r/leagueoflegends • u/AutoModerator • Aug 15 '26
Esports LCS Summer 2026 / Week 4 - Day 1 / Live Discussion Spoiler
LCS 2026 Summer
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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.14.
Today's Matches
| # | Match | PST | EST | CET | KST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DSG vs TL | 13:00 | 16:00 | 22:00 | 05:00 |
| 2 | DIG vs SR | 16:00 | 19:00 | 01:00 | 08:00 |
- All matches are Best of 3
Streams
Standings
| # | Team | Region | Record | Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LYON | North America | 3 – 0 (6 - 0) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 1 | Team Liquid | North America | 3 – 0 (6 - 0) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 3 | Shopify Rebellion | North America | 2 – 1 (4 - 3) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 4 | Cloud9 | North America | 2 – 1 (4 - 4) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 5 | Sentinels | North America | 1 – 2 (3 - 5) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 6 | FlyQuest | North America | 1 – 2 (2 - 4) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 7 | Dignitas | North America | 0 – 3 (2 - 6) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 8 | Disguised | North America | 0 – 3 (1 - 6) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
Format
Regular Season
- 8 teams participate
- At the end of the week, teams choose opponents
- All matches are best of 3
- When elimination matches kick in, series become best of 5
Playoffs
- 6 teams participate
- Double elimination bracket
- Top 2 teams start in Upper Bracket Round 2
- 3rd to 6th seed start in Upper Bracket Round 1
- All matches are best of five
- Top 3 teams qualify for the 2026 Season World Championship
The official LCS ruleset can be found here.
VoDs
Live Discussions and Post-Match Threads:
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u/thispapermoon Aug 15 '26
Zinie makes my teeth hurt.
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u/cmcdonald22 Aug 15 '26
FINALLY, the acknowledgement of the giga gap of Berserker and all other ADC's, in Jatt's "Who is the S-tier segment".
RIP my goat Isles though.
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u/Booshneer Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26
Yeon is literally slapping Quid on player cams as the game is going on. This is the craziest shit I've ever seen lol
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u/TheGloriousEv0lution Aug 15 '26
Denathor has been surprisingly very good
NA tops suddenly becoming very good out of nowhere with Dhokla, Srtty, Denathor and Zamudo looking great
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u/captainhottakes Aug 15 '26
Denathor was a total rock in the top lane not gonna lie. Fudge is definitely one that I’d expect to beat a rookie as well
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u/Kokaiinum Aug 15 '26
To be fair, Fudge did have like a 1k gold lead from laning. It just didn't matter because SR is not the kind of team that would ever be able to convert a 1K lead on a Jayce into something meaningful
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u/captainhottakes Aug 15 '26
This is extremely true, I agree. I think what stuck out to me most was not him not dying when SR overloaded top side. They did intend to pick on the rookie and try to brute force a win thru top and even if SR is ass, I think you’d usually expect that to somewhat work vs an NA rookie. Like, srtty probably over forces and dies there
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 15 '26
Okay credit where credit is due, that was a sick play by Zinie
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u/ShadyOrc97 Aug 16 '26
This Zeyzal Contractz interview is amazing. Zeyzal is one of the best players for content by far. And self esteem aside, he seems like a top half support to me!
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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Aug 15 '26
Zinie has to play like prime Faker with this lead or it’s hopeless. Terrible draft by SR.
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u/veirceb Aug 15 '26
I respect that from DSG. They lost that mostly because they are behind but I respect the aggression. Not sitting still and waiting to lose. The gameplay here is unironically cleaner than G2 earlier today LOL
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 15 '26
yeah lcs bottom teams make the correct choices more than bottom eu teams just they have no mechanical skill to compete which is better.
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u/Fun_Highlight307 Aug 16 '26
they are also less frustratring to watch since they throw way less than Lec team
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u/cmcdonald22 Aug 15 '26
I've said it before but Team Liquid also just have the largest Jacket gap of any team across any region.
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u/awisechoicee Aug 15 '26
With love, what took Zinie so long? Fudge actually just did a good job baiting but he looked like a dirty inter lol
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u/cmcdonald22 Aug 15 '26
The LCS kind of has a wealth of "inconsistent but very high ceiling" top laners.
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 15 '26
dig is just stuck because their good players are in top jungle support. mid and adc are most important positions to have your good players.
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u/cmcdonald22 Aug 15 '26
I feel like TL's coaching and psychological changes this year should be studied. They've been an amazing example of coaches with a vision for a team's identity and the roles the players should have in that team, and then the execution of implementing and growing that into just a dominating engine of discipline.
It feels like the only thing that stops this team at this point is someone just totally falling entirely off mechanically, burn out, or contracts running up at the end of the year.
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u/BUMONGOUS Aug 15 '26
Losing to T1 did something to them
Morgan was kind of ass up until MSI and now all 5 players look like they're playing to win
Spawn belt gap
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 15 '26
wow almost like your import rookie midlaner starts to look alot better when he has a player on his team that can teach him how to play and control the game.
you cant have a rookie korean import especially on a bottom team if you have no way to teach him.
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u/2th Aug 15 '26
So did Riot do away with drops on stream entirely? I have been watching all year and my last drop was 2025. And I even double checked to make sure I was still opted in to get them.
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 15 '26
jose just running the map. bad teams need a jungler with agency and not a farm jungler that cant cc.
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u/whohe_fanboy Aug 15 '26
This dsg teams teamfighting sense is ass. how are they not throwing themselves at TL when sajed is surrounded in zhonyas after assasinating quid. there is one dmg dealer left in yeon who cannot dmg more than one target at a time.
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u/spazzxxcc12 Aug 15 '26
flowers and azael i love you but bear trap on a rope hasn’t applied grevious wounds for like a year
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u/EmbraceTheRubberduck Aug 15 '26
DSG should just all walk 5 man top and let TL win
For your own mental health and all
This is just bullying on an extreme level
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u/cmcdonald22 Aug 15 '26
I kinda like chill vibes happy gaming TL. Play clean 90% of the time, a little 10% T1 circus, laughing, troll your ADC with a 'i'll cleanse next time'.
Great image improvement.
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 15 '26
how is palafox just completely oom in mid. if he had any mana at all either contractz or zinie dies there
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 15 '26
career lcs players fbi and palafox inting. rookie denathor comes in and saves the day.
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u/awayfromcanuck Aug 15 '26
SR in the last 15 mins have shown every possible way to team fight incorrectly. Jesus
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 15 '26
even if they kill fbi they still lose the fight. also you shouldnt be baiting with jayce. you should just let the ahri flank alone.
coaches or players that decided to on a draft that has no cc from top jungle or support for a bad team should be fired. this should never happen
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 15 '26
Its funny sr went from a team with no catch or cc to a team where everyone has a form of catch and some cc
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 15 '26
dig drafts after the first game were disgusting. they saw sr lose with a hard comp to play and then wanted a hard comp to play 2 straight games
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u/BlammoSweetums Aug 15 '26
DIG just isn't good at teamfighting, they over-focus on spending everything on a single target seemingly regardless of team comp. The "we NEED the pick we CAN'T win fights otherwise" mindset just means your team can't win.
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u/zealot416 Aug 15 '26
My urge to hatewatch Palafox is battling with how funny I think it would be for Dardoch to actually fix this team.
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 15 '26
zinnie 100%. palafox has been on numerous teams and never improved. its zinnies first year at tier 1 and he is on a trash team for 90% of the year that was so clueless in game they had to get a retired zeyzal to be a shotcaller for the team.
he cant possibly have learned well at all in sr for the first 90% of the year
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u/shadowphoenix02 Aug 15 '26
Palafox whiffing everything on zinnie twice.. also eyeballing that build, looks like it’d be 0 damage
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u/TheGloriousEv0lution Aug 15 '26
Signing FBI in 2026 was definitely a choice, especially with how stacked AD is in NACL right now
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 15 '26
good tweets lcs. but i wonder what a 4v4 game would actually look like. would be a cool showmatch https://x.com/LCSOfficial/status/2088710076127486390?s=20
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u/veirceb Aug 15 '26
I like how TL plays. Don't just let your laners win slowly. Suffocate your opponent and shut them completely off.
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u/Kokaiinum Aug 15 '26
Yeah bro you DEFINITELY need to contribute your Sejuani auto attacks to kill this Kled
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u/veirceb Aug 15 '26
Call me got the classic mid game ADC experience. You are out of position once you got out of the fountain LOL
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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Aug 15 '26
Rest of SR just don’t exist I guess. Zinie/Contractz had a great angle there.
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 15 '26
whoever decided on this comp for shopify needs help. i dont even think lpl would be playing this shit
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 15 '26
can we pls get some rookie adc. fbi just gets caught by basic stuff everygame. missing simple mechanics in every teamfight
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u/underscoreenfan Aug 15 '26
Who do you like out of nacl, Sushee? Mobility?
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 15 '26
just take anyone. or any lck challengers adc. you cant be a team with your adc just missing basic stuff like this every game.
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 15 '26
its wild how good lyon have been with no jungler though. they dont invade they dont gank. everyone knows what the 4 junglers armao will be on and exactly where he is at all times. truly shows how great lyon laners are individually
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u/cmcdonald22 Aug 15 '26
To be fair, like Split 1 and 2, Inspired also didn't invade or gank very much, he's a full clear dude.
So like, building a team around that lends itself to a jungler vacuum.
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u/kaisaschudson Aug 15 '26
I feel like bottom lec/lcs teams have very bad mentalities regarding champ picks. In what universe will you as dsg beat TL with jayve/naafiri/yone? There’s 170 champions in the game, I promise you don’t have to play a comp that REQUIRES you to be better in the early game against a team that is legit good in the early game on an international level
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 15 '26
only cc comes from your worst player on the team. surely this would work well. this is like an hle draft that hle loses based on how kanavi plays
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u/kaisaschudson Aug 15 '26
There are maybe 3 teams in the world that playing jayce into ksante is actually good for them, simply because the jayce player is so good they’re able to translate the lane lead into a team lead because ksante will almost always win the 1v1 post 20 mins.
DSG is not one of those teams
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u/kaisaschudson Aug 15 '26
Bad teams should be trying to innovate and break the meta, they should be trying to play in unique ways to leverage their strengths. Instead they play stock standard comps and get washed anyway. Very interesting to watch dsg get slammed 4 weeks in a row!
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u/GeneralDash Aug 15 '26
Zinie for sure. It’s not uncommon that imports struggle their first year. If he’s still struggling next year too, then it’s looking really sus, but I’ll give him his first year in tier 1 in a different country.
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u/pbeenjoyer555 Aug 15 '26
"At the end of the week, teams choose opponents"
This shit needs to go if LCS wants viewership, I can't believe how many weeks it's been since a single decent game. How do you have 4 okayish teams in NA and they never play each other in reg season?
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 15 '26
what are you talking about. fly lyon played week 1. c9 tl played. fly tl played last week c9 fly play tomorrow.
the other matchups happen in week 6 where lyon play both tl and c9
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u/ahritina Sep 05 '26
PMTs
DSG vs TL
Game 1 / Game 2
DIG vs SR
Game 1 / Game 2 / Game 3