LEC2026-w35

Weekly Report · Aug 24 – 30, 2026

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

24 games — that is what the LEC week added up to, spread across 10 series. G2 Esports lost a series they were expected to win. The gap in season win rate read 51.6% against 71.4% at the start of the week, and GIANTX still walked away with the result. Games averaged 33:49 this week, close to the season average of 33:42. Game length alone does not mark this week out.

Results

Team records

The best week belongs to Karmine Corp: 2 series won and 0 lost, or 4-1 once you count individual games. Natus Vincere, Team Vitality — also unbeaten this week, 2 in total, with every series won. 9-0 — the official record of Karmine Corp, top of the table once the week closed. GIANTX made the biggest jump of the week, moving from position 5 to 4, a gain of 1.

RankTeamSeriesGamesChange
1KCKarmine Corp2W 0L4W 1L–
5NAVINatus Vincere2W 0L4W 1L▼1
2VITTeam Vitality2W 0L4W 1L–
4GXGIANTX2W 1L5W 3L▲1
6MKOIMovistar KOI1W 0L2W 0L▲1
10SHFTShifters1W 2L3W 4L–
3G2G2 Esports0W 1L1W 2L–
8SKSK Gaming0W 1L0W 2L–
7FNCFnatic0W 2L1W 4L▼1
9THTeam Heretics0W 3L0W 6L–

Best five

Oscarinin (Top), ISMA (Jungle), Jackies (Mid), Flakked (Bot), Jun (Support) — the strongest weekly line at each position, 5 in total. The standout line belongs to Flakked of GIANTX, who played 8 games at Bot, won 5 of them, and posted a KDA of 42/18/44 for a ratio of 4.78.

Weekly awards

Meta watch

In patch terms this was a 16.17 week. Cassiopeia, Nocturne, Vi — the champions the draft returned to most this week. Cassiopeia led the way at 87.5%. Vi turned that attention into results, winning 100.0% across 5 picks — this week it paid to have the pick. The sharpest rise against last week belongs to Yunara, whose presence moved by +21.6%p. The same trend covers Yunara, Nautilus, Ahri.

Patch v16.17

ChampionPresencePicksBansWin ratevs. last week
Cassiopeia87.5%2190.0%-12.5%p
Nocturne83.3%51520.0%+12.8%p
Vi83.3%515100.0%+12.8%p
Jayce79.2%41525.0%-9.1%p
Nautilus70.8%314100.0%+17.9%p

Best games

The longest game of the week was Fnatic against Natus Vincere, settled after 47:58 in favor of Natus Vincere. Karmine Corp and SK Gaming finished within 1,483 of each other in total gold, the tightest game of the week, and Karmine Corp took it.