LPL2026-w38

Weekly Report · Sep 14 – 20, 2026

Published 2026-09-21 08:05

Across the week LPL played 3 series, and those contained 12 games. Games averaged 33:45 this week against a season average of 32:26, so matches ran longer than usual. Per-minute figures get pulled toward the mean in long games, so read them next to the totals.

Results

Team records

1 series won against 0 lost — that is the Top Esports week, which comes to 3-1 in games.

TeamSeriesGames
TESTop Esports1W 0L3W 1L
iGInvictus Gaming1W 1L4W 4L
JDGJD Gaming1W 1L4W 4L
WETeam WE0W 1L1W 3L

Best five

Picking the best player at each position leaves 5 in total this week: Xiaoxu (Top), JunJia (Jungle), Rookie (Mid), GALA (Bot), Meiko (Support). 41/12/33, a ratio of 6.17 — that is what GALA recorded for JD Gaming at Bot, taking 4 of 8 games.

Weekly awards

Meta watch

The reference point for reading this meta is patch 16.17. The champion named most often in the draft was Cassiopeia, with picks and bans together reaching 100.0%. The top of that list runs Cassiopeia, Nocturne, Vi. Alistar, Galio, Renata Glasc — champions the draft used more than it did last week. Alistar moved the furthest at +35.0%p.

Patch v16.17

ChampionPresencePicksBansWin ratevs. last week
Cassiopeia100.0%012–±0.0%p
Nocturne91.7%110100.0%+18.3%p
Vi75.0%3666.7%-18.3%p
Olaf66.7%26100.0%-20.0%p
Jarvan IV58.3%250.0%-15.0%p

Best games

Invictus Gaming and Top Esports played the longest game of the week. It ran 40:23 and ended with Invictus Gaming ahead. Invictus Gaming and JD Gaming finished within 3,272 of each other in total gold, the tightest game of the week, and JD Gaming took it.