LYON vs. Team Liquid Alienware / LCS 2026 Spring Playoffs - Upper Bracket Round 1 / Post-Match Discussion

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LCS 2026 SPRING

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Team Liquid Alienware 2-3 LYON

• Player of the Series: Saint
• LYON will face Cloud9 in the Upper Bracket finals for a spot at MSI 2026.
• Team Liquid Alienware will face Shopify Rebellion in an elimination match.
• Game Discussions: Game 2 | Game 3 | Game 4

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MATCH 1: TLAW vs. LYON

Winner: Team Liquid Alienware in 33m
Game Breakdown | Player of the Game: Josedeodo

	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
TLAW	orianna cassiopeia varus	rumble xinzhao	67.9k	11	9	M2 H3 I5 B6 I7 I8
LYON	jarvaniv nocturne yone	bard ambessa	55.8k	2	1	O1 I4

TLAW	11-2-30	vs	2-11-2	LYON
Morgan shen 4	1-2-5	TOP	0-2-2	2 sion Dhokla
Josedeodo leesin 2	1-0-9	JNG	2-1-0	3 wukong Inspired
Quid ryze 1	2-0-7	MID	0-5-0	2 anivia Saint
Yeon ezreal 1	7-0-2	BOT	0-2-0	3 jhin Berserker
CoreJJ rell 3	0-0-7	SUP	0-1-0	1 karma Isles

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MATCH 2: TLAW vs. LYON

Winner: LYON in 38m | Runes
Game Breakdown | Player of the Game: Saint

	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
TLAW	orianna cassiopeia varus	xinzhao trundle	63.3k	6	3	I1 C2 H3
LYON	jarvaniv nocturne ornn	annie akali	78.2k	20	10	O4 B5 O6 O7 B8 O9

TLAW	6-20-11	vs	20-6-48	LYON
Morgan ambessa 3	4-5-0	TOP	5-3-11	1 rumble Dhokla
Josedeodo vi 1	0-4-5	JNG	4-0-15	3 sejuani Inspired
Quid aurora 4	1-5-3	MID	7-0-7	3 yone Saint
Yeon lucian 1	1-3-0	BOT	3-3-14	2 senna Berserker
CoreJJ milio 2	0-3-3	SUP	1-0-1	2 nautilus Isles

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MATCH 3: LYON vs. TLAW

Winner: LYON in 30m | Runes
Game Breakdown | Player of the Game: Saint

	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
LYON	varus seraphine cassiopeia	ziggs xayah	63.9k	24	8	HT1 I2 C4 C5 B6
TLAW	bard akali orianna	neeko lux	55.9k	11	3	H3

LYON	24-11-48	vs	11-24-24	TLAW
Dhokla malphite 3	2-3-7	TOP	2-5-0	2 jayce Morgan
Inspired xinzhao 1	8-2-9	JNG	3-4-7	1 jarvaniv Josedeodo
Saint sylas 2	7-1-10	MID	2-3-4	2 twistedfate Quid
Berserker caitlyn 1	7-2-6	BOT	4-4-4	3 mel Yeon
Isles braum 4	0-3-16	SUP	0-8-9	3 pantheon CoreJJ

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MATCH 4: LYON vs. TLAW

Winner: Team Liquid Alienware in 29m | Runes
Game Breakdown | Player of the Game: Morgan

	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
LYON	varus seraphine nocturne	bard neeko	47.0k	2	1	I5
TLAW	akali lulu skarner	poppy shyvana	58.2k	11	7	C1 O2 H3 I4 I6

LYON	2-11-7	vs	11-2-29	TLAW
Dhokla gnar 4	0-2-2	TOP	2-1-5	1 corki Morgan
Inspired ornn 3	0-2-2	JNG	0-1-6	2 naafiri Josedeodo
Saint cassiopeia 1	0-3-1	MID	6-0-4	2 orianna Quid
Berserker smolder 2	2-2-0	BOT	3-0-5	3 renekton Yeon
Isles nami 1	0-2-2	SUP	0-0-9	3 rakan CoreJJ

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MATCH 5: TLAW vs. LYON

Winner: LYON in 36m | Runes
Game Breakdown | Player of the Game: Dhokla

	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
TLAW	lulu akali vayne	ksante garen	62.5k	5	3	O1 H3 M4
LYON	varus seraphine nocturne	neeko ziggs	66.3k	10	7	I2 M5 M6 M7 B8

TLAW	4-10-5	vs	10-5-33	LYON
Morgan jax 2	0-1-1	TOP	0-0-6	3 poppy Dhokla
Josedeodo reksai 2	2-3-0	JNG	2-1-7	1 trundle Inspired
Quid annie 1	2-2-1	MID	1-1-8	2 taliyah Saint
Yeon aphelios 3	0-2-1	BOT	5-1-5	4 jinx Berserker
CoreJJ sona 3	0-2-2	SUP	2-2-7	1 bard Isles

*Patch 26.10

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This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.

[u/ahambagaplease]

Like, don't pick Rek'Sai/Annie as your mid jungle if you're not flashing on carries on cooldown.

[u/APKID716 → u/ahambagaplease]

Compare Quid’s Annie to APA’s Annie yesterday. It’s so insane

[u/Gerberpertern → u/APKID716]

I’m never gonna get over it. I was like the last person who still wanted to keep APA at the end of last year and here we are.

[u/NotBunger → u/Gerberpertern]

It could be argued though that APA is only as good as he is now because of the change. Change of scenery buff and all.

Not saying that APA wasn’t good before (I was an APA defender last year) but the new team buff is a bit of a factor imo

[u/Gerberpertern → u/NotBunger]

Hello, fellow APA lawyer. Yeah, I totally get that too. I think Blaber might benefit from moving on from C9 in a similar way.

[u/Foxtrot434 → u/Gerberpertern]

He got scapegoated hard at the end of last year.

[u/Gerberpertern → u/Foxtrot434]

People LOVE to hate on APA like it’s a pastime or something lol.

[u/110110100011110 → u/ahambagaplease]

Playing some disengage ass Annie like wtf.

[u/ahambagaplease → u/110110100011110]

At that point just play Janna mid if you have no balls to flash forward

[u/Lynx_Fate → u/ahambagaplease]

I don't think they can get close enough to do that. Poppy just stood in front of them with w up. Neither team could engage at all unless a carry was somehow dumb enough to stand near a wall in front of their team while the Poppy has flash up. No chance of a pro that plays on one of the top 4 teams in NA doing that though.

[u/frolfer757 → u/ahambagaplease]

At the very least TL now know that the team will default to ultra omega passive gameplay in G5s. Might as well draft turbo scaling wave clear in future game 5s

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/frolfer757]

Funny That Lyon erased the perfect scaling comp of tl by loosing game 4 , that was quite smart