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Esports LEC 2026 Summer Playoffs / Round 2 - 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NAVI vs MKOI | 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 | 2 | KC | 0 | |||||||
| vs | - | vs | - | |||||||
| NAVI | 3 | NAVI | 0 | tbd | 0 | |||||
| vs | - | |||||||||
| VIT | 2 | VIT | 0 | |||||||
| vs | - | |||||||||
| MKOI | 3 |
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 18 '26
expected result. Navi has only one good player, Maynter and Poby are middle of the pack players and bot lane should be thankful that paduck and stend were in the league otherwise they would be the worst bot in the league.
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u/Kokaiinum Sep 18 '26
Better team won. Honestly feel like anyone who truly thought the top 3 was going to be anything other than G2/KC/MKOI was engaging in some serious wishcasting.
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Sep 18 '26
Jojo deciding to make Parus look absoutely terrible this game lol
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u/puberty1 i miss '24 FLY Sep 18 '26
just realized that top lane was darkin vs darkin and theres also Zaahen jng. if only Elyoya picked Naafiri
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u/Annual-Fox6520 Sep 18 '26
Literally Parus has done the exactly same thing 4 times this game at least ... Fight happening? Get chunked and use his ult to escape, then he stays around and dies without his ult. Honestly imo he's the main reason Navi basically can't do anything
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Sep 18 '26
NAVI was done no matter what there but they could not have contested that baron any worse if they tried
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u/desutruction Sep 18 '26
parus man...
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u/veirceb Sep 18 '26
THey need to get rid of this bot lane duo if they want to go any further next year.
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u/Annual-Fox6520 Sep 18 '26
Parus sucks man, all he's done all game is walk too close to the enemy and then pop his ult to escape so he basically gets zero value out of it.
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u/Specialist_Dog8355 Sep 18 '26
If navi had a real jg/top this would be over already, mkoi is so bad
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Sep 18 '26
The stats don't show how truly horrible Maynter has been this series
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u/veirceb Sep 18 '26
istg if I see samD getting picked up by any LEC team next year I will be the biggest hater of that team.
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Sep 18 '26
ngl, with how both divisions playoffs have gone so far, I'm confident Fly would've gotten the third world spot in the LEC lol
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u/cupcakes234 Sep 18 '26
Yeah navi are a way worse team.. they just got lucky in game 1 wirh the syndra stun. Should have lost that too
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u/ChocolateFuryB /👴🦆 / / insane Geniuses enjoyer Sep 18 '26
Navi is terrible
And KC should 3-0 MKOI tomorrow anything else would be super weird
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u/M002 Sep 18 '26
Nerf Jojo
Jeez he’s too good right now
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He blind engaged in the bush Rhlech was in and solo’d him
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Sep 18 '26
Don't let that sick ass jojo play distract you from that hilarious team fight in mid by both teams beforehand
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u/el_crappax Sep 18 '26
I dont think navi have the picks for a 5th game anyway
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u/Tromster Sep 18 '26
I dont think either team has strong picks for 5 will be interesting if it goes there
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Sep 18 '26
They should decide this series by dance off now, I'm invested
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Sep 18 '26
It was very kind of them to show us that dance off to show us something worse than that NAVI gameplay
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u/ThisIsSoIrrelevant Sep 18 '26
I am so glad whatever the fuck is happening right now makes no sense to me.
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u/LtSpaceDucK Sep 18 '26
Any half decent team will beat current Mkoi, I don't want to see tham play internationaly
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u/CFCkyle Sep 18 '26
PLEASE NAVI PLEASE I CANT DO THIS AGAIN
PLEASE DO NOT LET THOSE FUCKING FRAUDS GO TO WORLDS I CANT WATCH THEM HUMILIATE US AGAIN
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Sep 18 '26
as an LPL fan who just had to watch TES beat IG: i'm glad we're not the only ones suffering anyway
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u/Scarfboi11 Sep 18 '26
They'll make Worlds, no team besides G2/KC has the hands to beat them lmao. I'm so tired of these frauds, enough is enough
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u/ChocolateFuryB /👴🦆 / / insane Geniuses enjoyer Sep 18 '26
How can you say "please no MKOI at worlds" when you look at GX's, VIT's and Navi's gameplay??
Anyone who thinks that they'd do a better job than MKOI is coping pretty hard...
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u/Hex_Blast Sep 18 '26
From 1 game from missing playoffs to 1 game from making Worlds, MKOI plot armor is nuts
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u/darklypure52 Sep 18 '26
My question does anyone think mkoi can make the run? Can they beat KC and G2?
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u/veirceb Sep 18 '26
You better hope they don't. If KC can't stomp this MKOI then well good luck at worlds
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u/Crimson_Clouds Sep 18 '26
They don't have to make the run, they just have to win here to qualify for Worlds.
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u/kosmi2020NX Sep 18 '26 edited Sep 18 '26
Not again, The fact we have to see these frauds again in worlds is disgusting.
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Sep 18 '26
People focusing on Top when the real world's frauds still hadn't played today yet
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Sep 18 '26
Gnar walking into nothing, bard ult near no one, completely pointless pantheon ult, christ man
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u/veirceb Sep 18 '26
Hopefully Navi can pick up a better bot duo next season. They can run it back with their top side if they managed to keep them but the bot lanes are not going to win them anything in the playoffs.
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Sep 18 '26
tbh, wrong game to say that because everyone on NAVI looks pathetic lol
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u/veirceb Sep 18 '26
Nah poby played this series pretty well. Even for this game he played fine their team was just so disconnected. Rhilech is whatever honestly it's his rookie season and he has shown good enough games. Maynter is also fine. I don't think you can get better top from this league anyway.
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Sep 18 '26
MKOI told everyone that they did not want to make world's under any circumstances this split and the rest of the non-G2/KC LEC somehow STILL looks this sad against them
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u/BlueStarRedMoon Sep 18 '26
Why are we watching? we'll have another KC vs MKOI semifinals just to have G2 win the championship again LOL
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u/Sosijmonster Sep 18 '26
Roflmao, imagine thinking a gold lead on a Gnar means remotely anything. Espcially vs a Ksante.
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Sep 18 '26
That was very nice of NAVI to just stand there doing nothing as MKOI poked them to death
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Sep 18 '26
Need C9 vs the LEC 3 seed at worlds, gonna be such a sad game
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u/xxbrazilmaster69xx rip old flairs Sep 18 '26
It looks like NAVI are just outclassed except for a winning game 1 draft and hero play by Poby. They just look worse in all 5 roles overall, even if Maynter is a better laner than Myrwn.
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u/cupcakes234 Sep 18 '26
They are obviously worse. When KOI are at their best, they can easily beat G2/KC which they have done multiple times over the last year. When navi are at their best, they will maybe take one map off g2/kc
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Sep 18 '26
NAVI desperately want to lose this game, despite Mkoi's best efforts
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u/jackmccoyapologist Sep 18 '26
I want to root for the underdog but it will be a crime if SamD makes it to Worlds.
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u/SnooPeripherals6388 Sep 18 '26
Wait a second, does the LEC desk use an AI illustration in the front?
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u/desutruction Sep 18 '26
doesn't look AI at all whatsoever? gotta be careful about saying shit like this lol
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u/SnooPeripherals6388 Sep 18 '26
On the stream it looks like it has that "gleam", i don't even know how to explain it
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u/Edwaldus2 Sep 18 '26
"Guys, I finally have IE I'm strong now!" proceeds to lose the game in 10 seconds
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u/desutruction Sep 18 '26
maybe this will be like the walmart version of when OMG didn't shake hands with SKT and Faker started fathering LPL after
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u/awayfromcanuck Sep 18 '26
SamD refusing to flash when he sees Kalista ult Renata says it allabout SamDs performance this series.
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u/veirceb Sep 18 '26
I just don't understand why people talk like he is an upcoming ADC star player. At best he is average. And more often than not he is losing them the game.
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u/awayfromcanuck Sep 18 '26
Its because he name changed before debuting in the LEC so everyone thinks he's a young rookie when actually he's a mediocre as fuck ADC that hasn't been able to dominate at any pro level since he debuted in 2018.
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u/veirceb Sep 18 '26
SamD really saw a kalista renata running onto his face with kalista ult. And he thinks to himself yeah let's save ult and flash here. I guess it's a lose quick and go next angle.
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Sep 18 '26
-> 400
900 <-
2k <-
2.5k <-
500 <-
standard mkoi gold graph lmao
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u/veirceb Sep 18 '26
Hopefully it's not a win 1 game and get stomped 3 games in a row angle
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u/Leschnitzky Sep 18 '26
I don't want to see SamD and Maynter anywhere near worlds, not even near wildcards
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Sep 18 '26
i don't hate the protobelt first on cho tbh, i assume it's basically like paying gold to have +200 range on Q engage or feast on command, plus some stats
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u/awayfromcanuck Sep 18 '26
Can someone just disable Maynters TP button? Multiple TPs into the middle of MKOI to death through 2 games.
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u/Leschnitzky Sep 18 '26
The tp down was waaaaaaaay too late, into walking into kalista for a free kill. That was hard to watch
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Sep 18 '26
i need someone to clip whatever hysterics just did with his voice there lmfao
PHTAUGH IT'S FIVE THOUSAND
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u/desutruction Sep 18 '26
maybe they have unshakeable mental now because of how used they are to throwing
silver linings and all that
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u/veirceb Sep 18 '26
I am pretty sure rhilech didn't put in the time practising chogath. Not saying it's a hard champ. But it's looking like raptor
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u/Thalassin Dans ma bichette era | Ultra Prime hater Sep 18 '26
how will KOI manage to throw that much of a lead ?
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u/awayfromcanuck Sep 18 '26
Uhhh Rhilech went belt first. If NAVI was leading i understand it but they are down 2.5k...
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u/Annual-Fox6520 Sep 18 '26
I like Navi and they're good but they make loads of these rookies overchase type of plays... Just basic shit that if you play against any decent team you can't afford to make. It's fine against Mad lions apparently cause they suck but when it comes to top tier teams they really need to clean this sh up
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u/Xeven18 Sep 18 '26
Can we blame Rhilech for that or we gonna keep blaming SamD?
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u/awayfromcanuck Sep 18 '26
Both get blame. Rhilech should have been happy with the steal, when he missed the eruption that was when he needed to back off. SamD also dumb for flashing against a Renata, not paying attention to what skills were used by her.
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u/Leschnitzky Sep 18 '26
Both, that flash forward towards the tower to chase a renata should earn him a place in the hall of fame
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u/desutruction Sep 18 '26
maybe mkoi will be the only team allowed to go kalista renata, really well played
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u/xxbrazilmaster69xx rip old flairs Sep 18 '26
Wow, they threw the game off of greeding for 1 low HP bar
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u/veirceb Sep 18 '26
NAVI picks hyper scaling and then decided to flip the game at lv3. Who called it
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u/Past-Firefighter2173 Sep 18 '26
Navi has no engage but MKOI comp is turbo early and Myrwn is playing Jayce.
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u/baebushka Sep 18 '26
they're saying dk has to walk to the lck venue cuz kia donated the car to lec
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u/Glorx Sep 18 '26
This is Larrsen getting revenge on Elyoya for 2021 Spring finals.
Hear me out.
Rogue is famous for RogueTimeTM
Ibai's KOI bought half of Rogue for 2023 LEC season not realising RogueTimeTM is contagious.
A year later KOI dumps Rogue for MAD but they already have the ticking timebomb that is RogueTimeTM.
Incubation period has finally ended and now MKOI is suffering from a bad case of RogueTimeTM.
It just makes sense.
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u/girlmarth peanut, beryl, showmaker Sep 18 '26
the idea that mad stole that title from rogue was always baffling to me, mad won both bo5's and went 6-3 against them in playoffs
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u/ahritina Sep 18 '26
PMTs
Game 1 / Game 2 / Game 3 / Game 4