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LCK CL2026-w18

Weekly Report · Apr 27 – May 3, 2026

Published 2026-08-16 15:11

23 games — that is what the LCK CL week added up to, spread across 10 series. The upset of the week belongs to HANJIN BRION Challengers, who took the series against Nongshim Esports Academy. Going into the week the two sides carried season win rates of 12.5% and 77.8%. Games averaged 30:33 this week against a season average of 31:44, so they finished earlier than usual. Teams that took a lead tended to close it out quickly.

Results

Team records

2 series won against 0 lost — that is the HANJIN BRION Challengers week, which comes to 4-0 in games. The unbeaten column adds 2 more this week: BNK FEARX Youth, Dplus Kia Challengers.

TeamSeriesGames
BROHANJIN BRION Challengers2W 0L4W 0L
BFXBNK FEARX Youth2W 0L4W 1L
DKDplus Kia Challengers2W 0L4W 1L
KTKT Rolster Challengers1W 1L3W 2L
DNDN SOOPers Challengers1W 1L2W 2L
DRXKiwoom DRX Challengers1W 1L2W 2L
T1T1 Esports Academy1W 1L2W 3L
GENGen.G Global Academy0W 2L1W 4L
HLEHanwha Life Esports Challengers0W 2L1W 4L
NSNongshim Esports Academy0W 2L0W 4L

Best five

Jaehyuk (Top), Sharvel (Jungle), Tempester (Mid), Wayne (Bot), PlanB (Support) — the strongest weekly line at each position, 5 in total. The standout line belongs to Wayne of Dplus Kia Challengers, who played 5 games at Bot, won 4 of them, and posted a KDA of 30/6/48 for a ratio of 13.00.

Weekly awards

Meta watch

The reference point for reading this meta is patch 16.8. The champion named most often in the draft was Varus, with picks and bans together reaching 100.0%. The top of that list runs Varus, Rumble, Karma. Ashe, Sion, Akali — champions the draft used more than it did last week. Ashe moved the furthest at +21.9%p.

Patch v16.8

ChampionPresencePicksBansWin ratevs. last week
Varus100.0%023–±0.0%p
Rumble95.7%41875.0%+14.9%p
Karma95.7%31933.3%+3.3%p
Orianna82.6%41550.0%+17.2%p
Nocturne73.9%31466.7%-3.0%p

Best games

Kiwoom DRX Challengers and T1 Esports Academy played the longest game of the week. It ran 39:23 and ended with Kiwoom DRX Challengers ahead. Kiwoom DRX Challengers and T1 Esports Academy finished within 34 of each other in total gold, the tightest game of the week, and Kiwoom DRX Challengers took it.