KeSPA Cup2026-w33

Weekly Report · Aug 10 – 16, 2026

Published 2026-08-17 07:59Updated 2026-08-18 16:58

11 games — that is what the KeSPA Cup week added up to, spread across 4 series. The upset of the week belongs to DN SOOPers, who took the series against Hanwha Life Esports. Going into the week the two sides carried season win rates of 42.9% and 71.4%. Games averaged 29:37 this week against a season average of 31:16, so they finished earlier than usual. Teams that took a lead tended to close it out quickly.

Results

Team records

3 series won against 0 lost — that is the DN SOOPers week, which comes to 7-1 in games.

RankTeamSeriesGamesChange
A3DNDN SOOPers3W 0L7W 1L
B2HLEHanwha Life Esports1W 1L2W 4L
A4DRXKiwoom DRX0W 1L1W 2L
A2GENGen.G0W 2L1W 4L

Best five

DuDu (Top), Sharvel (Jungle), Clozer (Mid), deokdam (Bot), Peter (Support) — the strongest weekly line at each position, 5 in total. The standout line belongs to Clozer of DN SOOPers, who played 8 games at Mid, won 7 of them, and posted a KDA of 35/16/73 for a ratio of 6.75.

Weekly awards

Meta watch

Almost every game this week was played on patch 16.15. Poppy, Orianna, Ezreal — the champions the draft returned to most this week. Poppy led the way at 90.9%. Kalista, Nocturne, Olaf — champions the draft used more than it did last week. Kalista moved the furthest at +27.3%p.

Patch v16.15

ChampionPresencePicksBansWin ratevs. last week
Poppy90.9%010+6.3%p
Orianna81.8%3633.3%-18.2%p
Ezreal81.8%3666.7%+4.9%p
Nocturne72.7%260.0%+26.6%p
Vi72.7%26100.0%-4.2%p

Best games

36:28 — the longest game of the week, taken by DN SOOPers in the meeting between DN SOOPers and Kiwoom DRX. DN SOOPers and Kiwoom DRX finished within 4,141 of each other in total gold, the tightest game of the week, and DN SOOPers took it.

Next week

One match — the size of the schedule for the week ahead. The one to watch is Nongshim RedForce against DN SOOPers.

Schedule as of publication — fixtures may have changed since.