LPL2026-w17

Weekly Report · Apr 20 – 26, 2026

Published 2026-08-16 15:08

The LPL schedule produced 11 series this week, 23 games in total. The upset of the week belongs to Ultra Prime, who took the series against LGD Gaming. Going into the week the two sides carried season win rates of 14.3% and 42.9%. Games averaged 32:16 this week, close to the season average of 32:47. Game length alone does not mark this week out.

Results

Team records

2 series won against 0 lost — that is the JD Gaming week, which comes to 4-0 in games. Anyone's Legend — also unbeaten this week, 1 in total, with every series won.

TeamSeriesGames
JDGJD Gaming2W 0L4W 0L
ALAnyone's Legend2W 0L4W 1L
LNGLNG Esports1W 0L2W 0L
TESTop Esports1W 0L2W 0L
UPUltra Prime1W 0L2W 0L
BLGBilibili Gaming1W 1L2W 2L
LGDLGD Gaming1W 1L2W 2L
WBGWeibo Gaming1W 2L3W 4L
NIPNinjas in Pyjamas.CN1W 2L2W 4L
EDGEDward Gaming0W 1L0W 2L
iGInvictus Gaming0W 1L0W 2L
OMGOh My God0W 1L0W 2L
WETeam WE0W 2L0W 4L

Best five

Picking the best player at each position leaves 5 in total this week: Xiaoxu (Top), JunJia (Jungle), HongQ (Mid), GALA (Bot), Vampire (Support). The standout line belongs to Vampire of JD Gaming, who played 4 games at Support, won 4 of them, and posted a KDA of 3/2/56 for a ratio of 29.50.

Weekly awards

Meta watch

The reference point for reading this meta is patch 16.8. The champion named most often in the draft was Varus, with picks and bans together reaching 95.7%. The top of that list runs Varus, Orianna, Ryze. Ambessa turned that attention into results, winning 71.4% across 7 picks — this week it paid to have the pick. The sharpest rise against last week belongs to Lucian, whose presence moved by +27.5%p. The same trend covers Lucian, Ambessa, Jayce.

Patch v16.8

ChampionPresencePicksBansWin ratevs. last week
Varus95.7%319100.0%-4.3%p
Orianna95.7%31966.7%+4.0%p
Ryze87.0%51520.0%+16.1%p
Rumble82.6%4150.0%+7.6%p
Ambessa69.6%7971.4%+19.6%p

Best games

49:54 — the longest game of the week, taken by LGD Gaming in the meeting between LGD Gaming and EDward Gaming. The closest game was Ninjas in Pyjamas.CN against Bilibili Gaming, decided on a total gold gap of 2,864, with Ninjas in Pyjamas.CN ahead at the end.