2019 LCK Spring Split: LCK Week 2 results breakdown

LCK week 2 – day five

SKT VS. DMG

• Winner: SKT T1

In Game 1, SKT accelerated the pace of the early game by getting first blood killing Damwon’s Nuguri in the top lane with a clean Lee-sin gank. Following Nuguri’s first death, Kim “Clid” Tae-min continuously camped Damwon’s top-laner, getting fed off the poor Akali and even securing some kills in the bot lane as well.

SKT simply snowballed their early lead into the mid-game and secured baron as well as two inhibitors in a final push to end the game. Game 1 was all about Clid’s Lee-sin and pretty comically, Teddy’s Draven pick could not cash in until the very end of the game, securing a double kill alongside Damwon’s nexus dying.

Game 2’s start seemed like a repeat of Game 1, with SKT bullying Nuguri in the top lane again. This time though, Damwon’s bot lane made up for their losing top lane with Hoit on Rakan delivering kills to Nuclear on Kai’sa with his quick engages and CC.

By 20 minutes, Kai’sa was already on four kills and with explosive amounts of damage and another double kill, Damwon secured baron. Damwon ended the game with a 5 for 0 team fight – both Kai’sa and Ryze melting through SKT’s health bars with their late game damage – and secured a relatively clean win in Game 2.

Once again in Game 3, Nuguri gave up first blood to Clid on Olaf and – you guessed it – later gave Clid a second kill as well. With SKT’s jungle advantage, they were able to secure rift herald, as well as a kill in the ensuing fight.

Damwon weren’t going down without a fight however, retaliating back with a 2 for 0 team fight win and even taking the infernal off the hands of SKT. In the end however, SKT’s veteran experience shone through, as their smart macro play meant that they slowly but surely took down Damwon’s turrets – all the way to their inhibitor turrets – and with one explosive team fight SKT were able to take an inhibitor and win the series.

JAG VS. Gen. G

• Winner: Gen.G

In their match against Jin Air, Gen.G opted to start Roach instead of CuVee in the top lane. Gen.G got the ball rolling when they secured first blood killing Heo “Lindarang” Man-heung who was caught roaming in the top river. Gen.G also managed to secure all four early drakes and the mid-game basically turned into a slow-paced farm fest, favouring Park “Ruler” Jae-hyuk who was on the Kai’sa.

Later, in an inevitable team fight around baron, Ruler remained untouched in the backline and dealt completely free damage onto Jin Air, winning them the team fight and in turn, the game after securing baron.

Game 2 was a pretty good showing from both sides, with Jin Air executing perfect engage combos on Sion and Rakan, and Gen.G demonstrating clean macro, keeping up the pressure by taking turrets and drakes. The early game was fairly standard, with both teams trading kills back and forth until it became obvious there was a huge difference in strategy between the two teams – Gen.G had Roach on Jayce permanently split pushing, while Jin Air was always looking for big 5v5 team fights.

In the end, Jin Air’s strategy came out on top, with Grace dealing all the burst damage on Zoe and even earning himself a quadrakill in the final team fight.

Game 3 was basically like a repeat of Game 1, with Kim “Life” Jeong-min on Gragas enabling Gen.G in the early game with his clean ultimates. Ruler was once again on Kai’sa and became the win condition for Gen.G, always managing to deal heaps of damage, even if targeted by Jin Air’s carries.

Jin Air’s Kim “Malrang” Geun-seong unfortunately missed many of his Sejuani ultimates throughout the game and so, with no CC and Gen.G’s explosive AOE damage, Jin Air lost Game 3 and the last series of the week.