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Power Rankings - Week 21

Riot·6/19/2014, 2:00:20 AM·0 votes·2,806 views
Welcome to Week 21 of Lolesports Power Rankings. We use a system similar to the Associated Press power rankings for College Football or Basketball - a panel of writers vote on who they think should be listed, and an aggregate is produced from combining their rankings. Our panel votes on these criteria, in this order:
  • Recent results
  • Predicted future performance
  • Historical trends (as they pertain to future results and present form)
  • The "eye" test (How good does a team look, relative to the rest of the world)
Our panel is available at the footer of this article, with each of their credentials and specialties. It is important to note that all our voters follow all five major professional leagues (LPL, OGN, GPL, NA/EU LCS) on a weekly basis. Make sure to tweet @Lolesports with your Power Rankings or let us know in the comments below.
    1. Samsung Galaxy Blue ( - )
    2. Samsung Galaxy White ( - )
    3. Najin White Shield ( - )
    4. CJ Entus Blaze ( - )
    5. SK Telecom T1 K ( - )
    6. KT Rolster Arrows (+1)
    7. CJ Entus Frost (-1)
    8. Najin Black Sword (+2)
    9. Edward Gaming (-1)
    10. OMG (-1)
    11. SK Telecom T1 S(-1)
    12. Alliance (-1)
    13. LMQ (+4)
    14. KT Rolster Bullets ( - )
    15. Invictus Gaming (+3)
    16. Dignitas (+1)
    17. SK Gaming (+1)
    18. Counter Logic Gaming (+2)
    19. Cloud9 (-4)
    20. Team WE ( - )
Current league record in parenthesis.
    1. ( - ) Samsung Galaxy Blue - OGN Reigning Champions The Samsung Galaxy Blue boys did exactly what a highly ranked team should do: soundly demolish a lesser team on their schedule. Blue opened OGN Champions Summer 2014 with a sweep of Incredible Miracle #1. Game 2 was a particularly brutal 21 minute evisceration during which Samsung Blue racked up 29 kills versus only 2 deaths. The team that won Champions Spring and was half of the SK Telecom LTE-A LoL Masters Tournament winning organization has shown no signs of slowing down. There won't be any rest for the team as they are scheduled for a battle with Season Three World Champion SK Telecom T1 K next week in more Group A action during OGN Champions Summer. Written by Thomas Watts
    2. ( - ) Samsung Galaxy White - OGN
    3. ( - ) Najin White Shield - OGN
    4. ( - ) CJ Entus Blaze - OGN
    5. ( - ) SK Telecom T1 K - OGN
    6. (+1) KT Rolster Arrows - OGN
    7. (-1) CJ Entus Frost - OGN
    8. (+2) Najin Black Sword - OGN It's been a chaotic few months for the NaJin organization, but head coach Park "Reach" Jung-suk may have finally hit gold with this summer's iteration of NaJin Black Sword. With a convincing 2:0 victory over the KT Rolster Bullets, Sword demonstrated the same impeccable teamwork and strategic play that spectators have come to expect of sister team NaJin White Shield. AD carry Ohq took home two MVP awards, a vast difference from his performance last season with Xenics Storm. Meanwhile, rookie jungler Lee played beautifully off veteran mid laner kurO, and the synergy of this pair should continue to improve as they grapple with the pressure of playing in Champions. Written by Alex Mansier
    9. (-1) Edward Gaming - LPL - (0-1) Edward Gaming split even with OMG for the first time in LPL, showing that their improvements aren't just a fluke. They have also announced plans to bootcamp in Korea to expand their versatility. Though they were expected to close out 2-0 with OMG still adapting to their recent role swaps and roster changes, one cannot deny the power NaMei's positioning brings to the table. The team still needs to spread themselves better across the map, but EDG is still working together like the components of a well-crafted holiday train set. Written by Kelsey Moser
    10. (-1) OMG - LPL - (0-1) Though we can't say Drug (Allen) and Cool are back to form from Summer of last year, they split even with Edward Gaming and showed improved map movements. We can't be sure how the split will go for OMG, but once again things are looking strong for the team, and this could be their third regular season first place in a row in LPL. Written by Kelsey Moser
    11. (-1) SK Telecom T1 S - OGN
    12. (-1) Alliance - EU LCS - (8-2)
      13. Alliance stuttered a bit, falling to Gambit Gaming, and almost losing to Fnatic but for a poorly handled base race. Thanks to that mistake, they went 1-1 last week, but a near 0-2 is not good form for the top team in EU LCS. Written by Mattias “Gentleman Gustaf” Lehman
    13. (+4) LMQ - NA LCS - (7-3) Despite breaking even at 1-1 last week, LMQ's early game continues to falter. In what should have been considered a light week for LMQ, they struggled immensely against a renewed Evil Geniuses and were completely taken by surprise in a Curse upset. LMQ's road to maintain their ranking will only continue to get more difficult as they face CLG and C9 next week. Written by Jack "Neoillusions" Ho
    14. ( - ) KT Rolster Bullets The KT Rolster Bullets unveiled their new roster against NaJin Black Sword, and early returns are tepid at best. They were consistently a step behind Black Sword, and new jungler Ryu "Ryu" Sang-wook was thoroughly outclassed by his counterpart Lee "Lee" Ho-jin in both of their games. The roster has to come together quickly if they're going to get out of the group stage of the tournament. They do have some time to fix their issues since the KT Rolster Bullets do not compete in the tournament again until July 2nd. Unfortunately, that series is against NaJin White Shield, the runner up from OGN Champions Spring. Written by Thomas Watts
    15. (+3) Invictus Gaming Poor vision control is a phrase you'll hear bandied about a lot when discussing the LPL scene, but iG showed up in this past weekend's matches. Even with off-the-wall picks that scaled poorly, they managed to close out their first game, and they lit up the map with glowing pinks and greens. Though ward placement wasn't perfect, it's a step in the right direction for not just iG but the entirety of Chinese LoL, and we're excited to see more from them. Written by Kelsey Moser
    16. (+1) Team Dignitas - NA LCS (7-3) In a three way tie for No. 1, Dignitas defeated Curse handily but were denied a 2-0 finish last week by Cloud9. Crumbzz brought out Nocturne in both matches with varying success. While Shiphtur locked in Ahri for the first time this split, Dignitas had difficulty dealing with Hai's Javelin Tosses and ultimately fell too far behind. DIG approaches next week with matches against TSM and coL, two teams DIG has beaten this split. Written by Jack “NeoIllusions” Ho
    17. (+5) SK Gaming - EU LCS - (7-3) Fun fact: SK Gaming has given up first blood in 7 of their 10 games. Despite this, they have won 4 of those 7 games, and have won all 3 games in which they have gotten first blood. They are starting to look more and more like a European Cloud9 -- just at a time when the NA one looks out of sorts -- with an increasingly talented jungler and top laner and extremely objective focused gameplay. Written by Mattias "Gentleman Gustaf" Lehman
    18. (+2) Counter Logic Gaming - NA LCS - (7-3) With a lighter schedule for Week 4, CLG presses forward after another strong performance. As one of two teams to finish 2-0, CLG has finally reached the top of the standings, albeit sharing their spot currently with LMQ and Dignitas. Next week CLG will have an opportunity to knock LMQ out of contention for the top spot in the NA LCS. Already down 0-1 against LMQ in head-to-head, this is an opportunity for CLG to rise above and make a statement. Written by Jack "NeoIllusions" Ho
    19. (-4) Cloud9 - NA LCS - (6-4) Taking down Dignitas but falling to TSM, Cloud9 are still not quite back to their former level. Even though using two new champions enabled in the last patch, C9 had difficulties gaining momentum with their Rengar and Braum picks against TSM. Unable to keep Bjergsen's Twisted Fate in check in mid lane, Cloud9 had problems with WildTurtle who snowballed out of control after racking up numerous kills. If C9 wants to remain in contention, they will certainly need to clean up their early game. Written by Jack "NeoIllusions" Ho
    20. ( - ) Team WE - LPL - (1-0) The Panel: Alex Manisier - Team Liquid staff writer, OGN expert and President of UTS LoLSoc in Sydney, Australia. Regularly watches all five major leagues. Andrew "Glyceroll" Whitmore - Covers NA and EU LCS as well as Challenger for lolesports.com and surrenderat20.net. Regularly watches the five major leagues. Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles - OGN Analyst and Commentator. Season 3 World Championship Analyst, esports veteran. Frank "Mirhi" Fields - Web Content Editor for lolesports.com. Esports veteran, follows all five major leagues. Jack "NeoIllusions" Ho - TeamLiquid staff writer. Has covered OGN, NA and EU LCS for TL and lolesports.com. Regularly watches most of the five major leagues. James "Obscurica" Chen - GPL and SEA expert. Covers GPL for lolesports.com and watches all five major leagues regularly. Jason "Jayway" Wai - Web Content Coordinator and stats aficionado for lolesports.com. Watches OGN religiously and regularly watches all five major leagues. Kelsey Moser - GosuGamers senior editor and LPL expert. Covers LPL for lolesports.com. Regularly watches all five major leagues. Joshua "Jatt" Leesman - Riot Games LCS Analyst and Commentator. Veteran commentator of both Season 2 and Season 3 World Championships. Mattias "Gentleman Gustaf" Lehman - League of Legends theorycrafter and statistics nerd turned esports journalist, watches NA/EU religiously and all five major leagues regularly. Michael "Chexx" Kiefer - German born, Korean resident. TeamLiquid staff writer and Esports veteran. Expert on all things Korea. Regularly watches all five major leagues. Michael Mooridian - Freelance esports journalist. Specializes in NA & EU LCS and Challenger leagues and follows all five major leagues. Taylor Cocke - Web Content Coordinator for lolesports.com Watches EU/NA with a passion, follows all other leagues. Team Inven - Esports veterans and OGN experts. Regularly watch every game of all five major leagues. Thomas Watts - OGN expert and freelancer for lolesports.com. Veteran college football reporter. Regularly watches most of the five major leagues. Tyler "Fionn" Erzberger - TeamLiquid staff writer and OGN expert. Esports veteran and Freelancer for lolesports.com. Regularly watches all five major leagues.

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48 Comments

Jathiel6/19/2014, 2:22:56 AM36 votes

Ok, I really am coming not to trust these rankings, especially the person who is writing the brief descriptions on the teams and why the rose/dropped. LMQ goes 1-1 against 2 of the bottom three teams and rises 4 rankings, the logic in this is non-existent. Also the person who wrote about Alliance is saying that almost going 0-2 is not good, they beat Fnatic at like 23 minutes by committing and taking advantage of a mistake, what about that suggests almost losing? I also do not get them saying SK is looking like a EU C9, they are doing good, but are not in first, and not dominating everyone like C9 has done in past seasons.... On the whole I do not find these rankings to be accurate the higher they go.

Venoxis6/19/2014, 2:40:01 AM10 votes

"LMQ's early game continues to falter" "they struggled immensely" Ranking +4 What?

The Green 8 Ball6/19/2014, 2:44:25 AM5 votes

Usually at the bottom of the list there are other teams that received votes but are not necessarily in the top 20.........is this just a typo or is this list of 20 unanimous and no other teams received votes? Also, I don't think LMQ being so high on the list is accurate....considering how NA is much closer this split, it really is more of a toss up on who is top 4 in NA, its not like LMQ is completely dominant (even some of their wins looked sketchy/close) to warrant such a gap between other teams in their region.

TianzhuLi6/20/2014, 6:10:25 AM4 votes

C9 goes 1-1= -4 LMQ goes 1-1= +4 Seems Legit

zRelentless6/19/2014, 3:40:57 AM3 votes

I don't understand why TSM is not in the power rankings because they defeated C9 and having Locodoco as a coach would have put them somewhere in the rankings under "Predicted future performance."

Adobe Wån Kenobi6/19/2014, 11:29:31 AM3 votes

Yeah there "power rankings" may be fairly true for the top 5 teams or so, but the fact that Fnatic are not even on this and they can easily beat any NA team at least really is making me question the validity of these so called "rankings". The fact that they are discounted based on their mistakes they made on few games and actually performing well, at least better than SK in every other aspect of the game? I find this list really really baffling and illogical.

C9 Toph6/19/2014, 4:04:36 PM2 votes

In the end, C9 will win :3

hoangbody6/19/2014, 11:31:09 AM2 votes

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Shattered Heaven6/23/2014, 8:59:08 PM1 votes

http://fantasy.lolesports.com/en-US/join/league/349489/P6fcMuQyP9qLElO7g3Pk

Twistedtoo7/6/2014, 3:17:00 PM1 votes

Team Dig is always wearing the funkiest colored pants....lol

Cunnilinguist6/19/2014, 6:07:08 PM1 votes

and the asian teams are still miles ahead:(summoner 6

Humble2Him6/19/2014, 6:38:56 PM1 votes

A lot is being questioned about LMQ's increase in rankings and I think a point has to be made that team don't just move up, but also down. I don't know why the teams below LMQ dropped, but this a comparison power rankings so without research into all the leagues it is hard to say why LMQ went up except the other teams in comparison went down

That being said, LMQ is a good team, they have been strong, and despite losing to EG and almost losing to Curse they are tied for 1st in NA beating the top teams. Remember, they hadn't been challenged yet, so they didn't need to adapt their style. Let's see where they go with this and hold the judging of their continued strength until the next power ranking.

Cowboy Chris6/19/2014, 8:26:18 PM1 votes

Alright. I have been reading these power rankings for a very long time now. Every week I dare myself to look at the comments section just to see the NA vs EU debates and how much everyone hates these rankings.

I just got to say this. If you hate these rankings so much why do you keep looking at them? Why not just assume they are all completely wrong and just move on with your day?

digdoug0066/19/2014, 8:35:55 PM1 votes

um...the order should be:

  1. Korea (then give rankings for the korean teams within this)

  2. OMG

3-20) whoever else you wanna put on here (does it matter though at this point).

Their list is probably to make it seem like there are other teams who can compete with Korea, but putting KT Bullets and SKT1 S allll the way down there? gimme a fuckin break. When Korea sends whatever team to an outside (of Korea) tournament and they just bulldoze their way to the Championship (i'm talking about not even losing one game), what else is there to say.

Victoria Kern6/19/2014, 10:48:47 PM1 votes

K i've been watch the lcs HERE is the real na top 5 power rankings in term of skill. C9>dig>clg>tsm>team curse. LMQ is Chinese their-for they don't deserve a spot on NORTH AMERICA'S rooster. Until they get citizen ship in Na They can fuck right off same with eg and same with bjerg.

M3di6/20/2014, 2:51:11 PM1 votes

Another week of biased power rankings....yawn......I'm just waiting for C9 to turn it on and quit trying new stuff midway through the split....then watch them sweep their way through the playoffs....bye bye DIG...bye bye...CLG.....bye bye 1 trick ponies...TSM & LMQ....you're both way too heavily dependent on your mid-laners to win the game...even if you make it to worlds...you'll lose in group stage....

E1fo1hZ7Av6/20/2014, 5:08:06 PM1 votes

LMQ will be top 10 next rankings since they just lost to CLG can you imagine how high they will be ranked if they lose to c9 also..