League of Legends global power rankings through Week 5

— -- We've altered our format a little bit to help make it easier to see the context of where each team sits in terms of strength. Each set of 10 gets its own category:

No. 1-No. 10 - World Contenders

No. 11-No. 20 - Playoff Contenders

No. 21-No. 30 - Middle of the Pack

No. 31-No. 40 - Struggling

No. 41-No. 50 - Bottom of the Barrel

We also added a +/- for each team so you can see the movement from week to week.

Note that LPL and LMS are off until Feb. 18. As such, some teams that did not play might move up or down depending on the shuffling around them.

World Contenders

1. ROX Tigers

Record: 7-0 | League: LCK | +/-: --

Another week down, another week when the ROX Tigers are the clear top team in the world. The Tigers handled e-mFire in a straightforward 2-0 victory, and they're now only two match wins from sweeping the first half of the split. They'll be tested this week with an intriguing matchup versus the surprising 5-2 Jin Air Green Wings.

2. Qiao Gu Reapers

Record: 5-0 | League: LPL | +/-: --

Did not play in Week 5.

3. SK Telecom T1

Record: 5-2 | League: LCK | +/-: +3

After starting off the season not looking like the team that decimated the 2015 World Championships, the reigning and defending Summoner's Cup champions are starting to find their groove. They put their foot down against rivals and surging KT Rolster in a 2-0 blowout that resembled their dominance from last year. Next up will be an anticipated match against the flexible roster of Longzhu Gaming.

4. AHQ

Record: 6-0-0 | League: LMS | +/-: --

Did not play in Week 5.

5. Immortals

Record: 10-0 | League: NA LCS | +/-: --

Immortals' blood-soaked win over Cloud9 wasn't clean enough to push them over idle AHQ for fourth place in the rankings, but it was the most fun game of the weekend. It feels as if the rookie juggernauts are playing with their food until one of the teams in the NA LCS has the ability to knock them down and take a game. Ten games into the season, no one has been able to do it.

6. KT Rolster

Record: 4-2 | League: LCK | +/-: -3

Week 5's clash with Telecom rival SKT was KT's chance to legitimize itself as the clear second-best team in South Korea and get revenge for last summer's sweep loss to SKT in the LCK grand finals. Things didn't go as Rolster would have hoped, as it got swept once more by SKT in a whitewash. Although a strong team in its own right, the losses to SKT and the Tigers have proved that Rolster still needs work if it wants to make it back to the LCK grand finals this split.

7. EDward Gaming

Record: 3-1 | League: LPL | +/-: +1

Did not play in Week 5.

8. Jin Air Green Wings

Record: 5-2 | League: LCK | +/-: +2

Did not play in Week 5.

9. G2 Esports

Record: 8-2 | League: EU LCS | +/-: --

G2 is still at the top of the standings, thanks to giving a Ryu-less H2K the boot this week, but overconfidence is starting to show chinks in the team's armor. It started the game against Vitality off strong, but an arrogant 2v4 dive bot lane and the subsequent loss of map control snowballed things out of its control.

48. Renegades

Record: 1-9 | League: NA LCS | +/-: -2

Freeze was able to hold a large farm advantage over Piglet, so it isn't as if the entire team is terrible across the board. But when Flaresz is teleporting to his death and Hakuho is dying constantly, turning Freeze's CS lead into a teamwide 4,000 gold deficit... Well, it's hard to pinpoint what flaw the team should start to fix.

49. Hyper Youth Gaming

Record: 0-5 | League: LPL | +/-: --

Did not play in Week 5.

50. COUGAR E-Sport

Record: 0-0-6 | League: LMS | +/-: --

Did not play in Week 5, still no logo in sight.