LCS2026-w38

Weekly Report · Sep 14 – 20, 2026

Published 2026-09-21 08:05Updated 2026-09-27 08:06

The LCS schedule produced 3 series this week, 12 games in total. Sentinels lost a series they were expected to win. The gap in season win rate read 26.3% against 47.6% at the start of the week, and Shopify Rebellion still walked away with the result. Games averaged 33:48 this week against a season average of 32:48, so matches ran longer than usual. Per-minute figures get pulled toward the mean in long games, so read them next to the totals.

Results

Team records

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

TeamSeriesGames
FLYFlyQuest1W 0L3W 0L
C9Cloud91W 0L3W 1L
SRShopify Rebellion1W 0L3W 2L
LYONLYON (2024 American Team)0W 1L1W 3L
SENSentinels0W 2L2W 6L

Best five

The best five for this week fills 5 of the five positions: Thanatos (Top), Gryffinn (Jungle), Quad (Mid), Massu (Bot), Vulcan (Support). 10/3/29, a ratio of 13.00 — that is what Gryffinn recorded for FlyQuest at Jungle, taking 3 of 3 games.

Weekly awards

Meta watch

Almost every game this week was played on patch 16.17. Cassiopeia, Olaf, Lucian — the champions the draft returned to most this week. Cassiopeia led the way at 100.0%. The sharpest rise against last week belongs to Alistar, whose presence moved by +33.3%p. The same trend covers Alistar, Yone, Shen.

Patch v16.17

ChampionPresencePicksBansWin ratevs. last week
Cassiopeia100.0%012–±0.0%p
Olaf83.3%19100.0%+26.2%p
Lucian75.0%27100.0%+3.6%p
Caitlyn75.0%09–+60.7%p
Nocturne66.7%35100.0%+9.5%p

Best games

43:53 — the longest game of the week, taken by Cloud9 in the meeting between LYON (2024 American Team) and Cloud9. The closest game was Cloud9 against LYON (2024 American Team), decided on a total gold gap of 822, with LYON (2024 American Team) ahead at the end.

Next week

One match is scheduled for next week. Of those, the meeting between LYON (2024 American Team) and Shopify Rebellion carries the most weight.

Schedule as of publication — fixtures may have changed since.