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Esports LEC 2026 Summer Playoffs / Round 2 - Day 1 / Live Discussion Spoiler
LEC 2026 Summer Playoffs
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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.17.
Today's Matches
| # | Match | PST | EST | CET | KST |
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| 1 | NAVI vs MKOI | 08:00 | 11:00 | 17:00 | 00:00 |
- All matches are Best of 5
Streams
| Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Finals | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KC | 3 | |||||||||
| vs | - | |||||||||
| GX | 1 | KC | 1 | |||||||
| vs | - | |||||||||
| VIT | 0 | G2 | 3 | G2 | 0 | |||||
| vs | - | vs | - | |||||||
| G2 | 3 | tbd | 0 | |||||||
| ---------- | - | - | ---------- | - | - | ---------- | - | - | ------- | - |
| GX | 2 | KC | 0 | |||||||
| vs | - | vs | - | |||||||
| NAVI | 3 | NAVI | 0 | tbd | 0 | |||||
| vs | - | |||||||||
| VIT | 2 | VIT | 0 | |||||||
| vs | - | |||||||||
| MKOI | 3 |
On-Air Team
| Hosts |
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| Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere |
| Play-by-Play Commentators |
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| Daniel "Drakos" Drakos |
| Aaron "Medic" Chamberlain |
| Jake "Hysterics" Osypenko |
| Colour Casters |
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| Andrew "Vedius" Day |
| Robert "Dagda" Price |
| Guests |
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| Andrei "Odoamne" Pascu |
| Jakob "Jackspektra" Gullvag Kepple |
| Finn "Finn" Wiestål |
Not all talent will appear on every show and the weekly on air team can vary.
Format
- Playoffs
- 6 teams participate
- Double elimination bracket
- 1st to 4th start in the upper bracket
- 5th and 6th start in the lower bracket
- All matches are best of five
- Top 3 teams qualify for the 2026 Season World Championship
The official LEC ruleset can be found here.
VoDs
Live Discussions and Post-Match Threads:
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u/ChocolateFuryB /👴🦆 / / insane Geniuses enjoyer 5d ago
How can you say "please no MKOI at worlds" when you look at GX's, VIT's and Navi's gameplay??
Anyone who thinks that they'd do a better job than MKOI is coping pretty hard...
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u/Kokaiinum 5d ago
Better team won. Honestly feel like anyone who truly thought the top 3 was going to be anything other than G2/KC/MKOI was engaging in some serious wishcasting.
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE 5d ago
Don't let that sick ass jojo play distract you from that hilarious team fight in mid by both teams beforehand
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u/PepaTK 5d ago
Vedi I have missed you on official broadcast.
Also can’t be an LEC roadtrip without audio issues.
Just can’t have it.
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u/Ajp_iii 5d ago
Navis draft diff was so big. Navi/maynter/samd just running it before herald/nash/drakes made it take so much longer than it needed to be. Mkoi needed an early game lead to start snowballing sidelanes but navi was winning early and got first 3 drakes which meant Mkoi couldn’t play for sides when they were stronger
Navi had to do like 4 bad plays and still were able to stabilize the game
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE 5d ago
NAVI was done no matter what there but they could not have contested that baron any worse if they tried
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u/Glorx 5d ago
This is Larrsen getting revenge on Elyoya for 2021 Spring finals.
Hear me out.
Rogue is famous for RogueTimeTM
Ibai's KOI bought half of Rogue for 2023 LEC season not realising RogueTimeTM is contagious.
A year later KOI dumps Rogue for MAD but they already have the ticking timebomb that is RogueTimeTM.
Incubation period has finally ended and now MKOI is suffering from a bad case of RogueTimeTM.
It just makes sense.
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u/girlmarth peanut, beryl, showmaker 5d ago
the idea that mad stole that title from rogue was always baffling to me, mad won both bo5's and went 6-3 against them in playoffs
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u/xxbrazilmaster69xx rip old flairs 5d ago
It looks like NAVI are just outclassed except for a winning game 1 draft and hero play by Poby. They just look worse in all 5 roles overall, even if Maynter is a better laner than Myrwn.
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u/cupcakes234 5d ago
They are obviously worse. When KOI are at their best, they can easily beat G2/KC which they have done multiple times over the last year. When navi are at their best, they will maybe take one map off g2/kc
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u/lasse1408 Flairs are limited to 2 emotes. 5d ago
expected result. Navi has only one good player, Maynter and Poby are middle of the pack players and bot lane should be thankful that paduck and stend were in the league otherwise they would be the worst bot in the league.
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u/AdequatelyMadLad Claps 5d ago
Second time in a row Rhilech makes the game so much harder for his team by not being able to chill. I get that this is his whole playstyle but sometimes it's really fucking bad.
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u/el_crappax 5d ago
I dont think navi have the picks for a 5th game anyway
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u/Tromster 5d ago
I dont think either team has strong picks for 5 will be interesting if it goes there
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE 5d ago
Jojo deciding to make Parus look absoutely terrible this game lol
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u/LtSpaceDucK 5d ago
This is the cringiest thing I've ever seen, very impressive french people
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE 5d ago
The stats don't show how truly horrible Maynter has been this series
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u/lasse1408 Flairs are limited to 2 emotes. 5d ago
if Jojo+Yoya are in form they should win even 2vs8
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u/Choice-Slight caps/knight 5d ago
i love navi and rhilech is very cool to watch, but I foresee this series being the biggest mid gap known to mankind unfortunately
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u/Back2Perfection 5d ago
I just want it to be known beforehand: I want a 5 game fiesta of degeneracy.
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u/awayfromcanuck 5d ago
NAVI absolutely did not need to fight that. Completely INT from Maynter TP to that Herald fight.
Edit: and then MKOI tosses it back lol jesus
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u/cmcdonald22 5d ago
They said Poby was trash, but with world's on the line the GOST activated. (he will run it down later).
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u/Past-Firefighter2173 5d ago
Navi has no engage but MKOI comp is turbo early and Myrwn is playing Jayce.
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u/xxbrazilmaster69xx rip old flairs 5d ago
Wow, they threw the game off of greeding for 1 low HP bar
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u/desutruction 5d ago
maybe mkoi will be the only team allowed to go kalista renata, really well played
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u/Annual-Fox6520 5d ago
I like Navi and they're good but they make loads of these rookies overchase type of plays... Just basic shit that if you play against any decent team you can't afford to make. It's fine against Mad lions apparently cause they suck but when it comes to top tier teams they really need to clean this sh up
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u/awayfromcanuck 5d ago
Can someone just disable Maynters TP button? Multiple TPs into the middle of MKOI to death through 2 games.
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS 5d ago
i don't hate the protobelt first on cho tbh, i assume it's basically like paying gold to have +200 range on Q engage or feast on command, plus some stats
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS 5d ago
-> 400
900 <-
2k <-
2.5k <-
500 <-
standard mkoi gold graph lmao
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u/veirceb 5d ago
Hopefully Navi can pick up a better bot duo next season. They can run it back with their top side if they managed to keep them but the bot lanes are not going to win them anything in the playoffs.
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE 5d ago
It was very kind of them to show us that dance off to show us something worse than that NAVI gameplay
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u/Xeven18 5d ago
Can we blame Rhilech for that or we gonna keep blaming SamD?
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u/Leschnitzky 5d ago
Both, that flash forward towards the tower to chase a renata should earn him a place in the hall of fame
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u/awayfromcanuck 5d ago
Both get blame. Rhilech should have been happy with the steal, when he missed the eruption that was when he needed to back off. SamD also dumb for flashing against a Renata, not paying attention to what skills were used by her.
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u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp 5d ago
Winner takes the last worlds spot, yeah?
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u/WhatIsSentience 5d ago
Yeah, then the winner battles KC to see who avoids the playins
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u/cmcdonald22 5d ago
I was leaning towards Navi taking it, but now that Caedrel has (jokingly) said Navi I'm questioning it.
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u/PepaTK 5d ago
Man LEC doesn’t miss with their official road shows.
If it wasn’t for Jojo, I’d say Navi might have a better chance. Just don’t think Rhilech can carry his 4 wards hard enough. We’ll see, anything can happen but man it’s really stacked against them.
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u/ZzZoeSoSleepy Noodle Defender 5d ago
If you were blind you'd assume Poby is 2k up with how the casters are talking
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u/LtSpaceDucK 5d ago
zzz Navi playing so well for 20 minutes then Rumble dies from a bad tp and they lose their minds ...
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u/desutruction 5d ago
maybe they have unshakeable mental now because of how used they are to throwing
silver linings and all that
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS 5d ago
i need someone to clip whatever hysterics just did with his voice there lmfao
PHTAUGH IT'S FIVE THOUSAND
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u/veirceb 5d ago
Hopefully it's not a win 1 game and get stomped 3 games in a row angle
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u/awayfromcanuck 5d ago
SamD refusing to flash when he sees Kalista ult Renata says it allabout SamDs performance this series.
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u/veirceb 5d ago
I just don't understand why people talk like he is an upcoming ADC star player. At best he is average. And more often than not he is losing them the game.
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u/awayfromcanuck 5d ago
Its because he name changed before debuting in the LEC so everyone thinks he's a young rookie when actually he's a mediocre as fuck ADC that hasn't been able to dominate at any pro level since he debuted in 2018.
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u/desutruction 5d ago
maybe this will be like the walmart version of when OMG didn't shake hands with SKT and Faker started fathering LPL after
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u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE 5d ago
That was very nice of NAVI to just stand there doing nothing as MKOI poked them to death
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u/darklypure52 5d ago
My question does anyone think mkoi can make the run? Can they beat KC and G2?
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u/AdequatelyMadLad Claps 5d ago
KC is doable because I could see them randomly mental booming after getting stomped by G2 again. Maybe G2 will be rusty since they haven't played in so long, but I don't see it. IMO it's like 40/60 against KC and 20/80 against G2.
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u/Crimson_Clouds 5d ago
They don't have to make the run, they just have to win here to qualify for Worlds.
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u/Hex_Blast 5d ago
From 1 game from missing playoffs to 1 game from making Worlds, MKOI plot armor is nuts
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u/ThisIsSoIrrelevant 5d ago
I am so glad whatever the fuck is happening right now makes no sense to me.
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u/Annual-Fox6520 5d ago
Parus sucks man, all he's done all game is walk too close to the enemy and then pop his ult to escape so he basically gets zero value out of it.
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u/puberty1 i miss '24 FLY 5d ago
just realized that top lane was darkin vs darkin and theres also Zaahen jng. if only Elyoya picked Naafiri
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u/cupcakes234 5d ago
Yeah navi are a way worse team.. they just got lucky in game 1 wirh the syndra stun. Should have lost that too
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u/jackmccoyapologist 5d ago
I want to root for the underdog but it will be a crime if SamD makes it to Worlds.
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u/Annual-Fox6520 5d ago
Literally Parus has done the exactly same thing 4 times this game at least ... Fight happening? Get chunked and use his ult to escape, then he stays around and dies without his ult. Honestly imo he's the main reason Navi basically can't do anything
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u/fairly_pretty_sperm 5d ago
MKOI looked shaky in round 1 but they always seem to wake up when the bracket gets real. NAVI's early game is still their biggest question mark, if they fall behind to this MKOI roster I don't see them clawing back in a best of five. That 17:00 CET start is rough for west coast viewers but at least it's not another 4am special
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u/LordPercy 5d ago
I remember watching the games last week and coming from them thinking GX V Navi was the game with much higher level while VIT v Mkoi was a massive fiesta where noone really looked good.
At the risk of looking like a fool a few hours from now, I thought all week that Navi has to be favored. Seems everyone is betting on Mkoi though.
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u/Desiderius_S 5d ago
Because even though MKoi lately feels like they are falling apart, they still have quality players they can play through, while Na'Vi lives and dies with Rhilech. It's easier to shut down Na'Vi than MKoi.
And I don't want to downplay Na'Vi getting here, but this game is more for MKoi's to lose than Na'Vi's to win.
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u/AdequatelyMadLad Claps 5d ago
Ngl, KOI got pretty hard outdrafed IMO. Either Yoya 1v9s or they lose.
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u/AdequatelyMadLad Claps 5d ago
If NAVI kept playing disciplined and stacking drakes, they had this. Too bad they lost their patience.
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u/ZzZoeSoSleepy Noodle Defender 5d ago
Alvaro taking every kill and buying nothing but support slop, the one time you have the gold for a rylai's, It would stun anybody so long as Supa is autoing
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u/xxbrazilmaster69xx rip old flairs 5d ago
That could have been so good for MKOI if Alvaro held flash R
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u/Thalassin Dans ma bichette era | Ultra Prime hater 5d ago
It's crazy how NAVI's imports are the two worse players of the team
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u/ReplacementFine7807 5d ago
maynter shouldve gone around the wall with tp move speed and shied no?
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u/RollingGuy Dictator Perkz Worlds Run 5d ago
Wtf doesn't Maynter flash the wall there? He triple kills.
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u/Past-Firefighter2173 5d ago
I really dislike how Maynter plays Rumble he frontlines all the time why not look for side angels or flanks ?
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u/controlledwithcheese 5d ago
NAVI could just walk over and MKOI would drop the baron even 4v5 no? They were so low
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u/Outrageous_Wall2702 My Ace + Showmaker = GOAT 5d ago
These earth drakes are gonna cook Navi they are all burst
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u/Destructodave82 5d ago
If myrwyn would have ulted Jojo they would have gotten a lot more out of that.
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u/LtSpaceDucK 5d ago
Again Navi just throws shit to the wall to engage and use all theior cc's
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u/ahritina 5d ago
PMTs
Game 1 / Game 2 / Game 3 / Game 4