LCK week one results and review

LCK week one – day three

GEN VS. SBG

• Winner: SANDBOX Gaming

After a disappointing loss against Damwon Gaming, Gen.G came into this series with a strong draft – a Galio and Camille ultimate combo. However, the veteran players were de-synced during their turret dives, with Han “Peanut” Wang-ho playing too aggressive and his team failing to follow up, resulting in SB’s successful plays for objectives. After playing through multiple lanes and securing the baron, SB won with an impressive scoreline of 9 turrets to 1 and 17 to 6 kills.

SB represented every solo-queue composition in Game 2, with a Darius, Camille, Lissandra, Viktor and Galio team composition. Yes, that’s right, a Galio support.

Game 2 had a slow early game despite the exciting draft phase, with none of SB’s cs leads leading to much. However, Kim “OnFleek” Jang-gyeom’s Camille soon came online and backed by the lock-down nature of the rest of SB’s composition, he was able to perform incredibly against Gen.G’s mobile and safe picks. SB basically snowballed their early game lead and secured another convincing victory against Gen.G, showing everyone that following the meta does not always guarantee victories and that it is best to follow your own playstyle.

AF VS. SKT

• Winner: SKT T1

Game 1 was an important game for SKT’s top laner Khan as he played one of his less usual picks – Fiora. Despite his pick, however, most of the early action in the game was in mid lane, as Clid and Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok showed off their synergy in constant 2v2s and came out on top. Afreeca’s Galio and Alistar combo were unable to come into fruition as Mata’s Rakan provided a reliable counter to their engages. Khan did, however, prove himself on carries, as he secured many kills for SKT, leading to their eventual baron take and game win.

For Game 2, Afreeca pulled out the infamous Karthus jungle. However, despite Karthus’ post level 6 global threat in his ultimate, SKT’s composition’s burst damage was more than enough to stop Karthus from snowballing out of control. Interestingly, Afreeca’s Son “Ucal” Woo-hyeon (Mid) and Kim “Kiin” Gi-in (Top) managed to swap lanes and lane against their preferred lane opponents to avoid bad matchups as Galio and Gangplank. In a combination of Teddy outplays and constant picks in their favor, SKT negated Karthus’ scaling with huge gold lead and pushed to end the game after taking the baron, even winning a 4v5 fight without Faker.