LCK2026-w36

Weekly Report · Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Published 2026-09-07 08:05

Across the week LCK played 6 series, and those contained 25 games. Games averaged 32:46 this week, close to the season average of 32:11. Game length alone does not mark this week out.

Results

Team records

The best week belongs to Gen.G: 2 series won and 0 lost, or 6-1 once you count individual games.

TeamSeriesGames
GENGen.G2W 0L6W 1L
DKDplus Kia2W 1L7W 6L
T1T11W 1L5W 4L
HLEHanwha Life Esports1W 1L4W 5L
BFXBNK FEARX0W 1L2W 3L
KTKT Rolster0W 2L1W 6L

Best five

Siwoo (Top), Lucid (Jungle), ShowMaker (Mid), Smash (Bot), Career (Support) — the strongest weekly line at each position, 5 in total. Nobody in the five posted a stronger week than Smash of Dplus Kia. At Bot the line reads 58/29/65 across 13 games, 7 of them won, for a ratio of 4.24.

Weekly awards

Meta watch

The reference point for reading this meta is patch 16.16. Vi, Nocturne, Cassiopeia — the champions the draft returned to most this week. Vi led the way at 84.0%. The sharpest rise against last week belongs to Nocturne, whose presence moved by +38.6%p. The same trend covers Nocturne, Vi, Bard.

Patch v16.16

ChampionPresencePicksBansWin ratevs. last week
Vi84.0%31866.7%+29.5%p
Nocturne84.0%21950.0%+38.6%p
Cassiopeia84.0%219100.0%-16.0%p
Orianna68.0%41350.0%-4.7%p
Bard60.0%31233.3%+28.2%p

Best games

The longest game of the week was Gen.G against Hanwha Life Esports, settled after 45:38 in favor of Gen.G. A total gold gap of 297 — the narrowest of the week, from Gen.G against Hanwha Life Esports, where Gen.G came out in front.