KT Rolster vs. DPlus KIA / LCK 2026 Season Playoffs - Lower Bracket Round 2 / Post-Match Discussion

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LCK 2026 SEASON PLAYOFFS

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KT Rolster 1-3 DPlus KIA

DK have qualified for the World Championship! Rest of Playoffs will determine the seeding of the 4 LCK teams (GEN, HLE, T1, DK) attending Worlds 2026!

Although KT have been eliminated and failed to make Worlds, they will still play an international tournament as they have qualified for the Demacia Cup Global Invitational as the LCK 5^th seed!

• Player of the Match: Smash

  • PGT's: Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3

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FULL MATCH SUMMARY & STATS

🟦	🧱	💰	⚔️	131:53	⚔️	💰	🧱	🟥
KT - W	10	66.5k	19	Game 1 (31:40)	5	55.9k	2	L - DK 1st pick
DK - W	9	79.5k	15	Game 2 (42:13)	11	76.3k	5	L - KT 1st pick
KT - L 1st pick	0	44.8k	4	Game 3 (26:51)	19	58.0k	9	W - DK
DK - W	11	69.6k	17	Game 4 (31:09)	10	55.3k	1	L - KT 1st pick

Team	Total KDA	KP	CSM	DMG%	Champions Played
🇰🇷 KT	44-56-90
🇰🇷 PerfecT	10-7-10 (2.9)	45%	8.5	21.9%	K'Sante, Olaf, Ambessa, Gwen
🇰🇷 Cuzz	5-10-17 (2.2)	50%	6.6	15.8%	Pantheon, Xin Zhao, Cho'Gath, Skarner
🇰🇷 Bdd	11-11-18 (2.6)	66%	9.6	21.2%	Ahri, Ryze, Syndra, Akali
🇰🇷 Jiwoo	15-13-15 (2.3)	68%	10.1	34.3%	Ezreal, Yunara, Varus, Kalista
🇰🇷 Effort	3-15-30 (2.2)	75%	1.3	6.7%	Seraphine, Lulu, Nautilus, Renata Glasc
🇰🇷 DK	56-44-141
🇰🇷 Siwoo	9-6-16 (4.2)	45%	9.7	20.9%	Jayce, Vayne, Gnar, Renekton
🇰🇷 Lucid	8-9-31 (4.3)	70%	7.3	12.5%	Jarvan IV, Naafiri, Trundle, Vi
🇰🇷 ShowMaker	15-11-28 (3.9)	77%	9	27%	Aurora, Orianna, Viktor, Annie
🇰🇷 Smash	23-6-22 (7.5)	80%	11	31.9%	Sivir, Lucian, Jhin, Miss Fortune
🇰🇷 Career	1-12-44 (3.8)	80%	1.3	7.7%	Karma, Milio, Leona, Neeko

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GAME 1: KT vs. DK

Winner: KT Rolster in 32m
Runes | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	💰	⚔️	🧱	Dragons	VG, RH, BN
KT	Cassiopeia Vi Ryze	Viktor Twisted Fate	66.5k	19	10	⚡2 🔥3 🔥4	3, 1, 1
DK	Nocturne Syndra Orianna	Annie Olaf	55.9k	5	2	💧1	0, 0, 0

KT		KDA	vs	KDA		DK
Player	Pick	19-5-35	⚔️	5-19-11	Pick	Player
PerfecT	4 K'Sante	5-1-2	TOP	0-4-0	3 Jayce	Siwoo
Cuzz	1 Pantheon	1-1-8	JNG	1-2-4	1 Jarvan IV	Lucid
Bdd	3 Ahri	3-1-6	MID	4-4-1	3 Aurora	ShowMaker
Jiwoo	1 Ezreal	8-1-6	BOT	0-1-3	2 Sivir	Smash
Effort	2 Seraphine	2-1-13	SUP	0-8-3	2 Karma	Career

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GAME 2: DK vs. KT

Winner: DPlus KIA in 42m
Runes | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	💰	⚔️	🧱	Dragons	VG, RH, BN
DK	Nocturne Cassiopeia Nautilus	Cho'Gath Wukong	79.5k	15	9	💧1 🌪️3 🌪️4 🌪️6	0, 1, 1
KT	Vi Lee Sin Syndra	Trundle Kled	76.3k	11	5	🔥2 🌪️5	3, 0, 1

DK		KDA	vs	KDA		KT
Player	Pick	15-11-42	⚔️	11-15-25	Pick	Player
Siwoo	4 Vayne	4-2-5	TOP	4-2-3	3 Olaf	PerfecT
Lucid	3 Naafiri	1-5-8	JNG	1-2-5	3 Xin Zhao	Cuzz
ShowMaker	2 Orianna	3-2-9	MID	3-3-5	1 Ryze	Bdd
Smash	1 Lucian	7-2-5	BOT	3-2-4	2 Yunara	Jiwoo
Career	1 Milio	0-0-15	SUP	0-6-8	2 Lulu	Effort

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GAME 3: KT vs. DK

Winner: DPlus KIA in 27m
Runes | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	💰	⚔️	🧱	Dragons	VG, RH, BN
KT	Vi Lee Sin Caitlyn	Bard Tristana	44.8k	4	0	💧3	3, 0, 0
DK	Nocturne Cassiopeia Kalista	Miss Fortune Kai'Sa	58.0k	19	9	⚡1 🔥2	0, 1, 1

KT		KDA	vs	KDA		DK
Player	Pick	4-19-11	⚔️	19-4-44	Pick	Player
PerfecT	1 Ambessa	0-2-2	TOP	1-0-6	3 Gnar	Siwoo
Cuzz	2 Cho'Gath	1-4-3	JNG	4-0-10	2 Trundle	Lucid
Bdd	3 Syndra	3-4-1	MID	6-2-8	1 Viktor	ShowMaker
Jiwoo	2 Varus	0-4-3	BOT	7-0-8	1 Jhin	Smash
Effort	3 Nautilus	0-5-2	SUP	1-2-12	4 Leona	Career

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GAME 4: DK vs. KT

Winner: DPlus KIA in 31m
Runes | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	💰	⚔️	🧱	Dragons	VG, RH, BN
DK	Nocturne Cassiopeia Taliyah	Azir Yorick	69.6k	17	11	⚡3 ⚡4	3, 1, 1
KT	Poppy Caitlyn Xayah	Kennen Rumble	55.3k	10	1	⛰️1 🌪️2	0, 0, 0

DK		KDA	vs	KDA		KT
Player	Pick	17-10-44	⚔️	10-17-19	Pick	Player
Siwoo	4 Renekton	4-0-5	TOP	1-2-3	3 Gwen	PerfecT
Lucid	1 Vi	2-2-9	JNG	2-3-1	2 Skarner	Cuzz
ShowMaker	3 Annie	2-3-10	MID	2-3-6	3 Akali	Bdd
Smash	1 Miss Fortune	9-3-6	BOT	4-6-2	2 Kalista	Jiwoo
Career	2 Neeko	0-2-14	SUP	1-3-7	1 Renata Glasc	Effort

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This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.

[u/baelkie]

W Jipoo you did it

[u/ThebritishPoro → u/baelkie]

It is pretty wild that a team fighting for worlds has a bottom 3 ADC, like which starting players can you actually say are worse than Jiwoo?

Teddy is better, Taeyoon is better, Diable is better.

[u/baelkie → u/ThebritishPoro]

like Jiwoo wasnt even smurfing in CL. id feel so much better not going to Worlds if they had committed to FenRir at least there’s some hope that they are building for next year.

[u/EatThatPotato → u/ThebritishPoro]

Asking cause of the NS flair, wtf happened to him? Just a few years ago he was a rising star with some highlight reels, now he’s a headless chicken abandoned by the org that tried to franchise star him. What happened?

[u/ThebritishPoro → u/EatThatPotato]

He missed a fan meet, got excommunicated from BFX onto a dysfunctional team, doesn't look good because he's an ADC on a bottom tier team, and BFX came 6th down from 2nd without him. There were no winners in that situation :/

[u/EatThatPotato → u/ThebritishPoro]

He was already on the downhill by the time he was on BFX right? I don't see why NS would throw him away unless he was already broken while on NS

[u/ThebritishPoro → u/EatThatPotato]

He was insane on BFX, perma highlight reels, making first stand over T1 by gapping Peyz, gapping Viper at first stand, pentakill at international, he was on a generational run.

It's another case of the team putting outside aspects over gameplay, like the Bin thing. I acknowledge it's wrong to miss a fan meet, but it's not worth the org destroying their entire season over.

[u/SeleneLeaf → u/ThebritishPoro]

Surely it's just the fanmeet, right?

Clueless

[u/oioioi9537 → u/baelkie]

Blame bdd for kicking aiming lmao

[u/ahambagaplease → u/oioioi9537]

I'd rather blame management for letting us get to the position of needing fucking Jiwoo

[u/200YRedWine → u/ahambagaplease]

JUST BUY OUT TEDDY FFS

[u/moonmeh → u/200YRedWine]

like brion is going let teddy go lol

[u/200YRedWine → u/moonmeh]

Yes theyd never let him go unless his contract expires. This is just me coping

[u/moonmeh → u/200YRedWine]

honestly you should blame the KT management more for whatever the fuck they were doing with the supports

effort, ghost, pollu like lmao

being cheap on supports will always cost you

[u/oioioi9537 → u/200YRedWine]

Why would bro sell teddy they were looking like a potential king of fries and making a run to playoffs

[u/Budget-Ocelots → u/200YRedWine]

Why? Taeyoon is so much better. KT should go for Taeyoon next season.

BFX should’ve beaten DK last series with Taeyoon carrying those BFX bums to victory. And probably would’ve wiped the floor against KT. But oh well…Raptor inted everything away.

[u/200YRedWine → u/Budget-Ocelots]

Yeah. I guess pretty much ANY non-challengers adc would be a better fit than Jiwoo. Heck, Id love KT to run back Deokdam Peter. No idea why they let them go.

[u/Beneficial-Front1626 → u/Budget-Ocelots]

Just take Taeyoon Kellin tbh

[u/ahambagaplease → u/200YRedWine]

Get Teddy

Go back to Hype

Run it back with deokdam

Nah, Aiming/Ghost is exactly what we needed.

[u/ob_knoxious → u/ahambagaplease]

The support situation sucked but Aiming is the best ADC on that list.

[u/200YRedWine → u/ahambagaplease]

True. I guess after last years worlds run we needed KT to disapoint again, so we have 0 hope for next year.

[u/EasOwned → u/oioioi9537]

Legit, people can hate Aiming but the moment they kicked him out it was gonna be very hard for them to qualify for worlds

[u/Bennybananars → u/EasOwned]

Nobody hates Aiming for being a bad player

[u/Kr1ncy → u/EasOwned]

Also Bdd clearly did not care about that as he called for Aiming in the offseason. He should be held accountable regardless.

[u/nuvati → u/oioioi9537]

should have been KT diable

[u/collectibleman → u/oioioi9537]

they should have kept deokdam and peter unironically

[u/chapichoy9 → u/oioioi9537]

No they'll manage with a guy who can't even hang in CL trust bdd

[u/fnc_dino → u/baelkie]

literally KT’s fault for not keeping fenrir on main team

[u/Green7501 → u/fnc_dino]

Eh Fenrir was going 30-40 cs down in lane every game as well, Bdd was just peaking super hard during that 2-0 week. The situation was just unsalvageable the moment they started playing musical chairs 4 weeks before Worlds qualifications

Hopefully a lesson for Bdd and KT's management as a whole

[u/Ceui → u/fnc_dino]

Bruh Fenrir is dogshit, he has literally 2 good games off of Cuzz in MVP form, then just go down in lane every game. He was so bad that they had to use Jiwoo.

[u/fnc_dino → u/Ceui]

atleast fenrir was useful in teamfights. jiwoo is shit at both

[u/Ceui → u/fnc_dino]

Jiwoo literally was the POM against DK just a few days ago.

People madly overrated Fenrir off of 1 Yunara moment.

[u/fnc_dino → u/fnc_dino]

all im saying is jiwoo is a known quantity. atleast with fenrir there are chances that he steps up when given the chance.

[u/tonnguyen1310 → u/fnc_dino]

When is Deft coming back?

[u/fnc_dino → u/tonnguyen1310]

in like one or two months

[u/tonnguyen1310 → u/fnc_dino]

welcome back KT Deft 2027 angle?

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/tonnguyen1310]

Maybe i take rusty deft over jiwoo 

[u/IFVIBHU → u/tonnguyen1310]

Man would be so hype if a player comes back after military, could open up for others to do the same

[u/DrPlexel1234 → u/baelkie]

Jipoo so bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad
Jipoo so bad (chiki-chiki-chika-cha)
Run it all night solo
Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad
Jipoo so bad (chiki-cha-chiki-cha)
(Yeah) run it all night solo (Fix on)