EWC2026-w20

Weekly Report · May 11 – 17, 2026

Published 2026-08-16 15:11

37 games — that is what the EWC week added up to, spread across 16 series. Games averaged 31:14 this week, close to the season average of 31:56. Game length alone does not mark this week out.

Results

Round 2
T12:0BNK FEARX
- Game 1 · 24:02
- Game 2 · 30:08
Round 1
DetonatioN FocusMe0:2Deep Cross Gaming
- Game 1 · 32:28
- Game 2 · 24:39
Round 1
Ground Zero Gaming0:2MVK Esports
- Game 1 · 40:52
- Game 2 · 30:26
Round 2
Hanwha Life Esports1:2Dplus Kia
Round 2
Deep Cross Gaming2:0CTBC Flying Oyster
- Game 1 · 30:06
- Game 2 · 31:40
Round 2
MVK Esports0:2GAM Esports
- Game 1 · 30:09
- Game 2 · 30:23
Round 3
Deep Cross Gaming1:2GAM Esports
Round 4
Fukuoka SoftBank HAWKS gaming1:2Team Secret (Vietnamese Team)
Round 4
Natus Vincere0:2G2 Esports
- Game 1 · 35:49
- Game 2 · 29:13
Round 4
Karmine Corp2:0Movistar KOI
- Game 1 · 30:35
- Game 2 · 31:03
Round 3
Solary0:2GIANTX
- Game 1 · 33:49
- Game 2 · 40:48
Round 3
Galions2:0Shifters
- Game 1 · 38:45
- Game 2 · 30:45
Round 4
Galions1:2Natus Vincere
Round 4
Movistar KOI2:0GIANTX
- Game 1 · 29:38
- Game 2 · 27:55
Round 5
Movistar KOI2:0Natus Vincere
- Game 1 · 33:27
- Game 2 · 34:18
Round 6
Karmine Corp0:3G2 Esports

Team records

No side collected more series than G2 Esports this week. The record reads 2 series won and 0 lost, 5-0 across games. Others came through the week without dropping a series, 1 in total: GAM Esports.

Team	Series	Games
G2 Esports	2W 0L	5W 0L
GAM Esports	2W 0L	4W 1L
Deep Cross Gaming	2W 1L	5W 2L
Movistar KOI	2W 1L	4W 2L
T1	1W 0L	2W 0L
Dplus Kia	1W 0L	2W 1L
Team Secret (Vietnamese Team)	1W 0L	2W 1L
Galions	1W 1L	3W 2L
GIANTX	1W 1L	2W 2L
MVK Esports	1W 1L	2W 2L
Karmine Corp	1W 1L	2W 3L
Natus Vincere	1W 2L	2W 5L
Fukuoka SoftBank HAWKS gaming	0W 1L	1W 2L
Hanwha Life Esports	0W 1L	1W 2L
BNK FEARX	0W 1L	0W 2L
CTBC Flying Oyster	0W 1L	0W 2L
DetonatioN FocusMe	0W 1L	0W 2L
Ground Zero Gaming	0W 1L	0W 2L
Shifters	0W 1L	0W 2L
Solary	0W 1L	0W 2L

Best five

Flauren (Top), SkewMond (Jungle), Caps (Mid), Hans Sama (Bot), ShiauC (Support) — the strongest weekly line at each position, 5 in total. Nobody in the five posted a stronger week than SkewMond of G2 Esports. At Jungle the line reads 29/8/41 across 5 games, 5 of them won, for a ratio of 8.75.

Top
FlaurenDeep Cross Gaming
5W 2L21/13/50 · KDA 5.46
- Shen
- Rumble
Jungle
SkewMondG2 Esports
5W 0L29/8/41 · KDA 8.75
- Vi
- Olaf
Mid
CapsG2 Esports
5W 0L22/9/36 · KDA 6.44
- Annie
- Ryze
Bot
Hans SamaG2 Esports
5W 0L30/7/31 · KDA 8.71
- Smolder
- Senna
Support
ShiauCDeep Cross Gaming
5W 2L10/19/110 · KDA 6.32
- Rell
- Bard

Weekly awards

Most kills
44
7 games
Feng
Deep Cross Gaming
Best KDA
25.00
3 games
Eddie
Team Secret (Vietnamese Team)
Kill participation
90.0%
2 games
Doggo
CTBC Flying Oyster
Champion pool
7
7 games
Parus
Natus Vincere

Meta watch

In patch terms this was a 16.9 week. Orianna, Varus, Rumble — the champions the draft returned to most this week. Orianna led the way at 89.2%. Bard turned that attention into results, winning 63.6% across 11 picks — this week it paid to have the pick. Seraphine, Cassiopeia, Gnar — champions the draft used more than it did last week. Seraphine moved the furthest at +27.9%p.

Patch v16.9

Champion	Presence	Picks	Bans	Win rate	vs. last week
Orianna	89.2%	3	30	66.7%	-7.0%p
Varus	81.1%	5	25	20.0%	-11.2%p
Rumble	75.7%	10	18	40.0%	-8.9%p
Nautilus	73.0%	8	19	62.5%	+7.6%p
Bard	62.2%	11	12	63.6%	+16.0%p

Best games

The longest game of the week was Ground Zero Gaming against MVK Esports, settled after 40:52 in favor of MVK Esports. Ground Zero Gaming and MVK Esports finished within 2,437 of each other in total gold, the tightest game of the week, and MVK Esports took it.

Longest game
40:52
Ground Zero Gaming MVK Esports
Closest game
2,437 gold
Ground Zero Gaming MVK Esports