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LCS Spring 2020: Player Power Rankings Through Week 2

By Josh Tyler

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 25: --- during 2020 LCS Spring Split at the LCS Arena on January 25, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 25: --- during 2020 LCS Spring Split at the LCS Arena on January 25, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games) /
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 25: — during 2020 LCS Spring Split at the LCS Arena on January 25, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 25: — during 2020 LCS Spring Split at the LCS Arena on January 25, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games) /

Support

1. Lee “Ignar” Dong-geun (FlyQuest)
2. Philippe “Vulcan” Laflamme (Cloud9)

I touched on it briefly while talking about his laning partner, but man has Vulcan been impressive this split. His 5.81 aKDA is second only to that of Ignar (10.8) and he has zero unforced deaths through four games (CoreJJ is the only other support perfect in this regard).

Vulcan also makes up for his not-so-great vision control by being the best support in terms of gold per minute (247) and damage output (154.8 aDPM). I would like to see his kill participation be higher than the current 56.5% it’s sitting at, but Vulcan has so far proven to be worth C9’s interest in the offseason.

3. Nickolas “Hakuho” Surgent (Immortals)
4. Tristan “Zeyzal” Stidam (Evil Geniuses)
5. William “Stunt” Chen (100 Thieves)
6. Vincent “Biofrost” Wang (TSM)
7. Jo “CoreJJ” Yong-in (Team Liquid)
8. Zaqueri “Aphromoo” Black (Dignitas)
9. Yuri “Keith” Jew (Golden Guardians)
10. Andy “Smoothie” Ta (CLG)

Are CLG fans still thinking they won that trade for Biofrost? To put it into perspective how bad Smoothie has been this year, he somehow managed to grade lower than Keith, a guy who has the most unforced deaths (7) of any support, the most deaths overall in the league (22), and the lowest aKDA (0.01) of any player.

Smoothie, with a 0.36 aKDA, graded behind Keith because he’s worse in terms of vision control (2.08 VSPM compared to Keith’s 2.23 VSPM, both far below the average for supports of 2.61 VSPM) and laning. Smoothie’s first 15 minutes stat split of -544 gold, -5 CS, and -502 experience differences are god awful. He is the only support in the league to average a gold deficit of more than 200 at 15 minutes, and he’s almost five times worse than the next worst support in terms of gold difference at 15. Yes he took a downgrade in ADC partners from Zven to Stixxay (duh) but even I thought he’d be better than Keith.

All-LCS Team Week 2

Here are the best-performing players this week in each position. This is in contrast to the player rated number one in his position, which is based on their play over the year as a whole.

Top: Licorice
Jungle: Blaber
Mid: Bjergsen
ADC: Zven
Support: Ignar

MVP Tracker

Here are the rankings of my top 10 players in contention for MVP only two weeks into the year. I’ll also note if they were ranked as of last week and if so how their ranking has changed (up or down) since.

1. Blaber (NR)
2. Zven (+6)
3. Santorin (NR)
4. Licorice (NR)
5. Ignar (-2)
6. Bang (-1)
7. Froggen (-5)
8. Broken Blade (NR)
9. PowerofEvil (NR)
10. Nisqy (-1)

Next. The MVP Candidate for 2020 No One is Talking About. dark

LVP Tracker

And finally, we will do the same exercise for those players that have been the worst in the LCS based on their overall ranking.

10. Doublelift (+4)
9. Eika (NR)
8. Crown (NR)
7. Meteos (NR)
6. ry0ma (-2)
5. sOAZ (NR)
4. WildTurtle (-1)
3. Stixxay (+1)
2. Keith (+1)
1. Smoothie (-9)

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