League of Legends: LCK Week 1 team power rankings

With one week of LCK games in the books, which League of Legends teams are dominating Korea?

It may be a meme region right now, but Korea has begun their summer split of League of Legends gameplay. Each team has played two series thus far, and there are already some shocking revelations early in the LCK season. Who is out in front of – and who is lagging behind – the pack?

10. Damwon Gaming (1-4)

After finishing in fifth place during the Spring Split, Damwon came into summer with the same nine-man roster, hoping their young squad could improve and maybe make a run for a spot in worlds. So far, that hasn’t happened.

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In addition to losing their first two series – one of which was to Gen.G – Damwon has the worst kills to deaths ratio in the league. Along with having the second-lowest average percent of the game’s gold earned and early game objective control (first bloods, first turrets, and dragons) of any LCK team, Damwon is sitting alone in last place.

9. Gen.G (2-3)

In case you were wondering which teams were behind Damwon in terms of percent of gold earned and early objectives, it’s the same team. Coincidentally, that happens to be the same team that beat Damwon in their three-game series.

8. Jin Air Greenwings (1-4)

I know, everyone is saying that Jin Air is the worst team in the LCK, and frankly they might very well end up there. However, considering how they’ve performed statistically through Week 1 (they’re about even in gold percent and gold spread, average a gold lead at 15 minutes, have slightly-below-average objective control and are actually second in vision control), I can’t put them below two teams that have massively struggled.

7. SK Telecom T1 (3-3)

Among the teams that have split their first two series, SKT has certainly looked the weakest out of the gate. Whether it is remaining jet-lag from MSI or some underperforming players, SKT being 3-3 is unacceptable given their light early schedule against Jin Air and Afreeca, two of the bottom three teams in the spring split.

In addition, SKT has also found themselves in the bottom three of gold percent, gold difference at 15, and objective control (they are the only team to get first-blooded in every one of their matches so far). There is still time to turn things around, and the talent is definitely there, but so far SKT has looked very underwhelming.

6. Hanwha Life Esports (2-2)

It may seem like blasphemy to have Hanwha Life ranked above SKT, but purely from a one-week performance evaluation, Hanwha looks like the better team. They’re not awful in any statistic other than the fact that they average the biggest gold deficit (over 2k gold at 15 minutes) of any LCK team. They also had a pretty tough first week, beating KT Rolster and losing to Sandbox Gaming.