LPL2026-w09

Weekly Report · Feb 23 – Mar 1, 2026

Published 2026-08-16 15:08

29 games — that is what the LPL week added up to, spread across 8 series. Ninjas in Pyjamas.CN lost a series they were expected to win. The gap in season win rate read 25.0% against 75.0% at the start of the week, and Invictus Gaming still walked away with the result. Games averaged 31:05 this week against a season average of 33:08, 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 Bilibili Gaming: 2 series won and 0 lost, or 6-0 once you count individual games. JD Gaming — also unbeaten this week, 1 in total, with every series won.

TeamSeriesGames
BLGBilibili Gaming2W 0L6W 0L
JDGJD Gaming2W 0L6W 4L
ALAnyone's Legend1W 1L5W 3L
TESTop Esports1W 1L5W 3L
WBGWeibo Gaming1W 1L3W 3L
iGInvictus Gaming1W 1L3W 4L
NIPNinjas in Pyjamas.CN0W 2L1W 6L
WETeam WE0W 2L0W 6L

Best five

Picking the best player at each position leaves 5 in total this week: Bin (Top), Xun (Jungle), Knight (Mid), Viper (Bot), ON (Support). 30/10/59, a ratio of 8.90 — that is what Xun recorded for Bilibili Gaming at Jungle, taking 6 of 6 games.

Weekly awards

Meta watch

The reference point for reading this meta is patch 16.3. Neeko, Orianna, Jarvan IV — the champions the draft returned to most this week. Neeko led the way at 96.5%. Vi turned that attention into results, winning 85.7% across 7 picks — this week it paid to have the pick.

Patch v16.3

ChampionPresencePicksBansWin ratevs. last week
Neeko96.5%22650.0%
Orianna93.1%126100.0%
Jarvan IV65.5%61350.0%
Poppy62.1%2160.0%
Vi55.2%7985.7%

Best games

Invictus Gaming and Weibo Gaming played the longest game of the week. It ran 44:55 and ended with Weibo Gaming ahead. Anyone's Legend and JD Gaming finished within 1,468 of each other in total gold, the tightest game of the week, and JD Gaming took it.