League of Legends: LEC Week 7 Power Rankings

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LEC Week 6 had its usual dose of thrills and spills for viewers to enjoy, now we’re in the business end of the season. Who will secure a place in playoffs and who will narrowly miss out? Find out in our power rankings!

One of the most exciting European splits in recent memory has pitted six teams against one another to secure the final two playoff spots. While G2 Esports, Fnatic, Splyce, and Schalke 04 have all but cemented their place in playoffs, the remaining six EU rosters all have their chance for one final push towards the top six in final three weeks of the season.

10 SK Gaming (3/9)

Seven losses in a row has placed SK at the bottom of the LEC standings for the first time in 2019. Despite reaching playoffs in the Spring Split, the former MAD Lions boys have capitulated in Summer and look set to finish dead last at the end of the regular season.

Rookie of the Spring Split Oskar “Selfmade” Boderek is unrecognisable compared to his incredible form from earlier in the season and the previously always-reliable carries Jun-sik “Pirean” Choi and Juš “Crownshot” Marušič have proven to be very inconsistent this time around.

SK Gaming have gone from an early game machine to a floundering squad with no identity and are showing no signs of turning this dreadful run of form around. It would come as no surprise if they closed out the 2019 LEC season in 10th place and failed to make playoffs, a disappointing end to a promising start to the year.

9 Misfits Gaming (4/8)

Yes, Misfits smashed Fnatic. Yes, LIDER picked up seven solo kills in a single game. Yes, this rookie roster have a great chance of making playoffs. But, we’ve only seen this team on the Rift four times and there are still a lot of questions regarding their ability.

Ultimately there are six games left in the Summer Split regular season, and only six teams can make it to playoffs (five of which are basically locked in already). Misfits would have to maintain the level of play they showed against Fnatic in all their remaining games if they want to secure fifth or sixth in the LEC. Can a rookie roster achieve that in their debut split on the LEC stage? We simply cannot tell yet, hence they only make it to ninth in this power ranking until we have more information.

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8 Excel Esports (3/9)

Excel’s first ever 2-0 weekend in the LEC has seen them climb from the foot of the table to… ninth. But still, Week 6 involved two impressive performances from a team everybody had written off this split. Now, they’re in with a real chance of reaching sixth and qualifying for playoffs.

It’s mostly due to the excellent early game work from British jungler Marc “Caedrel” Lamont and his ability to build an early game lead for his team despite the obvious relative skill gap between themselves and the likes of Fnatic and Splyce. In Week 6, Excel took down Rogue and Misfits Gaming, two close rivals in the standings. It could be argued that in both games the Excel jungler thoroughly deserved a Player of the Game award but had to settle for one thanks to an impressive Rumble performance from Dae-han “Expect” Ki.

Eighth might seem a bit generous for an Excel side that sat on zero wins for the first three weeks of the Summer Split, but right now everything is up in the air, and anyone can finish in the top six. Excel’s run of form and great performances – particularly in the early game – extends all the way back to their tight affair against Fnatic, so we can expect this team to continue to impress as the regular season closes.

7 Rogue (4/8)

The best way to describe Rogue’s recent results would be, well, rogue. Their latest victories came against two very strong sides, Fnatic and Origen, which were then followed by three consecutive defeats at the hands of Misfits, Excel, and Vitality. In fact, Rogue’s current run of form includes two wins and seven defeats, one of the worst in the LEC at the moment. So, what’s the problem?

At the beginning of the Summer Split, Spring’s 10th placed team shocked LEC viewers by proving that their 2019 wasn’t over yet, with a refreshed roster and a play style that was perfect for the current meta. Rookie mid-jungle duo of Emil “Larssen” Larsson and Kacper “Inspired” Słoma burst onto the scene with an aggressive early game and built gold lead after gold lead from the middle lane and roams around the map.

Unfortunately, it seems like that game plan has been figured out and is now much less effective. Now it looks like Rogue’s lacklustre side lanes are required to pick up some of the slack and are not up to the task. If Rogue do qualify for playoffs, they’ll need to reinvent their style as, at present, they seem very unlikely to clinch a top six spot.

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League of Legends. Photo courtesy of Riot Games. /

6 Team Vitality (5/7)

YamatoCannon and the boys really haven’t changed much over the last two years, but now instead of being an explosive, early aggressive monster to be feared, they’re bordering on inting and look confused once they reach the mid game.

A 5th-6th place finish in the Spring Split playoffs might just be all Vitality can hope for in Summer, which would take them to the regional gauntlet to fight for a place at Worlds, but as it stands, it will be an uphill struggle for a team with glaring issues. Three 1-1 weekends in a row has placed Team Vitality in joint 5th, and they’ve already got Splyce and Origen out of their path.

But, right now the only reason Vitality are winning is because they’re individually better than the teams around them. Teamwork is lacking, late game decisions are lacking, any sort of co-ordination is completely absent. It will have to be a massive turnaround over the next month or so if VIT want to realistically challenge in the playoffs and Worlds.

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League of Legends: LEC Week 7 power rankings

By Ben Holsgrove | Jul 31, 2019