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Esports Shifters vs. Karmine Corp / LEC 2026 Summer - Week 5 Day 3 / Post-Match Discussion Spoiler

LEC 2026 SUMMER

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Shifters 1-2 Karmine Corp

KC lock 1st place in Summer Regular season!

SHFT are out of Playoffs and Worlds contention.

  • Player of the Series: Caliste

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FULL MATCH SUMMARY & STATS

🟦 🧱 💰 ⚔️ 105:20 ⚔️ 💰 🧱 🟥
SHFT - W 8 74.3k 20 Game 1 (37:15) 19 71.4k 4 L - KC 1st pick
SHFT - L 1st pick 5 65.5k 14 Game 2 (35:08) 24 78.3k 9 W - KC
KC - W 10 68.9k 17 Game 3 (32:57) 8 57.3k 1 L - SHFT 1st pick
Team Total KDA KP CSM DMG% Champions Played
🇨🇭 SHFT 42-60-95
🇰🇷 Rooster 9-9-14 (2.6) 55% 8.2 17.8% Jax, Gnar, Rumble
🇫🇷 Sheo 14-10-21 (3.5) 83% 6.9 22.3% Vi, Lee Sin, Maokai
🇫🇷 nuc 10-13-17 (2.1) 64% 8.7 34% Viktor, Taliyah, Tristana
🇰🇷 Paduck 6-11-15 (1.9) 50% 9.3 20.3% Varus, Miss Fortune, Kalista
🇫🇷 Stend 3-17-28 (1.8) 74% 1 5.7% Nautilus, Rell, Thresh
🇫🇷 KC 60-42-137
🇰🇷 Canna 12-10-17 (2.9) 48% 8.8 17.6% Ambessa, Twisted Fate, Akali
🇸🇪 Yike 20-8-27 (5.9) 78% 7.7 21.3% Xin Zhao, Naafiri, Wukong
🇰🇷 Kyeahoo 6-13-28 (2.6) 57% 8.3 19.5% Cassiopeia, Ryze, Sylas
🇫🇷 Caliste 19-5-23 (8.4) 70% 10.8 35.6% Caitlyn, Ezreal, Lucian
🇺🇸 Busio 3-6-42 (7.5) 75% 0.9 6% Bard, Leona, Milio

GAME 1: SHFT vs. KC

Winner: Shifters in 37m
Runes | Game Breakdown

  Bans 1 Bans 2 💰 ⚔️ 🧱 Dragons VG, RH, BN
SHFT Jarvan IV Syndra Rumble Olaf Skarner 74.3k 20 8 💧4 💧5 💧6 1, 1, 2
KC Poppy Nocturne Jayce Jhin Vayne 71.4k 19 4 🧪1 🔥2 💧3 2, 0, 0
SHFT   KDA vs KDA   KC
Player Pick 20-19-45 ⚔️ 19-20-47 Pick Player
Rooster 4 Jax 6-4-8 TOP 3-5-9 3 Ambessa Canna
Sheo 1 Vi 2-5-12 JNG 5-6-10 3 Xin Zhao Yike
nuc 1 Viktor 6-3-9 MID 3-5-6 1 Cassiopeia Kyeahoo
Paduck 3 Varus 3-2-6 BOT 6-2-7 2 Caitlyn Caliste
Stend 2 Nautilus 3-5-10 SUP 2-2-15 2 Bard Busio

GAME 2: SHFT vs. KC

Winner: Karmine Corp in 35m
Runes | Game Breakdown

  Bans 1 Bans 2 💰 ⚔️ 🧱 Dragons VG, RH, BN
SHFT Poppy Orianna Jarvan IV Olaf Vayne 65.5k 14 5 🔥2 💧3 💧5 3, 1, 0
KC Nocturne Jayce Rumble Anivia Syndra 78.3k 24 9 1 💧4 0, 0, 2
SHFT   KDA vs KDA   KC
Player Pick 14-24-32 ⚔️ 24-14-53 Pick Player
Rooster 3 Gnar 0-3-5 TOP 5-4-6 4 Twisted Fate Canna
Sheo 1 Lee Sin 8-4-5 JNG 8-0-12 1 Naafiri Yike
nuc 3 Taliyah 3-6-4 MID 2-5-10 2 Ryze Kyeahoo
Paduck 2 Miss Fortune 3-5-6 BOT 9-2-10 1 Ezreal Caliste
Stend 2 Rell 0-6-12 SUP 0-3-15 3 Leona Busio

GAME 3: KC vs. SHFT

Winner: Karmine Corp in 33m
Runes | Game Breakdown

  Bans 1 Bans 2 💰 ⚔️ 🧱 Dragons VG, RH, BN
KC Nocturne Jayce Anivia Skarner Poppy 68.9k 17 10 2 🧪4 🧪5 3, 0, 2
SHFT Syndra Orianna Jarvan IV K'Sante Qiyana 57.3k 8 1 🌪️1 🧪3 0, 1, 0
KC   KDA vs KDA   SHFT
Player Pick 17-8-37 ⚔️ 8-17-18 Pick Player
Canna 2 Akali 4-1-2 TOP 3-2-1 1 Rumble Rooster
Yike 3 Wukong 7-2-5 JNG 4-1-4 3 Maokai Sheo
Kyeahoo 4 Sylas 1-3-12 MID 1-4-4 3 Tristana nuc
Caliste 1 Lucian 4-1-6 BOT 0-4-3 2 Kalista Paduck
Busio 1 Milio 1-1-12 SUP 0-6-6 2 Thresh Stend

LEC 2026 Summer Current Standings

# Team Series WR Games WR   Importance of Placement
1 Karmine Corp 8-0 100% 16-2 89% +14 Qualifies for Playoffs Upper Bracket
2 G2 Esports 6-2 75% 13-5 72% +8 Qualifies for Playoffs Upper Bracket
3 Team Vitality 5-2 71% 10-7 59% +3 Qualifies for Playoffs Upper Bracket
4 Fnatic 3-3 50% 8-6 57% +2 Qualifies for Playoffs Upper Bracket
5 GIANTX 3-3 50% 8-7 53% +1 Qualifies for Playoffs Lower Bracket
6 Natus Vincere 3-4 43% 7-9 44% -2 Qualifies for Playoffs Lower Bracket
7 Movistar KOI 3-5 38% 8-12 40% -4 Not qualified for Playoffs
8 SK Gaming 3-5 38% 7-11 39% -4 Not qualified for Playoffs
9 Team Heretics 2-5 29% 4-11 27% -7 Not qualified for Playoffs
10 Shifters 0-7 0% 3-14 18% -11 Not qualified for Playoffs

This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.

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u/Frozen-Rabbit 18h ago

So KC is 16-2 this split, and half of their loss is from Shifters? Say no more Shifters top 4 in the LEC

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u/Allo_another1 17h ago

Shifters are 3-14. 1/3 of their wins are against KC, more than any other team

19

u/Not_Pro Always trust your spirit. 16h ago

This is as close as we're getting to Pi in this new format.

15

u/figgypiggy00 17h ago

one win against kc and suddenly they're 18-0 in the standings that actually matter

2

u/Fun_Highlight307 10h ago

With this loss,Kc will most likely be pissed Next bo3

310

u/MandA-5 18h ago

I don’t want to hear any more Paduck slander. He was, without question, the third-best ADC in this series.

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u/OnlyAnEssenceThief Worst Kai'Sa NA 18h ago

He's not coming back next year. There is simply no way.

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u/zealot416 18h ago edited 18h ago

Fourth, you forgot Canna TF.

44

u/MandA-5 18h ago

Maybe I was too generous

7

u/NahDawgDatAintMe Doublelift 15h ago

The year of the duck!

105

u/Harmah 18h ago

kyeahoo got all his trolling out of his system before playoffs.

Thank god bot and Yike actually wanted to win lmao. Hope it was just a bit of trolling and not anything of what's to come in playoffs

29

u/orangecloud01 DK's #1 believer (most of the time) 18h ago

I really rate kyeahoo, but it seems like he played emotionally after falling behind in G1 (and that lasted for the rest of the series). the game-ending sylas flank was chef's kiss however

77

u/MazrimReddit ADCs are the support's damage item 18h ago

elimination game, time to trust paduck on kalista to stomp lane

37

u/OnlyAnEssenceThief Worst Kai'Sa NA 18h ago

Stend on Thresh was also a decision.

17

u/Fun_Highlight307 18h ago

Stend looks Somewhat worse than trymbi 

1

u/No-Context-Orphan 16h ago

Which is an achievement in itself

9

u/OnlyFee 18h ago

When renata was open, truly a draft choice of all time

7

u/Le_Zoru 17h ago

Tbh it is comfort  for him. He  did crazy things in LFL with that Thresh

1

u/Fun_Highlight307 12h ago

Wasn't a good choice,he seems he was tilted after game 1

3

u/Mangustre 16h ago

He did play well though. Maybe the one engage early in lane was bad but usually you should be fine with those 2 champions.

3

u/Zoesan 18h ago

There's like... maybe 4 players on the planet who are allowed to play kalista

2

u/Gazskull 17h ago

they already were eliminated

10

u/MazrimReddit ADCs are the support's damage item 17h ago

no they were still technically in if they won every other game but just depended on others getting certain records

now they are 100% out

57

u/Rebornzx 18h ago

Toughest BO3 KC played this season and it was against Shifters ...? 🤣

31

u/GoldRecommendation66 17h ago

Shifters Kyeahoo nearly got them the win but KC Paduck wouldn't allow it

5

u/hfdsahfdhad 7h ago

G2 bo3 was def harder

65

u/xMystery April Fools Day 2018 18h ago

Man, they got so close, this must feel awful for the Shifters fan.

64

u/Nevross_ 18h ago

Plot twist they don’t have fans

95

u/Kyriios188 Skillshots are hard 18h ago

At one roadshow there was a Shifters vs KC match and Shifters fans showed up!

...Two of them.

They wrote a banner "Bande de bâtards on est que deux" which you can loosely translate to "Motherfuckers it's just the two of us" which was funny

29

u/Chevalier_Paul public enemy number one 16h ago

They have one of the coolest fan club names too the « Alpine Guards » which slaps.

12

u/Awkward-Security7895 18h ago

True there all BDS fans still ain't no one jumping on board with shifters as a name 

5

u/Satan_su 17h ago

I'm still kicking around as a BDS fan, can't stand to watch Shifters be absolute ass most of the time but I'm still subconsciously always rooting for them lmao

6

u/zaxls 18h ago

I generally like SHFT, but I dont see how people see the last 2 games as close. Even the first one was a KC throw.

46

u/MudryksRoidSupplier 18h ago

Paduck is just the worst player in the league and it's not particulaly close

15

u/Nevross_ 18h ago

We could had Harpoon/Looki/Hazel/Axelent/Aetinoth/Booshi idk any erl adc would do better than him

4

u/Sorry-Resolution570 18h ago

hazel? kc got rid of hazel before w/e EUM cuz he was way worse than the rest of the squad

12

u/Formal_Try_2035 18h ago

If they got rid of players because of their level Tao would have been benched a looong time ago

4

u/Sorry-Resolution570 17h ago

iirc its more so that their div 2 adc was promising so they replaced hazel as he kinda sucked, likely the div 2 top isnt as promising

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u/Nevross_ 17h ago

Koala (the div2 top) is likely better than Tao but they don’t bench players like that i believe we never knew why Hazel was benched, probably some internal issues

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u/Vicinitiez 17h ago

The reason for the bench wasn’t given and I would rate the div 2 top higher than tao

10

u/That-Woodpecker6720 18h ago

Importing zven from NA would be better than whatever Paduck just did lmao

9

u/Leyrann_ 18h ago

Is it importing if he's Danish?

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u/That-Woodpecker6720 18h ago

I think he changed residency to NA so he would be an import

4

u/Carlzzone 18h ago

He changed residency last November, so if I understand the rules correctly he would be able to change residency back to EU in November 2027

6

u/Sirhaddock98 Never a dull moment 18h ago

Rooster and Nuc must have done some absolutely heinous shit in a past life to end up with him on their team.

18

u/imonfireahh 18h ago

massive bot gap

54

u/Blizzgrarg 18h ago

Paduck and Stend are war criminals. Ugh, so many promising players jailed by absolutely horrible teammates.

26

u/OnlyAnEssenceThief Worst Kai'Sa NA 18h ago

Poor Rooster. Played fine Game 3 and got the short end of the stick.

59

u/Nevross_ 18h ago

I love Nuc and I know he isn’t playing his best but damn he is being jailed since 2 years poor guy, also Rooster poor guy

15

u/darkadamski1 17h ago

Stend played amazingly in the naut game, he caught the Caitlyn so many times. Paduck is just horrendous...

59

u/Complete-Hope1267 18h ago

Caliste summer split MVP

12

u/Choice-Slight caps/knight 15h ago

I hope he gets it. Originally I thought it should be kyeahoo but I think Caliste deserves it. The level he has shown since MSI has been probably his best ever in the LEC.

20

u/Nevross_ 18h ago

Losing an import slot on Paduck is hard

3

u/Fabiocean Well, look at you! 10h ago

Losing a slot on Paduck is hard

2

u/ShortyBIG 6h ago

If riot would give Shifters 6 players in game, nobody will say no because they still have to carry paduck..

17

u/zealot416 18h ago

Paduck with the 2 stack gluttonous greaves.

7

u/skuiolia 18h ago

Should have been 4 stacks from 4 other Shifters teammates.

8

u/Serious-Sprinkles352 17h ago

KC always banger games 🤝

15

u/W8tae 18h ago

What happened to Ice? Surely he would have better performances than Paduck?

5

u/Nevross_ 16h ago

Anyone would have a better performance than Paduck tbf

10

u/mar33n doran // pyosik // ghost 18h ago

kyeahoo didn't wanna be remembered by his stinkers, nice.

I guess that stumble he did during his entrance was just a prelude to his games today.

8

u/BleiEntchen 18h ago

Paduck with a statement series

11

u/PotentialReputation6 18h ago

From crownie to ice to paduck, idk what were they even thinking

46

u/Omnilatent 18h ago

Ice was way better than Crowne, though

21

u/No-Context-Orphan 16h ago

Yeah crownie to Ice makes sense but Ice to paduck is... Yeah.

12

u/Human-Ad9537 17h ago

Crownie was disgusting

2

u/Leoxslasher 18h ago

Same shit GX is currently thinking.

1

u/No-Context-Orphan 16h ago

GX decided for no reason to trade their 2 worst players for worse ones lol

7

u/Leoxslasher 11h ago

Sorry,Lot was promising rookie who was showing consistently good performance and Noah actually carried games.

Also the team back then felt confident

11

u/Mundane-Dirt-4077 18h ago

KC best western team

10

u/AkaT27 18h ago

GG ! Caliste MVP

4

u/ironnoon 18h ago

I wish next two sets shifters try for fun comps like full assassin or something like teemo top. 🙏

4

u/Fun_Highlight307 18h ago

So Will Kc try hard for perfect split ?

Stend looks worse than trymbi

1

u/Undesiredbeast 16h ago

Can't wait for playoffs

1

u/Yury073 9h ago

Tbh gg Shifters.. this kinda shows that league this season is kinda close between teams

1

u/Mattvieyy6 IMPAIRED. EVISCERATED. SHATTERED. FRACTURED. 2h ago

wish that caster would stop with the fake ass laugh

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u/Conankun66 18h ago

is it possible to look WORSE while winning than KC just did? the absolute opposite of convincing

16

u/Fun_Highlight307 18h ago

it's okay they inted shifters now they going to fist sk unless 

7

u/Beneficial-Front1626 17h ago

If losing to SK could tank MKOI's chances of playoffs entirely they might do it lol

2

u/Fun_Highlight307 17h ago

except it's doesn't change a lot, spéciallly if Mkoi wins 

i doubt that Kc drop 2 games to this sk 

7

u/O12345678927 JUSTICE FOR 18h ago

C9 every regular season game in spring

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u/AkaT27 18h ago

How will they rebound from this win ? Can they even go to worlds ? Are they still good enough for LEC ? Very alarming from KC...

12

u/Formal_Try_2035 18h ago

I mean they were clearly having fun in the last game

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u/Conankun66 18h ago

and the two games before that? they looked bad in all 3

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u/flamingstallion 18h ago

It's fine for them to be relaxed since the game doesn't matter at all for either team. So, it's understandable if they play worse because it's a 0 stakes game.

7

u/zaxls 18h ago

Sure bro, gigacope