LoL: Impact dominates opponent for record gold lead

LoL pro Jeong “Impact” Eon-young (26) has broken a record in League of Legends : He dominated his opponent in the top lane in a professional match like no other pro has done in the LCS before. His gold lead was already huge after 15 minutes.

What is this record? Impact has broken the record for “Gold Lead at the 15 Minute Mark in the LCS”:

The previous record was set by ADC Raes from Immortals against the bot laner of the struggling LoL team Counter Logic Gaming, WildTurtle: The old record gold lead after 15 minutes was 3,664 gold.
Impact (Evil Genius) had a lead of 4,121 gold pieces against his opponent FakeGod (Dignitas) after 15 minutes. He surpassed the old record by over 500 gold.

Impact played the lizard man Renekton; his opponent FakeGod was on the feared Volibear. In this match, however, Volibear did not seem like a snarling polar bear, Impact made him look like a cute bear.

A gold lead in LoL means that you can get better items than your opponent and thus become stronger. “Gold lead” is an important factor in who wins a game. A lead of over 4,000 gold means that you have “one thick endgame item” more than the opponent. This is a significant advantage. A gold lead is the result of better creep farming and participation in kills.

How dominant do you have to play for such a lead? After 15 minutes, Impact had the stats of 4/0/6: he never died, but got 4 kills and participated in 6 more. At that moment, Impact was involved in 10 of the 12 kills of Evil Geniuses against Dignitas.

The match was actually over after 10 minutes, as Impact had already had a gold lead of 2,801 over FakeGod – the highest lead anyone has ever had in any lane in LCS history, as LoLEsports Stats knows.

“Clown Fiesta at the End” saves Opponent from Embarrassment

How bad was the opponent? For FakeGod, things were going terribly. Just before the end, he had 1/4/5 as catastrophic stats.

But in the end, the game turned into a Clown Fiesta. The mid laner of Evil Genius, Jizuke, made a joke out of teleporting his own team as Ryze into the enemy fountain: a planned suicide mission.