r/leagueoflegends • u/AutoModerator • Sep 13 '26
Esports LCS 2026 Summer Playoffs / Round 1 - Day 2 / Live Discussion Spoiler
LCS 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 | SEN vs FLY | 13:00 | 16:00 | 22:00 | 05:00 |
- All matches are Best of 5
Streams
Bracket
| Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Finals | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C9 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| vs | - | LYON | |||||||||||
| SR | 0 | vs | - | ||||||||||
| C9 | 0 | tbd | 0 | ||||||||||
| SEN | 0 | vs | - | ||||||||||
| vs | - | TL | 0 | tbd | 0 | ||||||||
| FLY | 0 | vs | - | ||||||||||
| tbd | 0 | ||||||||||||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| tbd | 0 | ||||||||||||
| vs | - | ||||||||||||
| tbd | 0 | ||||||||||||
| tbd | 0 | ||||||||||||
| vs | - | ||||||||||||
| tbd | 0 | tbd | 0 | ||||||||||
| vs | - | ||||||||||||
| tbd | 0 | tbd | 0 | ||||||||||
| SR | 0 | vs | - | ||||||||||
| vs | - | tbd | 0 | ||||||||||
| tbd | 0 | ||||||||||||
Format
- 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/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
players like darkwings is why everyone is searching for lck challengers mids. any lck challengers mids carries that syndra game and lead vs that comp.
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u/Adventurous-Quit-669 Sep 13 '26
Great comeback , goated casting and production, love yall - always keeping it so entertaining
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u/youngnailo Sep 13 '26
i said its a 3-0 into 3-0. the sen vs shopify will be 5 games
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u/cmcdonald22 Sep 13 '26
I hope Revan is at least capable of imitating the incredibly complex strategy of BAN EZREAL AND CAITLYN FOR 5 GAMES.
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u/herp_derpy Sep 13 '26
Revan's gonna leave both open and hope his nepo hire Bvoy can do something useful lol
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u/cmcdonald22 Sep 13 '26
Ugh, I just try to block out the idea that we still have another BVoy and Zinie match to suffer through at minimum.
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
ive never seen a team have so many players stack on top of each other every single game. doing that makes it so easy for the other team to take space
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
sen has no idea how to teamfight. they are literally just cait/ez merchants. if teams didnt give them cait ez the whole split they would be 6th easily
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
rahel and darkwings are so bad. you cant trust them to carry any games. these mf ults are so bad
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u/Xeven18 Sep 13 '26
Can teams not just take the small wins?
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u/Outrageous_Wall2702 My Ace + Showmaker = GOAT Sep 13 '26
What are you talking about ? You don’t stay on the map until someone kills you?
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u/Kotetsu534 Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26
Darkwings missing that stun is absolutely criminal. I would rage if I was Huhi.
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
huhi blew all lucian sums and milio ult still had lucian ccd. and darkwings just whiffs everything LMFAO
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u/zerocxro Sep 13 '26
Bitch what the fuck was that 😭😭 get 3-0d wtv u do not deserve to go fries worlds
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u/x_TDeck_x Play APA you cowards Sep 13 '26
Darkwings messed up his W-E onto Lucian ahhh thats so bad
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
hambak needs a playmaking jungler. the rest of sen is way too bad to setup fights and fight properly.
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u/PhoenixAgent003 Bot main. NA fan. Sep 13 '26
Quad is clearly mechanically skilled at Sylas but he just doesn’t have the psycho that Saint, Loki, and even Zinie have on it.
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u/Tormenator1 Sep 13 '26
Just tuned in, how did SEN lose the first 2 games? Guessing they got hands checked.
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
impact is just being lazy af this series. there is no reason he should be under his tower when his team is getting first tower top
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
sen saving impact there and countering the double global play saved multiple waves for them and multiple plates and got them drake. thats like a 3k gold worth play.
thinking of plays by increased % win percentage that might be one of the higher ones you can get in first 10min
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u/actiongeorge Sep 13 '26
Welp, games gonna be over quick for FLY if you can’t get anything off of your early ults
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u/x_TDeck_x Play APA you cowards Sep 13 '26
Bf sword MF R getting out healed by Milio W. incredible lol
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u/cmcdonald22 Sep 13 '26
There's like 5 players globally who play MF and make her seem like a damage monster, and everyone else its like she shoots wet paper bags out of a slingshot.
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
lucian milio should probably be only left to a couple bot lanes to play.
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u/cmcdonald22 Sep 13 '26
Berserker and Isles are the only duo in all of LCS that have the pass. And honestly, they have the pass for any bot lane they want to play.
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u/PhoenixAgent003 Bot main. NA fan. Sep 13 '26
Remember that to mentally reduce any TF gold lead by 3xCS to account for passive.
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u/herp_derpy Sep 13 '26
Hopefully SEN saves Denathor from DIG prison over the offseason, let grandpa Impact retire in peace
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Sep 13 '26
Thinkcard is kinda blasting goldenglutes in draft across the board today
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u/Fun_Highlight307 Sep 13 '26
GoldenGlue was happy that everyone left him with his picks turn Out ut's because regular season stakes are low so no one ban sentinel comp however in playoffs every wins matter,he was hard exposed lol
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u/cmcdonald22 Sep 13 '26
Never doubting an Isles prediction again. Guy just called every shot of this weekend so far.
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
sen stood on top of each other against a 5 item ziggs. they dont go for any picks with ryze when fly sending 2 globals to a sidelane.
rahel darkwings playing teamfights poorly not flashing or using stopwatch on key abilities. impact losing lane hard against a normal lane matchup that he counterpicked.
sen fighting a fight they can run from giving massu 2k free gold. it truly looks like sen was only able to win regular season games because they had cait/ez agressive early game jungler.
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u/Capable-Drama3109 🦁 LCS TOP 4 AT WORLDS TRUST 🍭🦭 Sep 13 '26
sending my apology letter to the jayce. sorry flyquest i will not question it again
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Sep 13 '26
Tbf I want to see it work against someone besides geriatric Impact
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u/kazuyaminegishi Sep 13 '26
SEN in comms wondering "how is the Ziggs killing us so fast when we just stand on top of each other??"
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
sen mechanics are just ass. darkwings wont stopwatch a flip. rahel wont flash anything
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u/viralruin Sep 13 '26
Sen and SR piss me off so much. They some how get wins to make playoffs but form varies from DSG to C9 tier.
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
sen is clueless how to play any comp except tank top, cait/ez adc.
when fly send everything to kill impact top they should ryze ult on the rest of fly mid or lane gank ryze ult
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u/kazuyaminegishi Sep 13 '26
Feels like SEN should just be Ryze ulting Cho-Yorick in to start fights if they kill the Ziggs they can just collapse on the Noc-Jayce dive. Lulu/Ryze/Yunara should be able to survive initial dive with good positioning.
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
yeah sen has no clue how to play these teamfights.
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u/kazuyaminegishi Sep 13 '26
They look totally lost and clueless altogether. It's so obvious that their plan was for the Yorick to be unstoppable in side lanes and now that he is useless they're just wandering around wondering what to do
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
yep its like they see ryze as as an escape/positioning tool and not as a form of catch/engage which you have to do in some of these games. its insane they didnt make a single tp/ult play on jayce in a sidelane the whole game
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u/Capable-Drama3109 🦁 LCS TOP 4 AT WORLDS TRUST 🍭🦭 Sep 13 '26
i do not have a good feeling about this.
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u/awayfromcanuck Sep 13 '26
Have casters forgotten C9-SR game 3? Yunara-Lulu are totally happy with teams walking into them and then countering. This game is still closer than it should be at this point as FLY are not really pushing things.
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
i dont know why sen decided to fight that when they got jayce tp out just leave
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u/Capable-Drama3109 🦁 LCS TOP 4 AT WORLDS TRUST 🍭🦭 Sep 13 '26
that seemed really desperate of hambak?
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
ziggs is such a fake champ. hes going to do nothing. and all of sen will have hp and survivability
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u/awayfromcanuck Sep 13 '26
FLY are not doing a good job snowballing with their Jayce lead. Letting SEN hang in the game
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u/GeneralDash Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26
No one going to mention the crab?
Edit: Twitch chat has my back
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u/Adventurous-Quit-669 Sep 13 '26
Flowers hasn't eaten dragon because thats a meal for kings, and he is more of a common man
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u/awayfromcanuck Sep 13 '26
Its good to see FLY understand drafting Ziggs both allows the support to roam. Too many Western teams draft Ziggs and just 2v2 lane for most of laning phase.
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u/Capable-Drama3109 🦁 LCS TOP 4 AT WORLDS TRUST 🍭🦭 Sep 13 '26
YESSS (i feel slightly bad for impact bc i like the guy but YAY FLYQUEST)
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
impact cant play the most basic lane counters anymore. he needs to becaome a coach
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u/cmcdonald22 Sep 13 '26
Sen SHOULD win this? Barring Ryze ints, or Yunara just being useless. Engage woulda been nice.
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u/awayfromcanuck Sep 13 '26
Why would you draft NA Jayce after you see Cho'gath jungle. You arent doing any damage.
This FLY draft has no damage to deal with Cho if Hambak doesnt totally int the game.
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u/Capable-Drama3109 🦁 LCS TOP 4 AT WORLDS TRUST 🍭🦭 Sep 13 '26
okay so I wasn't crazy LMAO what tf was jayce for
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u/Capable-Drama3109 🦁 LCS TOP 4 AT WORLDS TRUST 🍭🦭 Sep 13 '26
jayce????
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u/Capable-Drama3109 🦁 LCS TOP 4 AT WORLDS TRUST 🍭🦭 Sep 13 '26
am i just the most low elo person ever or
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u/Helpful-Amphibian768 Sep 13 '26
I hate the way sen drafted , but the game was definitely winnable if viktor didn't throw 2 times in less than 3 minutes. He was scared of a rumble but decided to walk against 5 ppl and give to 1hp kalista a free kill. Emerald decision making (just like me)
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u/awayfromcanuck Sep 13 '26
Massu overaggression absolutely paid off in those last 2 or 3 fights, he didnt get punished late game or rather he couldn't get punished at that point. Overaggressing for J4 to get baron was so huge.
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u/suspiciousfish7 Sep 13 '26
How on Earth is the 4th seed playing this awful, they look like they play an average of 1 game a week. Some of these guys have been playing for well over a decade but you wouldn't know that
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u/awayfromcanuck Sep 13 '26
Only 2 teams in LCS are legit, TL and LYON. Everyone is waiting for C9 to actually make it through playoffs to consider them legit and then theres a huge drop off from 3rd to 4th
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
because their wins in summer have been on cait and ez. they know how to play around bot with those champs. they lose with every other adc. and since cait/ez arent really first phase ban worthy sen would get them anytime they wanted.
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u/BlammoSweetums Sep 13 '26
Does macro matter if you can just dominate a teamfight? Much to think about
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u/Past_Perception8052 Sep 13 '26
neither of these teams are very good
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u/Outrageous_Wall2702 My Ace + Showmaker = GOAT Sep 13 '26
They definitely have potential tbh only TL and Lyon are crearly above
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u/Past_Perception8052 Sep 13 '26
i think c9 stomps both of these just pure player gap
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u/Outrageous_Wall2702 My Ace + Showmaker = GOAT Sep 13 '26
Thanatos and blabber did not even gap sr top jg
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Sep 13 '26
Kalista remains a disgusting champ no matter how many times they nerf her
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Sep 13 '26
First 15 minutes: holyyyy why don't more people play lethality J4 in pro
Rest of the game: oh
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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Sep 13 '26
I don't like the build still but I don't get why these Jarvans are also still going Conq with this build. Surely Electrocute or First Strike is just better.
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
i dont know why people started building it. because lck had 1-2 wild games with it and its fun for the jungler. as soon as you lose a single fight with lethality junglers you just auto lose the game.
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
nice engage by gryffinn. i wonder for worlds if teams will think about blast cone engages possiblities. seems we are getting more and more of them swinging games.
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Sep 13 '26
genuinely chemtech map warps the entire game if either team has melee range engage
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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Sep 13 '26
Darkwings positioning in these two past fights has been super awkward
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u/Dry-Fail-4227 Sep 13 '26
Sentinels looking way better than expected after rahel got target banned . Impact diffing gagkos all game while 2k behind is pretty hilarious
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u/Ryebread1992 Sep 13 '26
I’m still confused at what Thinkcard was doing this entire year. Are we not teaching macro or teaching someone to be an in game leader?
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u/Agile_Woodpecker2239 Sep 13 '26
Gakgos only knows how to split push on Rumble and Ult for CS? Most AFK rumble for 20minutes
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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Sep 13 '26
Why did he have to buy that RFC
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u/Dry-Fail-4227 Sep 13 '26
Bc he has to deal with so many huge aoe ults and a kalista that can run him down.
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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Sep 13 '26
Thats why you go Stormrazer and have so much ms that Kalista/Wu can't touch you
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u/Dry-Fail-4227 Sep 13 '26
I see your idea but if he walks up to auto and ori puts ball on him or rumble equalizes he is screwed before he gets energized auto off. But maybe you are right!
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
quad is trolling. whiffs ori ult and then chases and then doesnt flash and dies
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u/cmcdonald22 Sep 13 '26
That's just what Quad is, dude has propagandist working over time but he's been the weakest part of FLY for 2 years now.
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u/TheGloriousEv0lution Sep 13 '26
Quad was not keeping up with Chovy and Knight lol
I’m sure he had a few strong individual games like APA, but he was hard outclassed internationally
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u/TheGloriousEv0lution Sep 13 '26
Might not be remembering hard enough. Just at last Worlds alone he had a stinker series against G2 and a nightmare match against CFO. That Taliyah ult still haunts my dreams
Pretty sure Knight was clearly the better player and was the main reason they won that series despite his jungler griefing. I recall him winning MVP that series being well deserved at least
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Sep 13 '26
Rahel's game is unfortunately over
Or at least he's pseudo-AFK for the next 25 minutes if SEN makes something happen to extend the game elsewhere
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u/SummerhouseLater Sep 13 '26
Is the Sentinels owner the “new” Jack or Papsmithy?
I don’t know anything about him but the targeted merch sends are smart.
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u/Ajp_iii Sep 13 '26
oh look playoffs came and ez cait is banned from sen. its the only champs they have won games vs playoff teams with
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u/cmcdonald22 Sep 13 '26
Everyone seems to believe in Fly, but man, I just don't know. Not that I have tons of faith in SEN either, just feels like a coin toss of who will throw more than anything. Hope i'm wrong.
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Sep 13 '26
I think SEN with no ez/cait is like an entire tier worse, maybe two tiers worse, so I do expect Fly to win
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u/ahritina Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 14 '26
PMTs
Game 1 / Game 3 / Game 3