LCS2026-w09

Weekly Report · Feb 23 – Mar 1, 2026

Published 2026-08-16 15:09

Across the week LCS played 3 series, and those contained 11 games. Kills per game came to 21.64 this week against a season average of 26.09, so fights were rarer and more games were decided by map play.

Results

Team records

The best week belongs to LYON (2024 American Team): 2 series won and 0 lost, or 6-2 once you count individual games.

TeamSeriesGames
LYONLYON (2024 American Team)2W 0L6W 2L
C9Cloud91W 0L3W 0L
TLTeam Liquid0W 1L1W 3L
SENSentinels0W 2L1W 6L

Best five

Picking the best player at each position leaves 5 in total this week: Dhokla (Top), Inspired (Jungle), Saint (Mid), Berserker (Bot), Isles (Support). The standout line belongs to Inspired of LYON (2024 American Team), who played 8 games at Jungle, won 6 of them, and posted a KDA of 14/7/57 for a ratio of 10.14.

Weekly awards

Meta watch

Almost every game this week was played on patch 16.4. Pantheon, Rumble, Neeko — the champions the draft returned to most this week. Pantheon led the way at 81.8%. Neeko, Rumble, Malphite — champions the draft used more than it did last week. Neeko moved the furthest at +30.3%p.

Patch v16.4

ChampionPresencePicksBansWin ratevs. last week
Pantheon81.8%18100.0%-7.1%p
Rumble72.7%2650.0%+28.3%p
Neeko63.6%25100.0%+30.3%p
Nocturne63.6%16100.0%+30.3%p
Vi63.6%160.0%+19.2%p

Best games

The longest game of the week was Sentinels against LYON (2024 American Team), settled after 38:37 in favor of LYON (2024 American Team). LYON (2024 American Team) and Sentinels finished within 4,092 of each other in total gold, the tightest game of the week, and Sentinels took it.