Nongshim Esports Academy took this one. It was a LCK CL fixture played on 2026-08-18 between DN SOOPers Challengers and Nongshim Esports Academy. 33 combined kills over 33:31 places this game inside the usual league range. The figures below are not skewed toward any single phase of the game. Nongshim Esports Academy finished 5,265 gold ahead. That is not an unrecoverable gap, so the objective and combat figures below show where the game actually turned. On objectives, Dragons split 4 to 1, and Nongshim Esports Academy took the larger share.

A KDA of 11/2/7 is what SeTab recorded on Syndra, the strongest line among the winners. Comparing end-of-game gold position by position, the widest gap sits at Mid: SeTab ahead of Flip by 3,914. The draft started with DN SOOPers Challengers removing Lee Sin and Nongshim Esports Academy removing Locke. Those first two cards set the direction of the draft. On patch 16.16, this counts as game 2 within a series of 3.