League of Legends: LCS Week 6 player power rankings
By Josh Tyler
Who are the best League of Legends players in each position in the LCS after Week 6?
As the season winds down, all the North American League of Legends teams are focused on solidifying their spot in the playoffs or securing that bye. But while the teams jockey for position, the fans debate the important questions of “who is LCS MVP?” and “which players do you have on your All-Team roster?”
Well, we are here with our weekly player rankings (based off our own proprietary statistics), developed from the traditional stats available for all major regions (original stats thanks to those dedicated people over at Oracle’s Elixir). We explained them a bit more in the first LCS breakdown, but you can see the full statistics here.
Top lane
1. Eric “Licorice” Ritchie (Cloud9)
2. Kevin “Hauntzer” Yarnell (Golden Guardians)
There seems to have been a lot of disagreement as to who should be given the All-LCS spots after the obvious choice of Licorice. A lot of people have opined that either Ruin or V1per are deserving, but for me, Hauntzer has been a clear standout.
Despite the fact that his KDA numbers are hardly stellar (averaging a 2.2/2.2/4.1 line over 12 games) and he has the second-lowest adjusted kill participation rate of any top laner at 89%, his laning stats, gold accumulation, and vision numbers are insane. He does a lot of the dirty work that many other top laners don’t do, sacrificing kills and fancy stats to apply pressure and it’s earned him some consideration for second or third team All-LCS honors.
3. Jung “Impact” Eon-yeong (Team Liquid)
4. Colin “Solo” Earnest (Echo Fox)
5. Ziqing “Kumo” Zhao (Cloud9)
6. Kim “Ruin” Hyeong-min (Ruin)
7. Sergen “Broken Blade” Çelik (TSM)
8. Omran “V1per” Shoura (FlyQuest)
9. Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho (100 Thieves)
10. Heo “Huni” Seung-hoon (Clutch Gaming)
11. Samson “Lourlo” Jackson (Echo Fox)
12. Aaron “FakeGod” Lee (100 Thieves)
There was a fascinating debate on The Dive about who should be the LCS Rookie of the Split, FakeGod or Kumo. The panel seemed to be leaning towards Kumo, but for me, the answer could not be more obvious.
To preface, the panel is correct in a few key points, namely that FakeGod has better laning and individual stats despite not getting as many resources from his team. That does drop his stats a fair bit. However, Kumo has been stellar in almost every statistical category.
Even in a limited sample size, Kumo has the second-best adjusted KDA of all LCS tops at 3.55; FakeGod’s is among the bottom of the pack at 1.74. Kumo also does a ridiculous 612 adjusted damage per minute (even though he only does a raw 599 DPM, he also contributes 26.1% of his team’s damage). It’s true, Kumo’s champ pool in his four games is optimized to do a ton of damage (he has three games on Jayce, who does the third-most damage on average of all top lane picks) and one on Aatrox (who is number 18).
But FakeGod has played two games of Kennen and Aatrox each, with one game of Irelia, Rumble, Gangplank, and Ornn. As you would expect, all of those champions except for Ornn are among the top 25 top lane champs in terms of average damage per minute, with Gangplank, Rumble, and Kennen in the top 10. The champion pool discrepancy has some bearing, but it doesn’t explain why FakeGod only does only 379.2 aDPM (389 raw DPM, 21.4% of his teams damage), which is fifth-worst in the LCS.
13. Niship “Dhokla” Doshi (OpTic Gaming)