LPL2026-w35
Weekly Report · Aug 24 – 30, 2026
Published 2026-08-31 08:12
The LPL schedule produced 4 series this week, 15 games in total. JD Gaming lost a series they were expected to win. The gap in season win rate read 36.4% against 56.5% at the start of the week, and Team WE still walked away with the result. Games averaged 31:16 this week against a season average of 32:30, so they finished earlier than usual. Teams that took a lead tended to close it out quickly.
Results
Knight's Road
- Game 1 · 35:37
- Game 2 · 29:59
- Game 3 · 24:02
Knight's Road
- Game 1 · 24:08
- Game 2 · 24:05
- Game 3 · 19:47
Round 1
- Game 1 · 33:06
- Game 2 · 32:00
- Game 3 · 31:18
- Game 4 · 44:33
- Game 5 · 39:42
Round 1
- Game 1 · 30:06
- Game 2 · 31:54
- Game 3 · 31:11
- Game 4 · 37:37
Team records
No side collected more series than Invictus Gaming this week. The record reads 1 series won and 0 lost, 3-0 across games.
| Team | Series | Games |
|---|---|---|
| 1W 0L | 3W 0L | |
| 1W 0L | 3W 0L | |
| 1W 0L | 3W 1L | |
| 1W 0L | 3W 2L | |
| 0W 1L | 2W 3L | |
| 0W 1L | 1W 3L | |
| 0W 1L | 0W 3L | |
| 0W 1L | 0W 3L |
Best five
The best five for this week fills 5 of the five positions: Cube (Top), Wei (Jungle), Rookie (Mid), Photic (Bot), Meiko (Support). Nobody in the five posted a stronger week than Wei of Invictus Gaming. At Jungle the line reads 13/3/32 across 3 games, 3 of them won, for a ratio of 15.00.
Top
Cube
Team WE3W 1L15/10/41 · KDA 5.60
Jungle
Wei
Invictus Gaming3W 0L13/3/32 · KDA 15.00
Mid
Rookie
Invictus Gaming3W 0L12/4/25 · KDA 9.25
Bot
Photic
Ninjas in Pyjamas.CN3W 0L22/5/18 · KDA 8.00
Support
Meiko
Invictus Gaming3W 0L3/4/44 · KDA 11.75
Weekly awards
Meta watch
Almost every game this week was played on patch 16.17. The champion named most often in the draft was Nocturne, with picks and bans together reaching 86.7%. The top of that list runs Nocturne, Vi, Cassiopeia. Nocturne, Qiyana, Wukong — champions the draft used more than it did last week. Nocturne moved the furthest at +42.2%p.
Patch v16.17
| Champion | Presence | Picks | Bans | Win rate | vs. last week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 86.7% | 2 | 11 | 0.0% | +42.2%p | |
| 86.7% | 1 | 12 | 0.0% | +20.0%p | |
| 73.3% | 2 | 9 | 50.0% | -18.3%p | |
| 66.7% | 3 | 7 | 66.7% | -25.0%p | |
| 66.7% | 1 | 9 | 100.0% | +16.7%p |
Best games
44:33 — the longest game of the week, taken by Top Esports in the meeting between Top Esports and LGD Gaming. Team WE and JD Gaming finished within 1,770 of each other in total gold, the tightest game of the week, and Team WE took it.
Longest game
44:33
Closest game
1,770 gold
Next week
6 matches — the size of the schedule for the week ahead. Of those, the meeting between Bilibili Gaming and Team WE carries the most weight.
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