Sentinels took this one. It was a LCS fixture played on 2026-08-17 between LYON (2024 American Team) and Sentinels. At 40:52, this game ran deep into the late game. It produced 34 combined kills, and in long games per-minute figures such as DPM and CSM get pulled toward the average, so read them next to the totals. The total gold gap was only 491, so resources alone did not decide this game. Sentinels finished narrowly ahead, and in games like this a single objective or a single fight is usually what settles it. The clearest objective gap came from Towers: 12 for Sentinels against 4 for the other side.

The standout line on the winning side belongs to DARKWINGS, who finished on Hwei with a KDA of 8/2/6. In the Mid matchup, Saint finished 2,220 gold ahead of DARKWINGS. This compares end-of-game totals for the same position, so it is not a laning-phase figure on its own. The draft started with LYON (2024 American Team) removing Lee Sin and Sentinels removing Lucian. Those first two cards set the direction of the draft. Game 3 of the series. The series ran to 3 games in total, and the patch applied was 16.16.