LCS2026-w35

Weekly Report · Aug 24 – 30, 2026

Published 2026-08-31 08:12Updated 2026-09-06 08:06

Across the week LCS played 4 series, and those contained 9 games. The biggest change of the week came at the top of the LCS table. LYON (2024 American Team) started the week down in position 3 and finished it as the leader. Games averaged 33:22 this week, close to the season average of 32:54. Game length alone does not mark this week out.

Results

Team records

No side collected more series than FlyQuest this week. The record reads 1 series won and 0 lost, 2-0 across games. 5-1 — the official record of LYON (2024 American Team), top of the table once the week closed. Up 2 places — LYON (2024 American Team) started the week at position 3 and ended it at 1.

RankTeamSeriesGamesChange
6FLYFlyQuest1W 0L2W 0L–
1LYONLYON (2024 American Team)1W 0L2W 0L▲2
4SENSentinels1W 0L2W 0L▼2
1TLTeam Liquid1W 0L2W 1L–
5SRShopify Rebellion0W 1L1W 2L▼2
3C9Cloud90W 1L0W 2L–
8DIGDignitas0W 1L0W 2L–
7DSGDisguised0W 1L0W 2L–

Best five

Impact (Top), Gryffinn (Jungle), Quad (Mid), Rahel (Bot), huhi (Support) — the strongest weekly line at each position, 5 in total. Nobody in the five posted a stronger week than huhi of Sentinels. At Support the line reads 2/1/26 across 2 games, 2 of them won, for a ratio of 28.00.

Weekly awards

Meta watch

In patch terms this was a 16.17 week. Draft attention concentrated on Cassiopeia, Nocturne, Lucian. Cassiopeia sat at the front of it with a presence of 100.0%. Lulu, Yone, Milio — champions the draft used more than it did last week. Lulu moved the furthest at +33.3%p.

Patch v16.17

ChampionPresencePicksBansWin ratevs. last week
Cassiopeia100.0%09–+22.2%p
Nocturne88.9%17100.0%-11.1%p
Lucian77.8%4325.0%+11.1%p
Lee Sin77.8%25100.0%+22.2%p
Vi77.8%2550.0%-11.1%p

Best games

LYON (2024 American Team) and Cloud9 played the longest game of the week. It ran 46:48 and ended with LYON (2024 American Team) ahead. The closest game was LYON (2024 American Team) against Cloud9, decided on a total gold gap of 5,321, with LYON (2024 American Team) ahead at the end.

Next week

The week ahead holds one match. Of those, the meeting between Dignitas and Team Liquid carries the most weight.

Schedule as of publication — fixtures may have changed since.