League of Legends: LCS Week 1 player power rankings
By Josh Tyler
Jungle
Next, we move to the jungle where we see that, shocker of shocker, two of the best junglers from spring continued to have strong performances to start the split. But they’re followed by two new faces that honestly shocked most fans.
1.Dennis “Svenskeren” Johnsen (Cloud9)
2. Jake “Xmithie” Puchero (Team Liquid)
3. William “Meteos” Hartman (OpTic Gaming)
Meteos was one of the MVPs of Week 1 for good reason. While his damage and gold shares weren’t raising eyebrows, his incredible vision control (2.2 vision score per minute was second in the LCS) and early game play (averaging a 142 gold difference and 57 XP difference at 10) put him solidly into our top three.
4. Jonathan “Grig” Armao (TSM)
One thing to note with Grig (and Akaadian later) is that our stats are adjusted for games played so that small sample sizes don’t artificially skew the data. In simpler terms, one great game isn’t going to overshadow several weeks of consistent play. So both Grig and Akaadian’s ratings are a bit more muted than they would normally be since they have a smaller sample size of games than other players.
5. Juan Arturo “Contractz” Garcia (Golden Guardians)
6. Raymond “Wiggily” Griffin (CLG)
Wiggily was one of the worst LCS junglers in spring, but he turned it around this week. He led all junglers in vision score per minute, had a top-four KDA, and decent damage numbers.
7. Lee “Rush” Yoon-jae (Echo Fox)
8. Matthew “Akaadian” Higginbotham (TSM)
9. Nam “LirA” Tae-yoo (Clutch Gaming)
10. Lucas “Santorin” Tao Kilmer Larsen (FlyQuest)
After having a renaissance Spring Split, we have to hope that Santorin can turn things around after his dismal first week. He had the second-lowest damage quotient and lowest gold quotient (calculated the same as damage quotient only with gold per minute and gold share rather than damage per minute and damage share) of all LCS junglers.
11. Maurice “Amazing” Stückenschneider (100 Thieves)
Not quite an amazing return to the LCS for Amazing. He posted the worst early game numbers of any jungler (-457 gold difference at 10, -400 XP difference at 10, and -10 CSD at 10).