The first week has gone by, and thanks to the new patch, we’ve seen interesting games. Not all the favorites won and those who did weren't all convincing.  Today, we look at what to take away from week 1.

1. Ambition gets a Tigers buff.

There are some situations that are very complex and difficult to explain to the casual audience about the LCK teams and players. How did Bang lose so much weight? Why is Hachani still a player (we'll get to this later), or even why did the ROX Tigers decide to come to the studio with cat ears that one time and not once more since? But there's one situation that is just flat out baffling. That is watching Ambition play against the Tigers.

Ever since becoming a jungler, Ambition has stumbled between good, to serviceable to unnoticeable in games entirely. However, when he plays a series against the Tigers, he plays out of his goddamn mind. His performances against the Tigers has lead people to believe that in reality, Ambition is a brilliant jungler who’s success is held down by his teammates. Anyone who watches games regularly will tell you though, the games vs. the Tigers is the exception. Ambition’s performances, more often than not, leave a lot to be desired. Either disappearing in the wilderness or simply providing no pressure, Ambition made a name for himself as a lackluster jungler only to show up when the Tigers need a win.

2. Taric is truly, truly, truly… good.

It's been ages since we've seen a Taric in competitive play altogether. His kit was just far too basic and outdated for the time. His rework not only gave him a fancy new look, but also a new lease on viability. Taric’s kit is versatile enough to fit with a variety of different playstyles and compositions yet keeping the armor stacking benefits from the past. Basically, don't play multiple AD champions into Taric -- you're going to have a bad time.

We saw the emergence of Taric in KT rolster ‘s game against MVP, the new kids on the block. MVP’s pick and ban was… bold. Attempting to cash in on Lucian’s current power with the Black Cleaver/Ghostblade build, MVP picked Lucian for the mid lane and kept Twitch for the bottom lane AD Carry. This came to bite them when KT locked in Taric. The gem knight was key to allow KT to snowball their lead and win fights in the mid game thanks to his ultimate and double linear stun mechanic.

3. MvP’s heartbreak gives way to Hachani’s 2nd MVP.

It's hard to argue against Hachani being named MVP (Most Valuable Player) of game 1 in KT’s game vs MVP. His ultimate timings and quick use of skills gave KT the ability to win fights where they may have just ended even or in an overall loss. Yes, Taric’’s kit lends itself to be a giant game changer on it's own, but you have to.give credit where its due. His 2nd crown of MVP of the game was a lot more subtle.

Game 2 was, for all intents and purposes, a won game for MVP. They had control of the map, multiple barons, an untouchable late game Caitlyn and managed to break down all of KT’s inhibitors while KT hadn't even gotten an inhibitor turret. So how did KT win? Well -- by sheer act of will, Arrow found himself next to the Caitlyn who was focused on smashing the nexus and proceeded to crit him across the face.

The death of their most fed player meant a lost teamfight for MVP. KT proceeded to face tank turrets and shove with their Sivir still up. In the end, when it seemed like MVP’s Caitlyn would spawn in time to stop the push, Hachani dropped his Tempered Fate on the fountain, Locking Caitlyn for just enough time to allow Arrow to end the game. The highlights of the game post match didn't show it, but if you had to give MVP to somebody on KT for that game 2, that Tempered Fate sealed it going to Hachani.

4. Longzhu aching for a leader.

There really is no better example of a team that is worse than the sum of its parts. There is -- or has been -- star power in every single role of this Longzhu squad, yet they soon realised that a team can have all the stars, but if there is no cohesion or decisiveness in calls, the team will just not win games.

On paper, Longzhu has one of the best assembled rosters the LCK has ever seen; talent is not missing, it's there waiting to explode. Hell -- even the weakest member of the starting roster this week is a pretty darn good support player in Pure. They have the aggressive early game prowess of Chaser, the veteran high class midlaner in CoCo, experienced AD Carry Emperor guiding the young and hungry AD carry in Fury, and even a returning top laner in Expession who had the makings of a great player. Yet no matter how well played individually in games, there simply is nothing they seem to accomplish once the laning phase is complete.

It just seems like neither Chaser nor Pure have a commanding enough voice in the team to bring the team together to play as one, or simply, they're not good at it. Shotcalling is by far the hardest trait a player can have and each week we get shown just how detremental it can be to not have a definitive leader in a team.

5. Jin Air with the upper hand

Again Longzhu failing, again Longzhu with great roster -- but this time, the take away was watching Jin Air being the proactive team.

For as long as Jin Air has been a relevant team in contention for playoffs, Jin Air’s style was clear and unproductive: play more or less well, drag it out until late, pick a fight on their terms and win/lose game depending on compositions and execution. During 2015, Jin Air was a solid team with good players on their roster. GBM was an excellent teamfighter, TrAce was capable of playing unorthodox picks and make them work as well as playing meta and especially Chaser was renowned as one of the best jungler in the region at the time. However, their modus operandi was always the same -- Have Chaser do his thing early and win lanes, not do anything mid game, fight late game. This didn't last and Jin Air slowly faded into the mid-range.

With a new season and a player like Blanc seeking to make plays as well as their new found minion wave control, we may be on the horizon of a new Jin Air. Yes, I am getting overly excited over one series, but dammit Jin Air deserves it.

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