LPL2026-w21
Weekly Report · May 18 – 24, 2026
Published 2026-08-16 15:08
Across the week LPL played 4 series, and those contained 18 games. The upset of the week belongs to Team WE, who took the series against LNG Esports. Going into the week the two sides carried season win rates of 24.0% and 84.6%. Kills per game came to 24.56 this week against a season average of 28.33, so fights were rarer and more games were decided by map play.
Results
Play-In
- Game 1 · 30:16
- Game 2 · 35:44
- Game 3 · 33:05
- Game 4 · 27:45
- Game 5 · 37:53
Play-In
- Game 1 · 28:48
- Game 2 · 26:11
- Game 3 · 32:43
Play-In
- Game 1 · 29:51
- Game 2 · 44:23
- Game 3 · 36:32
- Game 4 · 40:13
- Game 5 · 37:24
Play-In
- Game 1 · 28:16
- Game 2 · 25:57
- Game 3 · 33:26
- Game 4 · 37:21
- Game 5 · 31:22
Team records
1 series won against 0 lost — that is the ThunderTalk Gaming week, which comes to 3-0 in games.
| Team | Series | Games |
|---|---|---|
| 1W 0L | 3W 0L | |
| 1W 0L | 3W 2L | |
| 1W 0L | 3W 2L | |
| 1W 0L | 3W 2L | |
| 0W 1L | 2W 3L | |
| 0W 1L | 2W 3L | |
| 0W 1L | 2W 3L | |
| 0W 1L | 0W 3L |
Best five
Cube (Top), Junhao (Jungle), Karis (Mid), Ahn (Bot), Feather (Support) — the strongest weekly line at each position, 5 in total. The standout line belongs to Ahn of ThunderTalk Gaming, who played 3 games at Bot, won 3 of them, and posted a KDA of 13/3/28 for a ratio of 13.67.
Weekly awards
Meta watch
In patch terms this was a 16.10 week. The champion named most often in the draft was Nocturne, with picks and bans together reaching 100.0%. The top of that list runs Nocturne, Karma, Varus. Compared with last week Ahri gained +24.7%p in presence, and the rising group runs Ahri, Karma, Cassiopeia.
Patch v16.10
| Champion | Presence | Picks | Bans | Win rate | vs. last week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100.0% | 0 | 18 | – | +15.6%p | |
| 83.3% | 2 | 13 | 50.0% | +24.0%p | |
| 77.8% | 3 | 11 | 33.3% | -22.2%p | |
| 72.2% | 2 | 11 | 0.0% | -15.3%p | |
| 66.7% | 2 | 10 | 0.0% | +19.8%p |
Best games
44:23 — the longest game of the week, taken by Ninjas in Pyjamas.CN in the meeting between EDward Gaming and Ninjas in Pyjamas.CN. A total gold gap of 892 — the narrowest of the week, from EDward Gaming against Ninjas in Pyjamas.CN, where Ninjas in Pyjamas.CN came out in front.
Longest game
44:23
Closest game
892 gold