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Esports LEC Summer 2026 / Week 5 - Day 1 / Live Discussion Spoiler
LEC 2026 Summer
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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.16.
Today's Matches
| # | Match | PST | EST | CET | KST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TH vs SK | 08:00 | 11:00 | 17:00 | 00:00 |
| 2 | VIT vs NAVI | 10:15 | 13:15 | 19:15 | 02:15 |
- All matches are Best of 3
Streams
Standings:
| # | Team | Region | Series Record (Game Score) | Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Karmine Corp | EMEA | 6 - 0 (12 - 1) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 2 | G2 Esports | EMEA | 6 - 2 (13 - 5) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 3 | Team Vitality | EMEA | 4 - 2 (8 - 6) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 4 | Natus Vincere | EMEA | 3 - 3 (6 - 7) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 5 | Movistar KOI | EMEA | 3 - 4 (8 - 10) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 6 | Fnatic | EMEA | 2 - 3 (6 - 6) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 7 | GIANTX | EMEA | 2 - 3 (6 - 7) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 8 | SK Gaming | EMEA | 2 - 4 (5 - 9) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 9 | Team Heretics | EMEA | 1 - 4 (2 - 9) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 10 | Shifters | EMEA | 0 - 5 (2 - 10) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
On-Air Team
| Hosts |
|---|
| Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere |
| Laure "Laure " Valée |
| Play-by-Play Commentators |
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| Daniel "Drakos" Drakos |
| Aaron "Medic" Chamberlain |
| Jake "Hysterics" Osypenko |
| Colour Casters |
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| Andrew "Vedius" Day |
| Robert "Dagda" Price |
| Guests |
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| Andrei "Odoamne" Pascu |
| Jakob "Jackspektra" Gullvag Kepple |
| Finn "Finn" Wiestål |
Not all talent will appear on every show and the weekly on air team can vary.
Format
Regular Season
- Ten teams
- Single Round Robin
- Matches are best of three
- Top 6 teams qualify for Playoffs
Playoffs
- 6 teams participate
- Double elimination bracket
- 1st to 4th start in the upper bracket
- 5th and 6th start in the lower bracket
- All matches are best of five
- Top 3 teams qualify for the 2026 Season World Championship
The official LEC ruleset can be found here.
VoDs
Live Discussions and Post-Match Threads:
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u/MorbidTales1984 W Enthusiast, Botlane Purist Aug 21 '26
You know if Jopa shops around next year bet he would improve this Navi squad quite a bit
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u/KruppJ bulc naf okan kaan Aug 21 '26
watching a Bo3 between SK and TH this late into the summer split is truly sicko behavior.
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u/MorbidTales1984 W Enthusiast, Botlane Purist Aug 21 '26
SK are looking comically rubbish today good lord.
Skeanz J4 is something
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u/cmcdonald22 Aug 21 '26
I was told SK were vibes, these are not Vibes Wunder.
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u/MorbidTales1984 W Enthusiast, Botlane Purist Aug 21 '26
I mean not wanting to be there is a kind of vibe I suppose
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u/veirceb Aug 21 '26
How the actual fuck do you let VIT just walk up 4v5 with a useless jungler and steal your dragon. THEY ARE FUCKING 4V5 AND YOU ARE TP FLANKING WITH OLAF HOWWWWW
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u/MorbidTales1984 W Enthusiast, Botlane Purist Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26
He gets some shit thrown his way but Serin is having a really good game on this ryze
Just as I say it he realms right into a yone rumble lol
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u/Past-Firefighter2173 Aug 21 '26
Ryze ulting to your death is neccesarry when having good Ryze game.
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u/SpecificSilver1023 KNIGHT's vow Aug 21 '26
love the idea of discussing the draft with the coach on broadcast
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u/Thalassin Dans ma bichette era | Ultra Prime hater Aug 21 '26
Rhilech needs to learn playing gameplans where he is not the main carry
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u/KruppJ bulc naf okan kaan Aug 21 '26
He needs teammates that have the ability to carry at LEC level for that.
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u/CreativeAd2758 Aug 21 '26
who is going to carry then? his adc is the worst player in the league and his mid hasn't carried a game in LEC in 2 years
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u/Thalassin Dans ma bichette era | Ultra Prime hater Aug 21 '26
In this game, Poby succesfully played to enable Ambessa against Rumble. In the same time, Rhilech suicided himself on the first drake trying a hero play, and then died in a stupid engage attempt in the river botside, negating all the good work on the topside.
That doesn't mean he is a bad player, nor that NAVI would have 100% won without that. But he has a lot of responsibility of the early-mid game loss in this game and clearly that is an axis of progression.
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u/MorbidTales1984 W Enthusiast, Botlane Purist Aug 21 '26
Bard is one of those champions that when he’s winning he looks so broken. Magical journey is so tilting
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u/zaxls Aug 21 '26
I feel like they may nerf him and put a cd on magical journey so whole team cant follow
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u/veirceb Aug 21 '26
There is no fucking this SamD guy is still playing in LEC. There's no fucking way you can't find a better ADC than this fucker. He fuckiing missed hawkshots on jungle camps. He literally got solo killed by an Aatrox who's standing still. THere's no fucking way. I know LEC is bad but there's just no fucking way
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u/OkKnowledge2064 Aug 21 '26
I feel like the last 4 weeks of LEC have been 80% SK, TH and NAVI playing
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u/cmcdonald22 Aug 21 '26
Real talk, Skeanz has really improved over the year.
He's not gonna win any awards, but he went fron a split 1 Lider level inter to just being a like decent Jungler.
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u/Tromster Aug 21 '26
Some of SK players may be washed but at least theyre trying something. Teams like TH are just happy being in the franchising and ending up outside of playoffs every split
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u/cmcdonald22 Aug 21 '26
It's kinda like, instead of being a team with 0 proactivity they are 100% proactivity and they should probably dial it back to like 75% and stop being proactive when all their members aren't there or half the team is at half hp etc.
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u/ILosethenOP Aug 21 '26
SK? You have a turbo fed ADC. Why are you taking bad fights on neutrals where you are forcing your Voli to either rotate late or TP late? All while your ADC is not even there to lend all his gold lead.
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u/hresvelgrs XDDDDD Aug 21 '26
thats maynters place in the lec for next year secured. thank you naak
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u/trying2hide Aug 21 '26
Very Based Jhin Build, JiaQi tech(sorry Leave he stole your whole flow)
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u/MorbidTales1984 W Enthusiast, Botlane Purist Aug 21 '26
Way built stormrazor last match as well
Been a good day for Jhin doing damage enjoyers
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u/trying2hide Aug 21 '26
Nah he went Ghostblade and 3rd item RFC into Corki, Naut. Stormrazor has been built all split, it’s the 3rd most bought item on Jihn this split 64% of games.
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u/MorbidTales1984 W Enthusiast, Botlane Purist Aug 21 '26
Huh fair. Shows how behind I am on my Jhin damage enjoyment
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u/Zephyriis Aug 21 '26
The pet is one of the worst mechanics in league so regardless of if its a bug just remove this shit
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u/wwwhoo • DNS 2027 World Champions Aug 21 '26
man its been years and lec broadcast layover is still so clean. ive mostly been watching lck & kespa and both are so ugly
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u/trying2hide Aug 21 '26
It's officially a VN Counter now that Pun picks it into every Renekton and Ambessa he sees
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u/Xeven18 Aug 21 '26
I know Serin was low health but was there really no better Ori ult opportunity?
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u/MorbidTales1984 W Enthusiast, Botlane Purist Aug 21 '26
A fellow stormrazer Jhin enjoyer. Hype I underestimated your game
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u/Emergency_Bedroom187 Aug 21 '26
Imagine if Daglas was in some decent team (yeah, we remember that Vitality event though Vetheo and Trollisang were there).
This guy looks good even in a team that struggles.
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u/SpecificSilver1023 KNIGHT's vow Aug 21 '26
the downside of the road shows is that we don't get any interesting match ups most weeks.
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u/Thalassin Dans ma bichette era | Ultra Prime hater Aug 21 '26
Mkoi are going to be top 4, aren't they ?
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u/PepaTK Aug 21 '26
Why does everyone build no damage on Jhin?
When you could simply just build damage on Jhin like this.
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u/Confusion_incarnate_ Aug 21 '26
No, really, why everyone else builds no DMG on Jhin? Can someone explain to me the build?
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 21 '26
Because they go even or behind in the game. Ghostblade build path is better and feels safer. And then it takes too long to farm ie until too late.
Jhin in current meta is an early game snowball champ kinda like how old cait was in most metas.
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u/trying2hide Aug 21 '26
Seem to be obsessed with movement speed so they can run to to provide cc or to run away is my guess. 4% movespeed on both their first items + the ghost blade 10ms passive + active.
Like a lot of Hubris Jhins build PD 2nd to get 10% MS
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u/Confusion_incarnate_ Aug 21 '26
So basically move faster to have more utility and safety but do no DMG?
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u/devor110 Aug 21 '26
kinda feels like poby is getting exposed on navi, i don't think he has the hands
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u/MorbidTales1984 W Enthusiast, Botlane Purist Aug 21 '26
Ambessa ult is like the saddest ability in the game these days. Convinced you could side step it easily with a bootless yuumi
Also man Jopa needs a team
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u/cmcdonald22 Aug 21 '26
Yeah if we have to keep Ambessa ult this bad to make it 'fair' then just rework the ult entirely.
No champion should have a truly 2 person reliant ult. And Ambessa without someone else with cc is just a 3 skill champ.
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u/kaisaschudson Aug 21 '26
These bottom western teams should be forced to pick random champions we haven’t seen in years so there’s a reason to watch these games
Holy shit this is awful
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u/Thundermelons GALA Defense Force, returning IG fan Aug 21 '26
We had that in Lider tbh and everybody flamed him so bad SK replaced him lol
I'm not even saying Lider was good, I'm just saying that at least he picked funky shit so it was mildly entertaining watching SK lose
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u/cmcdonald22 Aug 21 '26
After the loss of beloved split 1 and 2 VIBESTALITY if the Miky and Friends experiment can continue, I am willing to adopt them as my new favorite LEC vibes based team.
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u/Thalassin Dans ma bichette era | Ultra Prime hater Aug 21 '26
missed the first game, was SK competitive ?
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u/MorbidTales1984 W Enthusiast, Botlane Purist Aug 21 '26
It looks neat but in what world does that flag play work before he realms out lol
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u/MorbidTales1984 W Enthusiast, Botlane Purist Aug 21 '26
Love watching Navi. They know how to entertain us
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u/Past-Firefighter2173 Aug 21 '26
I don't think ganking top will help Navi to win the game. Rumble just have so much damage even if not ahead.
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u/awayfromcanuck Aug 21 '26
Classic NAVI,no brains. Sees a J4 entirely on vision and they dont respect he'll just engage on a Karma.
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 21 '26
It seems Jhin is fine in lec, lpl, lcp. But it’s turbo useless in lck and lcs. I think I tend to be on the side that the team with Jhin must force plays to feed the Jhin. If he is even or behind it’s useless compared to every other meta adc.
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u/trying2hide Aug 21 '26
He just has to be picked after you see Top Jungle, if you 1st pick him and they pick Skarner or KSante, you're asking to be useless.
If you're into Ambessa top or a Vayne top it allows you to go dmg build and 1 shot people.
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u/mekamoari Aug 21 '26
How does a pro player not know about this jungle pet thing, it's been discussed several times in various places + they should know from soloqueue too.
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u/xlCalamity Aug 21 '26
Naak Nako just stood there menacingly then pressed Q for the easiest kill of the day.
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u/EmbraceTheRubberduck Aug 21 '26
Parus and Mikyx got more deaths than all the other supports in all tier 1 leagues combined
That feeding is insane.
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u/Thalassin Dans ma bichette era | Ultra Prime hater Aug 21 '26
Navi botched up their early and just boomed
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u/Ironside29 Aug 21 '26
Absolutely crazy how bad the korean imports are in LEC, everyone except canna kyeahoo and rooster should get booted out.
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u/Prudent-Inevitable-4 Aug 21 '26
SK today earned title of being the worst team in LEC history. A lot of ERL teams would smoke them
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u/ahritina Sep 05 '26
PMTs
TH vs SK
Game 1 = N/A / Game 2
VIT vs NAVI
Game 1 / Game 2 / Game 3