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LCK CL2026-w19

Weekly Report · May 4 – 10, 2026

Published 2026-08-16 15:11

Across the week LCK CL played 10 series, and those contained 23 games. Kiwoom DRX Challengers lost a series they were expected to win. The gap in season win rate read 31.6% against 50.0% at the start of the week, and Hanwha Life Esports Challengers still walked away with the result. Games averaged 30:25 this week against a season average of 31:37, 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 DN SOOPers Challengers week, which comes to 4-1 in games. Others came through the week without dropping a series, 1 in total: Nongshim Esports Academy.

TeamSeriesGames
DNDN SOOPers Challengers2W 0L4W 1L
NSNongshim Esports Academy2W 0L4W 1L
BROHANJIN BRION Challengers1W 1L3W 2L
BFXBNK FEARX Youth1W 1L3W 3L
HLEHanwha Life Esports Challengers1W 1L2W 2L
DRXKiwoom DRX Challengers1W 1L2W 2L
KTKT Rolster Challengers1W 1L2W 2L
T1T1 Esports Academy1W 1L2W 2L
GENGen.G Global Academy0W 2L1W 4L
DKDplus Kia Challengers0W 2L0W 4L

Best five

Picking the best player at each position leaves 5 in total this week: Janus (Top), MihawK (Jungle), Flip (Mid), Lucy (Bot), Pleata (Support). Nobody in the five posted a stronger week than Pleata of Nongshim Esports Academy. At Support the line reads 8/8/82 across 5 games, 4 of them won, for a ratio of 11.25.

Weekly awards

Meta watch

Almost every game this week was played on patch 16.9. Draft attention concentrated on Rumble, Varus, Karma. Rumble sat at the front of it with a presence of 100.0%. Jarvan IV turned that attention into results, winning 83.3% across 6 picks — this week it paid to have the pick. Twisted Fate, Pantheon, Lucian — champions the draft used more than it did last week. Twisted Fate moved the furthest at +30.4%p.

Patch v16.9

ChampionPresencePicksBansWin ratevs. last week
Rumble100.0%1220.0%+4.4%p
Varus100.0%023–±0.0%p
Karma95.7%1210.0%±0.0%p
Jarvan IV82.6%61383.3%+21.7%p
Orianna82.6%51420.0%±0.0%p

Best games

The longest game of the week was HANJIN BRION Challengers against DN SOOPers Challengers, settled after 38:27 in favor of DN SOOPers Challengers. A total gold gap of 1,315 — the narrowest of the week, from Gen.G Global Academy against BNK FEARX Youth, where Gen.G Global Academy came out in front.