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EWC2026-w18

Weekly Report · Apr 27 – May 3, 2026

Published 2026-08-16 15:11

34 games — that is what the EWC week added up to, spread across 14 series. Games averaged 33:31 this week, close to the season average of 32:59. Game length alone does not mark this week out.

Results

Team records

No side collected more series than Natus Vincere this week. The record reads 2 series won and 0 lost, 4-0 across games.

TeamSeriesGames
NAVINatus Vincere2W 0L4W 0L
G2G2 Esports1W 0L2W 0L
KCKarmine Corp1W 0L2W 0L
SENSentinels1W 0L3W 1L
MKOIMovistar KOI1W 0L2W 1L
SHFTShifters1W 1L3W 2L
SLYSolary1W 1L3W 2L
GLGalions1W 1L2W 2L
GXGIANTX1W 1L2W 2L
FLYFlyQuest1W 1L3W 4L
SKSK Gaming1W 2L2W 4L
VITTeam Vitality1W 2L3W 5L
FNCFnatic1W 2L2W 5L
TLTeam Liquid0W 1L1W 2L
THTeam Heretics0W 2L0W 4L

Best five

Picking the best player at each position leaves 5 in total this week: Maynter (Top), Rhilech (Jungle), Poby (Mid), SamD (Bot), Parus (Support). The standout line belongs to Maynter of Natus Vincere, who played 4 games at Top, won 4 of them, and posted a KDA of 10/4/30 for a ratio of 10.00.

Weekly awards

Meta watch

In patch terms this was a 16.8 week. The champion named most often in the draft was Orianna, with picks and bans together reaching 85.3%. The top of that list runs Orianna, Nautilus, Ryze. Rumble was picked 11 times for a win rate of 54.5%, close to an even split, so the draft attention did not translate into an edge. Ezreal, LeBlanc, Ashe — champions the draft used more than it did last week. Ezreal moved the furthest at +36.4%p.

Patch v16.8

ChampionPresencePicksBansWin ratevs. last week
Orianna85.3%22750.0%+0.7%p
Nautilus76.5%32366.7%+22.6%p
Ryze73.5%101550.0%+4.3%p
Jarvan IV70.6%121233.3%+9.1%p
Rumble61.8%111054.5%+0.2%p

Best games

Shifters and Fnatic played the longest game of the week. It ran 43:48 and ended with Shifters ahead. Team Vitality and Shifters finished within 1,254 of each other in total gold, the tightest game of the week, and Shifters took it.