2023 LCS Spring Split Week 6 Day 1: EG Finds the Victory Over TSM in the WildTurtle’s Return to LCS

2023 LCS Spring Split Week 6 Day 1: EG Finds the Victory Over TSM in the WildTurtle’s Return to LCS

Time Stamp: March 2, 2023 6:58 PM

Roster changes continue in the LCS even as we get closer and closer to the playoffs.

The 2023 LCS Spring had a lot of roster shuffling so far, whether it is due to players joining late because of visa issues, unsatisfying performances or personal issues. We already had some high-profile roster changes like Gori and Eyla joining their teams late, Tomo and EMENES swapping in for Spawn and Diplex. In Week 6, two new players will make their first starts of the season.

Immortals mid laner Ablazeolive announced that he will take the rest of the split off at the start of the week. IMT Challengers mid laner Bolulu started in his place. While Bolulu is a new face in North America, he is familiar with many players in the league, as he used to be teammates with his support Fleshy and the top laner of DIG, Armut, who they played today. The next big change was TSM promoting WildTurtle, another veteran ADC making his return after Doublelift and Stixxay.

Also to note, LCS switched to the 13.4 patch for Week 6 which means the reworked Aurelion Sol was available to play, and he was picked in the first game of the day by the CLG mid laner Palafox as a counter pick to Annie.

FLY vs CLG

With the Aurelion Sol pick from CLG, it seemed like the game plan was to wait for the dragon to scale toward the late game. Unfortunately for them, FLY had no intent to let it happen. The early game was dominated by Spica making play after play in the side lanes. Not to mention the former MVP managed to steal the first Herald after a disastrous fight for CLG. When the plates fell, FLY had an advantage of two drakes and 6k gold.

CLG tried to force a couple of fights, but FLY was too far ahead damage wise and engages did not go well, even when they found an angle for a 4v5. Still, CLG didn’t give up as Palafox stole the first Baron from FLY and they won the fourth drake fight to delay the opponent Soul. But these plays only delayed the inevitable as the gold lead was too big to overcome as FLY was still ahead nearly 10k when the Elder spawned. And FLY didn’t even need the drake after they found four kills with a great engage from Eyla, and managed to close out the game.

  • Teams: FLY 1 – 0 CLG
  • Time: 37:22
  • Kills: 23 – 8
  • Turrets: 9 – 1
  • Gold: 74.8 – 62.5k
  • Dragons: 4 – 1
  • Barons: 2 – 1

TSM vs EG

A good start for TSM in the WildTurtle’s LCS return, even though they were playing toward the top side. After finding two early kills from a failed EG invade, they took control of the first Herald. EG was at least able to answer at the opposite side of the Rift with an early first drake. The game was looking even through the mid game, but all it took to change it was one Thresh lantern from Vulcan during the TSM’s mid lane engage, and the game exploded for EG with a Quadrakill for Jojo’s Akali.

But even with the lead Jojo and FBI got from this fight, TSM managed to hold on to the game till the Elder buff, and nearly aced EG after catching the enemy ADC out of position, securing themselves the big objective. With the gold even at that point, the game came down to a classic NA ARAM 5v5. Thankfully for EG, Jojo was able to find a good flank and managed to secure another win, albeit another sloppy one.

  • Teams: TSM 0 – 1 EG
  • Time: 43:16
  • Kills: 10 – 15
  • Turrets: 5 – 10
  • Gold: 76k – 79.1k
  • Dragons: 2 – 4
  • Barons: 0 – 2

Image credit: Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games

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