LCK CL, 2026-01-26. The matchup was T1 Esports Academy against Dplus Kia Challengers, and the result was a win for T1 Esports Academy. 22 combined kills over 30:30 places this game inside the usual league range. The figures below are not skewed toward any single phase of the game. T1 Esports Academy finished 7,184 gold ahead. That is not an unrecoverable gap, so the objective and combat figures below show where the game actually turned. T1 Esports Academy finished with 11 on Towers against 2 for the opponent — the widest objective gap in this game.

The standout line on the winning side belongs to Cypher, who finished on Ezreal with a KDA of 5/0/5. 3,024 is the end-of-game gold gap Painter built over Sharvel in the Jungle matchup, the largest positional gap in this game. The opening bans were Jayce from T1 Esports Academy and Malphite from Dplus Kia Challengers. This is game 1 of a 4-game series, played on patch 16.2.