The League of Legends Pro League 2017 Spring season has concluded, and playoffs are underway with massive upsets in the first round. On the first day of playoffs, QG Reapers’ Kim “Doinb” Taesang received the MVP award for leading a team of rookies to several wins and dealing a large amount of his team’s damage.

Riot Oceania’s English language LPL broadcast team and Yahoo Esports’ Kelsey Moser took the opportunity to look back on the regular season. Using the NA and EU LCS awards as a guideline, we assessed the split’s best performers taking only the regular season into account. Because there are only four contributors — Indiana “Froskurinn” Black, Barento “Razleplasm” Hohammed, Zack “Rusty” Pye, and Kelsey — only one individual was rewarded in each category, but votes by each contributor are made visible.

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Kelsey and the casters all voted for three candidates in each category and tallied the votes, weighted by first, second, and third.

Top Lane: Invictus Gaming’s Lee “Duke” Hoseong

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Although Invictus Gaming found themselves eliminated in the first round of playoffs, Duke contributed an astounding 21.5% of his team’s damage, acted as a consistent side-laning threat, and brought a heavy champion pool to the forefront. One of his greatest strengths came through in team fight flanking, and he almost always seemed to build a lead over the opposing top laner because of his dedication to split-pushing.

“Although iG would have issues in teamfights,” Razleplasm said, “Duke was a shining light in how they were set up. It feels as if there were no comms errors.”

It’s worth noting votes were somewhat divided. Duke only barely edged out ahead of QG Reapers rookie Kan “Kabe” Homan, whose Shen struck surprising fear into the hearts of his opponents.

Rank Froskurinn Razleplasm Rusty Kelsey 1 Duke Kabe Duke Kabe 2 Mouse Duke Kabe Duke 3 Kabe AmazingJ LetMe Loong

Jungle : Team WE’s Xiang “Condi” Renjie

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The jungle vote was one of the few easy choices. Condi’s ability to identify and play around pressure lanes, come up with creative jungle starts, and consistently act as a terrifying threat in mid and late game teamfights made him the unanimous first pick for best jungler in the LPL.

Condi finished with an impressive 68.6% kill participation and counterjungling repertoire. WE’s key to success was drafting strong solo lanes to give Condi the opening to invade; that will continue to be the case in playoffs.

The runner-up jungler also ended up being a unanimous decision. With a single roster change, Chen “World6” Yutian set Oh My God on track to place second in their group and claim a semifinal bye. World6 deserves a mention for his aggressive and intelligent play.

Rank Froskurinn Razleplasm Rusty Kelsey 1 Condi Condi Condi Condi 2 World6 World6 World6 World6 3 Mlxg Bengi Clid Swift

Mid : Invictus Gaming’s Song “Rookie” Euijin

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It’s obvious from the votes below that mid lane was the most difficult position to rank. Winning this award means a great deal, as mid lane was probably the most stacked role in the LPL this split.

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