Worlds2026-w42

Weekly Report · Oct 12 – 18, 2026

Published 2026-10-20 08:39Updated 2026-10-25 08:13

Across the week Worlds played 5 series, and those contained 19 games. Games averaged 33:25 this week, close to the season average of 33:25. Game length alone does not mark this week out.

Results

Team records

No side collected more series than Karmine Corp this week. The record reads 2 series won and 0 lost, 6-2 across games.

TeamSeriesGames
KCKarmine Corp2W 0L6W 2L
MVKMVK Esports2W 1L6W 4L
FURFURIA1W 2L4W 7L
C9Cloud90W 2L3W 6L

Best five

Kratos (Top), Gury (Jungle), Chika (Mid), Harky (Bot), SiuLoong (Support) — the strongest weekly line at each position, 5 in total. The standout line belongs to Gury of MVK Esports, who played 8 games at Jungle, won 6 of them, and posted a KDA of 28/16/60 for a ratio of 5.50.

Weekly awards

Meta watch

In patch terms this was a 16.20 week. Nocturne, Seraphine, Olaf — the champions the draft returned to most this week. Nocturne led the way at 94.7%. Vi turned that attention into results, winning 100.0% across 5 picks — this week it paid to have the pick.

Patch v16.20

ChampionPresencePicksBansWin ratevs. last week
Nocturne94.7%018––
Seraphine73.7%311100.0%–
Olaf57.9%47100.0%–
K'Sante52.6%550.0%–
Vi47.4%54100.0%–

Best games

FURIA and Cloud9 played the longest game of the week. It ran 39:52 and ended with Cloud9 ahead. Cloud9 and Karmine Corp finished within 2,622 of each other in total gold, the tightest game of the week, and Karmine Corp took it.

Next week

3 matches — the size of the schedule for the week ahead. Of those, the meeting between Hanwha Life Esports and Gen.G carries the most weight.

Schedule as of publication — fixtures may have changed since.