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Snake Esports put together the second upset series of Week 9, Day 4 by sweeping Invictus Gaming in a quick 2-0 series on Saturday in the League of Legends Pro League in Shanghai.
Snake (5-8, 12-18 match record) showed that it meant business from the very start of this opening game against IG (7-6, 19-14 match record), taking a 3-to-1 kill advantage in the first six minutes of the game, including two kills from jungler Le "SofM" Quang Duy's Elise. Rather than get too aggressive, Snake played a methodical game to start securing objectives all across the map. While IG managed to tie up things in the kill column, Snake came back alive with with a 4-for-1 teamfight win in the bottom lane to keep pushing its lead in the game. Nothing much else happened until Snake went for the Baron at the 30-minute mark, which ended up being a sign of the end of the road for IG. After picking up two kills in the moments following the Baron secure, Snake simply walked into IG's base a few minutes later and took down the Nexus with little opposition for a 36-minute win.
The second game opened up with IG top laner Lee "Duke" Ho-Seong's Kled picking up two kills in the first six minutes of the game. That was about all the fun that Snake allowed IG to have, though, as it then took down IG in a 3-for-2 teamfight at the 14-minute mark to start inching ahead. Just a few minutes later, Snake took another teamfight, this time coming out as a 3-for-1 in its favor. Snake, to the surprise of no one watching the game, came up with yet another teamfight win, a 4-for-1, that gave way to a 23-minute Baron. Despite losing a couple members after the Baron secure, Snake kept pushing on and found itself picking up a second Baron at the 31-minute mark after dominating another teamfight that ended in a clean ace. This was all that Snake needed to lock up the 34-minute win to finish up the surprising sweep. Snake top laner Li "Flandre" Xuan-Jun picked up the MVP honors with his Rumble, finishing with a 6/4/9 KDA (kills/deaths/assists).
Snake will be back on the Rift this Thursday to take on OMG at 5 a.m. ET, while Invictus will look to bounce back from this poor loss with a matchup against LGD Gaming also on Thursday at 8 a.m. ET.