LCS2026-w16
Weekly Report · Apr 13 – 19, 2026
Published 2026-08-16 15:09
Across the week LCS played 4 series, and those contained 10 games. The upset of the week belongs to FlyQuest, who took the series against Disguised. Going into the week the two sides carried season win rates of 33.3% and 50.0%. Games averaged 30:25 this week against a season average of 32:35, 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: 2 series won and 0 lost, or 4-1 once you count individual games.
Best five
Picking the best player at each position leaves 5 in total this week: Thanatos (Top), Blaber (Jungle), APA (Mid), Zven (Bot), Vulcan (Support). 8/5/60, a ratio of 13.60 — that is what Vulcan recorded for Cloud9 at Support, taking 4 of 5 games.
Weekly awards
Meta watch
Almost every game this week was played on patch 16.8. The champion named most often in the draft was Varus, with picks and bans together reaching 100.0%. The top of that list runs Varus, Nocturne, Karma. Nocturne, Caitlyn, Sejuani — champions the draft used more than it did last week. Nocturne moved the furthest at +70.0%p.
Best games
38:33 — the longest game of the week, taken by Sentinels in the meeting between FlyQuest and Sentinels. The closest game was Cloud9 against Sentinels, decided on a total gold gap of 518, with Sentinels ahead at the end.
Longest game
38:33
Closest game
518 gold