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LCS2026-w08

Weekly Report · Feb 16 – 22, 2026

Published 2026-08-16 15:09

9 games — that is what the LCS week added up to, spread across 3 series. Games averaged 29:38 this week against a season average of 33:04, so they finished earlier than usual. Teams that took a lead tended to close it out quickly.

Results

Team records

The best week belongs to Cloud9: 1 series won and 0 lost, or 3-0 once you count individual games.

TeamSeriesGames
C9Cloud91W 0L3W 0L
LYONLYON (2024 American Team)1W 0L3W 0L
TLTeam Liquid1W 0L3W 0L
DSGDisguised0W 1L0W 3L
FLYFlyQuest0W 2L0W 6L

Best five

The best five for this week fills 5 of the five positions: Morgan (Top), Inspired (Jungle), Saint (Mid), Berserker (Bot), Vulcan (Support). The standout line belongs to Saint of LYON (2024 American Team), who played 3 games at Mid, won 3 of them, and posted a KDA of 29/1/20 for a ratio of 49.00.

Weekly awards

Meta watch

In patch terms this was a 16.4 week. The champion named most often in the draft was Varus, with picks and bans together reaching 88.9%. The top of that list runs Varus, Pantheon, Orianna. Renata Glasc, Orianna, Kalista — champions the draft used more than it did last week. Renata Glasc moved the furthest at +33.3%p.

Patch v16.4

ChampionPresencePicksBansWin ratevs. last week
Varus88.9%17100.0%-2.0%p
Pantheon88.9%17100.0%+34.3%p
Orianna77.8%3433.3%+32.3%p
Karma77.8%07–+50.5%p
Azir66.7%3366.7%-15.1%p

Best games

LYON (2024 American Team) and FlyQuest played the longest game of the week. It ran 38:26 and ended with LYON (2024 American Team) ahead. A total gold gap of 6,740 — the narrowest of the week, from Team Liquid against Disguised, where Team Liquid came out in front.