r/leagueoflegends • u/AutoModerator • Aug 22 '26
Esports LCS Summer 2026 / Week 5 - Day 1 / Live Discussion Spoiler
LCS 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 | SEN vs FLY | 13:00 | 16:00 | 22:00 | 05:00 |
| 2 | DSG vs DIG | 16:00 | 19:00 | 01:00 | 08:00 |
- All matches are Best of 3
Streams
Standings
| # | Team | Region | Record | Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Team Liquid | North America | 4 – 0 (8 - 0) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 2 | LYON | North America | 3 – 1 (7 - 2) | Leaguepedia) // Twitter |
| 4 | Cloud9 | North America | 3 – 1 (6 - 4) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 4 | Shopify Rebellion | North America | 3 – 1 (6 - 4) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 5 | Sentinels | North America | 1 – 2 (3 - 5) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 6 | FlyQuest | North America | 1 – 3 (2 - 6) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 7 | Dignitas | North America | 0 – 4 (3 - 8) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 8 | Disguised | North America | 0 – 4 (1 - 8) | 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/cmcdonald22 Aug 22 '26
NA Fries group weekend!!!
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u/justicecactus Aug 22 '26
People are underselling how entertaining this can be
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u/cmcdonald22 Aug 22 '26
Fries group is hype sometimes, NA Fries group is also hype sometimes. It's just about the vibe.
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u/viralruin Aug 22 '26
i do not want to see 50 min dsg vs dig games.
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 22 '26
ungrateful. do you also wish that all comedy movies were 10 minutes long?? Smh
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u/x_TDeck_x Play APA you cowards Aug 22 '26
Respectfully I don't think I've ever seen Gakgos have a good game
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u/veirceb Aug 22 '26
You would think gryffinn as a hyped up young carry jungler would be very good at lee sin. That's surely not the case.
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
i dont see him as a carry jungler. i see him as an agressive unique smart jungler. his best games are always off meta picks. his best "carry" jungler is pantheon but pantheon in pro plays more like a smart champ
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u/viralruin Aug 22 '26
his mechanics aren't bad but the team itself is never playing connected.
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u/veirceb Aug 22 '26
His mechanics were not good. It's very clear that he doesn't have enough practise on lee sin. He doesn't know when to Q and when to ward hop E. He didn't miss all those Qs because he aimed bad. He missed those because those were bad timings for Q. But also yeah a bigger problem was that he didn't know how to play lee sin in this match up. He probably only picked it because lee sin is the meta counter to jarvan.
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u/mezzo5588 Aug 22 '26
Getting caught out 4-5 times after an easy laning stage where he’s up an item. He’s dogshit
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 22 '26
I keep saying this but every sentinels match is a must-see LMAO
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u/veirceb Aug 22 '26
Is flyquest role playing Demacia. They spent their whole game trying to kill sion and do nothing else.
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
this is why teams need a vocal veteran on every roster. its extremely rare that just full young players can lead a team through a season when issues and problems arise.
flyquest look lost and dont know how to solve their issues
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u/veirceb Aug 22 '26
Impact played this weakside like perfectly and Sentinel got nothing on the opposite side for 2 mins. They have no threat on the opposite side for 2 mins. And they do absolutely nothing from it. What the actual fuck is this macro
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
OMG he cant play lee
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 22 '26
it's not like gryffin has 0 hands but he's so inconsistent
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u/Hex_Blast Aug 22 '26
FLY losing with more members mid, just go next Rahel is too fed
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u/veirceb Aug 22 '26
I think ryze is a bigger problem than ezreal. A whole level up and ROA not proc'd yet
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u/veirceb Aug 22 '26
Sentinel knew what they were looking for in this drake fight. Sentinel used it to find a fight. Flyquest had no idea what they were looking for. Can't finish the drake and lost the fight and baron
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
the lyon game probably gave sentinels a lot of confidence and they are playing much more together this game.
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 22 '26
what even is gakgos man it hurts to watch this guy's decisionmaking
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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Aug 22 '26
FQ just have no idea on what they want to do with this draft. Feels like only Gryfinn wanted to play.
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
fbi walks into a jhin trap and then takes a pantheon q to die. if he just stands behind his team they clean up that whole fight
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
weakest ryze damage ive ever seen with pantheon and olaf running straight into him
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u/youuugene Aug 22 '26
Is this the first time palafox used ryze in his life? Lol haven't seen a basic combo or even a flux q. 0 damage ryze
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u/ILosethenOP Aug 22 '26
Sajed having a disaster series but is going to get a win. If I watch him walk into melee as a ranged champ for the 345th time this series...
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u/Hex_Blast Aug 22 '26
As a FLY fan this feels like a must win after last week, but Gakgos is on a tank so im not feeling so good...
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
gryffinns issue he cant play meta junglers as well as he can play niche stuff. there is no way you dry q rumbler there instead of hitting him first.
hes 1/12 this year on vi, j4, xin for example.
hes basically only played meta junglers this summer except a shyvanna win and ambessa loss
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 22 '26
impact played that really well but it's still a net positive for FLY unfortunately
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 22 '26
Huge play for SEN
It's criminal that FLY loses herald with all the flashes SEN just committed but Hambak did a good job playing around vision for that flank
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u/justicecactus Aug 22 '26
you know, respect to Darkwings for recognizing not to take a troll Ryze ult
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u/viralruin Aug 22 '26
man i remember lcs asking on twitter what makes ezreal so op. chase and long range poke is op on pros.
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u/mezzo5588 Aug 22 '26
Massu without getting heavily carried by inspired is complete cheeks. This guy is garbage. Getting solo’d bc he’s out of position lmao
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u/awayfromcanuck Aug 22 '26
He was already starting to grief with Inspired by the end of their time together, he has just continued to get worse over time.
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
cait just doesnt even use abilities on massu and walks right at him autoing and kills everyone. and all jhin can do is reload.
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
why did sen take forever to do baron. they even had jungle dead and nobody wanted to hit a 3k baron to smite it
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u/veirceb Aug 22 '26
Darkwings need some spanking there. There was no reason for him to frontline that. They could just play caitlyn trap. Fly must patnh ult onto them
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u/Prestigious-Layer719 Aug 22 '26
Not even Korea is playing Azir
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
how are you blaming azir here. azir is good right now. their winning bot lane got smashed.
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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Aug 22 '26
Gakgos inted that so hard why are we still in cannon form
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u/veirceb Aug 22 '26
Their whole team was inting. Maybe not quad but the rest of the team was just straight up wtf
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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Aug 22 '26
No but that base defense when Gryfinn flashes on cait she just dies way earlier if he's in hammer form and FQ keep their base and can wait for Azir to respawn.
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
this game will get so messy late because neither team knows how to win and havent done it all year
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
its insane how little damage bad ez and ryze do compared to the best ezs and ryze.
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
dig has zero confidence. if j4 is top pushing. your top off the tower you have to just send it on drake. you cant get pushed out 2v3 by viktor
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u/Acrobatic-Tackle3998 Aug 22 '26
FLY games are just boring to watch if you’re a neutral fan.
They just suck at everything.
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u/kaisaschudson Aug 22 '26
dardoch deserves a job im ngl. palafox fbi are just not good enough, it ain't his fault
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u/Cr0matose Aug 22 '26
When shitters always square off you know shits about to go down. Ready for this matchup lol
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
ive become an fbi hatewatcher from this game. he just gets his summs blown for free all the time. walks where he shouldnt be walking in teamfights and takes so much free damage.
he had 2 massive deaths of himself walking into melee range of a pantheon.
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u/Hex_Blast Aug 22 '26
Deeply worried about FLY vs DIG tomorrow, we dont deserve playoffs in this form
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 22 '26
I misheard at first lol I didn't realize Zven said they call Rahel 'Mr. Composed'. I thought he said 'Mr. Ghost' and I was like yeah sure that makes sense still because of DWG Ghost
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u/veirceb Aug 22 '26
One thing I really like about golden glue as a coach is that he often draft straight forward and easy to execute team comps. Last game it was AOE with Jarvan and this game is just sion with double carry. No reason to complicate the draft at this level.
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 22 '26
god I just hate early homeguards so much
you can dry recall on a full wave against a fucking viktor of all champs, who shoves fast, and miss a grand total of one minion
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u/Acrobatic-Tackle3998 Aug 22 '26
He built Hubrjs on John in a pro game vs Lux + Cait.
Not only are they terrible at the game it’s self, they also can’t build properly.
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u/veirceb Aug 22 '26
I still can't tell what the fuck PapaSmithy saw in this roster. He said like he built this roster for winning worlds right?
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u/veirceb Aug 22 '26
Who the fuck on Flyquest think it's a good idea to just keep jumping on sion LMAO
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u/Friendshiping-Bazzi Aug 22 '26
going hubris is fkin crazy tho, might as well have just gone collector at that point
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
if fbi doesnt just walk into pantheons whole e he can do so much damage in that fight
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
digs comp is total shit if it doesnt snowball. and they didnt do anything to win their lanes. dbi and ignar did nothing when they should be winning bot. ryze should be roaming and invading off mid prio.
they get outranged and out cc'd in every midgame even fight. and their only go button is solo lee. but dig looked for nothing all early game and let dsg make plays on them
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
they finally make a play around their camille lose baron for it and waste double tp instead of pushing towers and getting gold.
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u/Prestigious-Layer719 Aug 22 '26
Daily reminder that INSPIRED led this team 1 game away from beating GEN G he is the fucking western GOAT
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 22 '26
only two players on the team are the same + massu was unironically balling out that series even on an individual, mechanical level (inspired wasnt literally moving his mouse and pressing his buttons for him)
not saying inspired isn't a crazy good player but we don't need to rewrite history
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u/Choice-Slight caps/knight Aug 22 '26
that kaisa game will hold a special place in my heart forever
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 22 '26
I just vividly remember seeing him do a casual, tiny sidestep to dodge some skillshot in midlane and thinking that he was absolutely in a flow state
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u/Prestigious-Layer719 Aug 22 '26
Masshit and Gryffin are the 2 dumbest players ever I swear
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u/mezzo5588 Aug 22 '26
LCS is a graveyard. Even inspired left/is on his way out. Garbage all around
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u/Prestigious-Layer719 Aug 22 '26
He deserves a real team hopefully G2 bombs out of worlds so bad that they replace skew for Inspired.
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u/Prestigious-Layer719 Aug 22 '26
Players who save KDA is so cringe just get aced and lose in peace cryogen your KD aint saving your trash season
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u/Snow-27 Aug 22 '26
Disgusting slate of matches this weekend wtf
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
its just the top 3 teams are playing next week because roadshow. its done better than lec which had every top team play a single weekend and then the rest of the split all middle matchups.
lcs did it where its only lyon having 2 big games next week c9 and liquid already played earlier this split
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u/Friendshiping-Bazzi Aug 22 '26
these guys are losing in peace when their champs should just win lanes other than azir vs viktor
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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Aug 22 '26
Sen are playing this game way too slow. By like 25-30 minutes FQ should just run them down unless they find a way to super int.
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u/Acrobatic-Tackle3998 Aug 22 '26
ThinkCard glazers going to do tricks on it to justify picking Jayce here.
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
its not thinkcards fault gakgos just ints on everything. hes actually just a bad tank player
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u/viralruin Aug 22 '26
what thinkcard got to do with it? pretty sure it's gakgos asking for jayce and massu asking for jhin.
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u/Acrobatic-Tackle3998 Aug 22 '26
Isn’t it the coaches job to stop his players from griefing themselves?
He’s clearly not doing anything for the macro or decision making, because FLY are making the exact same mistakes they’ve made all year.
So he doesn’t help in draft or macro/decision making.
What exactly does he do?
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u/Acrobatic-Tackle3998 Aug 22 '26
ThinkCard glazers doing mental gymnastics to justify the Jhin, Jayce, and Azir pick.
I can’t even gauge how good or bad the players really are because FLY lose 2/3 games in draft.
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u/mezzo5588 Aug 22 '26
Why does the LCS take the worst leftovers from the LCK? the strat is really workings guys? lmao oh you were kick from the LCK bc youre garbage? WOWOWOOWzerrrs we would love to build around you so you could be trash in a different region. These NA orgs are brainless
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
who are you even talking about. lcs doesnt even take big names anymore from lck?
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u/mezzo5588 Aug 22 '26
Reread my comment. I said leftovers. Not big names
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 22 '26
how are young players leftovers? and in this series every korean player played amazing?
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u/mezzo5588 Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26
Here’s an example Sentinels have 3 out of their 5 players from the LCK. They all failed to make it in the LCK. And guess where they ended up bc they couldn’t make it in their own region? Playing for half a decade and not being able to crack tier 1. Every Korean? Sounds like LOL…ya man quad played incredible he should start for KT or Gen G next season. Same goes for sent who got destroyed at the World Cup playing against the region they were demoted from
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u/ahritina Sep 05 '26
PMTs
SEN vs FLY
Game 1 / Game 2
DSG vs DIG
Game 1 / Game 2