In his first profession match within the LPL, longtime League of Legends professional and reigning LCK MVP Ruler grabbed a pentakill to kick off the 2023 season. The penta was the seventh of Ruler’s profession, which is among the many most out of all energetic League gamers.
Ruler’s pentakill right this moment got here within the ultimate teamfight on a 47-minute victory over Bilibili Gaming. The ultimate battle ended up clinching the collection for Ruler’s new group, JD Gaming, who gained their opening collection of the 12 months by a rating of two video games to at least one.
During the play, Ruler, who was already comparatively fed with seven kills coming into the battle, ripped by the frontline of Bilibili, taking down high laner Bin to begin off the skirmish. From there, he helped pop three separate Guardian Angels unfold throughout Bilibili’s lineup earlier than cornering their help participant ON close to his personal inhibitor and grabbing the fifth and ultimate kill wanted for the penta. In the top, ON surrendered to Ruler, giving him the pentakill as a courtesy.
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Out of Ruler’s seven profession pentakills, he’s completed them with 5 totally different champions now. The solely champions he has multiple pentakill with are Ezreal and Kai’sa, in keeping with League knowledge web site Leaguepedia.
Across the three video games of right this moment’s opening collection, Ruler held the very best KDA amongst all 10 gamers with a mark of seven.3, and in the course of the third recreation of the collection, Ruler threw JDG on his again, accounting for 29 % of the group’s whole injury, in keeping with League stats web site Games of Legends.
The sizzling begin for Ruler and JDG throws the group atop the LPL desk to open the season. Their subsequent recreation isn’t for some time, although, as JDG isn’t scheduled to take to the stage once more till Feb. 2.
