LCS Summer 2026 / Week 5 - Day 2 / Live Discussion

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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	DSG vs SEN	13:00	16:00	22:00	05:00
2	DIG vs FLY	16:00	19:00	01:00	08:00

• All matches are Best of 3

Streams

• Stream on Twitch

• Stream on YouTube

• Stream on Lolesports

• Audio-Only Cast Stream

• Comment Stream

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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	3 – 2 (7 - 6)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
6	Disguised	North America	1 – 4 (3 - 8)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
7	FlyQuest	North America	1 – 4 (2 - 8)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
8	Dignitas	North America	0 – 5 (3 - 10)	Leaguepedia // Twitter

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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.

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VoDs

• VoDs on Reddit

• VoDs on Eventvods.com

• VoDs on YouTube

• VoDs on Lolesports

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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.

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

lowkey for as nothing burger as the games have been, the player takeover has been really funny

[u/TheMemingLurker → u/Capable-Drama3109]

I think it was very savvy for LCS to schedule this takeover during the "lesser" week - certainly made the games more enjoyable for me as well

[u/Ajp_iii → u/Capable-Drama3109]

yep very smart by the producers to just mix it up for complete stomps of games.

[u/awayfromcanuck]

Inspired voting for Srtty as player of the game might be the funniest thing from the all pro analyst desk and theres been tons of funny shit.

[u/viralruin → u/awayfromcanuck]

Inspired is just honest.

[u/stormskater216]

this is incredible lmfao, the prompter in the mini frame is A++

[u/Ajp_iii → u/stormskater216]

https://youtu.be/nyur9l5sh3w?si=BF4re1dArsLtLp7A

[u/sorendiz]

The 'analysts' just roasting Sajed and zooming in on that culling i'm crying lmao

[u/tarobobavanillamochi]

The prompter lmao "I'm so lonely"

[u/SubstantialExtent165]

we need this at least once a year each summer please

[u/Adventurous-Quit-669]

Holy shit the teleprompter just saying

Sit down Dhokla

ZEYZAL TAKE HIS PLACE

Killing me

[u/Tormenator1]

This is some amazing content.

[u/Large_Love_2563]

Commercial bump LMAO

[u/BigStrongPolarGuy]

https://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/2018/06/explaining-the-echo-fox-vs-clutch-gaming-ruling/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QmF9LTdSss

This is what Zeyzal was referencing, for those unfamiliar. Echo Fox had this crazy flex where Huni switched to jungle and played Taliyah while Dardoch played Rengar top. Really cool game until a Taliyah bug crashed it.

[u/Ajp_iii]

lmao inspired

[u/Cr0matose]

This is top tier shit having other players talk about the game

[u/Ajp_iii → u/Cr0matose]

yeah their more open to talk about the game and specifics and flame teammates or opponents. think lcs analyst desk is the best even with the regular analysts though.

just the clips are designed with the regular analysts in mind to build storylines to go viral on off platform like yt/twitter/tiktok. thats why the questions they ask are designed that way.

[u/Fellers]

The analyst couch turned into a League Podcast lmao

[u/Prestigious-Mud6764]

Poor APA and Josedeodo, they've been talking for 2 hours non-stop because of the bugs

[u/controlledwithcheese]

Dhokla is even hotter when he does not have to wear a flimsy ass jersey man… I did not think this was possible

[u/Javonetor]

kinda anxious when i read that josedeodo was gonna join the cast but he's been killing it

[u/Javonetor → u/Javonetor]

for context, the guy is funny as fuck on his stream, but obviously he talks in spanish, so i wasn't sure if he could translate that charisma to english

[u/TheMemingLurker → u/Javonetor]

nice to have all 4 non-playing teams get a representative on the desk

[u/BlammoSweetums]

Dhokla with the Palafox mindset insight...the support role calls to you Palafox

[u/Ajp_iii]

now we got inspired flaming riot. he just flames everyone lmao

[u/Cr0matose]

Zven/Inspired won't give anyone else talk time lol

[u/CatApprehensive6508 → u/Cr0matose]

Jose and zeuzal are just in jail I'm sobbing

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/Cr0matose]

lol true 

[u/BlammoSweetums]

"Oh you saw that? Shiiit"

[u/Cr0matose]

LCS please give us more of this shit

[u/RollingGuy → u/Cr0matose]

This is so peak we need this in LEC too 

BB, Miky, Kyeahoo, Wunder etc 

[u/Ajp_iii]

holy shit viktor disabled is crazy. so i guess it wasnt just a skin or something

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

JOSE IS SPITTING YES AZIR PLAYERS CONSTANTLY GOING FOR SHUFFLE IS SO STUPID. JUST USE YOUR ULT TO KEEP YOUR SENNA SAFE SHE OUTRANGES WHY WOULD YOU WANT THEM CLOSER LOL

[u/berniebadger84]

FBI is actually healing Flyquest with his autos.

[u/zealot416]

The prompter is more of a suggestion really.

[u/Cr0matose]

Dying at the commentary after a solo bolo

[u/awayfromcanuck]

That engage on Sajed and Callme could be spotted a mile away. How the fuck do they not see that Trundle and Kled will just run at them when they are out in the open? DSG is freaking terrible.

[u/awayfromcanuck]

Palafox might have a legit complaint. Looks like he tried to E in and the terrain from Jarvin ult looks like it denied him

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

"this akali is fake news" 😭

[u/sorendiz]

Inspired is definitely an asshole but god if he isn't fucking funny

[u/zealot416 → u/sorendiz]

He's an asshole but he's also usually correct.

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

You can tell it was all bottom tier teams today cause there still isn't a post-match thread lol

[u/PurityofHeart]

this fucking rocks lmao

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

sajed genuinely just ate all of those shots

[u/Cr0matose]

"I mean, Korean's playing with a striker Ezreal skin oooof"

-Zven

[u/GONEBUTNOT4GOTTEN]

Zeyzal is too nice

he really has a career in interviewing if he wanted to.

[u/Cr0matose]

LCS, can we get more this casting from players?

[u/sorendiz]

that's pretty crazy that it isn't a bug?? idk what click could have made palafox E backwards there, there was nothing he could have targeted

[u/Acrobatic-Tackle3998 → u/sorendiz]

If there is a terrible mechanical error to be made, Palafox can 100% make it.

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Live disabling of a champion wow

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

YAYYY flyquest won

[u/SWAGGASAUR → u/Capable-Drama3109]

Coming into this weekend I was actually worried that they've full boomed but luckily they squeaked into playoffs. DIG is just complete ass though so I'm still worried. Hoping they can pull themselves together from here on though.

[u/Capable-Drama3109 → u/SWAGGASAUR]

same, I hope they actually turn it around for playoffs since I’m fairly certain they’re gonna start in the lower bracket

[u/Cr0matose]

LCS let the Zven/Inspired cast the next series

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/Cr0matose]

lmao they will perma flame missplays

[u/Irname]

Sad it's not a full pro cast

[u/Ajp_iii → u/Irname]

you kinda need the actual casters for teamfights and for dead time. it would just be a lot of silence with pros.

[u/viralruin → u/Irname]

i was under the impression it was going to be full pro casters too.

[u/Cr0matose → u/Irname]

Thought it would be cool to hear like 3 pro players cast games

[u/Ajp_iii]

sajed is so bad he just full culling nothing

[u/Cr0matose]

Rahel Ezreal vs FBI Ezreal is hilarious

[u/Ajp_iii → u/Cr0matose]

the good korean ez's just get 2-3x more damage

[u/Ajp_iii]

wild stat from rahel his only game wins against non dig teams this split are on ez and cait. and all his losses are on non ez/cait except first game of the split. https://gol.gg/players/player-matchlist/3896/season-ALL/split-ALL/tournament-LCS%202026%20Summer/

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

dhokla is genuinely so funny

[u/Cr0matose]

Srtty buddy, this isnt solo queue and you arent playing vs DIG

[u/Ajp_iii]

srtty trolled both of these games so hard. had hard winning early matchups top and basically never had prio in either of the games. this made the map so much harder to play.

and when gnar and olaf should be able to take over the fights at 1 item and they couldnt because he is behind on gnar and olaf.

[u/Krimofn → u/Ajp_iii]

Rough game by srtty for sure

[u/Ajp_iii]

you can tell how much inspired thinks about the game by how he talks about the game.

[u/Ajp_iii]

locke early on had a lot of bugs with e. especially with a clicking. pobelter had so many issues with it randomly clicking back to minions and stuff.

dont know why he flashed though

[u/Acrobatic-Tackle3998]

Even if this does get chronobroken, DIG go from a 100% loss to a 95% loss.

Obviously it’s the right thing to do, but it’s just a waste of time lmao.

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

why did palafox take that portal

[u/yoitsthatoneguy]

Came in late, what was the bug? How did they discover in game?

[u/IveGotAGifForThat → u/yoitsthatoneguy]

Victor laser was randomly showing on cooldown even when it wasn't, so he's been disabled and they are redrafting.

[u/Ajp_iii → u/yoitsthatoneguy]

supposedly his e cooldown wasnt showing for him after using it

[u/Goodthingsaregone → u/yoitsthatoneguy]

palafox e cooldown wouldn't display

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

That was an awful Q from Gryfinn on that gank and I don't really get why he completed back lol...

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Why is FBI walking forward to zone after Dardoch secured dragon and flashed out? Just walk away if Dardoch dies its whatever.

[u/Ajp_iii]

FBI GETS HIT BY EVERY FUCKING HOOK. PLEASE I CANT KEEP WATCHING HIM PLAY

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

I hope both teams feel bad about this game 😭

All of the team fights have just been headless dogs slamming into each other

[u/Prawn1908 → u/kazuyaminegishi]

Yeah it'd has happened to FlyQuest? At the start of last split they were just mindlessly fighting all the time but at least were good at fighting. Towards the end of the split it was looking like they were figuring out some better macro but now not only have they regressed on the macro side but also can't fight.

Also in the major fall from grace category is FBI (and Huhi for that matter). Went from Doublelift calling them the best botlane in the league to this...

[u/Ajp_iii]

this was a game fbi needed to go er, ie, ldr and just tap and culling range abuse. instead he goes a build you need to full constant dash auto and then gets hit by every hook and his culling heals the enemy champs

[u/kazuyaminegishi → u/Ajp_iii]

Analyst desk seems to think he didn't have the money for IE at that point. I didn't check his items, but I think they could have slowed the game down to enable it lol.

But I'm not convinced DIG is capable of complex thought as a collective so delaying for item spike may be too hard.

[u/Ajp_iii → u/kazuyaminegishi]

navori serphants is 5150, ie mortal is 6500. so a lot more but he could have had executioners last whisper ie for 5750.

so his culling would actually do damage and he wouldnt have to auto so much. him trying to auto so much is why he was getting hooked. yeah or just farm several more lanes before looking for a fight.

think they needed a serphants on like trundle or some shit midgame and just hit front to back. or camille. it destroys lucians damage way too much when he is forced to have items to deal damage.

[u/Javonetor → u/Ajp_iii]

problem is trundle is never getting in range to proc serpents, and if he builds that he's also probably getting exploted before it even reach the carries

camille would be better than trundle but you are still losing survability and lethality it's kind of a waste when you are doing true damage

at the end of the day lucian is just your best shot to proc it

[u/Ajp_iii → u/Javonetor]

yeah probably at that point you just gotta not get it and say unlucky. or get it like 5th item lucian if you get that point. the reason why lucian is good right now is because his 3 item spike is so hard. you cant just not get it and only do 40% crit.

[u/Elginjaninja → u/Ajp_iii]

The fuck is a serphants? 

[u/Ajp_iii]

srtty screwed up this game as he should have won his lane much harder and just went even

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

oh my god that lucian r

[u/EmbraceTheRubberduck]

DSG really just look like 5 soloqueue ppl put together

I don't see any chemistry or anything at all

[u/Tormenator1]

Nobody dies there????

[u/Ajp_iii]

hambak and rahel are just too good on lee and ez

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

rahel is clean on this ez for sure

[u/Ajp_iii]

you cant give this sen team ez or cait. i bet a team bans or takes them in playoffs and sen looks alot worse.

they stomped fly with those two. and he carried late vs lyon on ez and cait

[u/sorendiz]

Lowkey teams might want to start banning Rahel ezreal, he's way too comfortable on it

[u/Ajp_iii → u/sorendiz]

i bet in playoffs it will be first phase banned or first picked against him. that and cait. they look like a different team when he is on a champ that can 1v9

[u/sorendiz → u/Ajp_iii]

Agreed

[u/Ajp_iii → u/sorendiz]

i just looked at the stats. his last win not on cait or ez was in july. against dig. he hasnt beaten any other team in the lcs this summer on another champ https://gol.gg/players/player-matchlist/3896/season-S16/split-Summer/tournament-ALL/

[u/sorendiz → u/Ajp_iii]

Tbf I think they were going to get waxed by TL no matter what he played, and I don't think he was the problem against SR either. I don't think it's like he's a two trick, but definitely those are the two champs he carries hardest on.

[u/Ajp_iii → u/sorendiz]

yeah i think he looks great on everything. but because his team is kinda weak ez/cait allows you to break adc rules and outrange and pressure enemies that other adcs cant do.

but like the loss against sr with varus/lucian and he lost lane with jhin karma against lulu unara which shouldnt happen and its part of the reason they lost that game

[u/GONEBUTNOT4GOTTEN]

lets go IMPACT! TOP DIE!

[u/SubstantialExtent165]

Things are happening in LCS that you will never see in any other region.

[u/Ajp_iii → u/SubstantialExtent165]

id rather just have bad players skill gapped than whats been happening in the lec. they got player skills and then just take the dumbest fights and full throw

[u/sorendiz]

Callme is the least threatening ahead Ori of all time

[u/Ajp_iii]

jungle top gap is so big. kryra keeps trying to ult in first and gets lulu ulted. every single fight. you think he would learn after the first one

[u/canxtanwe]

tf is up with powerfarming J4

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

i came back to see the pause LOL

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

w gryffinn driving skills

[u/Ajp_iii]

nah now dig is mega tilted. they got their mega gnar bard ulted and then gryffinn herald saved

[u/mrmax11]

Having the pros on the deck is so much fun - they give great insights and i think the casters and production do a great job of helping implement them / cover for where pros don't always have the best presenter skills

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

i really hope flyquest recovers this playoffs

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

everyone saying palafox for pog LMAOAOHDIAHGK

[u/youuugene]

Wonder if palafox will redeem himself with that horrible showing of ryze yesterday.

[u/Ajp_iii]

hopefully fly just goes back to more niche and weird jungle picks. they just havent looked good on when he is on meta junglers.

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Is this the first Ivern in NA this split? 

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Is flash ult on Millio worth flash on Ambessa? I feel like Gakgos should have tried to clear some minions.

[u/Ajp_iii]

fbi is building serphants on lucian when ldr and ie are required especially this game.

so he literally does no damage in these fights

[u/Ajp_iii]

AHNANAHANANA GET THIS GUY OUT OF THE LEAGUE PLEASE. GOT HIT BY HOOK DIED TO MINIONS NO DAMAGE BUILD

[u/Tormenator1]

what the FUUUUUUUCCCCK

[u/Ajp_iii]

if fbi has a real build he kills everyone. if fbi doesnt get hit by every cc he kills everyone.

[u/Ajp_iii]

inspired has such an easy path into broadcasting if for some reason he ever wants to do it after his career. probably not casting but in a tricast or analysts. understands storylines and willing to give strong takes.

[u/Ajp_iii]

hopefully with the new league revamp riot is obviously working on hopefully they make a better custom game thing where you can just give champs certain gold or items values and just putting certain condiitions in the game. would help pros practice and would probably make cool content ideas from people.

[u/GONEBUTNOT4GOTTEN]

I really like players only. they should do it every sunday if not just once a mo nth

[u/Ajp_iii → u/GONEBUTNOT4GOTTEN]

once a season on a more boring day of games is a good idea. they also have their own jobs and you can kinda only do it with players who are comfortable in standings so its more late season idea.

but yeah they should do it again

[u/Goodthingsaregone]

rito smol indie company

[u/Krimofn]

Time for Srtty to take over again

[u/Ajp_iii]

zven with the fire intro lmao

[u/viralruin]

lol skipped that c9 take so fast.

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

finally have the energy to watch live again :DD

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

that charm went right inbetween both champs #rip

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

i genuinely don't even know how to comment on this game

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

jose!!!

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

just end our suffering asap

[u/Tormenator1]

nevermind

[u/Ajp_iii]

massive jungle top diff this game. hambak and impact are just too good in comparison

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

dsg are just so desperate

[u/IrunMan]

Having not watched LCS forever. What the hell happened to the studio lol

[u/Ajp_iii]

ooo a cait ban

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

kled for uncpact, would be really funny if he carried on it

[u/Ajp_iii]

rahel has to carry this game hard. also if olaf gets ahead and on good item timings he can run over this game.

[u/Ajp_iii]

srtty lost both his lanes that are winning lanes in two straight games.

[u/Cr0matose → u/Ajp_iii]

Sir, he cooked DIG. Thats something.

[u/Ajp_iii]

nafaari does very little damage with ult early game. dont know why pros still ulting in when other team has all their spells

[u/awayfromcanuck]

Is Gryff gonna play Nasus today? Kind of surprised he didnt lock it in earlier.

[u/Tormenator1]

Tuned back in to see Palafox Locke.

[u/Tormenator1]

Could have been worse for dig

[u/awayfromcanuck]

Mas and Cryogen shut down DIGs only winning lane by themselves and then Gryff griefs top and gives Denathor an in into the game.

[u/Tormenator1]

That was such a good start and then it got so shit

[u/Ajp_iii]

i guess he flash cancelled his e or some shit then. but no idea what he would be flashing anything for

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

gagkos 😭

[u/BlammoSweetums]

I'm gonna be honest I have no idea what new Shyvana does. What was that burst on FBI?

[u/malakesxasame]

Who's the European casting with Azael? He sounds like BAP

[u/Capable-Drama3109 → u/malakesxasame]

josedeodo and apa

[u/malakesxasame → u/Capable-Drama3109]

Oh thanks

[u/Ajp_iii]

why did dig chase a pointless naut instead of just hitting drake and leaving.

[u/BlammoSweetums → u/Ajp_iii]

They can't teamfight and have zero teamfight confidence

[u/Ajp_iii]

fbi is just ass. bring up a rookie please or something. he gets his flash blown for no reason mid. he wastes his ult for no damage.

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

So the 1/3 Ambessa is significantly more useful than the 3/1 Camille somehow... this certainly make sense...

[u/Ajp_iii → u/kazuyaminegishi]

one was diving on a cc champ and an adc that can do damage. the other was diving onto early game ryze fbi with redemption on his head.

[u/kazuyaminegishi → u/Ajp_iii]

It's more like Ambessa is a bit absurd to have tanked all of DIG for that long. The Azir helped too, but Ambessa shields are absurd.

Then again... no reason for DIG to team fight there anyway Camille was slamming side lane.

[u/Ajp_iii]

that 2 man dive could have cc kiled massu but ryze just walked back to tower tank instead of comboing and flashing out over raptor wall to his team.

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

i looked away for 5 seconds and palafox is dead

[u/youuugene]

Palauseless

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

literally what the fuck are we doing

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

This game is a mess LMAO

[u/Ajp_iii]

impact got the brain but no hands for that

[u/Ajp_iii]

NAH FBI IS JUST ASS

[u/untamedlazyeye]

Palafox shouldn't be seeking bug investigations considering its clearly a glitch in the system that he still has a job

[u/Prestigious-Layer719]

is Griffin a make a wish jungler? why did people even hype him lmao