World Elite attempts to climb back on top, EP shows their worth in W6D2

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LGD vs. EP Game 1

LGD vs. EP Game 2

WE vs. RC Game 1

WE vs. RC Game 2



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Coverage

VS

Fblood: 3:28 BuPing kills Rena

Fdragon: 10:35 EP

Ftower: 13:31 LGD

FBaron: 35:40 EP

Finhib: 27:19 EP

Game: 27:41 EP

LGD were able to take Morgana away from Domho, who's been playing her lately. Additionally, LGD kicked off the first aggressive actions in this game with a rather overaggressive dive against Energy Pacemaker bottom lane after pressuring the lane forward. A gank went down mid in the meantime, allowing Pingz to grab a huge advantage for his team and Energy Pacemaker to be up in kills. Energy Pacemaker showed great progress in their control.

After establishing an early lead Energy Pacemaker was able to transition it into a dragon. However, despite a losing matchup and the assistance of Quan bottom, Energy Pacemaker's bottom lane was able to stay ahead. The constant focus bottom lane would be the death of LGD as it became obvious enough for EP's jungler and mid lane to assist and wipe the floor with LGD.





A huge bottom lane focus for both teams.

The dragon fight at 17 minutes would show how far ahead Energy Pacemaker was as they cleanly sweeped LGD away from baron and shoved two turrets. 25 minutes in, EP were 3 turrets up and nearly 9k gold. Energy Pacemaker waited in the enemy jungle , wiping out two and taking a baron that would allow them to push and end the game.

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Fblood: 13:13 Quan kills BuPing

Fdragon: 9:39 LGD

Ftower: 9:03 LGD

Fbaron: 28:29 EP

Finhib: 44:30 LGD

Game: 46:59 LGD

Once again, LGD opened themselves up to vulnerability in the bottom lane by pushing hard with Caitlyn and this time, also with Karma. Instead of focusing bottom, Energy Pacemaker picked a strong laner (Renekton) top to shove TaobBao in and attempt dives there. In response, LGD were very easily able to maintain their control bottom lane.

The game was a back and forth brawl with no kills really going down in the first ten minutes, but once again LGD acquired the first turret. Energy Pacemaker were losing momentum after this due to LGD's bottom lane rotating mid to acquire the second outer turret of the game. Energy Pacemaker was only able to answer with a solo turret kill from AmazingJ.





Even with an excellent solar flare, EP were not able to come out on top for this fight.

Despite the huge map presence, poor warding and vision control by LGD would make the game turn out a lot closer than it should have been throughout the midgame. Around 22 minutes in, Domho got an amazing Solar Flare onto four members of LGD, but LGD were strong enough and had their summoners up to flash out of the engage, lifesteal their way back up, and dominate the fight, pushing yet another tower.

Styz found himself incredibly fed on Caitlyn lategame with a 7-1-7 score 33 minutes in. Due to Energy Pacemaker having Ziggs, LGD were not easily able to siege the inhibitor turrets. 35 minutes in, Energy Pacemaker would be able to steal baron and instantly assassinate Styz. Energy Pacemaker pulled a desperation flank, and due to the lack of wards for Energy Pacemaker, and the poke from Rena, Styz were able to come out on top and push for the win shortly after when grabbing their own baron.

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VS

Fblood: 6:59 Conan kills Bao

Fdragon: 9:51 RC

Ftower: 12:29 RC

Fbaron: 27:44 RC

Finhib: 38:46 WE

Game: 39:05 WE

Despite a weaker lane, World Elite's Conan and Weixiao were able to grab the first kill against Bao due to some slight mispositioning from shoving. Ruo helped World Elite keep a constant advantage bottom by killing Bao for a second time by stealthing through a ward and insta-gibbing her on Kha'Zix. Meanwhile, things weren't looking good for Royal Club top either. CaoMei was able to grab a solo kill as Trundle onto Yao's Shyvana.

A well timed gank by Royal Club bottom allowed Uzi to catch back up a bit while also securing a dragon for the team, as Ruo was unable to leap the wall and steal it for himself. The game's focal point continued to be shifted towards bottom with an intense camp by Ruo allowing World Elite to pull ahead 4-1 at the 11 minute mark. The teams remained even in tower kills.





World Elite made sure to take Uzi as far out of the game as they could.

By the midgame, most of World Elite was pretty far ahead. The saving grace for Royal Club was still the relatively fresh Uzi back in the AD carry role. Most dominant was Caomei who was absolutely dominating Yao in the top lane, counter jungling, and keeping him shoved into inner tower.

During a lategame baron dance, Royal Club ended up stealing the baron away from World Elite and nearly catching up in gold. World Elite were able to stall out the baron , but suffered the loss of an inhibitor tower in the mid lane. After finding an initial pick on Nct, it snowballed in WE's favor from there and the team were able to capitalize and turn it into a baron that would win the first game for them.

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Fblood: 1:34 CaoMei kills kmi

Fdragon: 9:01 WE

Ftower: 12:57 WE

Fbaron: N/A

Finhib: N/A

Game: 27:03 WE (RC surrender)

World Elite started game 1 with a massive lead following an untimely face check from Royal Club. Although Nct was able to get one of the kills, World Elite came out with three of them, all in seperate lanes giving them an advantage. With the help of Ruo, Suk1m pulled ahead even further and had nearly a double CS lead. After some misplays bottom from the Uzi / Bao combo, it would get even worse and World Elite held nearly a 30% gold lead early on.

At this point, Royal Club had a massive struggle to get back into the game. Nct was able to pick up a couple of kills, but the grand majority of World Elite was incredibly far haead in both farm and kills. Ruo utilized his Pantheon ult to secure the second turret of the game after CaoMei was able to grab the top tower by diving and pushing Uzi further behind.





One of the craziest level one fights of the LPL would kick off the second game of this set.

World Elite were up with three times hte kills, 7k gold, and a dragon at 6 minutes. After this, World Elite just continued to decisively take turret after turret with Royal Club fighting for scraps of gold and turtling. World Elite dominated the enemy jungle with vision. Yao attempted to apply pressure top lane and shove top, but Royal Club were not able to defend with just four. World Elite took a decisive victory to close out the set 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