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LCK CL2026-w16

Weekly Report · Apr 13 – 19, 2026

Published 2026-08-16 15:11

25 games — that is what the LCK CL week added up to, spread across 10 series. The upset of the week belongs to Hanwha Life Esports Challengers, who took the series against Nongshim Esports Academy. Going into the week the two sides carried season win rates of 38.5% and 78.6%. Games averaged 33:41 this week against a season average of 32:01, so matches ran longer than usual. Per-minute figures get pulled toward the mean in long games, so read them next to the totals.

Results

Team records

The best week belongs to Dplus Kia Challengers: 2 series won and 0 lost, or 4-1 once you count individual games. Gen.G Global Academy — also unbeaten this week, 1 in total, with every series won.

TeamSeriesGames
DKDplus Kia Challengers2W 0L4W 1L
GENGen.G Global Academy2W 0L4W 1L
BFXBNK FEARX Youth1W 1L3W 2L
HLEHanwha Life Esports Challengers1W 1L3W 2L
KTKT Rolster Challengers1W 1L3W 2L
DNDN SOOPers Challengers1W 1L3W 3L
NSNongshim Esports Academy1W 1L2W 3L
T1T1 Esports Academy1W 1L2W 3L
DRXKiwoom DRX Challengers0W 2L1W 4L
BROHANJIN BRION Challengers0W 2L0W 4L

Best five

Picking the best player at each position leaves 5 in total this week: Jaehyuk (Top), Sharvel (Jungle), Kemish (Mid), Wayne (Bot), Loopy (Support). Nobody in the five posted a stronger week than Loopy of Dplus Kia Challengers. At Support the line reads 8/8/72 across 5 games, 4 of them won, for a ratio of 10.00.

Weekly awards

Meta watch

The reference point for reading this meta is patch 16.7. Varus, Rumble, Nocturne — the champions the draft returned to most this week. Varus led the way at 96.0%. Nocturne was picked 5 times but returned only 20.0%, so the attention in the draft did not turn into wins. Compared with last week Jayce gained +20.7%p in presence, and the rising group runs Jayce, Gnar, Nocturne.

Patch v16.7

ChampionPresencePicksBansWin ratevs. last week
Varus96.0%42050.0%+6.7%p
Rumble96.0%1230.0%+24.6%p
Nocturne84.0%51620.0%+19.7%p
Karma84.0%31866.7%-5.3%p
Pantheon80.0%3170.0%+19.3%p

Best games

40:35 — the longest game of the week, taken by Hanwha Life Esports Challengers in the meeting between Nongshim Esports Academy and Hanwha Life Esports Challengers. The closest game was Gen.G Global Academy against Hanwha Life Esports Challengers, decided on a total gold gap of 2,045, with Gen.G Global Academy ahead at the end.