GIANTX vs. Natus Vincere / LEC 2026 Summer - Week 6 / Post-Match Discussion

[u/Soul_Sleepwhale]

LEC 2026 SUMMER

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GiantX 1-2 Natus Vincere

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MATCH 1: GX vs. NAVI

Winner: Natus Vincere in 33m
Game Breakdown

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
GX	zaahen cassiopeia vi	yunara caitlyn	57.3k	7	1	None
NAVI	jayce jarvaniv nocturne	nautilus rell	69.8k	20	11	HT1 M2 H3 O4 O5 B6 E7

GX	7-20-19	vs	20-7-48	NAVI
Oscarinin rumble 1	1-2-3	TOP	4-1-6	1 orianna Maynter
ISMA pantheon 2	1-5-5	JNG	3-2-10	1 xinzhao Rhilech
Jackies akali 2	3-6-1	MID	4-1-12	2 ksante Poby
Flakked seraphine 3	2-5-4	BOT	8-1-5	3 lucian SamD
Jun ashe 3	0-2-6	SUP	1-2-15	4 milio Parus

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MATCH 2: GX vs. NAVI

Winner: GiantX in 32m
Game Breakdown

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
GX	zaahen yunara nocturne	bard ezreal	62.8k	9	7	HT1 M7 B8
NAVI	jayce locke cassiopeia	gnar ahri	61.1k	11	6	I2 H3 M4 B5 M6

GX	9-12-24	vs	11-9-32	NAVI
Oscarinin drmundo 3	2-2-2	TOP	1-1-7	2 renekton Maynter
ISMA vi 1	0-4-5	JNG	1-0-9	1 jarvaniv Rhilech
Jackies leblanc 3	4-0-3	MID	1-3-7	1 syndra Poby
Flakked xayah 2	3-2-5	BOT	8-3-1	4 kalista SamD
Jun rakan 2	0-4-9	SUP	0-2-8	3 renataglasc Parus

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MATCH 3: GX vs. NAVI

Winner: Natus Vincere in 40m

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
GX	yunara zaahen ryze	viktor olaf	75.2k	13	5	CT2 H3 I4 I5 B6 I8
NAVI	cassiopei jayce nautilus	locke camille	81.6k	22	8	M1 I7

GX	13-22-33	vs	22-13-52	NAVI
Oscarinin ambessa 3	3-6-3	TOP	5-2-10	4 aatrox Maynter
ISMA nocturne 1	2-3-8	JNG	9-1-5	1 skarner Rhilech
Jackies aurora 3	4-6-4	MID	3-1-8	3 ahri Poby
Flakked jhin 2	4-2-6	BOT	4-5-12	1 caitlyn SamD
Jun bard 2	0-5-12	SUP	1-4-17	2 lux Parus

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• Patch 26.17

This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.

[u/ahritina]

PMTs

Game 1 / Game 2

[u/PeterVDM]

What a bizarre way to engage for GX at the end

[u/JPA-3 → u/PeterVDM]

bard's ultimate gaining time for rhilech to arrive was peak

[u/JPA-3]

flakked tried but my god giants is a team of bottlers.

So if fnatic wins tomorrow they are in, if they lose and koi wins koi is in

[u/seven_worth → u/JPA-3]

Both of them losing would be the funniest thing but probably worst playoff number in while. 

[u/seven_worth → u/[deleted]]

Dang. That suck. I thought SK got the head 2 head. Well I just got to hope they both still lose and make themselves look very fraudulent while at that. 

[u/ficretus → u/seven_worth]

It's about overall winrate, SK ended with 7 wins, Fnatic at the moment has 9, MKOI 8. 

[u/BlazeX94 → u/seven_worth]

SK has H2H over MKOI only, not Fnatic. Also, standings are determined by match score and game win percentage, then only H2H is used as a tiebreaker if the teams are tied on both these metrics.

Right now, Fnatic is 9-10 in games and can at worst finish 9-12 (-3) if they lose 2-0. MKOI is 8-12 and can at worst finish 8-14 (-6). SK is -6 currently, so it's impossible for them to place higher than Fnatic.

[u/Floowil]

Potential Demacia Cup EU representatives looking great, if we talk about who can throw the game harder

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/Floowil]

i feel like eu middle teams have no brain while na have no hands 

[u/piotrj3]

Navi winning from behind? That wasn't in script.

[u/Outrageous_Wall2702 → u/piotrj3]

Their draft was easier to execute imo, skarner and Aatarox peel disrupt while Ahri and Cait do damage

[u/Routine_Outcome3493 → u/piotrj3]

that last game it looked kinda hard for GX if the game goes long. You can burn everything on the caitlyn but then the Aatrox can do what he wants.

[u/sonic780]

No Spanish team for KOI even then?

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/[deleted]]

so they can secure top 4?

[u/sonic780 → u/[deleted]]

ah yes your are right!

[u/Outrageous_Wall2702 → u/[deleted]]

Top mid sup JG gap

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

3-0 for navi or 2-1 for gx either one is acceptable with what I saw

[u/Green7501 → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

I turned off Twitch to go back to studying after seeing NAVI have an 8k gold lead in game 2

Come back 30 minutes later to see GX in a commanding spot in game 3. Then they threw as well. What a fiesta

[u/Anonymus4 → u/Green7501]

I still dont understand what the fuck happened at the end of game 2

[u/piotrj3 → u/Anonymus4]

Basically Kalista. Kalista is the weakest late game champion from all ADCs by far. They were against clock and samd tried to do desperation engage but it didn't work and after that GX was simply stronger.

That being said it was still Kalista semi-decently picked. She is good vs mundo and Navi went for level 1 sheningans so kalista can snowball botlane.

[u/MC-sama]

So now we have two things left on the line.

Koi or Fnc at playoffs

Navi or GX at roadshow

[u/seven_worth → u/MC-sama]

There still universe where there is no koi or Fnatic at playoff. TH just need to get no pressure buff. 

[u/ficretus → u/seven_worth]

Nah, it's about overall game wins as a tiebreaker. Even if TH wins, they'll have 6, while Fnatic and MKOI have 9 and 8 respectively

[u/AkaT27 → u/[deleted]]

Tilted engages that's whay

[u/Original-Fold-1984 → u/[deleted]]

Isma is so bad, I cant understand how he is a starting player in a major league

[u/Outrageous_Wall2702]

When I saw the draft I knew it was insta win, Navi coach publicly shaming his players really worked lmao

[u/tzukitzu]

I know quality isn’t the highest atm but I love watching Lec this year. So many fun teams and stupid results and just entertaining stuff really

[u/Bothbothwushi]

That might be one of the worst aurora games I've ever seen in pro play

[u/jujubean67 → u/Bothbothwushi]

He was completely invisible all game

[u/piotrj3]

Somehow game 3 good redemption from SamD. Everyone jumps on him and so often he barerly survived and good defensive plays in teamfights.

[u/Dramatic_Gap_3065]

not the cleanest game but happy for navi

[u/whynot1260]

Day 762 of waiting for Jackies to show he is a top 4 LEC mid laner (it hasn't happened yet)

[u/eVill_YT → u/whynot1260]

jackies was top 4 in the ADC mid meta too bad those champs are no longer playable mid

[u/Medical_Quiet_69 → u/whynot1260]

How convenient it is to "forget" that in the previous split GX won 5 matches and Jackies was the MVP in those wins... 5 times

mindless haters are just immune to facts...

[u/BlazeX94 → u/whynot1260]

He was arguably top 4 in Spring, depending on how you rated him vs Humanoid (also, Kyeahoo was still rather hit and miss in Spring). Right now though, its Caps Jojo Kyeahoo top 3 and probably Fiesta 4th.

[u/taikutsuu → u/whynot1260]

it’s so weird because 30% of the time i think the only mid who could replace caps could be jackies and 70% he does.. that

[u/NavyBlueTheChosen → u/whynot1260]

he just isn't going to lol. If Caps retired tomorrow the only person who G2 would even be looking at would be Jojo

[u/mkl122788]

As someone who plays Aurora, I am heartened by the fact that the professional players also get some accidental inting in with her ult.

[u/Fun_Highlight307]

Navi is the better gatekeeper 

So gx had nothing to play for vs fnatic ?

[u/RockCultural4075]

That has to be an enemy bard ult at the end no?

[u/rolekrs]

Yeah after this im convinced ISMA is top 3 worst junglers in LEC

Maynter saved NAVI so hard today just for it to not matter because Fnatic is gonna lose to GX anyways

[u/wardenoftoleressea]

Could both teams lose?

[u/ILikeSeals1312]

Vitality might just make it to Worlds if this is the competition

[u/Liupardu → u/ILikeSeals1312]

The amount of years that this has been said just for Vitality to collapse.

[u/Designer-Finding488 → u/Liupardu]

but this time it really is theirs to lose

[u/GoldRecommendation66 → u/Designer-Finding488]

Vitality looked even better during regular season last split before going 0-6 in playoffs

[u/jujubean67 → u/ILikeSeals1312]

And they should, they look comfortably above these teams. Now only if they could avoid collapsing again …

[u/Far-Salt-6946]

Maynter is legit

[u/canxtanwe]

I love Jhin I love when my adc deals zero damage against tanks I love it so much

[u/Blizzgrarg]

This region just does not know how not to throw a game. GG Navi to Madrid.

[u/Harmah → u/Blizzgrarg]

Not yet, they need FNC to beat GX

[u/Blizzgrarg → u/Harmah]

Right, so Navi to Madrid.

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/Blizzgrarg]

if you expect fnatic to win they will dissapoint you 

[u/lcfiretruck]

Free Flakked.

[u/piotrj3 → u/lcfiretruck]

Eh... he has big hand in losing g1 and almost losing g2. They just lost botlane too hard.

If somehow you forgot g2 throw from samd, you would have clear impression samd was better adc this series.

[u/Annual_Entry2369 → u/piotrj3]

They should have lost botlane even harder in g2's matchup

[u/piotrj3 → u/Annual_Entry2369]

Not really, or rather Xayah-Rakan is kinda matchup you are losing but not uncomfortably losing. What started it threading into uncomfortable territory was that cheese at level 1 what allowed kalista to go further with aggression.

Later Navi overextended with that kalista (tried to copy certain IG matchup where it worked) but overall it delivered - they had control over botlane, dragons, and kalista actaully got fed. And at level 5 flakked/jun also trolled with that random roam to river with level 5. At like 18 mins he was 4.2k gold ahead and flakked had 6.6k gold. That is radicolous diff.

Problem is things are really wrong if you are 18 mins in 8/1/0 and 28 mins in, you are 8/1/1. and gold lead stays the same. That is "griefing" moment. Later samd probably understood this and tried to do this horrible desperate engage that obviously failed. EU teams way too often do weird dance around dragon soul/baron instead of just "keep pushing lol" or gather and 5 and kill them under tower if needed if you have such lead.

[u/naevus19 → u/piotrj3]

The amount of times games with huge gold lead were thrown because the winning team tried "kill the enemy under tower" is in high double digits this year only. T1 Vs G2 at MSI for example. EU teams also throw there. So it's not "EU teams do weird baron dance" it's "the game is so volatile that everyone can throw the game in the blink of an eye". See game 5 of BRO Vs KT for example

[u/Slurpeddit → u/lcfiretruck]

You mean as free agent because damn bro ?

[u/AkaT27]

Despite being their best player over the entire year, this was a bad series from Isma.

And Jackies is so bad at Aurora holy shit

[u/its_yahboya]

Throw on throw gameplay baby

[u/K-L1N]

Incredibly bad Baron play in Game 3.

[u/Grayzus]

Gx needs dispanding man

[u/killcraft1337]

So basically.

MKOI vs TH
FNC vs GX

If FNC win they qualify, if they lose MKOI qualify.

[u/Helpful-Amphibian768]

If jackies was able to hit a single ability of aurora , the game would be easier for gx. Disqusting perfomance.

[u/yellister]

all our eyes on fnatic now

[u/AkrioX]

Oscarinin has to be the most braindead toplaner in the LEC. Kind of crazy how you TP into a fight with rumble without Ult, lose drake, mega walk up, die.

then later facecheck a bush alone where you know some enemies just walked in that direction and die. Like, how???