League of Legends: LEC Week 7 player power rankings
Six. Games. Left. And everything remains up in the air in the LEC. Six playoff places to fight for, two byes to the finals in Athens, and all ten teams are STILL in contention. Find out which players are in form towards the end of the season in our LEC player power rankings.
Unfortunately, despite their best efforts to avoid playoffs, the bottom five teams are still in with a chance of finishing in the top six at the end of the regular season. Excel, Misfits, Rogue, SK, Vitality. Names synonymous with poor performances and a disappointing Summer Split, yet we still haven’t culled the fodder at the foot of the table as they all seem to be picking up wins against one another.
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Luckily, there is one constant in the LEC this split, G2 Esports destroying opponents and looking likely to retain their crown in September. As a result, we have a G2-dominated player power rankings, with Fnatic, Schalke, and Splyce players following close behind. But how do you order the rest of the league? Who knows? Pick names out of a hat? I’ve tried my best.
Top Lane
1 Martin “Wunder” Hansen (G2 Esports)
2 Tamás “Vizicsacsi” Kiss (Splyce)
3 Barney “Alphari” Morris (Origen)
4 Gabriël “Bwipo” Rau (Fnatic)
5 Jun-hyung “Profit” Kim (Rogue)
6 Lucas “Cabochard” Simon-Meslet (Team Vitality)
7 Dae-han “Expect” Ki (Excel Esports)
8 Danny “Dan Dan” Le Comte (Misfits Gaming)
9 Andrei “Odoamne” Pascu (Schalke 04)
10 Toni “Sacre” Sabalić (SK Gaming)
5 RGE Profit
Jun-hyung “Profit” Kim is a player who can often go under the radar both on and off the Rift. Rogue’s lack of video content based around their LEC roster makes it difficult for fans to get to know the Korean top laner, as well as the fact that the Riot broadcast never seems to acknowledge Profit’s plays during games, mainly because there aren’t many of them.
In fact, most of the attention is directed towards the exciting new mid-jungle duo of Inspired and Larssen, two mid-season additions that have transformed the Spring Split’s 10th placed roster to promising playoff contenders in Summer.
So, why should we keep our eyes on Profit in the final few weeks of the regular season (and possibly playoffs)? Well, it’s his consistency that makes him so impressive. Of all the LEC top laners, Profit has the second highest KDA (3.4, behind Wunder) and the lowest average deaths (2, level with Dan Dan), while also picking up the joint 2nd most solo kills at 3 in the Summer Split. On top of that, the Korean top laner possesses a champion ocean, using nine champions in the twelve games so far in the regular season.
These sort of stats could be taken from a player challenging at the top of the table, however Rogue are currently one of the five teams fighting for the final playoff qualification place. While their top laner continues to offer an option both in teamfights and split-push, combining with jungle and mid to great effect, Rogue’s bottom lane often lets the team down.
If this line-up wants to reach playoffs in their debut LEC season, they’ll need to shore up some of their mid game mistakes, use Profit as an anchor, and hope the bottom lane can pick up some form for the final six games.