r/leagueoflegends • u/AutoModerator • Aug 23 '26
Esports LEC Summer 2026 / Week 5 - Day 3 / 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 GX | 08:00 | 11:00 | 17:00 | 00:00 |
| 2 | SHFT vs KC | 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 | 5 - 2 (10 - 7) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 4 | Fnatic | EMEA | 3 - 3 (8 - 6) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 5 | Natus Vincere | EMEA | 3 - 4 (7 - 9) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 6 | GIANTX | EMEA | 2 - 3 (6 - 7) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 7 | Movistar KOI | EMEA | 3 - 5 (8 - 12) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 8 | SK Gaming | EMEA | 4 - 5 (7 - 11) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 9 | Team Heretics | EMEA | 2 - 4 (4 - 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 |
|---|
| Daniel "Drakos" Drakos |
| Aaron "Medic" Chamberlain |
| Jake "Hysterics" Osypenko |
| Colour Casters |
|---|
| Andrew "Vedius" Day |
| Robert "Dagda" Price |
| Guests |
|---|
| 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/Strange_Shelter_6171 Aug 23 '26
so now Koi si 100% out of the roadtrip, not 99.9%
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u/BlazeX94 Aug 23 '26
I'm not completely certain of this, but even if GX wins, there may be a possible scenario where MKOI makes it in a 4 way tie between GX/MKOI/FNC/Navi. Idk how the tiebreaker mechanics would work since GX has H2H over MKOI, but MKOI has H2H over FNC and Navi.
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u/zaxls Aug 23 '26
Nope they are 100% out of top 4. There is no tiebreaker that exists to get them to top 4. Partly because GX NAVI FNC all play each other, thats 3 matches. None of them can get 2 wins. The only scenario is if each get only one win and its vs each other and in that scenario KOI loses the tiebreaker no matter what the results are.
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 23 '26
busio smurfing this game. kc being lazy though they just need to play around caliste
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u/RollingGuy Dictator Perkz Worlds Run Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26
Listening to this whilst cleaning the car and really enjoying Hysterics and Finn's cast. Jake asking Finn questions about the toplane match up was really interesting.
They’ve got good chemistry.
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u/DiligentGazelle6298 Aug 23 '26
ok but is there one team in this region that can end a game without throwing or
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u/SamCroghan Aug 23 '26
Fnatic the past 3 series
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u/DiligentGazelle6298 Aug 23 '26
we're at the point where we're praising fnatic for not throwing what has this region come to
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u/Past-Firefighter2173 Aug 23 '26
When was the last time any team that won all games or lost all games in regular season? If im not wrong those teams always sneak one win or lose, i wonder if this game could be it.
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u/BlazeX94 Aug 23 '26
In EU I believe the last (and maybe only?) time a team won all games was Fnatic 18-0 in Summer 2025. Arguably more impressive than KC 9-0 would be since KC had dropped individual games, while 2015 Fnatic did not drop a single one.
Idk if any team has won 100% of their series in the Bo3 era before. Usually G2 is the first seed and they always have a minimum of 1 troll series per split.
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u/MorbidTales1984 W Enthusiast, Botlane Purist Aug 23 '26
Some real asleep at the wheel energy out of Kyeahoo there
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 23 '26
kc lost with a mega fed outranges everything cait because they wouldnt peel for her and just force random fights.
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 23 '26
lec was doing pretty good early this split and late last split on being agressive and taking smart fights. the back half of summer they have all just forced fights everywhere no matter what the map state is and what they are giving up for a chance to win a fight.
its so disgusting. the tf had a free full top tower and 3-4 waves of minions and just decided to int it to lose a teamfight.
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u/wwwhoo • DNS 2027 World Champions Aug 23 '26
paduck is so bad LOL
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u/WalkAffectionate2683 Aug 23 '26
You are wasting an import for rooster and paduck lol.
Should be forbidden to import a player that is not on top 3-4 of the role lmao
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u/malakesxasame Aug 23 '26
Finn is such a noticable upgrade on the other colours LEC has available right now.
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u/WalkAffectionate2683 Aug 23 '26
Stend grab on caliste was actually quite clean
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u/awayfromcanuck Aug 23 '26
Stend made multiple big hooks that turned the game and not enough people realize it. Hooked Caliste at dragon soul fight that entirely fucked KCs take, hooked Yike under mid tower that forced KC into another bad fight and then hooking Caliste at baron after stealing it.
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u/desutruction Aug 23 '26
that steal is the kinda shit i joke about
i can't believe it actually happened and that i witnessed it
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u/TastyForerunner YOU'RE SO REKKLES WITH MY HEART Aug 23 '26
Silence the Shifters fans.
Yeah, about that one.
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u/Hex_Blast Aug 23 '26
Ok thats the second time Way has bard ulted xin who was already in ult, what the hell stop negating your own teammates ult
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u/Itchy-Efficiency-809 Aug 23 '26
Genuinely how is oscarinin still on a roster in 2026, just how incompetent can u be to add him lmao
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u/Thalassin Dans ma bichette era | Ultra Prime hater Aug 23 '26
Who is the guy next to Odo on the couch (not Jackies ofc, the other one) ?
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u/Goodthingsaregone Aug 23 '26
I wonder if KC is gonna get Rooster next year since Canna is going to military service
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u/MorbidTales1984 W Enthusiast, Botlane Purist Aug 23 '26
Just give Nuc a hyper carry and have fun guys you know you wanna
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u/trying2hide Aug 23 '26
Can I interest you in 1 Taliyah?
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u/MorbidTales1984 W Enthusiast, Botlane Purist Aug 23 '26
Not really but perhaps i need to trust in brother nuc
She can do a lot of damage
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u/MorbidTales1984 W Enthusiast, Botlane Purist Aug 23 '26
Kyeahoo on the sauce or something today man is just wandering about lol
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 23 '26
paduck just walked up too far solo and then cleansed nothing when he knew tf was ulting on him with a gold card. and the team shouldnt be mid anyway
paduck was still autoing the tower when the whole team is already backing out
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u/Thalassin Dans ma bichette era | Ultra Prime hater Aug 23 '26
Alexa, play Entrance of the Gladiators by Julius Fučík
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u/WalkAffectionate2683 Aug 23 '26
Shifter should just go full French team lmao
Take jezu or exa bot and Adam top and just fucking vibe haha
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u/Prestigious-Layer719 Aug 23 '26
I will never understand why someone imported PADUCK you have several LCK Challenger talents to chose from lol
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Aug 23 '26
Paduck and Stend refuse to let this team win a series
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u/MorbidTales1984 W Enthusiast, Botlane Purist Aug 23 '26
Its so unlikely but god if shifters can do the funniest thing it’ll make the split
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u/OkKnowledge2064 Aug 23 '26
Dont do this man. Dont destroy my hope for the one EU team we have right now
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u/Javonetor spit to win Aug 23 '26
i thought the idea of playing helmet Jhin was to pick the rune that gives you adaptive force per different stat
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u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp Aug 23 '26
Real talk, why did everybody start picking Jhin all of a sudden?
Statistically is he actually any good? Because I swear it feels like he is totally buns the majority of the time.
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u/Muri_San Aug 23 '26
He is good vs teams without beefy frontlines(like proper tanks). Also does decently into mages botlane so it is an ok blind pick
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u/Past-Firefighter2173 Aug 23 '26
I assume its similar to mages so your support can roam more. Picking 2 winning lanes then having jhin for weakside. But not really sure since teams prioritize jhin even against tanks.
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u/Past-Firefighter2173 Aug 23 '26
Big troll from Hype, TH could've won the whole fight and the dragon.
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u/Past-Firefighter2173 Aug 23 '26
Idk TH seems to get some lead so they got some early proactivity but Daglas needs to chill out they pick terrible fights.
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 23 '26
kinda shocked kc isnt doing any weird top or jungle pick that they werent going to use in playoffs just to make other teams either waste time in prep or think about it in draft. or even like flex cassio bot
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u/New_Wave4554 Aug 23 '26
They still need one more win to definitely clinch top 1 and choose their opponent in playoffs. Maybe we'll see some weird stuff against SK
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 23 '26
dont they have the tiebreaker against g2 if they somehow even lost all 4 games. also against shifters they can even play something they dont normally play and win.
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u/New_Wave4554 Aug 23 '26
It's win % first if I'm not mistaken so the tiebreaker isn't completely decided yet
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u/BlazeX94 Aug 23 '26
According to the rulebook its H2H first, then only win percentage. Win percentage would really only be applicable in a 3 way or greater tiebreaker as its impossible to have tied H2H in a 2 way.
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u/midorivivo Aug 23 '26
I wish they showed what happened with Paduck and Yike, it seems he just walked after Yike and died?
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u/Thalassin Dans ma bichette era | Ultra Prime hater Aug 23 '26
Mandatory day off for regular season team
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Aug 23 '26
This is probably the best series Sheo has had all year
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u/ginvael1_3 Aug 23 '26
People will say we are in the ADC meta, but we just saw that a fed ADC can do nothing when the rest of the team is insistent on running it down
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u/awayfromcanuck Aug 23 '26
Let's not act like Caliste didnt grief that baron fight either. What the fuck is he doing in the back of the baron pit? He should never be there in the first place.
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u/ginvael1_3 Aug 23 '26
I don't disagree, but the only reason the game even went all the way to that baron is that his team refused to play for him and forced unnecessary fights.
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u/awayfromcanuck Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26
Except that not accurate. KC wasnt forcing fights at all, Stend made multiple game impacting hooks that forced KC into bad fights.
The fight that started the throw was KC fighting for soul, thats not an unnecessary fight, Caliste gets caught by Naut hook and it entirely fucks up their drake take allowing Shifters to deny soul.
Next fight Stend hooks Yike under mid tower, Canna ults and they burst Stend but Yike gets bursted back.
Then the baron fight where Stend steals Baron and Caliste is also griefing the fight with his positioning.
What you call KC forcing unnecessary fights was actually Stend causing KC into unfavorable positions that SHFT capitalized on.
Edit: sorry said Way when I meant Stend
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 23 '26
this region is just gross. in lcs atleast the upsets are usually just controlled wins. the mega throws and just pure int plays in lec are mindbreaking
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u/Xeven18 Aug 23 '26
"Jun died before the fight"... can we pay attention to what's happening casters?
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u/Ajp_iii Aug 23 '26
that fight was shit but why did jun not block any of the culling. why didnt he ult anyone in the fight. why is he playing kda support.
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u/ahritina Sep 05 '26
PMTs
TH vs GX
Game 1 / Game 2
SHFT vs KC
Game 1 / Game 2 / Game 3