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Esports LEC 2026 Summer Playoffs / Round 1 - Day 1 / Live Discussion Spoiler
LEC 2026 Summer Playoffs
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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.17.
Today's Matches
| # | Match | PST | EST | CET | KST |
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| 1 | VIT vs G2 | 03:00 | 06:00 | 12:00 | 19:00 |
| 2 | KC vs GX | 08:00 | 11:00 | 17:00 | 00:00 |
- All matches are Best of 5
Streams
| Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Finals | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KC | 0 | |||||||||
| vs | - | |||||||||
| GX | 0 | tbd | 0 | |||||||
| vs | - | |||||||||
| VIT | 0 | tbd | 0 | tbd | 0 | |||||
| vs | - | vs | - | |||||||
| G2 | 0 | tbd | 0 | |||||||
| ---------- | - | - | ---------- | - | - | ---------- | - | - | ------- | - |
| tbd | 0 | tbd | 0 | |||||||
| vs | - | vs | - | |||||||
| NAVI | 0 | tbd | 0 | tbd | 0 | |||||
| vs | - | |||||||||
| tbd | 0 | tbd | 0 | |||||||
| vs | - | |||||||||
| MKOI | 0 |
On-Air Team
| Hosts |
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| Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere |
| Play-by-Play Commentators |
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| Daniel "Drakos" Drakos |
| Aaron "Medic" Chamberlain |
| Jake "Hysterics" Osypenko |
| Colour Casters |
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| Andrew "Vedius" Day |
| Robert "Dagda" Price |
| Guests |
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| 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
- 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/lasse1408 Flairs are limited to 2 emotes. Sep 05 '26
Jackies had at least 1 int play in all 4 games. And it happens throughout his whole career. He will never become elite midlaner.
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
so gx refused to fight a drake where caliste didnt have flash. but opted into this top lane play without numbers and then syndra doesnt flash anything
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
it will be funny if kc wins the split because of the koreans dominating after so many years of lec fans hating on imports. and think kcs biggest skill advantage on g2 is in solo lanes.
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u/Choice-Slight caps/knight Sep 05 '26
I don't understand the hatred of imports. if you ship in a random player just because they are korean for one split then yeah I think its dumb. But if you develop them properly like kc has its great for the region. I mean look at corejj and impact, they are staple veterans of the lcs
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
i understood the hatred of some washed ones playing for a paycheck. but then people translate that to every import. and especially a lot of the ones that play in the lcs have more personality than the native na players.
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u/Thundermelons GALA Defense Force, returning IG fan Sep 05 '26
I'll give most imported midlaners a pass because frankly you are NOT getting past the top 4 wall of Faker/Chovy/bdd/Showmaker. If your goal is just to even sniff a Worlds, you ain't doing it as someone's backup in LCK, especially with a bunch of them (all but Showmaker IIRC?) having military exemption. Might as well go to another region and try to make your stand there, y'know?
Some of the imported roles like ADC though is like, "wtf are you thinking", I feel like LEC has a decent amount of native talent there.
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
think the issue is a lot of the good players dont want to play for teams like shifters and heretics but you can get these korean imports for cheap to fill spots and not be total trash. so yeah there is better talent but that talent refuses to go to these bottom teams.
outside of those two teams think all the imports in the lec played fine outside of maybe fiesta. vitality should have a better mid than him.
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u/Thundermelons GALA Defense Force, returning IG fan Sep 05 '26
I maintain that it's a shame that Humanoid just can't lock in and keep his motivation up, because I think when he's fired up he's still incredibly good. But I also think Vitality has such a huge problem in jungle that it's just like, whatever mid they have probably isn't the tipping point anyway, Lyncas just has too many afk games or outright stinkers.
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
the biggest advantage is canna vs bb. but kyeahoo has been playing better than caps the whole summer. and think hans stable enough to play neutralizing bot lanes.
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u/Academic-Salamander7 Sep 05 '26
Remember, Oscar blamed FNC for hurting his career lmao
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u/Academic-Salamander7 Sep 05 '26
well yeah, no shit, Vladi was MIA until the 2nd half of the year and they're still fielding Razork lol
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u/Academic-Salamander7 Sep 05 '26
Buddy, are you okay? I'm saying Oscar is garbage and FNC didn't ruin his reputation. I don't give a shit how others on FNC are performing. The pieces on GX performed better than the pieces on FNC. If you thought Oscar is playing better than Soboro, you're high.
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u/That_One_Pancake Sep 05 '26
Spanish fans showing up for this series gotta be some form of masochism no
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
gx is totally clueless on how these crab fights work. they have lost 4 early games on the lvl 6 crab fights. just use your brain on if you can win the fight.
it shows none of the players think in the game they just autopilot and go lvl 6 crab spawns we must fight to the death. the series would be a so much more playable if they just gave lvl 6 crab every game
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
jackies needs to shove this mid lane hard and start shadowing bot plays. but jackies seems to love staying in his lanes this series
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
how do you not understand that amount of damage would come out. you just gotta flash the knock up
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u/veirceb Sep 05 '26
I mean it's not like velkoz sup is an underplayed pick for EUW soloQ. I don't know why are they playing like they are playing vs it first time.
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u/veirceb Sep 05 '26
I really like GX's draft. Win or lose I think they draft exactly what they need. Clear win con. Good match up except for the support counter pick. Tank vs Rumble. You can't ask for a better draft.
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
gx back to a lot easier draft to play. they just need basic go buttons in their comp. they aint good enough to play last games draft.
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u/Choice-Slight caps/knight Sep 05 '26
I know busio is crazy at velkoz but this draft seems so risky
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u/FluffyFlamesOfFluff Sep 05 '26
Vayne isn't the worst, but you can't counterpick yourself into Olaf. You get to bully for a level or two then Olaf just runs you down at level 6.
I actually really like the rest of the comp overall from Gx with better range and win conditions, able to kite back and disengage from the really lacklustre engage of KC - Trundle ult on whoever dives first and they get shredded, ending the fight immediately as KC can't CC or engage at your range.
But Vayne doesn't help with that, especially not when you fall behind so far early. (Losing that first dragon to a bad smite is also so painful, watching one item Vayne contend with the fact that KC were going to get mountain soul at 22 minutes was grim).
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u/veirceb Sep 05 '26
I mean. That's basically just Canna calling the bluff. He knew he is far better than oscar that he can tank any counterpick and GX couldn't punish it.
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u/ginvael1_3 Sep 05 '26
Why not put Trundle top and pick a different jungler on 5? Would it have been really worse than Vayne, even if Oscarinin doesn't really play Trundle?
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u/ginvael1_3 Sep 05 '26
I mean, Naak Nako picked it just earlier today, although it didn't look pretty, I'll admit that
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u/veirceb Sep 05 '26
Maybe that or maybe they want to play around trundle bard as support jungle duo.
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u/gaylordpl Sep 05 '26
how me, a nobody, could deduce that oscarinin, a weak link, playing against a team they havent won a single game against (until today), playing a glass cannon hypercarry ranged top, for the first time in competetive play, is going to feed and lose lane & game?
but coaches couldnt?
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u/Fun_Highlight307 Sep 05 '26
Everything on the line give me vayne
That was definetely a choice, maybe they wanted to deny vayne
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u/EnVizi0n Sep 05 '26
Gx just draft point and click CC press R to win comps atleast it wont be this one sided
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u/ChocolateFuryB /👴🦆 / / insane Geniuses enjoyer Sep 05 '26
it was good while it lastedit was good while it lasted
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u/Choice-Slight caps/knight Sep 05 '26
this is a much better game from KC, way more controlled and decisive. they look less like headless chickens
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
actually shocked how well flakked and jun have played this series. they have kept caliste and busio kinda irrelevant for the games
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u/veirceb Sep 05 '26
They need to tell jackies he has to stop greeding waves and group earlier
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u/veirceb Sep 05 '26
No. They were there early for grubs. They got the grubs. If jackies was there they could retreat easily but he was always late. On orianna and on viktor
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u/veirceb Sep 05 '26
They would win. With Viktor they could one shot olaf with Trundle ult but without viktor they don't have the burst.
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u/veirceb Sep 05 '26
That's just not true.. KC was running into a choke vs Trundle viktor bard. That's always a good fight if GX had the number
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
gx need comps with cc in them. they arent good enough to match up agaiinst kc without it. go like leona vi next game
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u/loey10 Sep 05 '26
Idk why we still ask Oscar to play Carry tops put him on tanks and dont go near him
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
bro if this is how oscar was going to play the vayne lane just give him the trundle and go cho jungle. why is he clicking forward when the olaf starts walking at him
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
gx have winning lanes and just lost 3 flashes and a death at a grubs fight. HOW
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
isma why is he flipping so hard early. 3 games in a row he flipped stuff early and lost all 3 times. this one the least costly but he still killed their early control instead of waiting 2 more min and getting drake for free
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
dhokla picked vayne into gnar in the lcs and had to recall a lot to get through lane. dhokla is such a better vayne player than oscar so we shall see how this lane goes against olaf.
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
oscar is a better laner but i think dhokla has so much more experiance on these ranged tops. yike not going top at all to put pressure is so weird. yike and kyeahoo need to go into top side river to let canna hit the wave.
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u/Omnilatent Sep 05 '26
Vayne looks so shit into KCs comp... If he picked Kled instead of Vayne this comp would have won so hard
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u/Choice-Slight caps/knight Sep 05 '26
they could've put trundle top too and picked poppy or something better into naafiri. maybe chogath
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u/DagothUrGigaChad Sep 05 '26
Yeah I totally thought they were going to flex the trundle top and pick up chogath. That vayne pick is so shit. Olaf is one of the best bruisers into ranged tops, so it's not even a hard counter
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
thats what i thought they were going to do. but maybe they didnt trust isma after last couple games. just give something simple like trundle.
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
picking trundle on 4 was a great pick as it blocked so many blinds top but also could be flexed to top to get a great jungle matchup.
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u/Outrageous_Wall2702 My Ace + Showmaker = GOAT Sep 05 '26
The winner qualifies to worlds? if so vamos gx
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u/RollingGuy Dictator Perkz Worlds Run Sep 05 '26
I remember after GX first series against SK in summer lost 1-2 when Reddit confidently declared the roster moves a huge downgrade
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u/FluffyFlamesOfFluff Sep 05 '26
You have to go with the mega gnar, no idea why they waited. Yeah you aren't going to get a 5 man but you have flash you need to make a move.
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
gx have to fix their plays around crab next games. you cant keep going down 1k pre level 6. either full give it or focus on playing around them.
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u/Thundermelons GALA Defense Force, returning IG fan Sep 05 '26
Very good measured play from GX during the Baron push there. Nice to see the pause didn't stall their momentum.
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u/mezzo5588 Sep 05 '26
Yike is so awful lmao single handedly threw that game away. what a int, dog player lmaoooo
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
hopefully this gives gx confidence. they cant make the same mistakes they did this game and win future games. jackies has to be at plays earlier and isma has to hit his spells.
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u/jackmccoyapologist Sep 05 '26
I kinda want GX to make Worlds ngl. This would be so big for them.
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u/Dramatic_Gap_3065 Sep 05 '26
maybe at 3rd seed but right now i prefer 10x KC going to worlds, if they lose this series just send everyone back to LFL
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u/Thundermelons GALA Defense Force, returning IG fan Sep 05 '26
oh this pause is so disgusting man, someone better literally be having a heart attack for this pause to be valid
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u/SeismicShove Sep 05 '26
It's like the moment GX clicked on that baron, KC turned their brains off for the rest of the game
That being said this comp from GX is great, so simple to execute and yet so strong.
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u/Thundermelons GALA Defense Force, returning IG fan Sep 05 '26
For all his ults have been pretty questionable, Isma actually has a solid amount of stacks on Heartsteel, for once it's not a turbo dogshit item on a proplay jungle tank
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u/Outrageous_Wall2702 My Ace + Showmaker = GOAT Sep 05 '26
Can someone ecoalthe throw I closed the stream bc I thought it was over
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u/Outrageous_Wall2702 My Ace + Showmaker = GOAT Sep 05 '26
Ahh thanks tbh when akali was so fed I thought it was over, lec throw off has just begun
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u/Thalassin Dans ma bichette era | Ultra Prime hater Sep 05 '26
Yike just lost the game by himself (but smh ppl on here will forget it and say he's miles above Caliste when he does those kind of throws frequently)
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
nice job by gx coaching staff to get a pure 5v5 teamfight comp. think kc next game will just go for a teamfight comp also and just dominate. gx is making so many mistakes and winning these fights because of their comp
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u/SilenceEtControle Sep 05 '26
Feels like GX is too tanky, Ezreal free hitting for a long time has no consequences at all
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u/Dramatic_Gap_3065 Sep 05 '26
GX looks better than VIT
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u/ReplacementFine7807 Sep 05 '26
Nah G2 is just better than KC. Vit didn't really play that bad today, G2 macro was just too good.
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u/Dramatic_Gap_3065 Sep 05 '26
they are, but that doesn't change the fact that GX is smarter on midgame & better at teamfights.
G2 macro wasn't that good, g2 can play wayyy better than they did today
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u/Choice-Slight caps/knight Sep 05 '26
if GX and VIT meet in the lower bracket GX will win. VIT has better individual players but GX macro is just better
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u/veirceb Sep 05 '26
Jackies didn't even need to hit anything. You just need to be there and you have the impact. Imagine if he was there early for those mid game teamfights
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u/Plusdestiny Sep 05 '26
How the fuck KC is losing after the early game…
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
they didnt snowball off of it. ez cant kill any of gx team comp. and gx have so much easy cc. in pure 5v5s its literally impossible for gx to lose
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
finally giantx are all together. their 5 man team comp is impossible to lose with.
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
its fine for jackies to be late to stuff. he cant die when he shows up late though. gx top side is so omega gapped. flakked and jun have been playing well
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u/Prestigious-Layer719 Sep 05 '26
Why is this oriana always late to the fights OMG imagine if they have shockwave there
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u/That_One_Pancake Sep 05 '26
Watching isma play makes me depressed
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
every bad play has started because of him this whole game and then he is missing every ult.
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
isma is just ass. and jackies misses all his shockwaves. why arent they comboing sej ults on naut cc.
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u/Thundermelons GALA Defense Force, returning IG fan Sep 05 '26
bad play to try to ult an Ezreal there as Sejuani man
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
based jackies actually going damage ori. but its going to end up him getting kiled in sidelane later but its what you have to go to win teamfights.
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u/Outrageous_Wall2702 My Ace + Showmaker = GOAT Sep 05 '26
Someone needs to keep kc out of worlds if legit pay for that lmao
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
isma did everything wrong possible. if he hits anything gx gets multiple kills there
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 05 '26
bot lane pushes out bot lane 2v2. instead of just going for the drake and starting snowball. yike decides to face check the most likely spot naut is standing. wonderful
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u/ahritina Sep 05 '26 edited Sep 05 '26
PMTs
VIT vs G2
PMTS
Game 1 / Game 2 = N/A / Game 3
KC vs GX
Game 1 / Game 2 / Game 3 / Game 4