FlyQuest started out their second round robin journey with another victory.

2023 LCS Spring Split kicked off its second half with multiple roster changes. Coming into Week 5, three teams announced that they were making some changes for their starting fives, DIG, FLY and C9. Finishing the first round robin 0-9, many expected some shake-up from the Dignitas side, and the most obvious candidate for change was their bot laner Spawn. With Dignitas Challengers in second place in NACL, DIG decided to give their Challengers ADC Tomo a shot in the big leagues.

The other two changes are a little less drastic. FlyQuest’s intended starting support Eyla finally arrived in the USA. He wasn’t able to join the team due to visa issues and FLY had to play with Winsome during the first four weeks. Despite going 8-1 without Eyla, FLY still decided to go with their preseason roster to give him a chance to acclimate to the team before playoffs.

The last change came from another top-three team. While they found a lot of success with Diplex this split, C9 decided to promote their Challengers mid laner EMENES to the LCS roster in anticipation of playoffs and a possible MSI ticket.

Three players are stepping on the #LCS stage for the first time this split pic.twitter.com/ZX5YhkIuWO

— LCS (@LCSOfficial) February 23, 2023

FLY vs 100T

An interesting mid lane matchup to start the week with the Annie from Bjergsen and the Swain answer from VicLa. And the action started early in that lane with the 100T mid/jungle duo finding a great gank for a fast first blood and FLY answering with a kill of their own a minute later. FLY was able to build an early lead for themselves, but their mid game seemed unorganized as they kept taking bad fights around the bottom lane and gave 100T a way back into the game with the Soul point.

But 100T decided to throw the game right back onto the FLY’s lap. They kept engaging on the VicLa’s Swain, and while they were able to kill him over and over they left Prince untouched. And we saw what an untouched Prince is able to do throughout the first half of the LCS, which was the case again as FLY closed the game out thanks to a 14/0/1 scoreline from their star bot laner.

It’s a #FLYWIN to start the day! #LCS pic.twitter.com/E5inJeGQQt

— LCS (@LCSOfficial) February 23, 2023

• Teams: FLY 1 – 0 100T
• Time: 33:35
• Kills: 18 – 12
• Turrets: 10 – 1
• Gold: 64.8k – 54k
• Dragons: 1 – 4
• Barons: 1 – 0

TL vs IMT

IMT came out the gates with fire with Kenvi finding a couple of ganks around the map and they established a small lead early on. But as the game settled down, Pyosik was able to answer his counterpart’s ganks and TL took back control of the game. Pyosik also dominated the mid game as he was everywhere IMT wanted to be. He got his top side so far ahead that TL secured all the objectives around the Rift. IMT tried to fight their way back into the game but the 5v5s weren’t even close. After acing IMT and taking a Baron, TL’s gold lead jumped to over 15k. With their Baron they did not struggle to end the game thanks to a jungle masterclass from Pyosik.

SUMMIT?? HELLO?? pic.twitter.com/cEjOljP3Lt

— Team Liquid Honda LoL (@TeamLiquidLoL) February 23, 2023

• Teams: TL 1 – 0 IMT
• Time: 28:02
• Kills: 21 – 3
• Turrets: 10 – 0
• Gold: 59.5k – 42.2k
• Dragons: 3 – 1
• Barons: 1 – 0

Image credit: Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games

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