LPL Week 3 comes to an end, World Elite attempts to strike back

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RC vs. iG Game 1

RC vs. iG Game 2

WE vs. EP Game 1

WE vs. EP Game 2

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VS

Fblood: 2:54 kid kills LeY

Fdrag: 8:12 Uzi and kmi sneak RYC

Ftower: 9:42 PDD being a boss for iG w/ full damage Renekton

Fbaron: 26:40 kmi with the steal for RYC

Finhib: 25:23 iG

Game: 40:08 iG

The first game on the final day of LPL for the weekend would feature Illusion pulling out Fiddlesticks jungle, despite his fear changes. Invictus Gaming were able to get an initial lead by killing bottom for first blood, but Uzi and Kmi evened the odds with a kill mid. PDD went for the aggressive approach on Renekton as well, finding a kill onto Mundo with a Doran's Blade start before the changes to Doran's Shield kicked in.

Once PDD got ahead, he stayed ahead and was able to apply insane amount of pressure top, allowing for mid to be shoved down, leaving the bottom outer turret the only one left standing for Royal Club. Since iG kept top so shoved, Renekton roamed and assassinated anyone he pleased. Royal Club had lost so much control that all they could do is farm and hope for Invictus Gaming to make a mistake.

Invictus Gaming stomped Royal Club from minute one, and PDD was an absolute monster with a full DPS build including Blade of the Ruined King, Ravenous Hydra, and Black Cleaver. Kmi was able to steal dragon, but it simply wasn't enough to make up for how far behind they were, and Invictus Gaming were able to easily take a game 1 victory following the bottom inhibitor dropping.

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Fblood: 4:32 kmi ganks top and kills PDD

Fdrag: 11:32 iG

Ftower: 7:32 iG bot lane

Fbaron: 21:58 RYC

Finhib: 23:15 RYC

Game: 34:58 RYC

Laning phase would go the same way fpr Royal Club with Invictus Gaming finding several advatanges. Both top and bottom lane got chunked in favor of Invictus Gaming early on. This time around, Kmi was able to assist Nct in the top lane, resulting in Pdd practically feeding early on and falling behind on his Jax. Safe to say Royal Club's jungler was crucial to their success in the early part of this game.

Royal Club's roaming and rotations this game were far superior to the prior game, and it almost appeared like a whole new team. However, a lot of this was possible largely due to the lackluster warding from Invictus Gaming, in which they weren't able to anticpate a single move. With all of Invictus Gaming individually losing except for bottom, it was up for Kid to pull the trigger and make things happen for his team.

Since both teams continued trying to teamfight, Royal Club constantly came out on top because their front line was so far ahead. ZZ1tai had to resort to using his ultimate to peel, but it wasn't enough against Nct's hyperaggressive Renekton. Royal Club quickly pushed middle and top lanes, shoving the bottom and allowing the minions to do the work in the other lanes.

Shortly following Royal Club's total map control was a baron followed by two inhibitors dropping, making for the third tie in the LPL.

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VS

Fblood: 7:56 Conan diving past first turret for kill on k4ne

Fdrag: 9:37 Ruo solo for WE

Ftower: 18:18 WE mid

Fbaron: 24:20 WE WX and CaoMei two-man

Finhib: 27:28 WE top

Game: 28:32 WE (EP surrender)

After World Elite's initial dominance on week one, it's been all downhill from there and in this game, they needed to start proving that it wasn't all a fluke. World Elite's bottom lane was set behind right off the bat due to an early gank behind tri-bush from BuPing's Evelynn. World Elite attempted to shift the balance back to their favor with aggressive dives, but at the loss of Weixiao's flash.

Energy Pacemaker tunnel visioned on keeping Weixiao from getting farmed, but gave up a solo dragon to Ruo as a result with World Elite's solo laners still having a lead. World Elite's constant dragon control kept them far ahead of Energy Pacemaker which resulted in easily won skirmishes. BuPing spent much of his time looking for ganks and fell behind in farm and gold due to missing gank opportunities.

World Elite's leads were far enough along at this point that they were able to freely and individually roam into the enemy jungle and take what they please. After knocking out two of the middle turrets and having the side turrets down, World Elite looked to monopolize map vision while also utilizing this freedom to take dragon repeatedly and surmount over an 11k gold lead at 22 minutes.

After a final one-sided fight in the top lane, World Elite left the top inhibitor in shambles, forcing Energy Pacemaker to surrender.

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Fblood: 10:04 WX on AmazingJ

Fdrag: 10:51 EP

Ftower: 9:33 EP

Fbaron: 22:27 WE

Finhib: 29:04 WE

Game: 32ish WE

The final game of LPL would have Weixiao trying to show off his mechanics on Vayne with CaoMei also on his comfort champ of the season, Rengar. Eventually Wrold Elite decided to lane swap so Weixiao's Vayne wouldn't be at too large of a farm deficit. World Elite were simply laning better and had the pressure on in the other lanes as well as CaoMei doing a decent job holding off on the bottom turret and keeping it from falling.

Overall, no towers were falling early game for quite awhile, even though it was a constant 2v1 in both side lanes, but World Elite acquired a gold lead simply due to superior farm. When towers did fall, World Elite came out on top by grabbing two while Energy Pacemaker could only grab the bottom outer turret. Due to World Elite's superior lategame scaling, they were more than happy to play in this low-kill game and farm it up to have their lategame strength.

World Elite were smart about picking skirmishes as the fights made for a rich Weixiao on Vayne. World Elite invaded as five into the enemy jungle and continuously took down towers as they pleased. When Energy Pacemaker tried to pick fights on their own grounds, they were too far behind and World Elite ended up crushing in the team fights anyway.

After a poor engage middle from EP, World Elite were able to wipe out the opposition and grab a baron buff just 22 minutes into the game. At this point, it was just Energy Pacemaker trying to turtle, but pretty much hopeless to the pumbling dished out by World Elite. To play it safe, Weixiao got an early Quicksilver Sash, making him practically immune and allowing World Elite to close out the final series as a 2-0, redeeming their performances earlier in the week.

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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