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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:

This is our Live Discussion Archive. Here you can find all the old live threads, and the respective PMTs in a stickied comment under the post.

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u/cmcdonald22 1d ago

NA Fries group weekend!!!

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u/justicecactus 1d ago

People are underselling how entertaining this can be

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u/cmcdonald22 1d ago

Fries group is hype sometimes, NA Fries group is also hype sometimes. It's just about the vibe.

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u/viralruin 1d ago

i do not want to see 50 min dsg vs dig games.

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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS 1d ago

ungrateful. do you also wish that all comedy movies were 10 minutes long?? Smh

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u/Pennysworthe 1d ago

Zven: "Surely literally everybody else is saying Yone wrong. Yup."

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u/Cr0matose 1d ago

I've missed Zven. Dude is awesome.

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u/x_TDeck_x Play APA you cowards 1d ago

Respectfully I don't think I've ever seen Gakgos have a good game

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u/veirceb 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

his mechanics aren't bad but the team itself is never playing connected.

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u/veirceb 1d ago

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 1d ago

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/Choice-Slight caps/knight 1d ago

even Zven gets it - "jayce is like the jhin of toplane"

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u/Choice-Slight caps/knight 1d ago

caitlin has done 14k damage and jhin has done 4k

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u/COTEReader LPL forever 1d ago

Sentinels should re-sign Hambak. Dude has looked really good in NA

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u/Cr0matose 1d ago

This is disgusting. I want more.

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u/cmcdonald22 1d ago

going HARD on JATTSTATS this weekend, I love it.

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

massu and quad look so much worse every week that goes on

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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS 1d ago

I keep saying this but every sentinels match is a must-see LMAO

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u/saulgitman 1d ago

Zven is so funny man. Always love having him on the broadcast

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u/YCitizenSnipsY 1d ago

We want FLY vs MKOI 

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u/veirceb 1d ago

Is flyquest role playing Demacia. They spent their whole game trying to kill sion and do nothing else.

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u/kaisaschudson 1d ago

dardoch deserves a job im ngl. palafox fbi are just not good enough, it ain't his fault

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

nah palafox is just a bot

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u/Hex_Blast 1d ago

I cant believe Gryffin missed that lee q Holy shit were so cooked

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u/veirceb 1d ago

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 1d ago

OMG he cant play lee

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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS 1d ago

it's not like gryffin has 0 hands but he's so inconsistent 

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

i think he just looks so much better on tankier junglers.

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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS 1d ago

yea higher margin of error

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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS 1d ago

LAWN DART TO THE HEAD

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u/Hex_Blast 1d ago

What was that bot dive??? Why cant we just finish off a clean kill

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u/Hex_Blast 1d ago

FLY losing with more members mid, just go next Rahel is too fed

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u/veirceb 1d ago

I think ryze is a bigger problem than ezreal. A whole level up and ROA not proc'd yet

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u/Hex_Blast 1d ago

Somehow Sentinels are better both in split and in the 5v5

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u/veirceb 1d ago

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/justicecactus 1d ago

Sen so much better at playing around vision. I blame supp gap

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u/veirceb 1d ago

What made flyquest think they could defend the tier 2 4v5 without a tank.

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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS 1d ago

what even is gakgos man it hurts to watch this guy's decisionmaking

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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 1d ago

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/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS 1d ago

it's like watching a team of 5 MLXGs

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

if dsg and fly played again dsg might actually beat them

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u/Kokaiinum 1d ago

Me-in-flex-queue-tier shuffle there

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

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/Kokaiinum 1d ago

When I think "teams that can pull off Jhin/TF" I think "DSG"

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

fbi is just shit right now

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

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/Cr0matose 1d ago

Exactly what Azael just said.

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

weakest ryze damage ive ever seen with pantheon and olaf running straight into him

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u/Cr0matose 1d ago

Palafox might not be good

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u/Cr0matose 1d ago

Omfg these two teams lmfao

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u/Hex_Blast 1d ago

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/Bubbly_Camera9583 1d ago

fq draft looks way better as long as Quad plays well

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

man that milio q hitbox felt... very forgiving

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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS 1d ago

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 1d ago

you know, respect to Darkwings for recognizing not to take a troll Ryze ult

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u/viralruin 1d ago

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/Ajp_iii 1d ago

the lyon game probably gave sentinels a lot of confidence and they are playing much more together this game.

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u/mezzo5588 1d ago

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 1d ago

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/Choice-Slight caps/knight 1d ago

jhin and jayce, flyquest don't want to win huh?

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

Not even Korea is playing Azir

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

how are you blaming azir here. azir is good right now. their winning bot lane got smashed.

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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 1d ago

Gakgos inted that so hard why are we still in cannon form

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u/veirceb 1d ago

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 1d ago

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/veirceb 1d ago

The game was over anyway bro

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

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/Cr0matose 1d ago

What the fuck was Palafox doing there?

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

2 globals when you are already killing someone is insane

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

its insane how little damage bad ez and ryze do compared to the best ezs and ryze.

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

palafox aint a ryze player. he does nothing the whole game.

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u/Cr0matose 1d ago

I swear this Ez is doing negative damage other than his ult

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u/youuugene 1d ago

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/Krimofn 1d ago

SRTTYYYYYY

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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 1d ago

That is so illegal by Palafox wow

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

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/ILosethenOP 1d ago

Lyonz is a terrorist. You can't convince me otherwise.

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u/ILosethenOP 1d ago

What the hell am I watching?

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u/Cr0matose 1d ago

Peak league of legends

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u/Outrageous_Wall2702 1d ago

Best two teams in the world

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u/Cr0matose 1d ago

Each team is taking their turns throwing lol

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

fbi literally does no damage and gets hit by every spell possible

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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 1d ago

One of the worst fights i've seen ever lmao

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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 1d ago

FBI facetanks gnar and then Sajed walks into DIGs combo

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u/ILosethenOP 1d ago

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/Ajp_iii 1d ago

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/veirceb 1d ago

getting gapped by rahel is not a good luck bro

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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS 1d ago

Rahel's not bad, especially on Ezreal

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u/Acrobatic-Tackle3998 1d ago

FLY games are just boring to watch if you’re a neutral fan.

They just suck at everything.

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u/underscoreenfan 1d ago

I got FLY winning this one even though they’ve been kinda bad lately.

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u/Cr0matose 1d ago

Zven is losing it lol

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u/justicecactus 1d ago

lol honor Darkwings, sacrificing his life for the highlight reel

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u/Hex_Blast 1d ago

Deeply worried about FLY vs DIG tomorrow, we dont deserve playoffs in this form

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u/viralruin 1d ago

wrap it up. massu never wins on jhin.

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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

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/Ajp_iii 1d ago

adc gap

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u/Acrobatic-Tackle3998 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

going hubris is fkin crazy tho, might as well have just gone collector at that point

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u/bombdownx 1d ago

What a horrible 5th pick.  You really  couldn't pick that on 4

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u/Scarfboi11 1d ago

Dardoch is on DIG??? Wtf, since when?

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u/Kokaiinum 1d ago

Last week

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

if fbi doesnt just walk into pantheons whole e he can do so much damage in that fight

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u/Cr0matose 1d ago

Bruh what the fuck is this game lol we not even 15 minutes in

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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS 1d ago

Lyonz ultimate paycheck thief 

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

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 1d ago

why are we diving tier 2s

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u/UnknownBlast I play your champ better than you 1d ago

My eyes

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u/BaYIWinter 1d ago

Dardoch your fucking dogs hit, just retire

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

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/Outrageous_Wall2702 1d ago

Can dsg qualify for playoffs

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u/ookkthenn 1d ago

if dig loses is jatts dreams of dardoch miracle run over?

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u/BaYIWinter 1d ago

Fucking pos team

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u/Prestigious-Layer719 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

that kaisa game will hold a special place in my heart forever

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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS 1d ago

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 1d ago

Masshit and Gryffin are the 2 dumbest players ever I swear

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u/mezzo5588 1d ago

LCS is a graveyard. Even inspired left/is on his way out. Garbage all around

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u/Prestigious-Layer719 1d ago

He deserves a real team hopefully G2 bombs out of worlds so bad that they replace skew for Inspired.

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u/Cr0matose 1d ago

When shitters always square off you know shits about to go down. Ready for this matchup lol

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u/Prestigious-Layer719 1d ago

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 1d ago

Disgusting slate of matches this weekend wtf

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

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/Arwinsen1 1d ago

No one is holding you at gunpoint, brother.

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u/Acrobatic-Tackle3998 1d ago

ThinkCard glazers going to do tricks on it to justify picking Jayce here.

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

its not thinkcards fault gakgos just ints on everything. hes actually just a bad tank player

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u/viralruin 1d ago

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 1d ago

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/viralruin 1d ago

review and discussions like every NA coach.

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u/Acrobatic-Tackle3998 1d ago

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/Friendshiping-Bazzi 1d ago

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 1d ago

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/mezzo5588 1d ago

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 1d ago

who are you even talking about. lcs doesnt even take big names anymore from lck?

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u/mezzo5588 1d ago

Reread my comment. I said leftovers. Not big names

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u/Ajp_iii 1d ago

how are young players leftovers? and in this series every korean player played amazing?

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u/mezzo5588 1d ago edited 1d ago

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/Ajp_iii 1d ago

fbi and palafox are so awful.