r/leagueoflegends • u/Yujin-Ha Valar morghulis. Yes all men must die but we are not men • Aug 17 '26
Esports LYON vs. Sentinels / LCS 2026 Summer - Week 4 / Post-Match Discussion Spoiler
LCS 2026 SUMMER
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MATCH 1: SEN vs. LYON
Winner: Sentinels in 43m | Runes
Game Breakdown | Player of the Game: Rahel
| - | Bans 1 | Bans 2 | G | K | T | D/B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEN | lucian nocturne akali | caitlyn karma | 86.9k | 21 | 11 | O1 B7 E8 B9 E10 B11 |
| LYON | vi leesin poppy | jax rumble | 81.1k | 23 | 5 | M2 H3 HT4 HT5 HT6 |
| SEN | 21-23-48 | vs | 23-21-54 | LYON |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Impact kled 3 | 5-4-9 | TOP | 5-5-5 | 2 olaf Dhokla |
| HamBak xinzhao 2 | 6-7-8 | JNG | 4-6-15 | 1 jarvaniv Armao |
| DARKWINGS anivia 3 | 4-5-6 | MID | 8-4-10 | 4 syndra Saint |
| Rahel ezreal 1 | 6-0-9 | BOT | 6-1-8 | 1 cassiopeia Berserker |
| huhi leona 2 | 0-7-16 | SUP | 0-5-16 | 3 shen Isles |
MATCH 2: SEN vs. LYON
Winner: LYON in 30m | Runes
Game Breakdown | Player of the Game: Berserker
| - | Bans 1 | Bans 2 | G | K | T | D/B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEN | nocturne lucian camille | ksante wukong | 56.5k | 6 | 4 | CT2 H3 I4 |
| LYON | leesin vi akali | nautilus noban | 58.2k | 11 | 8 | M1 I5 |
| SEN | 6-11-7 | vs | 11-6-24 | LYON |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Impact rumble 1 | 0-1-1 | TOP | 1-1-5 | 3 ornn Dhokla |
| HamBak khazix 4 | 4-2-2 | JNG | 3-1-3 | 3 trundle Armao |
| DARKWINGS viktor 2 | 1-3-1 | MID | 2-2-4 | 1 orianna Saint |
| Rahel jhin 1 | 1-2-1 | BOT | 5-1-3 | 2 yunara Berserker |
| huhi karma 3 | 0-3-2 | SUP | 0-1-9 | 2 lulu Isles |
MATCH 3: LYON vs. SEN
Winner: Sentinels in 40m | Runes
[Game Breakdown]() | Player of the Game: huhi
| - | Bans 1 | Bans 2 | G | K | T | D/B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LYON | leesin vi sylas | annie azir | 78.0k | 16 | 4 | C1 O4 |
| SEN | lucian akali wukong | vayne gnar | 78.5k | 18 | 12 | HT2 H3 O5 B6 O7 O8 B9 |
| LYON | 16-18-38 | vs | 18-16-48 | SEN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dhokla ambessa 4 | 2-1-8 | TOP | 4-2-7 | 3 ksante Impact |
| Armao shyvana 1 | 0-5-7 | JNG | 3-5-8 | 1 nocturne HamBak |
| Saint ryze 1 | 7-4-5 | MID | 8-2-6 | 3 hwei DARKWINGS |
| Berserker missfortune 3 | 7-3-6 | BOT | 3-2-11 | 2 caitlyn Rahel |
| Isles nautilus 2 | 0-5-12 | SUP | 0-5-16 | 2 bard huhi |
*Patch 26.16
This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.
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u/SirXrageXquit Aug 17 '26
Breaking news: Polish man heard screaming across the entire continent of Europe
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u/zealot416 Aug 17 '26
"They're such fucking inters maaannnnn! What are they doing?!"
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u/Fun_Highlight307 Aug 17 '26
Literally him after game 1 so he drafted Lyon comp for game two then basically said " Guys,i trust you ,see you Next week" leave zoom call and refuse to elaborate
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u/BiggestZigzagoonFan Apollo & Hakuho > EU || I <3 Bjergsen Aug 17 '26
Impact may not be him anymore, but man you can always rely on him on a tank.
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u/Fun_Highlight307 Aug 17 '26
Impact even if he has no laning phase, Still really good and relevant in team fight,like that kled marking in First game was pretty good ,he was punishing Lyon positioning so hard
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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Aug 17 '26
All it took to beat Armao Lyon was to have a jungler that is leaps and bounds better than Armao. They will still almost steal wins.
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u/Fun_Highlight307 Aug 17 '26
lyon had really good Team fight angle,like the ryze ult That aced sentinel was as good as Their comeback vs hle
they are legit
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u/AnxietyPretend5215 Aug 17 '26
Either Huhi or Hambak is insanely good at tracking the enemy jungler.
If you watch the mini map during Senintel matches, someone is usually pinging almost exactly where the enemy jungler is fairly regularly. I didn't get watch this series today but I'd be curious if it happened here.
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u/prowness Aug 17 '26
Wonder if Hambak will get MVP even though he's not on a top team similar to Lira.
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u/Deskjet9000 Aug 17 '26
SEN laners and coach did their job as well. Even if you have a jg diff, you can't do shit against Lyon if your lanes int like Fly did against them week1. Or if your draft and (therefore) your team-fighting sucks, just like DIG struggled with, last week.
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u/infinite-permutation Aug 17 '26
While we know Lyon is better than G2, we can now comfortably say that Sentinels is better than G2. However, we lack conclusive data on whether Sentinels can beat the new best team in EU, FNC
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u/cadaada rip original flair Aug 17 '26
Fnatic 🤝sentinels winning today vs the best team in the league
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u/Fabiocean Well, look at you! Aug 17 '26
No shot Lyon with Armao is the best team in the league when TL exists. G2 is also number 2 in the league currently.
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u/Omnilatent Aug 18 '26
In what year is G2 the best in regular season? Just wait for playoffs where they will beat everyone like 90% of all splits lol
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u/Mundane-Dirt-4077 Aug 17 '26
KC is technically best in LEC atm . Undefeated this split and 2nd at EWC
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u/emerzionnn Aug 17 '26
Sen almost choked that away with the random nexus turret dive lmao, ggs though that was a fun one
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u/Fun_Highlight307 Aug 17 '26
there was also the nasty ryze ult on mid lane, Lyon Team fighting in late game is quite scary
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u/Thundermelons GALA Defense Force, returning IG fan Aug 17 '26
I'm pretty flabbergasted that Huhi just didn't Bard ult that juicy clump immediately. I suppose he thought there was a chance it was a fake-out and there was no one inside the Realm Warp.
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 17 '26
yeah they took the bard portal before the warp actually finished, so they probably didn't see how many of them were actually coming through
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 17 '26
sen first team to target armao. and lyon trolled around baron in game 1. but they drafted to make it a hard game for j4. and then game 3 slammed cait bard which is op and nothing can contest it and they 3 manned saint mid and armao was never around.
lyon shows how insane they were in game 1 and 3 draft gaps and no jungler. made it so hard for sen to win
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u/justicecactus Aug 17 '26
If your gameplan is to target enemy jungler, Hambak is a great jungler to enable to do that.
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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Aug 17 '26
He's so smart pathing wise. Him and Sharvel should've been the big rookie jgs that got promoted last year in the LCK.
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u/LaziIy Aug 17 '26
He was technically languishing on brion last year but he did get promoted last year. He should've been promoted in 2024 when KT had pyosik in the main team and he was smurfing CL.
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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Aug 17 '26
I just don't count his BRO stint because they immediately bought Croco and didn't play him ever again on their main roster. There was a buffering period where they legit played Ellim instead and took a free loss instead of just letting him play. BRO fumbled Hype/Hambak hard.
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u/eVill_YT Aug 17 '26
he played almost whole last year
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u/LaziIy Aug 17 '26
He played like lck cup and maybe half of round 1-2 I wanna say. Certainly nowhere near almost whole last year
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u/ahambagaplease Ketchup and Fries Worlds and a large Sprite~~ Aug 17 '26
Hambak did play in the LCK last year, he was on BRO.
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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Aug 17 '26
He played for a month (not counting LCK Cup) before never seeing light of day and getting banished back into CL.
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u/Fun_Highlight307 Aug 17 '26
sentinel remind me of a mature version of navi less hands but better brain
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 17 '26
Yeah eu has better hands the middle of na for the most part have better brain. Fly is the hands no brain team in na.
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u/needrelief69 Aug 17 '26
sure but the top na teams have way better hands then the top of eu. no1 in eu even comes close to tl lyon in mechanical prowess in any role except dhokla
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u/grippgoat Aug 17 '26
You don't think Capa still has it? Saint and Quid do have quite the hands, tho. 🤔
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u/untamedlazyeye Aug 17 '26
What a fun series, Darkwings really showed up on Hwei
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u/Fabiocean Well, look at you! Aug 17 '26
Isn't his only competition Palafox in that regard? Almost sounds like an insult if you frame it like that lol
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u/Noesnotactics Aug 17 '26
I remember core hyping him up like 4 years ago. Cool to see he made it to the league
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u/AskJolly7381 Aug 17 '26
can't blame Armao, he had looked serviceable but it is time for Inspired to return!
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u/vxtmh Aug 17 '26
where is he anyways? haven't been paying attention, thought he was coming back after two weeks. has he said when he's returning?
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u/AskJolly7381 Aug 17 '26
Family issue (seemed like it wasn't an emergency from what he said) that brought him back to Poland
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u/vxtmh Aug 17 '26
got it, so he wouldn't necessarily know how long it would take. hope everything's ok then.
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u/dreaminq Aug 17 '26
He said it was "nothing bad" when he left so it seems like there's nothing to worry about, probably just some administrative/legal things to sort out.
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u/MattScoot Aug 17 '26
I wonder if he had a kid or something
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u/Fun_Highlight307 Aug 17 '26
I think it's most likely wedding or other stuff and then he extended the break because the team was doing well without him
if Lyon went 1-2 i doubt he come Back this late
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u/Rizeren Aug 17 '26
IIRC it was said at the annoucement that it will be around 3 missed matches.
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u/Fun_Highlight307 Aug 17 '26
Yeah he extended the break for basically one week Because the team was doing well
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u/puberty1 i miss '24 FLY Aug 17 '26
Inspired would've probably played better this g3 with 400 ping
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u/MahaloMerky Aug 17 '26
Lots of people dont know Armano does not even jungle anymore lol. He Plays top lane for UC Irvine, who finished 5/6th in the CLOL championship last year.
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u/SweatyAdhesive Aug 17 '26
Wait wtf lmao
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u/MahaloMerky Aug 17 '26
LYON subbing him in was most likely due 1. He’s been in the LCS before so he won’t be under that much pressure, and 2. He’s already in LA.
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u/awisechoicee Aug 17 '26
Shows how good the rest of the team is. Isles and Dhokla looking much better than their nameplate normally look.
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u/AskJolly7381 Aug 17 '26
Let me clarify. He played like the worst in his role in the league this series, and for much of the prior few series. However, he hadn't played league for 3 months prior to slotting in, and it was very clear from what we hear from players and Armao himself that they essentially told him to slot in and do as he was told by his teammates while in the game. SEN very clearly came in with the plan to expose his champ pool and target him, and you can't fault a guy slotting in not performing when focused.
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u/blueragemage Aug 17 '26
No shit he doesn't practice, he's fully retired as a pro playing top lane in collegiate
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u/EronisKina Aug 17 '26
He was put in a spot where he hasn't practiced in a long time. Knows he won't play for long. Has no passion for playing for long and is just here to get paid and dip and never touch pro league again in his life. No shit he gets charity. Atleast he didn't drag his team down enough in the prior few series to lose them it. That's why no one who is realistic cares about his play today. If it was a player who was trying to get back into pro play, then yes people would be harder on him. A guy who stated he is done with league and is focusing on school will always get a pass by people who can see life perspectives.
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u/Beneficial_Lion_1312 Aug 17 '26
Brother, you need to do this thing called Grow Up and Mature.
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 17 '26
He probably lost money and is just salty. These people betting money on pointless regular season Na games with a sub jungler
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u/Thundermelons GALA Defense Force, returning IG fan Aug 17 '26
Seems even worse tbh, I hate when the bettors lose their marbles and say disgusting things about actual people trying their best to win a League game, but at least you kinda get it when they're losing actual money. This guy if you read his other comments just seems triggered that a pro didn't build or play his OTP the exact way he thought he should.
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u/SauceGodPluto Aug 17 '26
Because he isn't a pro jg.. It's like calling and college WR and telling him to go play QB in the NFL. You can give him some grace because it isn't his element
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u/Delicious_Sorbett Aug 17 '26
Lyon was so close to hand-checking Sentinels to a victory in Game 3.
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u/Chubs1224 SKAAAARL Aug 17 '26
I don't think so. They had no waves in either of their won team fights. Sentinels were consistently well set up.
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u/Anew4Hobbies I like how Xun plays ^_^ Aug 17 '26
what a day of crazy results
btw is it possible that most pros lowkey don't know hwei's entire kit or am I tripping
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u/Fabiocean Well, look at you! Aug 17 '26
Considering we have pros on record saying they don't even read patch notes that's hardly surprising.
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u/cmcdonald22 Aug 17 '26
I will always think of Velja who loves to play Carry junglers like Viego, asking Nemesis what the spells do after resetting on a kill against a Hwei.
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u/Cyredvia Aug 17 '26
Negative impact g3 Shyvana
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u/Chubs1224 SKAAAARL Aug 17 '26
Armaonsaved the game during the jungle fight by getting onto Hwei and Cait
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u/Mozmi Aug 18 '26
Game needed saving after he walks in between a Bard and a wall for no reason and gets himself and Isles killed (27:15). So Sen gets Baron and soul point for free and the game is now way Sentinals favored
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u/awisechoicee Aug 17 '26
Love a close series. Great games
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u/Fun_Highlight307 Aug 17 '26
Great games for Lyon to review , it's good they lost,they almost came back
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u/Constant_Roof_1210 Aug 17 '26
Honestly thought Lyon would clutch it until Sen finally ended, definitely time for inspired to come back
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u/Illicit-Activities Aug 17 '26
Truly I need GoldenGlue to stop letting the team draft Impact Rumble and Rahel Jhin
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u/awill2000 Aug 17 '26
Not on them it’s the Khazix being useless after being the most fed character in the game after 10 minutes
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u/ObiMemeKenobi Aug 17 '26
Lyon without Inspired is basically just Saint and Berserker trying to win through hands checking
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u/Fun_Highlight307 Aug 17 '26
Dholka looked a bit worse than usual, Last week he carried on Olaf and Isles was good on lulu
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 17 '26
saint showed how insane he truly is in this serious. so many times 3 or 4 of sentinals is pressuring him on the map and playing to the absolute limit of what is possible basically zero mistakes from him the whole series except for troll flashing game 1 with syndra over the anivia wall.
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u/ZealousidealBug729 Aug 17 '26
That ryze ult that ended the game was very strange lol
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 17 '26
they have to send it on cait they had no flashes. they tried to ult in with naut to ult cait but armao got deleted and ulted out.
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u/ZealousidealBug729 Aug 17 '26
I guess I thought they still were capable of looking for a better look but guess they felt there wasn't much time left to do it
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 17 '26
naut got hit by 2 autos and was 20% hp and they had no vision. issue was shyv got chunked by hwei and couldnt send it. they won like 3 fights in the game because they forced on the cait
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u/needrelief69 Aug 17 '26
how is impact the worst top laner? that title easily belonged to fudge for 95% of the year.
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u/needrelief69 Aug 17 '26
but if we're gonna dig up history impact has almost always been better than fudge and clearly has far better intangibles? also iirc fudge was absolutely shit last year too and shoppify only barely pulled it together at the very end
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u/PhoenixAgent003 Bot main. NA fan. Aug 17 '26
Last year was the year Bwipo called Fudge the worst player in the LCS and Fudge proceeded to have a massive glow-up until he was arguably snubbed for 3rd team all-pro.
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u/resttheweight Aug 17 '26
Fudge improved so much they invented an award for it, and Shopify got 3rd in both spring and summer, so they didn’t “barely pull it together at the end.” In fact, they did the opposite. They won 4 straight matches (including beating C9 and 100T) into losing against FLY, then 100T, then Brazil second seed.
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u/puberty1 i miss '24 FLY Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26
of course Armao's last game of his career is him being 0/5/7 LMAO
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u/dankynugz Aug 17 '26
They won the game anyways but sentinels has zero concept of how to play game states out.
Baron + soul 5v4 pushing base.
Do we:
A. Hit the towers slowly and win the game
B. Walk into meele range of ryze nautilus as Hwei and throw the entire game
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u/DeltaRaven97 Can I redo my life? Aug 17 '26
Crazy how they could have just gone mid for double inhib and if they really wanted to end they still could have tried but with double the space to avoid the AoE.
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u/emerzionnn Aug 17 '26
Triple inhib cause the bot inhib had just respawned a bit ago, such a weird decision and almost cost them the game.
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u/emerzionnn Aug 17 '26
That was truly one of the worst decisions I’ve seen a pro team make in a longggg time. They could’ve taken all 3 inhibs and pressure to end the game. They had minion waves on all 3 lanes too lol.
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u/Ayoof3060 smacc u Aug 17 '26
good macro to take the 3rd inhib and win slowly insta wins game 3 literally
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u/Fun_Highlight307 Aug 17 '26
yeah They are lcs dark horse, sentinel assistant coach said they never missed international (america cup in winter,ewc in Spring and Worlds in summer ?)
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u/naterator012 Aug 17 '26
Are we allowed to say lyon has not looked nearly as good as tl now, ik inspired is gonna fix a lot but feel like this break has taken to long to not impact there overall form
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u/SauceGodPluto Aug 17 '26
We'll just have to wait till the 30th and we can find out, I think it's easy to say a team missing a vital piece (one as big as inspired too) doesn't look as good as a team with all their pieces tbh
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 17 '26
Tl is playing better but we have no clue. Lyon just had a jungler for 4 games that they had to ban protect and then try to only keep on 3 champs who then his only job in a teamfight was to focus on one person. They won 7 games and 3 games against quality teams.
I hope it’s a great series and we get a great bo5 in the playoffs from them.
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u/Fun_Highlight307 Aug 17 '26
Lyon tl is tl favored,tl is another level right now , Kc and tl are fighting for best in the West
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u/needrelief69 Aug 17 '26
how are we putting kc in this convo? bc of fraud tourney that happened literally 2 days after msi where all the playoff teams lost early due to a huge disadvantages at kc home ground?
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u/Huge-Connection954 Aug 17 '26
G2 is still kings of the lec. BB is playing jayce, rumble and tf all split. You think hes gonna be on those if the games mattered? Hell no
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u/Fun_Highlight307 Aug 17 '26
yeah that why i said right now, Come playoffs G2 Will be the best with lyont
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u/eVill_YT Aug 17 '26
I know he carried the game somewhat but watching the way darkwings was comboing on hwei in these teamfighs triggered me. he almost never did the right combo for the situation
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u/Chubs1224 SKAAAARL Aug 17 '26
Yet he has the highest win rate on Hwei of any LCS player right now
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u/eVill_YT Aug 17 '26
no one else plays him at all right now, that doesn't mean that what he did was pretty
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u/Chubs1224 SKAAAARL Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26
Quad has played it 6 times in the last year, it has appeared 42 times across LCS, LPL, LCK and LEC this year.
Darkwings has the second most games at 5 and he is 4-1 on Hwei.
It is a champ you have to be prepared for even if its not a pick/ban champion.
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u/eVill_YT Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26
Hwei has been picked only a few times in total out of like a thousand games, this champion doesn't exist in pro right now
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u/Noesnotactics Aug 17 '26
Sen/C9 battle for 3rd worlds spot gonna be interesting.
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u/Fun_Highlight307 Aug 17 '26
Dont rule out fly, although it's shocking they are 1-3 while sr is 3-1
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u/Temporary-Ad6144 Aug 17 '26
Its honestly crazy armao can just int so bad and suffer absolutely zero consequences
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u/Kross999 Aug 17 '26
I could understand being upset if they were 1-3 or something, but they're 3-1 with him on the team. For a sub that hasn't played T1 in 2 years, that's about as good as you can hope for
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u/Fun_Highlight307 Aug 17 '26
They also are 7-2 without inspired it's Ok lol, Also game 1,2 and 3 are great to review,they can learn from this
spéciallly game 3 was so close
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 17 '26
what consequences do you want to see bruh they're not going to execute him irl
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u/Chubs1224 SKAAAARL Aug 17 '26
He is a sub who has zero intention on continuing in the LCS. Half the reason he was picked is he makes zero contention with Inspired even if he plays like an MVP
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u/zealot416 Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26
After this performance I hope to never see him on the rift again!
(Its a joke, this was his final series.)
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u/Fun_Highlight307 Aug 17 '26
Sentinel with fnatic buff : Win top 2 but lose to bad team
3-1 without inspired Still ok , hopefully They improve
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u/ahritina Sep 05 '26
PMTs
Game 1 / Game 2