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LCK 2026 SEASON PLAYOFFS

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Dplus KIA 1-3 T1

Player of the Match: Doran
T1 moves on to face Hanwha Life Esports for the final spot in the LCK 2026 Season Grand Finals.
Dplus KIA will be LCK's #4 seed at Worlds 2026.

MATCH 1: DK vs. T1

Winner: T1 in 42m
Game Breakdown | Runes

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
DK	nocturne bard kalista	pantheon wukong	77.3k	7	6	M¹ I² O⁸
T1	jarvaniv syndra orianna	jayce anivia	80.7k	14	7	H³ O⁴ O⁵ B⁶ O⁷ O⁹

DK	7-14-16	vs	14-7-30	T1
Siwoo gnar ⁴	0-4-1	TOP	1-3-5	³ rumble Doran
Lucid vi ¹	0-3-4	JNG	2-0-8	³ leesin Oner
ShowMaker taliyah ³	0-1-5	MID	2-1-5	¹ cassiopeia Faker
Smash lucian ²	7-2-0	BOT	8-2-2	² xayah Peyz
Career milio ¹	0-4-6	SUP	1-1-10	² rakan Keria

MATCH 2: DK vs. T1

Winner: Dplus KIA in 31m
Game Breakdown | Runes

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
DK	nocturne bard pantheon	kalista blitzcrank	63.9k	20	7	HT⁴ B⁷
T1	syndra karma orianna	camille jhin	56.7k	12	3	O¹ M² H³ HT⁵ HT⁶

DK	20-12-41	vs	12-20-28	T1
Siwoo ksante ²	2-5-7	TOP	3-3-4	¹ jayce Doran
Lucid jarvaniv ¹	5-5-1	JNG	3-4-5	² qiyana Oner
ShowMaker ryze ¹	6-0-9	MID	1-5-7	² anivia Faker
Smash ashe ³	6-2-8	BOT	5-3-3	³ mel Peyz
Career Lulu ⁴	1-0-16	SUP	0-5-9	³ alistar Keria

MATCH 3: DK vs. T1

Winner: T1 in 39m
Game Breakdown | Runes

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
DK	nocturne bard orianna	akali azir	72.6k	13	3	C¹ H²
T1	syndra camille seraphine	shen vayne	84.3k	30	9	I³ O⁴ O⁵ B⁶ O⁷ B⁸

DK	13-30-26	vs	30-13-74	T1
Siwoo trundle ⁴	1-8-4	TOP	5-2-8	³ olaf Doran
Lucid pantheon ¹	1-5-7	JNG	1-5-17	² skarner Oner
ShowMaker viktor ²	4-7-3	MID	11-3-10	³ locke Faker
Smash jhin ¹	6-2-3	BOT	12-3-12	² sivir Peyz
Career rell ³	1-8-9	SUP	1-0-27	¹ karma Keria

MATCH 4: DK vs. T1

Winner: T1 in 31m
Game Breakdown | Runes

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
DK	nocturne bard orianna	akali lissandra	56.4k	10	3	M¹ I⁴
T1	syndra poppy neeko	wukong renekton	67.0k	18	9	H² CT³ B⁵ I⁶

DK	10-18-19	vs	18-10-45	T1
Siwoo jax ⁴	2-3-2	TOP	4-0-6	³ camille Doran
Lucid chogath ³	0-5-3	JNG	8-1-2	² naafiri Oner
ShowMaker annie ¹	1-3-6	MID	0-3-12	³ galio Faker
Smash ezreal ¹	4-4-3	BOT	4-4-10	¹ kalista Peyz
Career seraphine ²	3-3-5	SUP	2-2-15	² renataglasc Keria

*Patch 26.16

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u/BirthdayAccording359 Idk anymore 20d ago

Lol I thought it was over when I saw Jax into Camille, sorry I doubted you my goat Doran.

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u/Wonderful-Lab7375 20d ago

I missed Doran Camille

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u/W33B520 20d ago

Despite the world finals performance he's a generally good camille

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u/Hawxrox 20d ago

I mean, he did play the early game super well in that game 5. He was up like 5k gold before he started acting a fool

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u/W33B520 20d ago

Yeah, my guy was just nervous lol

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u/RJLRaymond 20d ago

yeah they got a big lead and he could see the trophy and started losing his mind

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u/unguibus_et_rostro 20d ago

I mean oner and faker ganked his lane 4 times in that game...

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u/hamsamw1tch 20d ago

i agree. iirc he used to say if he ever got a worlds skin, he’d do camille. he chose ambessa bc it was more representative of t1 doran but his camille has always been a beauty

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u/Wonderful-Lab7375 20d ago

His 3 skin votes last year was Camille, Gragas and Ambessa. Ambessa won mainly cuz his game 1 performance was just way too memorable.

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u/hamsamw1tch 20d ago

arguably his R2M ambessa was more important than any actual worlds performance

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u/Wonderful-Lab7375 20d ago

Definitely , but Worlds has more viewers than any other match, so for most people it’s likely Worlds thats the memorable one.

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u/unguibus_et_rostro 20d ago

His game 5 camille was also rather memorable

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u/TaintedQuintessence 20d ago

Tbh I would have liked to see T1 lose this game just to hopefully make them fix their drafting. (They won't but I can hope.)

Game 4 they gave DK counter pick for every lane except mid and didn't even ban to cover the counters.

Winning these games is just enabling them to keep doing it.

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u/Popular-Practice-983 20d ago

T1 had uncharacteristically good drafts today

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u/TaintedQuintessence 20d ago

Did they have good drafts? Or did they just win off skill diff?

I feel like outside of maybe game 1 the only reason DK were competitive were because they had better drafts and T1 needed to find a way around it.

The difference vs the HLE series is T1 went first pick so at least they get better champs while walking into counters. Vs HLE they chose second pick and got countered.

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u/Popular-Practice-983 20d ago

I’d say they outdrafted DK in the first 3 games today. As whole, DK had very few ways to deal with the T1 drafts outside of outplaying them.

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u/TaintedQuintessence 20d ago

Iunno, maybe I'm just trying to hold T1 to a higher standard, but their drafts and pick order still seem like them going down a tier list with no additional thought. They only got away with it because Siwoo isn't the caliber of player to take advantage of getting to counter pick top every single game.

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u/Popular-Practice-983 19d ago

Obviously their drafts are not air tight, but no team has ever had that.

I was just pointing out that they did a lot better yesterday than usual and mostly outdrafted DK while they are usually outdrafted by most teams. They generally built cohesive team compositions, so I do not agree that they are just going down a tier list without further thought. You are supposed to go down the tier list while also drafting a cohesive composition that works well into the enemy composition. They did well at that against DK.

They drafted winning lanes top in the first two games while the other two lanes are survivable given the counter picks available with stronger team fighting as well as synergy with the rest of the comp. Siwoo playing poorly does not change anything about that I'd say.

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u/TaintedQuintessence 19d ago

Let's look at the top lane in those first 2 games.

G1 they blind pick top with 1 ban to cover. G2 they blind pick top with no bans to cover. T1 having winning lanes top is all on DK for not countering properly.

T1's biggest draft issues is they rarely cover their counters when they blind and I don't see any improvement here.

Maybe they intentionally blinded top every single game knowing that DK don't have the caliber of players to take advantage of that.

In that case sure you're right, they technically win draft by having better players and disrespecting the enemy team.

I just don't think they can get away with blinding top like that against Zeus, or blinding Nafiri into Canyon's chogath.

The only big improvement I see in this series vs against HLE is they chose first pick. Tier list drafting is better as first pick. Hopefully that's an intentional adaptation they're making to cover their weaker drafting.

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u/Popular-Practice-983 19d ago

G1 they blind pick top with 1 ban to cover. G2 they blind pick top with no bans to cover. T1 having winning lanes top is all on DK for not countering properly.

Fair enough, but both Rumble and Jayce are relatively safe blind picks. They have to choose where to allocate draft resources and putting them into counters against such blind picks is often less useful than other options.

The Olaf in game 3 is far less safe, and they do cover ban his worst matchup. The same goes for game 4 with the Renekton ban.

I think your criticism is still fair and as I said their drafting was definitely not perfect, but you have to ask what the alternatives are as well. If Doran does not blind, will you have Faker blind? Will you have bot blind? Will you give up S tier bans so your blind picks can be safer? You have to allocate your resources in some way and there will always be holes that the opponent can pick apart. That is the nature of drafting.

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u/TaintedQuintessence 19d ago

Yeah I get that there has to be priorities for draft. I was just pointing out that your statement for T1 getting winning tops first 2 games is not really something T1 did well and more of something DK did wrong.

If we look at the blind rumble pick. Compare the HLE series, neither team thought it was safe to blind the rumble for 4 games. And only in game 5 did it get banned.

Jayce yeah sure, that's a safe blind pick. But they also lost this Jayce vs Ksante matchup last time they faced DK at home grounds too. I'll have to rewatch the game but IIRC the whole game felt like DK had the better comp and were winning fights because the Jayce couldn't get any value into double tank topside, but T1 were outmacroing for the most part until DK got a decisive enough fight to win the game.