League of Legends LCS player power ranking – Week 3
By Josh Tyler
AD Carry
1. Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng (Team Liquid)
2. Jesper “Zven” Svenningsen (TSM)
3. Cody “Cody Sun” Sun (Clutch Gaming)
4. Noh “Arrow” Dong-hyeon (OpTic Gaming)
5. Apollo “Apollo” Price (Echo Fox)
In addition to their mid laner, Echo Fox elected to swap their bot laner. Veteran Apollo did fare far better in his two games, particularly in terms of damage, outputting a ridiculous 857 damage per minute on average. He also secured 38.5% of his team’s kills, making the case that he should be getting more playing time over Lost.
6. Trevor “Stixxay” Hayes (CLG)
7. Matthew “Deftly” Chen (Golden Guardians)
8. Jason “WildTurtle” Tran (FlyQuest)
9. Lawrence “Lost” Sze Yuy Hui (Echo Fox)
10. Zachary “Sneaky” Scuderi (Cloud9)
11. Bae “Bang” Jun-sik (100 Thieves)
Speaking of where 100 Thieves should be looking to shake-up their line-ups, it’s quite incredible to me that no one is talking about Bang as a possible substitution target. Yes, he is a former world champion. Yes, his KDA (adjusted and unadjusted) isn’t terrible, but holy hell his laning has been awful.
He is averaging a 473 gold, 180 experience, and 15 CS deficit at the 10-minute mark. Those numbers are the worst in the LCS, and the only comparable is Sneaky who has the excuse of having played Sona twice (where you’d expect to fall behind in terms of CS and gold early. And before you ask, yes, Bang has played Sona, but only once.