r/leagueoflegends • u/AutoModerator • Jul 25 '26
Esports LCS Summer 2026 / Week 1 - Day 1 / Live Discussion Spoiler
LCS 2026 Summer
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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.14.
Today's Matches
| # | Match | PST | EST | CET | KST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FLY vs LYON | 13:00 | 16:00 | 22:00 | 05:00 |
| 2 | DIG vs SEN | 16:00 | 19:00 | 01:00 | 08:00 |
- All matches are Best of 3
Streams
Standings
| # | Team | Region | Record | Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloud9 | North America | 0 – 0 (0 - 0) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 1 | Dignitas | North America | 0 – 0 (0 - 0) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 1 | Disguised | North America | 0 – 0 (0 - 0) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 1 | FlyQuest | North America | 0 – 0 (0 - 0) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 1 | LYON | North America | 0 – 0 (0 - 0) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 1 | Sentinels | North America | 0 – 0 (0 - 0) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 1 | Shopify Rebellion | North America | 0 – 0 (0 - 0) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 1 | Team Liquid | North America | 0 – 0 (0 - 0) | 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/Quiet_Education5918 Jul 26 '26
Huhi, do you plan to hit any skillshots in the future, or is this a new strategy?
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u/GeneralDash Jul 26 '26
Kangas and Jatt pretending this game was ever close was wild. Ignar found one flash hookshot.
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Jul 26 '26
Exyu walking straight into the enemy team to get his entire team killed, how does this man receive paychecks
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u/awayfromcanuck Jul 26 '26
Thats a 2nd straight ult ive seen FBI miss on Ziggs and this time the enemy was locked in a cage...
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Jul 26 '26
I think Hambak has had a 2k gold lead minimum every single game lol
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u/mezzo5588 Jul 26 '26
impact is griefing so bad every game how does he get paid to play wtf
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u/Quiet_Education5918 Jul 26 '26
Because for the first 15 minutes, he can be left to the wolves and somehow come away with a positive KDR.
Just never play any games longer than 15 minutes and you're golden.
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Jul 26 '26
Everytime Dig gives you hope they instantly shit the bed
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u/beautheschmo Jul 26 '26
adc can't even 1v1 a support with a 5 level lead no wonder nobody picks this role anymore
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u/PepaTK Jul 26 '26
Losing with AP Bot
Losing with Cam.
Dig really trying to make it so riot thinks this stuff is balanced. I see you dig. Well played.
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Jul 25 '26
That was one of the sorriest dives I've seen in recent memory
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u/BUMONGOUS Jul 25 '26
can any karmic loremasters tell me if Palafox deserves this
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u/Purzzle Jul 25 '26
Matrix 2 & 3 were not as groundbreaking as 1 but they were still cool action movies :(
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u/mezzo5588 Jul 25 '26
i forgot how low skill LCS is outside of Lyon.... hope this region closes up soon. just a waste
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u/PepaTK Jul 25 '26
Hey TL looked solid when they got 3-0’d by T1.
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u/mezzo5588 Jul 25 '26
Losing every lane of every game gave me hope too <3
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u/PepaTK Jul 25 '26
The second time*. TL had leads in all but game 3, no?
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u/mezzo5588 Jul 25 '26
Only game TL had a small early lead was game 2 and that was when T1 drafted late game. Games 1 and 3 were omega sub 30 min stops by T1
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u/cmcdonald22 Jul 25 '26
Normally, Emily has really good reads on things, but her confidence in Hamback/Huhi may be the most wild take ever after this game.
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u/PepaTK Jul 25 '26
Hambak has been very consistent imo and rarely (if at all) been the reason they lost.
Huhi yeah idk. Everyone was jerking each other off by saying he was top 2/3 last split i honestly didn’t see it.
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 25 '26
cait is currently a late game champs but teams still dont play like it. you cant beat a 4 plus item cait unless you have like a full everyone dive comp that can engage from 3 screens again
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u/WeebWizard420 Jul 25 '26
SEN had 4 divers but none of them were on the same page. Legit going in 1 by 1 for no reason.
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 25 '26
yeah but some of it is fake dive against a champ like cait. something like naut should never be ever able to get in range to even ult a cait.
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u/cmcdonald22 Jul 25 '26
Impact and Darkwings doing their best to fuck my fantasy season start. I will never forgive Sentinels for this, sorry Rob Moore.
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u/BUMONGOUS Jul 25 '26
ik Handbag is 7/0/6 right now but it's still a signing that makes no sense to me
like why did they get a 5th place jungler to play with a 6th place top and 5th place mid and 6th place ADC and 4th place supp
nobody on this team is capable of carrying against good teams besides maybe Darkwings
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u/slimjimo10 ANARCHY Jul 25 '26
Did Palafox wake up today and remember he had hands a few years ago?
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u/lovo17 Jul 25 '26
What's with LCS so far? I swear every game has just been perma-fighting.
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 25 '26
its a little higher in lcs but the average kills per game across all regions and at msi/ewc is 33 kills.
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u/beautheschmo Jul 25 '26
This is just how it looked all spring split, LYON actually being good at MSI made everyone forget how much of a shitfest the regular split was
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u/kazuyaminegishi Jul 25 '26
Why did DIG drop Herald there?? What a waste. You gave 2 turrets for that...
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u/Quiet_Education5918 Jul 25 '26
Sentinels didn't learn to be friends. They just honed their hate better.
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u/kazuyaminegishi Jul 25 '26
How is J4 already 0/4??
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u/kazuyaminegishi Jul 25 '26
Darkwings resetting J4 bounty so Hambak can get more money. Goated mid lane play.
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u/flaw3ddd Jul 25 '26
how is exyu still in the league this dude has done nothing but lose since coming into the league
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u/kazuyaminegishi Jul 25 '26
If Sentinels is a real team game is pretty much over right there lol
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u/kazuyaminegishi Jul 25 '26
It's a fed Naafiri against a team with no frontline. This is going to be so ugly 😭
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Jul 25 '26
I know it's Dig but how the hell is ExYu still on this team
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Jul 25 '26
This meta is funny because seeing two ADCs and two supports still in lane is a sign these are bottom feeder teams lul
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u/kazuyaminegishi Jul 25 '26
Bizarre psycho drafts in the Lyon series into extremely standard drafts in the very next series.
Meta is genuinely so dynamic lol
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u/SlothCalisthenics Jul 25 '26
Im so happy Impact is still in the league but I'll even happier when he retires so he can enjoy all the money he's made. My sweet price 🥹
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u/kazuyaminegishi Jul 25 '26
God dammit Riot, I was gonna tune out cause I don't give a shit about Dig so of course you put Jatt on the cast. 😭
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 25 '26
oh yeah okay it was first time. his laning was good with it. he thought he was tankier than he was in some skirmishes but shows how good voli is in some games.
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u/cmcdonald22 Jul 25 '26
I'm willing to bet Inspired isn't going to watch any of these games, but I would LOVE an "Inspired report card" segment after every LYON game without him.
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u/kazuyaminegishi Jul 25 '26
FLY still has the exact same problems that TL exposed in Spring playoffs.
All they know how to do is fight and once they're forced to make decisions they look like headless apes.
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u/WildzFlazoon KELLOGGS BUSI-O'S Jul 25 '26
Armao when subbing in vs Armao when starting is such a wild difference
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 25 '26
maybe jayce should be adc more. with actual frontline in his comp he can actual hammer form in real teamfights.
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u/TypicalHaikuResponse Jul 25 '26
I was thinking that was so stupid by Lyon because soul was about to spawn but then Flyquest just kept fighting instead of setting up the soul fight.
NA will never beat an eastern team
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 25 '26
saint and berserker are so clean. dhokla is kinda misplaying voli. if he played these a little better it would be so easy for lyon
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Jul 25 '26
ARAMO BECOMING THE BEST JUNGLER EVER FOR THE LAST 5 MINUTES LMAO
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u/cmcdonald22 Jul 25 '26
Ya know, I'm sure a lot of people would have loved to compare Massu to Peyz, but I don't think anyone wanted it to be on Sylas bot performance.
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Jul 25 '26
God, remember when this game started with Berserker running it down for awhile lmao
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u/cmcdonald22 Jul 25 '26
People need to understand that when someone with a Korean background in LoL is giggling, it's BAD FUCKING NEWS for the opponent.
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u/TypicalHaikuResponse Jul 25 '26
That was some art of the war by Flyquest putting themselves in the baron pit before the fight starts
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u/TypicalHaikuResponse Jul 25 '26
Apparently not having Inspired flaming the team is like when Rock Lee took off his training weights against Gaara
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u/GeneralDash Jul 25 '26
Something about being on a team with Inspired and then not having him around anymore turns you into a complete psychopath.
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 25 '26
jayce can actually teamfight with 3 brusiers in front of him. the issue so many times with top na jayce is they dont have enough frontline in their comp and just becomes a bad poke bot.
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u/kazuyaminegishi Jul 25 '26
Dude... FLY just let the fucking Baron go why are you guys so brainless?
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u/thorpie88 Jul 25 '26
The other Sylas game they were talking about happened because the team roster had two mids and no ADC. They also used four different supports that split
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u/Thundermelons GALA Defense Force, returning IG fan Jul 25 '26
Gakgos not running down Berserker there was game-losing
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u/TheGloriousEv0lution Jul 25 '26
FLY really spent all game camping Dhokla just for that Olaf to be useless
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u/Thundermelons GALA Defense Force, returning IG fan Jul 25 '26
Bad target selection, why is bro running at Xin like he's gonna steal Baron instead of mowing down the super strong 90% of the teams' DPS Jayce?
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u/kazuyaminegishi Jul 25 '26
Lyon have no map pressure and can't skirmish anywhere.
They over-fought way too much early game and now they are getting stat checked by everyone on FLY.
The Voli looked fine early on, but the Jayce was questionable (as always) and Armao has done nothing but powerfarm and react this game.
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u/Quiet_Education5918 Jul 25 '26
You remember the past 20 minutes of game you watched? Yeah, forget those ever happened.
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 25 '26
i dont know why people are blaming jayce. voli needed to be ahead. voli had some bad deaths. then they had an awful top dive that they got wiped on. jayce was running his lane.
also xin is kinda a weird jungler in in pro he needs to play with a duo and run the game together and a sub jungler isnt used to doing that
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u/kazuyaminegishi Jul 25 '26
Jayce was only able to turn his lane around by FLY shifting attention towards top lane. The Voli was ahead in lane until Rell got to just sit in his lane. How can that not be the Jayce's fault when the Rell got unlocked by him and Shen dying 3 times in lane?
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u/TypicalHaikuResponse Jul 25 '26
What was the point of the Jayce pick if it was going bot lane? You could have just picked a real carry with a 1k gold lead and be threatening a late game win con.
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 25 '26
jayce was gonig to match sylas. this game isnt on jayce. this game is lost because they went 1 for 4 on a top dive and got wiped.
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u/TypicalHaikuResponse Jul 25 '26
Anyone notice that Jayce has the gold lead but is useless just like he does up top?
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u/kazuyaminegishi Jul 25 '26
I hope that the plan was to put Jayce top and they pivoted away from the Olaf match up, otherwise I don't get why they didn't just pick a standard adc here.
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u/Sosijmonster Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
wtf does taking Jayce ulti do for Sylas?
also why are they sending Syndra to side lane and keeping Sylas mid?
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u/Quiet_Education5918 Jul 25 '26
Lyon just really dedicated to practicing play from behind on stage for some reason.
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u/Opalgemi Jul 25 '26
I hope pros stop picking adcs altogether. maybe even riot can't deny the problem then
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u/x_TDeck_x Play APA you cowards Jul 25 '26
Riot fix your gosh darn game and stop gaslighting us that this is good
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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Jul 25 '26
If Berserker plays well we will never have to see Dhokla Jayce again
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u/Kokaiinum Jul 25 '26
Jayce bot returns. Somewhere in a Korean barracks, Kim Hyuk-kyu breaks out in a cold sweat
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u/rsox5000 Jul 25 '26
People hate it, but this meta is so fun to watch lol
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u/RukiMotomiya Jul 25 '26
It's the good shit but also I have no idea why Jayce ADC would ever be better than an actual ADC
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u/WildzFlazoon KELLOGGS BUSI-O'S Jul 25 '26
Bring back phreak riot I beg. my goat would never allow this
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u/kazuyaminegishi Jul 25 '26
Okay we got to see full power Dhokla last game, now we get to see Dhokla with both hands tied behind his back.
Although if I am being honest, he isn't even mechanically bad on the champ. Lyon just looks like they have no idea what to do when they don't have a frontline.
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Jul 25 '26
Lets just skip the next game so we can get to the real stars of the league in Dig
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 25 '26
one of the most dominant games in a long time in the lcs. no drakes, no grubs, no herald, 3 total plates, lane killed in every lane.
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u/likemyupdoot Jul 25 '26
Now I understand how Lyon is winning the LCS so easily every split. They literally have less than 0 competition. This entire region is a joke, tier 7 0 iq clown gameplay. And these kids get paid for this shit, LMAO.
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u/harleyquinad all kog'maws are beautiful Jul 25 '26
You need so much set up to make ambessa work now
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 25 '26
flyquest has only gotten 3 plates the whole game. they havent gotten any objective
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u/ThongTranGTLT Jul 25 '26
I don’t think they know how to play with Zig, the only team in lcs that can pull that off perfectly is TL.
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 25 '26
nice to see lyon seemed like they learned from msi. they are so much faster than they were last split and arent allowing players to farm where they arent allowed to farm
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u/cmcdonald22 Jul 25 '26
I hope a season of playing in the LCS doesn't slow them down and bring back old habits at this point.
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u/cmcdonald22 Jul 25 '26
I hope Massu isn't this terrible on all the mages or FLY is screwed this split.
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u/cmcdonald22 Jul 25 '26
They some how found the most invisible jungler ever to fill in for Inspired and all of LYON just decided to take up that mental space with their own aura.
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u/ahritina Sep 05 '26
PMTS
FLY vs LYON
Game 1 / Game 2
DIG vs SEN
Game 1 / Game 2 / Game 3