon, which LGD acquired for free yet again. Royal Club were a little too overconfident though, and went for a baron with all members of LGD up.

Pyl engaged onto Royal Club at baron and ended up forcing a 1 for 2 exchange in their favor, pushing Royal Club far away from the baron pit and quickly catching up in gold. LGD were slowly but surely crawling back into the game, and Royal Club didn't have a method to deal with Styz along with Pyl peeling for him. Eventually, LGD were able to finish the game and make a gigantic comeback to take the win.

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• Uzi

XJJ

LeY

kmi

nct SHR.lol (Defunct) Blue vs LGD.LoL Red Star.lol

Quan

Styz

Pyl

LuciferYYY Bans * This player was a stand-in for this match

Game 2 would have a nearly identical composition from Royal Club with Uzi switching over to Syndra, but Kmi still favoring his Jarvan pick. Additionally, Rena would debut the league's first Xerath and Pyl the first Morgana support. Royal Club were confident in their performance from last game even if they threw near the end and started the game off with a red buff invade followed by a lane swap.

Once again, Royal Club kicked off the early advantage with Uzi picking up two kills very quickly by himself once and another time with the assistance of Kmi. Both teams were able to secure the top and bottom towers, as per ususal in a lane swap. Since Uzi was so far ahead of Rena, he was a huge target for the rest of LGD, who Quan and Star wasted no time in ganking.



Pyl's Dark Binding would ensure that even Uzi would not escape this flank.



For the rest of the game, Uzi would not find any peace in the mid lane, and anyone else who was there would be subject to fierce and aggressive engages from multiple directions. Despite Royal Club keeping Shyvana off in the side lane, he was still being outfarmed by Renekton. The teams were even in farm in towers in the midgame, but LGD wre playing their rotations much more solidly.

While Royal Club were showing improvement this week, they suffered similar problems to Europe's Millenium, in which they had no idea what to do during transitional periods of the game and it showed as they played, simulating chickens with their heads cut off in the mid game and late game. Kmi helped secure a few picks for his team, but LGD still had the more solidified late-game strategy and execution, which resulted in a 2-0 victory for LGD.

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VS

• U.lol

Clearlove7

NaMeI

EDG Koro1

Fzzf EDG Blue vs OMG LoL Red gogoing

LoveLing

bigpomelo

San.

xiyang Bans * This player was a stand-in for this match

The most anticipated match of the weekend kicked off with heavy bottom lane focus by ClearLove, who ended up grabbing a very early first blood by taking out Allen's (AKA LoveLin) Annie. Pomelo's focus, on the other hand, was at the top of the map, where he helped Ggoing shove and looked to get vision and control of the upper jungle. However, this triggered Edward Gaming to contest dragon early, who were shoved off by OMG's bottom lane.

Most lanes were even or greater in farm on the side of OMG, and despite towers down for neither side and first blood on EDG, OMG had a slight gold lead. The action would really kick off after the 10 minute mark, where ClearLove would attempt to make plays with his mandrops, but OMG are familiar with Pantheon play and always found a solid method to disengage.



Pomelo mandropping, but OMG knows how to deal with Pantheon.



The warding was insanely impressive for OMG, who had ward so deep that they could nearly see up to the inhibitor steps. However, EDG had two uncontested pinks in the rivers, which resulted in an unusually low kill game for the LPL. Almost out of nowhere, the pace of the game would quickly pick up and OMG would reign terror over Edward Gaming, holding a lead in pretty much every category.

Oddly enough, this game was one of the first games to end without a baron and simply ended in Edward Gaming surrendering. OMG ignored the baron entirely and instead focused on pushing the side lanes after taking the middle inhibitor down, securing their lead and keep the pressure on the map to take the first game of the set.

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NaMeI

EDG Koro1

Clearlove7

Fzzf

U.lol EDG Red vs OMG LoL Blue bigpomelo •

LoveLing

gogoing

San.

xiyang Bans * This player was a stand-in for this match

Clearlove came in ruthlessly after a sloppy game one against OMG. He managed to acquire first blood for his duo lane and continue to focus his efforts on getting NaMei ahead. OMG retaliated by going for a quick dragon to bring the gold lead slightly in their favor. ClearLove tunneling so hard on his focus did mean that other lanes did not have as much pressure, which began hurting them.

OMG proceeded to be hyper aggressive with objective control, but was usually met with well timed counterganks from ClearLove. The game's pace quickly picked up with OMG proving to be getting back to their former selves and having incredible rotations . OMG had initial trouble with engagements, but great objective focus and were able to get a 17 minute middle inhibitor, shredding down the turrets with Sivir and Nidalee.



EDG getting caught out in a much more decisive game by OMG.



After a dominating performance, OMG were able to eradicate the super team and show that even without Cool, they are climbing up to the top of the ranks with their team and that the super-team is anything but undefeatable. While their laning could use a bit of work and refinement, their teamwork is back in full force and they proved it against the best China has to offer.

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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