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Power Rankings - Week 19

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Welcome to Week 19 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. Najin White Shield ( - )
  3. Samsung Galaxy Ozone ( - )
  4. CJ Entus Blaze ( - )
  5. SK Telecom T1 K ( - )
  6. KT Rolster Arrows ( - )
  7. CJ Entus Frost ( - )
  8. Edward Gaming (+1)
  9. OMG (+2)
  10. SK Telecom T1 S(+2)
  11. Alliance (+3)
  12. SK Gaming (+5)
  13. Invictus Gaming ( - )
  14. Cloud 9 (+4)
  15. Dignitas (NEW)
  16. LMQ ( - )
  17. Counter Logic Gaming (+3)
  18. Team WE (+1)
Najin Black Sword (???) KT Rolster Bullets (???) Current league record in parenthesis. Number of first place votes in brackets
  1. ( - ) Samsung Galaxy Blue - [9] - OGN Reigning Champions Samsung Galaxy Blue beat rivals CJ Entus Frost twice during the second round of the SK Telecom LTE-A LoL Masters tournament during the past week, cementing their position as a top Korean squad, and one of the most innovative teams in the world. Though they remain the team to beat in OGN, they will face a tough test when they face SK Telecom in the LoL Masters finals on Sunday. Written by Thomas Watts
  2. ( - ) Najin White Shield - OGN
  3. ( - ) Samsung Galaxy Ozone - OGN Samsung Ozone held up their end of the sweep of CJ Entus by beating Blaze in both of their matches during the LoL Masters tournament. The Samsung Galaxy sweep has set the organization on a collision course with SK Telecom in the Masters finals. Ozone has proven themselves to be a team to contend with, but they’ll have to be ready for any strategies that SKT has come up with during their nearly month-long downtime. Written by Thomas Watts
  4. ( - ) CJ Entus Blaze - OGN
  5. ( - ) SK Telecom T1 K - OGN
  6. ( - ) KT Rolster Arrows - OGN
  7. ( - ) CJ Entus Frost - OGN
  8. (+1) Edward Gaming - LPL Though every LPL team is trying to find ways to increase the competition, it's hard to shake off hot flashes from Edward Gaming's staggering performance in the playoffs. While every other LPL team works to perfect their rosters, EDG rests on their laurels with the knowledge that their team is fine-tuned and ready to take the Demacia Cup by storm. Jungler ClearLove has tightened his early game, and there's very little that will stop him with his laners to back him up. Written by Kelsey Moser
  9. (+2) OMG - LPL Several Chinese players have confirmed that Cool will be coming back to the mid lane and Allen returning to the jungle. With hints from Sicca, the much-lauded support player from 2013 Summer's Positive Energy, that he may be stepping in, OMG could be the team we imagined as soon as Sicca's acquisition was made this year. Even without Sicca, OMG will once again be starting a split with Allen swapping roles. Add to that the fact that Cool and Sicca took Spring off from competitive play, and OMG could be in for a rocky start. Every time they've made drastic changes in the past, however, OMG has found ways to stay on top. This split could be the first flop OMG sees since they've joined LPL, but for now we trust in their emerging star-quality lineup. Written by Kelsey Moser
  10. (+2) SK Telecom T1 S - OGN
  11. (+3) Alliance - EU LCS - (5-1)
    12. Alliance has shaped up into being a dominant European team, with talented players in every position and a growing synergy resulting from the influence of their analysts and coaching staff. They have started to bring advanced minion mechanics to Europe, and look firmly in control of the region after taking down their rivals, SK Gaming. Written by Mattias “Gentleman Gustaf” Lehman
  12. (+5) SK Gaming - EU LCS - (4-2) SK Gaming still has some weak links to iron out. Their synergy is fantastic, but the individual skill of their top laner Fredy122 and jungler Svenskeren leaves some to be desired. Still, the veteran influence of nRated has made them a solid team, but as shown in their Week 2 game vs Alliance, something isn’t quite there, and it seems to be talent. Written by Mattias "Gentleman Gustaf" Lehman
  13. ( - ) Invictus Gaming - LPL Like EDG, it appears as if Invictus Gaming's roster will remain unchanged going into the Demacia Cup. Their team has exhibited moments of brilliance that could easily seat them as the best in China - that is, if they could just work out their consistency. During the playoffs, EDG exposed some of iG's additional weaknesses, but they remain one of the strongest early game teams in the world when they're on point. If they can harness that momentum, they could rise this coming season. Written by Kelsey Moser
  14. (+4) Cloud9 - NA LCS - (4-2) Despite a 2-0 finish in Week 2, Cloud9 is in an unfamiliar position: Tied for No. 2 with two other teams. What this says is that the competition in NA is steadily increasing and C9 must work even harder now to stand out. Compared to their dismal Super Week performance, C9 has slowly regained their swagger and continue to demonstrate correct team fight decisions and a unified response to those calls. While team captain Hai shoulders most of the burden to return to his spring split form after his lung collapsed in the offseason, he has shown impressive signs of recovery. Even when put into a difficult early game as Kha'Zix vs LeBlanc, Hai knows exactly how to play out the mid/late game and make an impact for his team. Written by Jack "NeoIllusions" Ho
  15. (NEW) Team Dignitas - NA LCS (5-1) In sole possession of the No. 1 spot in the NA LCS, Dignitas has been the most impressive out of the many teams who have adjusted their rosters at the start of the summer split. Shiphtur and ZionSpartan both excel individually during the laning phase, allowing their jungler Crumbzz to attack the part of the map that needs his attention the most. After taking out both LMQ and TSM last week, will CLG or Evil Geniuses be able to stop the ever-improving Dignitas? Written by Jack “NeoIllusions” Ho
  16. ( - ) LMQ - NA LCS - (4-2) After a much impressive 4-0 start during Super Week, LMQ faced a challenging schedule in Week 2 against Dignitas and Cloud9 but came up short against both. While Dignitas exploited LMQ at level 1 and never let go of their early game advantage, LMQ misplayed a number of team fights against C9 and saw their early lead evaporate. However, the split is still young and LMQ can still recover from their mistakes and losses thus far. This will they face TSM and coL this week, necessary wins for LMQ if they want to stay in the top four. Written by Jack “NeoIllusions” Ho
  17. (+3) Counter Logic Gaming - NA LCS - (4-2) Against their long time rivals TSM last week, CLG displayed decisive map movements that resulted in very quick wins. And that’s not even mentioning their decisive victory over coL. Seraph has been meshing well with the team, but all eyes are on the bot lane duo of Aphromoo and Doublelift, nicknamed Rush Hour. As the biggest star on the team, Doublelift has yet to disappoint and pushes himself to be better this split. However, it is Aphromoo who has been making strides in the support position. Even on the rarely seen Alistar, Aphromoo made jaw-dropping plays that sets up CLG for easy teamfight victories. Written by Jack "NeoIllusions" Ho
  18. (+1) Team WE - LPL The ex-Rising Star jungler Ruo will likely be parting ways with World Elite, and support player Conan has said he'll be replaced by an unknown Chinese solo queue jungler. Considering how fundamental Ruo and Conan were in the strong wins WE found in the playoffs, it's hard to imagine the team without him. Still, it took the split for WE to find a foundation, and with Hiro to provide not just strategy, but emotional coaching, the team has positive prospects. If they can pick up the slack and find the wiggle room in their new strategies, WE can still make waves this LPL Summer. Written by Kelsey Moser
??? Najin Black Sword - OGN | ??? KT Rolster Bullets - OGN This may be the largest cop out in the history of journalism, but let’s be honest - no one has any idea how good either of these teams are. We had different opinions on each from all our panelists. Do they belong in the Top 10? Should they be out of the Top 25? There are so many questions about each team regarding their new rosters, inexperienced players, and role swaps - and both these teams were trending downwards regardless. Pick their rank. Your guess is as good as ours. Written by Frank ‘Riot Mirhi’ Fields Falling - Team SoloMid - NA LCS (3-3) Dropping out of the power rankings this week, TSM struggles to adapt to their new lineup. Many of their opposing teams have been focusing directly on TSM's new jungler, Amazing, by throwing multiple jungle bans at him at the onset of champion select. What is most daunting for TSM has been their inability to work around this weakness. In their match against Dignitas, TSM's pick phase was highly suspect when they revealed a surprise jungle Volibear pick too early. This allowed Dignitas to build a highly mobile and kite-focused team composition which made Amazing a complete non-factor in the game. Written by Jack “NeoIllusions” Ho Others Receiving Votes: TPA, Fnatic, TSM, Supa Hot Crew, Jin Air Stealths, Millenium 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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52 Comments

Lovercake13 votes

Maybe some think that these are useless but i love reading about other teams and see where this panel place them compared to the team i'm a fan of! I look forward to power rankings every week! (Hint: Summoner icon xD)

Melicalol2 votes

I do too :D. I think this week is 100% accurate.

killingu652 votes

i dusagree hard with this weeks power ranking not because of the ogn region as they are clearly better than the other four but how the american region got disrespected, i feel like na lcs is right there with lpl as even though omg beat cnine in the long run the two games cnine lost were very close and the one win was a blowout meaning cnine and dginitas at the very least should be placed right next to edward gaming omg and the panels bias toward fnatic and sk gaming is pretty sad as europe didnt compete at all at all stards from skill competition to teams cnine and dignitas ARE CLEARLY BETTER THAN ANYTHING EU HAS TO OFFER like i think 11 12 13 need to be dig cnine and invictus and sk and alliance need to be placed between the lmq squad and clg squad as na has improved leaps and bounds over all stars on the surface and dignitas is probably very undervalued as they need to be in the ten thru twelve range at worst, like yes they had one bad game, BUT WHO DOESNT HAVE THAT BAD GAME, they beat everyone to prove they are knocking on the door for top ten if not already there, well see this weekend why diignuitas is the team to beat in NA AND CLOUD NINE ISNT TOO FAR BEHIND

MarkJRevita4 votes

dude cry na lcs sucks compare to europe

GornothDragnBone3 votes

anyone who thinks one is significantly better than the other region is dumb :P both EU and NA continue to under-perform on the world stage, and they usually go about 50/50 against each other.

Souli G2 votes

I don't know man :p I wouldn't call S1 win, 2 semi spots for S2 and 1 semi in S3 "bad" for europe but you're right that they both suck compared to korea for instance.

Silimaur4 votes

Their long term bias towards fnatic? You mean the team that didn't appear in this weeks power rankings? Right...

You cannot simply place a new team like Dignitas into a higher position when their roster has never been tested against other regions, it would not make sense. C9 did incredibly well in international tournaments recently but a lackluster start to the NALCS means they still will not make any leaps up the table.

You can call out EU teams as much as you like but the truth is at every world championships they continue to pull together and outshine all of the NA teams which attend. This year I think NA will do better, teams like Dignitas and CLG have stepped up their game, this combined with the addition of LMQ makes the NA scene far more competitive for C9 who have been the consistent top performer of the NA scene. Better competition means further improvement for all teams involved so lets hope they make something of it.

hypercal1 votes

But you do realise that people said that every year for NA, but they got crushed every year. I highly doubt they can compete against anyone at the moment.

Souli G2 votes

It seems like you're too biased of na. When comparing teams you have to be able to set aside you're opinions and be critical.

Pikahu6 votes

The panel is so used to not placing DIG in the top 20 that they left them in the "others receiving votes" section :P

Gileann4 votes

Hah, nice catch. Dig has spent a long time off the list--in fact, I'm not sure if they've been in the Top 20 before before this split--but they certainly deserve the bump up they've received.

Sneakos5 votes

LMAO I love how they put LMQ up there. They won their first 4 games against mediocre teams, and then lost to actually good NA teams. The people who write these have seen them for a total of 6 games, and are already putting them in the top 20 teams. Just shows you how biased these "analysts" are.

Venoxis2 votes

Did you read the last section before the fall of TSM section? They themselves admitted that no one can make a 100% accurate ranking. Since there're only 2 international tournaments every year, at least 50% of the ranking is based on opinion.

Glørÿ4 votes

The only reason amazing is getting banned out like that was because on reddit he said he could play Leesin,Elise,Eve and kha before the season started

GornothDragnBone1 votes

kind of? but those are the top 4 junglers that everyone plays. it just shows that he has nothing if the top junglers are taken out

Meanie404 votes

The discrimination against non-Chinese players in the LPL is unacceptable. Riot needs to make the following rule:

Beginning the day after the Season 4 World Championship, any league that discriminates against a member of a protected class (including race, gender, national origin, or any other protected class) will not be allowed to participate in any multi-region event, nor will their region be recognized in any world rankings.

Should a member of such a region be allowed to participate in a multi-region event, Riot will provide no support for any tournament teams from such a region play in, and any promised support for said tournament is null and void.

NeverEverKills3 votes

I agree that discrimination is unacceptable. But Riot is a subsidiary of Tencent, who holds the LPL. That said, Riot cannot do anything about this.

MachinaMe2 votes

I agree in terms of non-discrimination, but you must understand the Chinese culture. My brother-in-law is a Canadian who has lived in China for the past 8 years, and the culture change is extremely drastic. As they are still basically a communist country, they are very nationalistic. The head of LPL stated they would allow 2 players per team to be non-Chinese, but no more than that to keep the Chinese teams "pure". If too many foreigners joined the teams, the Chinese fans would simply stop watching the LPL, and therefore much of the funding would deteriorate so much that professional LPL players would not be able to afford to play. This would be a terrible thing for Professional LoL as a whole.

Hreef2 votes

btw Japan seems to be not that much different in their perspective of outsiders. I saw a video some time ago where a young woman spoke about it. to get back to the powerrankings: first in the first list the ones with negative development are also described as "+2" and secondly I never understood why C9 was in front of fnatic when fnatic had the bigger accomplishments in the international scene compared to the americans (doesn't matter at the moment though because fnatic lost track of some important factors to win for the moment)

Meanie401 votes

LPL could still discriminate if they wanted to. They just wouldn't be allowed to play teams from outside their region.

Or if you really feel the need to "protect" the Chinese pro play scene, these same protections should be applied worldwide. Why is the Chinese pro play scene more important to protect than, say, NA or EU? If limiting non-Chinese players to 2 per team in the LPL is a good thing, there should be a limit of 2 foreign players per team in each region, to "protect the players of that region."

Glørÿ1 votes

Tencent is separate from Riot and Chinese culture is very different compared to the culture we have in America. Most of the Chinese LPL viewers personally wouldn't like this switch but Royal Club with a new ownership decided to do so. But I do predict that Royal Club will lose a lot of fans due to the fact that there are 2 foreigners on the team.

Also, the GPL has teams set off their natural origins (HKEsports, Taipei, Saigon,Singapore, Kuala Lumpur , Bangkok, etc.) Every region runs their region their own way and has their own format. Riot shouldn't discriminate against that.

L955 votes

sadly discrimination is still a big issue. We see this with LMQ in the NA LCS too. Looking through the youtube comments, you see so many hateful and racial hate against them just cuz they aren't "AMERICAN" -.-

llayclout3 votes

Go Go Samsung! Take out SKT! SamsungFighting! In Alpaca we trust!

Armageddön3 votes

Mister Mattias "Gentleman Gustaf" Lehman, are you blind? How can you say that the individual skill of Fredy122 and Svenskeren leaves some to be desired? Who the shit hires these people, jesus christ even an autistic monkey could do better job. Here is why: Lets start by Fredy122. So you say he lacks in skill? Have you not seen all the games he carried the game himself, at least held it until more mid-late game where SKG shines, as Trundle, as Renekton? Just because nobody talks about him, because he is "underrated" doesn't mean he is lacking in skill. He is from far, probably the most consistent toplaner in EU. And Svenskeren, what the hell he is most of the time holding SKG's early game making his plays with Lee and the old Pantheon, the early game it's all his. He does an AMAZING job all the time, no matter the champion he uses. I am not being a fanboy like you all might say, I just have two eyes, and I watch the games, like many of you do. Really fire these people, just misrating SKG the whole time, hating on them for no reason.

Derpus the Fifth2 votes

I'm slightly confused as to why SK went +5 up the rankings this week. The went 1-1 last week, yes they only lost to the top team in the league, but the team they beat is sitting at the bottom of the standings. They showed really weak map movements in the game against Alliance, and I was left a little disappointed in their performances. They definitely deserve to be in the Power Rankings, but I'm not sure they earned the +5 that they got.

czzn1 votes

These articles are literally useless. I don't even see the point of them existing.

Aewon14 votes

Then don't bother commenting

OHminus1 votes

I really hope my favorite team CJ Frost climbs up to prominence once again. Until then, I will be silently watching madlife thresh videos...

Kemy1 votes

I think Jin Air Stealths, SKT T1S, Prime Optimus deserves to be placed ahead of EDG and OMG

llayclout1 votes

I think only Jin Air Stealths do. I would have said Prime Optimus deserved a spot, but they just failed to requalify into OGN vs Jin Air Falcons and some random amateur team. Also, SKTS lost to an almost completely rebuilt najin sword in qualifiers also, so there's no way they deserve to be that high up.

Tarkamacska1 votes

Hm this weeks Power rankings seems pretty good for me. Alliance seems to be the top western team, not sure about SK /but i must agree that their synergy and teamwork is ridiculous/. I hope Fntic will rise again, their tactics is good, but they make a lot of mistakes.

In NA, C9 seems to be recovering, CLG is stronger and stronger in every day. LMQ and Dignitas... idk, the time will show it.

I dont want to comment the eastern teams. One thing... Yesterday JinAir - Optimus Prime match was good. JinAir was pretty unstoppable, i think they deserve a spot on this list.

Ovted1 votes

Well dignitas suffered in their solo lanes and Coast had some really good players but didnt communicate the 2 best players from coast joining dignitas help give them that added stregnth and with them usually being solo lanes and having a better play caller allows them to fill many of the weaknesses they had last season. I would say shiphtur is the best mid NA and I would put Zion spartan in top 3 NA this allows for their jungler crumbz now to play to help dominate over to try to save lanes giving dignitas so much more map pressure. Dignitas isnt just winning they are doing a dominating performance it will be interesting to see the second game between c9 and dig since they should be in full swing by then. ON LMQ they went 4-0 against teams with a combined record of 4-12 that first week. They play against good teams and got crushed by dignitas and against c9 they had a 5k gold lead and gave it up they lack vision control and I would put them in 4th(maybe 5th) in NA LCS unless TSM steps it up(DIG,C9,CLG,LMQ,CRS,TSM,COM,EG) A lot of people cant watch every match so I think a lot of this is based on hype. How do you rank the 3rd place team of a region that won worlds against the first place of another region who barely lost to them in the first round of worlds.

Tαρζαν1 votes

This summer split belongs to FNATIC!they are just better than the other european teams

The Jacken6 votes

You ok son? Fnatic are nowhere near as good as Alliance or SK, they can only compete with SHC. Comparing Fnatic to Alliance is like silver vs diamond.

llayclout2 votes

Yeah you can tell that this guy is a massive fanboy, but they have won 3 LCS splits in a row. We'll have to see how it pans out.

The Jacken3 votes

So son, what happened? It turns out I was right, Fnatic put up a good fight vs SHC but still failed. Damn I'm good. Me for LCS President!

Tαρζαν1 votes

i told ya mate ;)

ESD Tiger1 votes

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Shattered Heaven1 votes

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German Shepherd1 votes

This game is based on the psychology of the players sometimes see NA best of Europe and sometimes it can be just the opposite

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Souli G1 votes

My powerrankings in descending order:

Samsung Galaxy Blue Najin White Shield Samsung Galaxy Ozon CJ Entus Blaze SK Telecom T1 K KT Rolster Arrows CJ Entus Frost SK Telecom T1 S Edward Gaming Alliance OMG SK Gaming Counter Logic Gaming Invictus Gaming Cloud 9 SHC Dignitas Team WE

THESneakyBeever1 votes

The Age of the Donger has come! Go DIG!!!!

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