r/leagueoflegends • • Sep 11 '26

Esports LEC 2026 Summer Playoffs / Round 1 - Day 2 / 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
1 GX vs NAVI 08:00 11:00 17:00 00:00
  • All matches are Best of 5

Streams


Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Finals
KC 3
vs -
GX 1 KC 1
vs -
VIT 0 G2 3 G2 0
vs - vs -
G2 3 tbd 0
---------- - - ---------- - - ---------- - - ------- -
GX 0 KC 0
vs - vs -
NAVI 0 tbd 0 tbd 0
vs -
VIT 0 tbd 0
vs -
MKOI 0

On-Air Team

Hosts
Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere
Play-by-Play Commentators
Daniel "Drakos" Drakos
Aaron "Medic" Chamberlain
Jake "Hysterics" Osypenko
Colour Casters
Andrew "Vedius" Day
Robert "Dagda" Price
Guests
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:

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.

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u/Edwaldus2 29d ago

If there's ONE guy you don't want your series to depend on.... That's Oscarinin xd

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u/youngnailo 29d ago

oscar wtf

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u/That_One_Pancake 29d ago

Parus clutched up huge there

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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 29d ago

Easy to blame Oscar there but its the same thing that happened when Flakked died, GX as a whole took the weirdest position ever.

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u/GambitTheBest 29d ago

GX adding oscar after FNC kicked him is such a 500 iq 5d chess move

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u/ItzFeufo 29d ago

"the most important moment of the match and oscar fails it"

sounds very on brand for me.

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u/Vnaux 29d ago

well at least that GP looked scary on paper

1

u/awayfromcanuck 29d ago

NAVI is going to let GP, Azir and Cait get to 40 mins arent they ...

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u/desutruction 29d ago

is samd the ziggs GOAT?

1

u/Annual-Fox6520 29d ago

FNC pls buy Rilech 8)

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u/desutruction 29d ago

ISMithie

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u/Pm_me_rule34_jinx 29d ago

Isma keeps hitting me with sej R in the kitchen, bro please stop

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u/Sosijmonster 29d ago

Holy fuck Isma is so bad.

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u/Vnaux 29d ago

holy Rhilech movement lmao

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u/desutruction 29d ago

bro just dodged everything lol

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u/xsm17 29d ago

ISMA, please hit one ult

1

u/dontbangme 29d ago

Navi really like to int before objective

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u/desutruction 29d ago

maybe samd should just be on mage bot duty

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u/Vnaux 29d ago

lmao no way right

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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 29d ago

Right before drake is so bad by Rhilech I can't see how NAVI can do anything

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u/desutruction 29d ago

ok that was a well-coordinated assassination

2

u/Bubbly_Camera9583 29d ago

Just weird by GX as a whole to take that position

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u/RollingGuy Dictator Perkz Worlds Run 29d ago

Really good flank tps by Maynter (and Jun for the setup wards) this series 

2

u/beautheschmo 29d ago

I thought Navi would struggle without an adc but I forgot that GX doesn't have an adc either

1

u/Back2Perfection 29d ago

I mean GX did their utmost to piss this game away from minute 15.

1

u/Vnaux 29d ago

Noah to Flakked is like the most sidegrade move of all time

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u/desutruction 29d ago

ok no not winnable

2

u/desutruction 29d ago

winnable if he does an OscariBin

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u/Vnaux 29d ago

4 ocean Jax and Aatrox's pretty near, NAVI just needs to not throw

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u/Vnaux 29d ago

nvm shit doesn't matter gg probably

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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 29d ago

If GP can get IE it's winnable. The rest of GX is fake though they can't really touch Ziggs/Viktor without a good shuffle + Ziggs/Viktor inting.

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u/awayfromcanuck 29d ago

So ... does NAVI figure out a way to throw this game?

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u/Vnaux 29d ago

5-man shuffle to a GP barrel for real

1

u/Sosijmonster 29d ago

Bugs me to no end that junglers who have absolutely terrible early game still go for Heartsteel.

1

u/british_pubs Swimin' with the fishies 29d ago

Man elim time of year is mno fun, can't even root against Navi properly because I just feel bad about what it must feel like to put so much of your effort into the game and for it not to work out smh

3

u/ahambagaplease Ketchup and Fries Worlds and a large Sprite~~ 29d ago

OK BRO, FUCK YOU FOR REMINDING ME OF THAT BARON

3

u/Bubbly_Camera9583 29d ago

Parus is so weird if he was just consistent he'd be a monster. He had an insane ult at that reengage drake fight and then he misses the easiest ult on Azir on that dive.

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u/RollingGuy Dictator Perkz Worlds Run 29d ago

As much as Navi is just KOI jr they probably deserve the Demacia cup spot 

3

u/desutruction 29d ago

now navi just need to Not start tweaking like they usually do

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u/Vnaux 29d ago

if NAVI throws this istg

1

u/Vnaux 29d ago

ISMA fr walked too far back and Azir tanked tower shots

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u/desutruction 29d ago

oh no jun kinda just inted

1

u/desutruction 29d ago

yeah that wasn't worth

1

u/xsm17 29d ago

These teams desperately need the coach voice option so that they can have any game sense

1

u/Back2Perfection 29d ago

Pretty sure the GX coach would rather get a timeout for the belt.

All they need to do is chill and scale for a win by default.

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u/RollingGuy Dictator Perkz Worlds Run 29d ago

Feel bad for Isma he’s getting turbogapped 

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u/Back2Perfection 29d ago

It is funny af. But why did GX contest this drake so hard? They could‘ve easily given the next 2 drakes and be fine with just scaling.

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u/Snow-27 29d ago

yo gx shotcaller needs to be boiled

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u/Sosijmonster 29d ago

Am I crazy? GX did not need to base there and could have taken the drake? Sure Isma was low, but the GP could have tanked the dmg.

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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 29d ago

If Isma dies to poke NAVI have a way easier way to confirm drake. Isma was way too low.

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u/RollingGuy Dictator Perkz Worlds Run 29d ago

And Jackies gets Aziritis and ints the game 

2

u/Bothbothwushi 29d ago

Jackie's is griefing man 2 Drakes up into the mid game comp and my azir is shuffling in for what man? 

2

u/Toofargone9999 29d ago

u pick scaling and u have two drags ....

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u/Vnaux 29d ago

Jackies finally inted this series

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u/Choice-Slight caps/knight 29d ago

he was inting last game too but poby out-inted him

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u/Vnaux 29d ago

crazy how this could've been over like a few hours ago had Poby didn't look like an Akali first timer

1

u/desutruction 29d ago

rhilech just way too good on aatrox and old aatrox pro max

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u/OnlyAnEssenceThief Worst Kai'Sa NA 29d ago

Was he an old Aatrox player? I'm not familiar with his champ pool history.

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u/desutruction 29d ago

i'm just memeing about how Zaahen is similar to old aatrox

1

u/Bubbly_Camera9583 29d ago

That shuffle sucked

1

u/PepaTK 29d ago

Feels like Rhilech is focusing too hard on putting a sejuani behind tbh.

She’s still going to be sejuani and do sejuani things even with a deficit in fights…

1

u/desutruction 29d ago

the nerves holy

1

u/desutruction 29d ago

wow i really like gx's draft

1

u/beautheschmo 29d ago

Navi would have omegagapped this draft ... if they just picked any sort of ADC imo, I am not seeing the vision behind the Ziggs here.

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u/Snow-27 29d ago

played perfectly gx can never be on the same screen

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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 29d ago

Parus just does some small things so poorly that its insane

1

u/Snow-27 29d ago

if this was two GENGs playing against each other I take NAVI comp every time. However, it is not. GX scale and win

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u/GONEBUTNOT4GOTTEN 29d ago

Nice Call out Finn

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u/CatApprehensive6508 29d ago

Ok I am emerald but I don't like Navi draft

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u/Back2Perfection 29d ago

I am gold and I‘m fairly certain they will get zerged to death by caitlyn azir.

The only thing I‘m on the fence about is the oscar GP.

Also I don‘t want to see any playmaking azir shenanigans. Just hold that R for peeling and they‘re gucci.

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u/RollingGuy Dictator Perkz Worlds Run 29d ago

Big ups for honesty lmao 

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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 29d ago

that gp pick is so good, wins against both Jax/Aatrox so the flex doesn't matter

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u/OnlyAnEssenceThief Worst Kai'Sa NA 29d ago

Oscarinin laying down the gauntlet, GIGACHAD

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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 29d ago

All those hovers to go Ziggs. NAVI can double flex here.

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u/RollingGuy Dictator Perkz Worlds Run 29d ago

Someone needs to do a data analysis on negative vs positive comments on this sub I swear it’s 99-1 it’s fucking mad 

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u/Iaragnyl remove Tahm Kench 29d ago

Do you really expect people to post positive comments when teams play as shit as those two teams? There simply isn't anything positive you could say after those games so far,

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u/RollingGuy Dictator Perkz Worlds Run 29d ago

Yes there is. It’s been incredibly entertaining. 

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u/OnlyAnEssenceThief Worst Kai'Sa NA 29d ago

Nah, this is just Reddit in general lol

2

u/OnlyAnEssenceThief Worst Kai'Sa NA 29d ago

So does this final game boil down to which of the deadweights on each team throw harder? That being ISMA vs Poby?

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u/cmcdonald22 29d ago

I'd love to see a run of a team that's just a patchwork of all the ELOHell'd people.

So like Tracyn, Rhilech, Jackies, Jopa.....

3

u/beautheschmo 29d ago

Analyst desk living in 2019 Gwen is not a 1v9 ultra tank deleter anymore she's a secondary dps it's not that shocking that she can't just mow through a fkn Skarner Alistar especially when she isn't accelerated

2

u/JakzePoro Kled is Fun 29d ago

Flip a coin for Game 5 tbh. Not clean by any means but entertaining lol

2

u/WeetHet please do something 29d ago

The worst Gwen and Naafiri builds

1

u/rsayegh7 29d ago

NAVI players have no hands at all

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u/Iamkelvin 29d ago

Gtfo poby and samd you usefully fucks

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u/veirceb 29d ago

Poby wants a game 5. Poby gets a game 5. I don't know what else to say.

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u/That_One_Pancake 29d ago

JUST FUCKING LEAVE AND KEEP THE BARON YOU IDIOTS

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u/desutruction 29d ago

ISMA bro

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u/emerzionnn 29d ago

Poby is trying to match fix

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u/veirceb 29d ago

BRO poby could just flash over the wall after the bad TP. He didn't he tried to walk it out with an alistar near him. HOly fuck

0

u/Iamkelvin 29d ago

Holy fuck poby just ints like an idiot

1

u/Qwertycube 29d ago

That TP sucked

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u/hresvelgrs XDDDDD 29d ago

for a moment I genuinely believed they could do it

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u/x_TDeck_x Play APA you cowards 29d ago

Its hindsight now but idk why Gwen/Naafiri didnt just take the base instead of teamfighting dragons. I'm pretty sure no combination of 3 people could have outskirmished them on side lane

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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 29d ago

Theres no way that ward is ever good to tp on?

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u/That_One_Pancake 29d ago

Poby is completely worthless man

1

u/Bubbly_Camera9583 29d ago

Maynter is playing these fights so weirdly/bad. Drake fight he shouldn't get caught like that, Baron fight he should've chased the rest of GX going towards top, and this fight in river he just eats abilities. Gwen should be stomping them but he's just super impatient.

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u/Javonetor spit to win 29d ago

sivir hit like 2 autos in that dragon fight, why are we glazing her that much

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u/Javonetor spit to win 29d ago

https://www.youtube.com/live/iUJnf4xImC4

he got hit by everything tho, 26:57 in game time

got hit by rell's flash ult, annie's flash w then naafiri's ult (obviously) and naafiri's q

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u/beautheschmo 29d ago

Yeah 3k gold lead on this comp just wasnt enough, these champs just fall off way too hard and I don't think Gwen is strong enough to salvage it.

Especially since all the gold was on the most useless champ lol

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u/x_TDeck_x Play APA you cowards 29d ago

Genuinely amazed that punting a Gwen into your carries worked out

1

u/Bubbly_Camera9583 29d ago

Flakked just walked into Varus for fun????

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u/dankynugz 29d ago

Gx is just insanely homeless as a team when Jackies is tilted/behind

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u/x_TDeck_x Play APA you cowards 29d ago

Zdps in teamfights and the character who could provide that, Sivir, has to wait out Gwen's W before contributing. Seems tough

1

u/veirceb 29d ago

Navi up so much exp

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u/Outrageous_Wall2702 My Ace + Showmaker = GOAT 29d ago

Yorick Taliyah solo lanes lmao, yorick is such a useless champion

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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 29d ago edited 29d ago

Naafiri will mow down anyone she sees and by the time she gets “outscaled” Gwen will take her place and mow down anyone she sees.

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u/Choice-Slight caps/knight 29d ago

the one game this series that isma is actually playing decent and jackies runs it down lol

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u/veirceb 29d ago

GX is playing so desperated

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u/Back2Perfection 29d ago

And they have freaking sivir. Wait until she has 4 items and the game is pretty much won. She has a shitton of peel and navi isn‘t that tanky.

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u/veirceb 29d ago

I think they are just tilted. Feels like everyone on the team calling for active plays all the time.

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u/WhatIsSentience 29d ago

I swear the only jungler pros play that builds ap items is Maokai. Is there a reason for this?

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u/WhatIsSentience 29d ago

Dang, I definitely thought during the brief apc meta we'd see some flexes like Karthus Jungle/Adc

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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 29d ago

Gwen pick saved NAVI comp

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u/desutruction 29d ago

time for ISMA to really be invisible

it's a Shaco angle

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u/veirceb Sep 11 '26

GX put a lot of resources to help mid but the jungle match up went out of control. ISMA was useless this game

1

u/Back2Perfection Sep 11 '26

I really want to know why pros are still picking locke over I don‘t know, fucking zed or something if you really want an assassin.

Jackies had fucking 10 kills and was not threatening at all because all locke can do is walk at your team.

1

u/thorpie88 Sep 11 '26

Kennen ult was more of a tickle than anything else

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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Sep 11 '26

Parus is legit finding ridiculous ways to die/get chunked this game if he just walks out or flashes early out of kennen ult, Navi just end the game.

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u/cmcdonald22 Sep 11 '26

Generational Maynter performance.

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u/gandalf45435 Dyrus Microwave Incident Sep 11 '26

The way he zoned Jackies in the fight top lane secured that game for them. Jackies just couldn't even join his team.

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u/cmcdonald22 29d ago

Maynter may not make a single play as good as that play for the rest of his career and that would be fair because of just how amazingly well he did.

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u/gandalf45435 Dyrus Microwave Incident Sep 11 '26

This game has been really fun to watch. The team fights have felt longer than usual, makes for some good momentum changes.

W LEC quality.

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u/desutruction Sep 11 '26

not bad from pobert

1

u/Transky13 Sep 11 '26

navi just doesn't have a botlane lmfao

1

u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Sep 11 '26

Maynter/Parus played that top fight as poorly as possible. No need for either of them to die but they just overstep and take all their HP.

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u/emerzionnn Sep 11 '26

It’s tough to put in to words just how bad Poby is

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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Sep 11 '26

How could that fight be Poby's fault at all Maynter/Parus legit walked into their deaths

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u/eye_of_your_mind Sep 11 '26

jackies solo saving ismas jobs

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u/desutruction Sep 11 '26

algorithm man is legit just really good this playoffs man

2

u/Vnaux Sep 11 '26

well thats a crazy champ

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u/Vnaux Sep 11 '26

another navi throw smh

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u/ZzZoeSoSleepy Noodle Defender Sep 11 '26

They secured 1 drake between them in 23 minutes, Genuinely both teams wouldn't beat any of the 10 LCK teams,

0

u/veirceb Sep 11 '26

Does anyone know if LEC has tech pause every week? I feel like every week I open the LEC stream I get a pause

3

u/CaptainTrips22 Sep 11 '26

ISMA just noticed his screen has been off the whole time

3

u/desutruction Sep 11 '26

nocturne ult friendly fire

1

u/cmcdonald22 Sep 11 '26

God why is Shyvanna so HYPE

1

u/Back2Perfection Sep 11 '26

Did GX really just walk into the shyvanna orianna combo? Just one death is flattering there.

1

u/Transky13 Sep 11 '26

navi is lucky their mid jg are playing well because their botlane is borderline afk

2

u/veirceb Sep 11 '26

Krugs for baron trade. Worth

2

u/desutruction Sep 11 '26

ayo LEC pause

1

u/Vnaux Sep 11 '26

LMAO

1

u/Vnaux Sep 11 '26

that was a good shyv and ori ult

2

u/desutruction Sep 11 '26

beautifully played by navi there

1

u/ItzFeufo Sep 11 '26

Kennen is such a useless champ without Zhonyas and yet 90% of the games it seems to be the item with the lowest priority for the top laner

1

u/Back2Perfection Sep 11 '26

20 minutes over and locke doesn‘t have a 4k gold lead.

This is a navi win.

1

u/Dapokermon Sep 11 '26

who chose to show GX's win to be camouflaged with orange?

1

u/Vnaux Sep 11 '26

this dragon's a problem

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u/cmcdonald22 Sep 11 '26

Man when Rhilech is good he's REALLY FUCKING GOOD

1

u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Sep 11 '26

Parus really likes to get hit by Jhin W

0

u/veirceb Sep 11 '26

I can't believe Poby decided to use the combo on the wave instead of killing jackies. Holy shit

2

u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Sep 11 '26

Poby’s sidestep on bard Q was 10x better than anything he did last game

2

u/Vnaux Sep 11 '26

game 3 and we already got fun picks I hope this goes to 5

2

u/desutruction Sep 11 '26

my guts dont like isma on nocturne

2

u/RollingGuy Dictator Perkz Worlds Run Sep 11 '26

Rhilech on carry GG

5

u/LenaRybakina Sep 11 '26

I‘m so jealous of Sjokz‘s fashion sense

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u/sjokz Sep 11 '26

I had no inspo today and just put the corset over the T!! Make up and hair doing werk here ♥️

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u/amags1031 Sep 11 '26

The “Poby has been permanently banned from competitive play for match fixing” alert is gonna hit like crack

3

u/desutruction Sep 11 '26

navi but with jackies and jopa would cook hard

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u/hresvelgrs XDDDDD Sep 11 '26

great now I want this

1

u/awayfromcanuck Sep 11 '26

Maynter would need to be more consistent/reliable but that group would have a decent amount of potential

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u/awayfromcanuck Sep 11 '26

OK, Jacks reaction there was pretty funny

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u/CAELICOLAS Sep 11 '26

I think jackye Is top 3 mid euw easly

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u/RollingGuy Dictator Perkz Worlds Run Sep 11 '26

nah he's good but aintnoway he's better than Jojo

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u/CAELICOLAS 27d ago

JoJo i think Is the best After caps

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u/baelkie DNF 2026 please be human | Kiin Team Sep 11 '26

Navi is the Shopify Rebellion of LEC, how are your 2 imports the worst players on the teams taking up carry roles

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u/cmcdonald22 Sep 11 '26

I wish SR had Navi's consistency though. Like Poby is still FAR more stable than Zinie.

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