LEC 2019 Split Split Week One Recap

S. Samek

Its a brand new look for European League of Legends in terms of the now LEC instead of EULCS.

Let’s take a look at what happened on the rift during the first week of 2019 spring.

The first match I watched was G2 and the new entrant Origen. G2 dominated this matchup. the kills were 19-5 in G2’s favor. Caps showed off for his new squad going 2/0/14 on Jayce. Perkz looked good in his first game as Ad carry after the offseason role swap going 7/3/10. Yet he was playing Zoe in the bottom lane, which is a primary middle lane pick.

G2’s standout was ad carry Patrick with a 2/4/1 line with Draven.

The second match was Splyce vs. Excel. Excel looked lost during their first game on stage. They lost 16-6 in kills. Kobbe on Caitlyn and Humanoid, the new middle laner for Splyce with Aatrox each had five kills in the victory.

SK and Fnatic did battle next. They experienced a remake for game one and had to have a second game. Well it was a hard fought game won by a baron power play by Sk. Nemesis the new middle laner for Fnatic looked good going 3/03 on Akali, while SK was lead by Dreams 5/1/2 Ezreal.

Then we had Rouge and Misfits. The Misfits made a lot of moves this off-season and they payed off in week one with an easy win. However the standout performer was 2018 starting ad carry Hans Sama on the signature Draven going 8/0/2.

To close out day one was So4 and Vitality. This one played similar to SK vs, Fnatic with a baron power play sealing the victory for So4. Memento was top honors with a 5/1/2 performance on Olaf.

So4 led off day two against G2. G2 rolled to an easy win in this game scoring 22 kills against five deaths. Jankos and Caps had five kills apiece matching So4’s team total. Perkz went 8/0/6 on Kai’sa to further pace G2 to an easy win.

Misfits and SK Played next. Misfits once more lived up to hype scoring a one-sided win over SK. The kill advantage was 21-4 with seven kills coming from both Hans Sama and Maxlore. SK did have a bright spot though with three of four kills coming from top laner Werlyb on Sion.

Rouge and Xcel were next. Xcel changed course from their first game of the weekend and looked sharp. Caedrel led the way with a 6/0/3 stat line on kha zix in the victory.

Splyce and Vitality played next. Vitality looked to lose early, but came back and stole the game. Cabochard went 4/1/7 on Jayce to lead the comeback for Vitality.

Origin and Fnatic finished out the week. The match was neck and neck, but Origin was able to pull away and give Fnatic a surprise 0-2 week. Nuckduck carried over his form from 2018 playing Vayne to a 4/1/4 game.

Needless to say it was a bit of an unexpected week in the LEC. I won’t have expected Fnatic to go 0-2. Yet I’m also not surprised to see the likes of Misfits and G2 sit at 2-0 with easy wins.

In fact I think my MVP for the week is going to be Hans Sama of Misfits. He had 15 kills in two games while only not dying at all was super impressive. I was also impressed with some of the new players such as Humanoid and Nemesis.

I really wasn’t impressed with Rouge though or even Excel. Both lineups are pretty underwhelming ad were rough to watch.

Either way good to have the season back and cant wait for this weeks action.