LPL Debuts with a rematch between previous LPL finalists and a showcase of the new super-team

If you're simply interested in spoiler-free VODs

EDG vs. iG Game 1

EDG vs. iG Game 2

OMG vs. PE Game 1

OMG vs. PE Game 2

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

MVP Scores, Builds, and CS



MVP Score / Kills / Assists / Deaths / KDA / Gold / CS



Coverage

**Please note due to the way the games were broadcasted, not all bans could be recorded.

**Also note that the games were played on patch 3.15.

Game 1 featured the supposed "superteam" of China against one of the consistently top performing teams since the birth of Chinese LoL eSports. The very first blood in the LPL was drawn by Illusion, starting Invictus Gaming off with an early jungle and bottom lane advantage. Both teams were back and forth at each other's throats with the majority of action coming from jungle interference.

Aside from mini skirmishes, Invictus Gaming's Illusion were quick to solo dragon and grab their first major advantage over Edward Gaming. Realizing that clearlove with decimate Kid in the lategame if not stopped, Invictus Gaming tried applying pressure at the bottom portion of the map, shoving the tower in, contesting double golems, and making sure to force ClearLove away from free-farming in his jungle.



Lucian using "The Culling" to relieve pressure from EDG's shove.



Invictus Gaming kept showing superior objective control, applying a lot more pressure to control the dragon region while also acquiring an early 2 tower lead. Invictus Gaming consistently had better vision control and reigned over smaller objectives, but one well-timed teamfight was enough to change everything. EDG were able to pick a good fight for them and take what would be a game changing baron.

With Namei holding off and farming well, iG's advantage started to slip and EDG seemed to keep its leaed. With Fzzf caught out late and Koro making key plays for his team, EDG were quickly able to shove mid and push for a win. EDG's early lack of dragon control and wards were put off by their late game teamfighting and synergy, which gave them the very first win of Season 4's LPL.

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Once again, the initial primary focus was on bot lane, but this time for EDG. ClearLove set his eyes on bottom and committed to a dive in the very first few minutes of the game, grabbing an early first blood for himself and give NaMei an early lead. This transitioned into the typical side tower trade between the teams. As seen last game from purple side, EDG continued to keep bottom shoved, giving EDG an early dragon, meaning a 1,000 gold lead 5 minutes in.

As soon as dragon respawned, EDG easily took it once again. The team played relatively safely, waiting for ClearLove to help create kill opportunities on the map. After catching out a few members of EDG at dragon, Invictus Gaming was able to pick up a kill and grab a dragon that would bring the gold lead nearly back in balance. EDG warded up their top side jungle in anticipation of invasions and were able Invictus Gaming for contesting anything on the top side of the map.



iG shoving EDG out of the dragon area to acquire their first one of the game.



When it came down to teamfights, Invictus Gaming just could not formulate an edge. At 24 minutes, iG was able to focus down ClearLove, an incredibly fed Kha'Zix at this point, but the rest of his team was quick to cleanup, allowing EDG to shove mid in and take another dragon. Despite losing fights and the vision wars, Invictus Gaming did a good job at keeping up in tower count.

With EDG pretty far ahead, a teamfight broke out around baron pit, starting out relatively even between both teams, but going downhill for Invictus Gaming as the fight dragged on. Eventually, EDG grabbed baron and there wasn't too much Invictus Gaming could do against EDG's baroned up composition. EDG were able to prove their merit as a "super team" in China thus far and closed out the set 2-0.

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Positive Energy vs. OMG started off as an interesting match before the game even started due to Positive Energy playing without their star bottom lane, often renowned as the strongest in the world, as well as OMG without their star mid player, Cool. Positive Energy ran with an extremely bursty composition, featuring Syndra, jungle Rengar, and lane Lee Sin. OMG favored a more poke-and-clean-up composition.

OMG started off with a rather brave and greedy start, with Gogoing on Mundo attempting to solo blue buff. He managed to acquire it, but not before flashing and dying to the scouting Thresh. An initial lane-swap in the side lanes would ensure a typical one-for-one turret trade, with Ggoing even blowing his teleport to ensure they stay on even grounds. Rather than backing off, both teams kept pushing and took the inner turrets as well.



OMG knocking on the inhibitor turret's door five minutes into the game.



Positive Energy were the first to back off in the game of chicken by retreating to take dragon while OMG continued to shove top inhibitor turret at 5 minutes. This resulted in a gold lead for Positive Energy due to OMG's inability to take the turret. The state of the game was relatively normal following that, with picks going back and forth. Both teams stayed fairly even and the game was incredibly fast paced, with 10 kills and 9 turrets going down by 16 minutes.

Farm scores were low for both top laners due to the intensive roaming going around the map and constant action. OMG's biggest edge was San, who was fed out of his mind with a whopping 9-0-3 score and 274 CS at the 28 minute mark. San was able to just decimate from the backline. After catching out PE's marksman, a baron would ensure a quick end to the first game of OMG vs. PE.

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The final game of the night featured Face on Ahri, a champion not seen much in other regions for mid but extremely dominant in the early half of LPL last season. Face was able to burn down Xiyang's HP pool early in the mid lane, but still had a level disadvantage and lost both summoners for it. Xiyang took advantage of this and ended up easily first blooding Face.



OMG collapsing on Positive Energy.



After an early gank from Evelynn, San was able to turn it around, grabbing both a double kill and a double buff through incredible mechanics. The game turned out to be more action packed than the game before, with over a kill a minute in the first ten minutes and 3 towers going down. It wasn't long before OMG largely swung the game in their advantage though, with 5 turrets to 1 and 13 kills to 4 at just 15 minutes in.

Despite the team name, it was apparent that Positive Energy's morale was down. They tried to engage from within their base, but could not bring anything to fruition as OMG was much too far ahead in gold lead, holding almost a 9k advantage 20 minutes in. In the end, LoveLin showed his transition was a solid one back into the support role from the jungle and OMG rolled over Positive Energy 2-0.

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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