EWC2026-w17

Weekly Report · Apr 20 – 26, 2026

Published 2026-08-16 15:11

Across the week EWC played 6 series, and those contained 13 games. Games averaged 32:29 this week, close to the season average of 32:16. Game length alone does not mark this week out.

Results

Team records

2 series won against 0 lost — that is the Team Liquid week, which comes to 4-0 in games. The unbeaten column adds 1 more this week: Sentinels.

TeamSeriesGames
TLTeam Liquid2W 0L4W 0L
SENSentinels2W 0L4W 1L
FLYFlyQuest1W 1L3W 2L
LYONLYON (2024 American Team)1W 2L2W 4L
DSGDisguised0W 1L0W 2L
C9Cloud90W 2L0W 4L

Best five

Picking the best player at each position leaves 5 in total this week: Morgan (Top), Josedeodo (Jungle), Quid (Mid), Yeon (Bot), CoreJJ (Support). Nobody in the five posted a stronger week than Yeon of Team Liquid. At Bot the line reads 30/2/28 across 4 games, 4 of them won, for a ratio of 29.00.

Weekly awards

Meta watch

In patch terms this was a 16.8 week. Varus, Karma, Orianna — the champions the draft returned to most this week. Varus led the way at 100.0%. Lucian, Annie, Aurora — champions the draft used more than it did last week. Lucian moved the furthest at +46.2%p.

Patch v16.8

ChampionPresencePicksBansWin ratevs. last week
Varus100.0%4925.0%+7.7%p
Karma92.3%2100.0%-7.7%p
Orianna84.6%3833.3%+7.7%p
Pantheon84.6%29100.0%±0.0%p
Bard69.2%3666.7%±0.0%p

Best games

Cloud9 and Sentinels played the longest game of the week. It ran 44:09 and ended with Sentinels ahead. The closest game was Sentinels against FlyQuest, decided on a total gold gap of 6,818, with Sentinels ahead at the end.