LCS Spring 2020: Player Power Rankings Through Week 2

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 1: — during 2020 LCS Spring Split at the LCS Arena on February 1, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.. (Photo by Tina Jo/Riot Games) /

Mid Lane

1. Henrik “Froggen” Hansen (Dignitas)
2. Tristan “PowerOfEvil” Schrage (FlyQuest)

It’s amazing to me how the criticisms of a small champion pool can outweigh pure performance. This season, PowerofEvil has played half of his games on Rumble, the second-highest mid lane champion in terms of presence worldwide, and has performed extremely well (9/0/5 vs Dignitas and 3/1/12 vs CLG).

What’s most remarkable, though, his is 645 raw DPM and 38.4% damage share. That gives him an adjusted damage per minute (“aDPM”) of 713.6, over 150 aDPM almost 100 better than the next-best player in the league. The fact that PoE is able to output that much damage and still only die 1.5 times per game is massive to FlyQuest.

3. Yasin “Nisqy” Dinçer (Cloud9)
4. Greyson “Goldenglue” Gilmer (Golden Guardians)
5. Nicolaj “Jensen” Jensen (Team Liquid)
6. Søren “Bjergsen” Bjerg (TSM)
7. Daniele “Jiizuke” di Mauro (Evil Geniuses)
8. Jérémy “Eika” Valdenaire (Immortals)
9. Lee “Crown” Min-ho (CLG)

Crown is a player who hasn’t really looked bad in his debut with CLG, but he hasn’t been the carry mid laner he was with OpTic last year. Thus far, Crown is doing the worst in terms of damage output among all mid laners by a country mile. His 274.8 aDPM pales in comparison to even Eika‘s 346.5 aDPM, which is second-worst in the position.

Crown is doing a lot of things right, such as not dying an egregiously high amount, having a decent kill participation and having respectable gold numbers, all of which could be explained by his being on a bad team. However, these horrific damage numbers combined with his poor laning (his laning stat split is an embarrassing -317/-6/-591) are not what CLG was looking for when they brought him in to replace PoE.

10. Tommy “ry0ma” Le (100 Thieves)

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