League of Legends LCS player power ranking – Week 3
By Josh Tyler
Mid lane
1. Lee “Crown” Min-ho (OpTic Gaming)
2. Yasin “Nisqy” Dinçer (Cloud9)
Nisqy has steadily been our second-rated mid laner in the LCS for the last few weeks, yet he continues to be overlooked. Not only does he have the best adjusted KDA of all mids (thanks to the second-most solo kills and second-most assists) he also outputs an absurd amount of damage – over 512 per minute. Yes, his laning could be improved (he averages going even in CS but a slight experience difference at 10 minutes), but Nisqy continues to shine below the surface for C9.
3. Henrik “Froggen” Hansen (Golden Guardians)
4. Tanner “Damonte” Damonte (Clutch Gaming)
5. Tristan “PowerOfEvil” Schrage (CLG)
6. Kim “Fenix” Jae-hun (Echo Fox)
He’s running into the same small sample size issue as Blaber, only playing two games so far, but Fenix did quite well in his LCS Summer Split debut in replace of Yusui. In particular, his Day 2 performance on Sylas was very nice to see, even though it couldn’t outweigh Rush and Hakuho inting.
That said, Fenix is far from perfect in his performance. His laning stats, while facing light competition in PoE and Ryu were subpar, as was his kill participation. Still, I’d keep him in over Yusui right now.
7. Nicolaj “Jensen” Jensen (Team Liquid)
8. Søren “Bjergsen” Bjerg (TSM)
9. Eugene “Pobelter” Park (FlyQuest)
10. Ryu “Ryu” Sang-wook (100 Thieves)
I said last week that I didn’t think Soligo was the biggest problem on 100 Thieves, but I understand the team’s decision to swap out the rookie. And, to their credit, Ryu did perform well last week in both games. I mean, he did go 0/4/6 on Day 1 going against Froggen, but he wasn’t single-handedly losing his team the game.
That said, Ryu’s numbers were not universally better than Soligo’s and he actually got badly out-performed in terms of damage contributions and laning stats. In aggregate, yes Ryu’s performance was better and he has helped the team win more games than the starter he replaced. But I think the team is looking in a lot of the wrong places (cough cough bot lane) to turn this ship around.
11. Max “Soligo” Soong (100 Thieves)
12. David “Yusui” Bloomquist (Echo Fox)