V5 closed out today’s series against LGD Gaming in three games with a commanding 19-minute win in the LPL’s fastest game of 2022.
The 2022 LPL Spring Split standings are closer than ever as the league is now at its halfway point of the split. But LGD and V5 came into today’s match with very different motives in regards to standings.
For V5, winning against LGD was meant to be a statement game as they entered today’s match with a 6-1 record in a four-way tie at the top of the standings. For LGD, they instead were fighting for a chance at playoffs as they entered the first game looking for blood when they revealed their pocket Mordekaiser pick.
V5 and LGD battled closely for the first 20 minutes of game one as only 1,000 gold separated the two teams. The tempo and map advantage, however, was in control of LGD as V5 was forced to play reactive towards LGD jungler Shad0w’s Lee Sin pathing. V5 lost the fight as LGD pressed that advantage into a slow burn through V5’s towers before LGD landed the first blow of the series.