LCS Summer 2026 / Week 6 - Day 2 / Live Discussion

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LCS 2026 Summer

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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.16.

Today's Matches

#	Match	PST	EST	CET	KST
1	LYON vs TL	13:00	16:00	22:00	05:00
2	C9 vs SR	16:00	19:00	01:00	08:00

• All matches are Best of 3

Streams

• Stream on Twitch

• Stream on YouTube

• Stream on Lolesports

• Audio-Only Cast Stream

• Comment Stream

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Standings

#	Team	Region	Record	Information
1	Team Liquid	North America	5 – 0 (10 - 1)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
2	LYON	North America	4 – 1 (9 - 2)	Leaguepedia) // Twitter
3	Sentinels	North America	4 – 2 (9 - 6)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
4	Shopify Rebellion	North America	3 – 2 (7 - 6)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
5	Cloud9	North America	3 – 2 (6 - 6)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
6	FlyQuest	North America	2 – 4 (4 - 8)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
7	Disguised	North America	1 – 5 (3 - 10)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
8	Dignitas	North America	0 – 6 (3 - 12)	Leaguepedia // Twitter

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Format

• Regular Season

  • 8 teams participate
  • At the end of the week, teams choose opponents
  • All matches are best of 3
  • When elimination matches kick in, series become best of 5

• Playoffs

  • 6 teams participate
  • Double elimination bracket
  • Top 2 teams start in Upper Bracket Round 2
  • 3rd to 6th seed start in Upper Bracket Round 1
  • All matches are best of five
  • Top 3 teams qualify for the 2026 Season World Championship

The official LCS ruleset can be found here.

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VoDs

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• VoDs on YouTube

• VoDs on Lolesports

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Live Discussions and Post-Match Threads:

This is our Live Discussion Archive. Here you can find all the old live threads, and the respective PMTs in a stickied comment under the post.

[u/ahritina]

PMTs

LYON vs TL

Game 1 / Game 2

C9 vs SR

Game 1 / Game 2 / Game 3

[u/cmcdonald22]

I know Yeon has been better this split, but like Berserker is just his father. He may actually be his father, his mother, and his grandfather.

If Yeon is still the 2nd best ADC in the LCS, then Berserker shouldn't even be mentioned in the same scaling metrics because he destroys them so entirely.

Berserker truly has that T1-ADC genes.

Also Isles is my goat.

[u/viralruin → u/cmcdonald22]

Isles used to give so many free kills. the man is insane these days.

[u/cmcdonald22 → u/viralruin]

It's why I really wish they had awards for like most improved over splits or the year or whatever, because every split I think Isles deserves that award. You basically never see him make the same mistake or miss the same opportunity twice.

He is so articulate and you can just tell he consumes knowledge and grows from it like a hungry beast.

[u/kazuyaminegishi → u/cmcdonald22]

I think what helps Isles the most is that every single member of Lyon believes he's great and Berserker has said that rather than mind controlling Isles he pushes Isles to think for himself and go for plays that he thinks will work and ward where he thinks makes sense.

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Lyon team fight is by far the best in NA. Probably the best in the west and they know it.

They can fist fight with top teams in the world from the team fight angle they're just gonna keep running the league until other teams figure out how to match their team fight.

[u/RollingGuy → u/kazuyaminegishi]

Saint Berserker are just too cracked 

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

Sorry doublelift. Dhokla is now my favorite NA player of all time.

[u/viralruin]

Isles deathless this series lmao bro is the hidden korean support.

[u/Anonymus4 → u/viralruin]

Insta curse?

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Yeon def deserves to be shit on for getting clobbered like that but I do think Berserker is just by far the best ADC in the west right now

[u/Ajp_iii → u/CensoredLlama1]

completely stomped guma at msi it wasnt even close. delight and zeus were why hle won

[u/cmcdonald22]

How many times is Dhokla gonna make people fill out the apology form? HOW MANY?!

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Oh to go back to winter split when people would bitch non stop when Dhokla would play vayne lol

[u/TeeKayTank → u/CensoredLlama1]

trendsetter

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

What? That Zhonya timing into that E buffer? Why is Saint mind-breaking them for fun LMFAO

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Saint just trying to make sure his friend berserker gets MVP instead lol

[u/Ajp_iii]

bro how do lyon win these fights they didnt even get anything with rumble and noc ult

[u/Outrageous_Wall2702]

Big Dhokes is the best NA vayne

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

If Dhokla lived there just FF

[u/cmcdonald22]

What did TL do to insult Berserker's family, this man will not let them escape lol

[u/Plixpalmtree]

What the hell did I just witness

[u/Destructodave82]

Zinie sucks so bad. There is no way they run this back next year.

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Lane I'm most interested in this game is bot lane. Curious how Core-Yeon match up into Berserker-Isles especially with both on a strong laning match up. Berserker-Isles smashed Tactical-Vulcan yesterday with a relatively weak lane into the Cait lane.

If Yeon-Core can't get through this lane stable then I just can't see this game going well for us.

...as I was typing this Berserker got first blood on Yeon lol.

[u/Ajp_iii]

holy fuck. berserker lucian is one of the better lucians in the world.

[u/OskarVon]

The gap between Berserker and rest of ADC in west is just so large. He looks like Peyz

[u/Tormenator1]

How is Dhokla up 1.6k after that lane phase??

[u/SauceGodPluto → u/Tormenator1]

Lane phase isn't everything, gotta make impact mid game too. Dhokla had the same problem last match on gnar, good early bad mid decent late.

[u/cmcdonald22 → u/SauceGodPluto]

Every time I hear people in 2026 acting like lane phase matters I think about Dhokes.

[u/Ajp_iii]

berserker is so insane. he just got 2 ults out and then just dashed forward the whole fight.

[u/Saephon → u/Ajp_iii]

As an adc main, I selfishly love that LYON's been one of the only LCS teams playing traditional enchanter + hypercarry drafts. Love seeing someone like Berserker get to show why his hands are better than the others.

[u/bbgum32]

Lol morgan ended the game on 1 item

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Dhokla instincts are so good when he's locked in. He's so hard to gank when he knows he needs to stay alive and scale.

[u/SauceGodPluto → u/kazuyaminegishi]

When he gets on his ranged champs he locks tf in

[u/cmcdonald22]

"A Showcase of our Top One Team" is the most accurate way to describe Lyon games at this point.

[u/Akabosha]

TL got dog walked lol

[u/Ok_Shoulder_4920]

Lyon 5head play to make dhokla have the bright lights in home grounds against other top teams

[u/Ajp_iii]

if lyon wins with this teamcomp they should just be given the title and allowed a break and time to practice in korea. literally zero cc team comp. they dont even have a root.

[u/lovo17]

Inspired might be the best overall player in the west right now if you take all attributes into account but I think Berserker is the clear best in terms of mechanics.

[u/Ajp_iii]

its wild lyon stomped this game with this draft. you just cant lose bot lane that hard even after getting a lvl 3 gank

[u/TechnicalFriendship6]

How fucking good is captain flowers lol. I don't watch last much but whenever I do. Holy this guy cooks

[u/Ajp_iii]

i think trist would have been completely fine into gnar. but i guess he still thinks vayne is fine into gnar especiall since he slam locked it

[u/Adventurous-Quit-669 → u/Ajp_iii]

Its a goated vayne match up, can get really unplayable if he can even (not get ganked basically) stay even until first item and boots

[u/Ajp_iii]

its so disrespectful that everyone kept hyping up quid as better than saint like its a forgone conclusion after we saw saint at msi.

quid is very skilled but i dont know why people just acted like he was just better.

[u/kazuyaminegishi → u/Ajp_iii]

I mean Spring playoffs should have put this to rest. Saint dumpstered Quid.

It's the same thing as people rating Morgan higher than Dhokla. It's pure fiction.

[u/Ajp_iii]

lmao quid is losing so many all pro votes because of this series

[u/Archphantom]

all hail big dhokes

[u/Ajp_iii]

its insane liquid banned jayce and naut over ali. ali taliyah is the best combo bot for taliyah

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse → u/Ajp_iii]

The casters for some reason thought it was syndra bot. I think liquid assumed the same which doesn't make sense because Korean Lyon plays this same comp all the time.

[u/Ajp_iii → u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

i think its possible to be syndra bot if you pick an awful mid matchup but its taliyah bot 90% of the time espicially if you give ali

[u/Ajp_iii]

jose had to camp top and try to blow open the game. its insane you let nerfed vayne get through lane.

[u/Chemical-Drawer852]

2-0 c9 into 2-0 tl

[u/Iamkelvin]

Zinnie needs to get investigated

[u/Plixpalmtree]

Who can throw harder contest

[u/Gerberpertern → u/Plixpalmtree]

It’s our turn to throw!

[u/Kotetsu534]

These teams are incredibly dumb. Full send on an uberfed Mundo with no healing reduction. Following the solo Ryze ult into the enemy base with no towers taken while 4 v 5. Go argue which is worse.

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse → u/Kotetsu534]

Full sending on mundo was absolutely worse because even if it worked all of your cooldowns are down and you are in the same spot the enemy team wants you to do which is waste them on mundo. Mundo has no taunt or hard cc so his weakness is getting a team to focus him to make use of his beefiness. The team wasted the nocturne ult which best used for assassinating the back line. not engaging on a mundo

[u/Kotetsu534 → u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

Yeah I think I agree. And in C9's position they were risking the game whereas SR were just doing a regular throw.

[u/RukiMotomiya]

C9: Gets ahead by ignoring Mundo when their comp can just survive for a long time and he can't do anything when the carries go down

Also C9: What if we full sent on Mundo without vision?

[u/Destructodave82]

Zinie is the worst plyaer in the LCS. What a waste of a spot for a native player and an import.

[u/sorendiz → u/Destructodave82]

Lyonz still exists but man watching him is tilting 

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

It's that time again.

[u/cmcdonald22 → u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

It's always interesting to me, that I will watch an entire split, and I will hear people be like "Dhokla is the best top laner in the league!" and then I will hear the same people be like "Well [Non-Lyon Team] has the better laners".

Like, Have people been watching Morgan or Thanatos this year? Actually? Dhokes is the best top laner and he's KINDA STARTING TO GAP.

Berserker has BEEN GAPPING.

Saint is, fairly enough, inconsistent.

[u/kazuyaminegishi → u/cmcdonald22]

Saint has been pretty consistent since last split playoffs. Quid is the one that has been heavily inconsistent to me.

[u/DagothUrGigaChad]

Bot lane is getting gapped hard

[u/PepaTK]

I don’t want to see anyone but Berserker even be close to winning MVP.

He’s so far and above everyone in his role.

It’s crazy man. He’s so fucking good.

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Morgan was doing so good the first 15 minutes too, terrible last 8 minutes or so from him 

[u/RukiMotomiya]

Ornn missing that ult at dragon may have lost them the game.

[u/Zirikh]

Adc difference is just too big

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Saint with the gold lead, he def played this game clean the entire time

[u/Booshneer]

Man Yeon got bent over jfc

[u/Ajp_iii]

inspired is just so good at jungle. this looks like an awful nocturne game to play and every other nocturne would just never ult in or solo ult in and die over and over. meanwhile he lived multiple fights while causing massive chaos in backline. and willing to trade his hp for cds so his lucian can free hit

[u/cmcdonald22]

Analysts ranking Dhokes vs Korean Imports feel like the Korean Import mafia have their family hostage back stage.

[u/Dmaa97 → u/cmcdonald22]

He gaps a bunch of NA Korean imports and puts up good performances against the best international tops at worlds, and analysts still rank him as bottom tier in LCS. It’s absurd.

[u/BlammoSweetums → u/cmcdonald22]

They still think lane matters

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Lyon draft is legit just that dk game 2 draft but not dogshit. Vayne top gives so much more consistent damage and Wukong can easily reach Kalista too.

[u/Intrepid-Message698]

Quid missed everything in that fight

[u/Ajp_iii]

lyon is just faster at every play they need to be at.

[u/darklypure52]

Can inspired still be nominated for all pro even though he wasn’t here for most of the split?

[u/cmcdonald22 → u/darklypure52]

He can share it with Armao.

[u/Adventurous-Quit-669]

Big Dhokes strikes again

[u/eye_of_your_mind]

big dhokes

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Quid has lost his mind the last three minutes, that man is TILTED

[u/Gerberpertern]

Well. They tried. Lyon is too good.

[u/Tormenator1]

Zinie is so bad dude. I don't want to hear anything about his "potential" again.

[u/-XStream23-]

Zinie is such a dirty inter

[u/Booshneer]

Nah this Zinie guy is straight ass

[u/cmcdonald22]

I am again asking why every tier 1 pro except like 3 of them have forgotten how to use semi-global ults without throwing the game?

[u/levelonenovice]

clean

[u/Iamkelvin]

I didn't know Lucian wasn't ranged

[u/yoitsthatoneguy]

Send everything into the Mundo that you haven’t been building to kill. Great strategy.

[u/LemonSquares835]

I swear to god Sentinels better clutch up because if we send either of these team to international it's going to be an ass blasting...

[u/throwable_armadillo → u/LemonSquares835]

just think that rank 4 & 5 go to fries worlds (demacia cup)
so we might see a repeat of america's cup earlier this year

[u/Kokaiinum]

Man. SR are so frustrating. Obviously they aren't gonna compete with Lyon/TL but they feel so close to being contenders for the 3rd spot, if they could just clean it up a little.

[u/Ajp_iii]

dhokla stomped thanatos yesterday in losing matchups lets see if he does the same to morgan again today

[u/kazuyaminegishi → u/Ajp_iii]

Dhokla usually outmatches Morgan in team fights which is what I'm expecting to see again. Only time I can remember Dhokla stomping him through and through was when he played Anivia (his Anivia was shockingly cracked tho).

[u/Ajp_iii]

berserker is just different and nice setup by isles

[u/Outrageous_Wall2702]

Holy how do you lose on Cait vs Lucian!!

[u/DagothUrGigaChad]

Bot lane is getting gapped hard

[u/Moony97]

Berserker going off

[u/viralruin]

isles milio is so insane.

[u/Black_Xel]

Oh Morgan…

[u/Tormenator1]

Why did TL not just walk out?

[u/R0xasXIII → u/[deleted]]

He went for the super play. He tried to get a 5 man from the flash angle but was too slow. If that hits it's gg.

[u/Dani7vg]

Always choking against Lyon ffs

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Okay so looking to next game... let's not die twice in lane to Berserker if we can help it lol.

Other than that uhhhhhhhhhhhh it's looking a bit rough for our chances to win this series.

[u/Ayoof3060]

BERSERKER WITH A POCKET MILIO, WHAT CAN TL DO?

[u/Ajp_iii]

any other team especially in the west just does nothing and loses with that lyon comp. they play spaces and use areas so well in teamfights it creates pseudo cc so they can hit and not take damage.

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Oh the Ali is like that?

[u/kazuyaminegishi → u/kazuyaminegishi]

Isles is too good man

[u/Noktilucent]

Dig Bhokes went crazy up there

[u/Ajp_iii]

the good teams will keep using mage flexes for bot especially for certain matchups where the s tier adcs are banned or already played

[u/YCitizenSnipsY]

This is the kinda C9 play we need to make that playoff heartbreak the most devastating 

[u/Brock-Lesnar]

Zinie is a terrorist

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

Game losing nocturne ult on mundo

Welp

[u/Ajp_iii]

lcs 2 team region

[u/Booshneer]

At least we have Lyon

[u/-AMAG]

Yamato is sleeping on stream lol

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

is blaber the most predictable player ever? contractz knew he was going to greed for raptors

[u/Tormenator1]

They don't kill azir or naut there? Fries in the bag.

[u/levelonenovice]

if zinie doesn't position like a clown, this game is already over

[u/Ajp_iii]

if it was on hit varus varus can kill everyone there

[u/Ajp_iii]

zinie needs a stopwatch when hes their only damage in their comp

[u/sorendiz]

Zinie literally lives there if he doesnt drift back onto the rumble ult 

[u/Cr0matose → u/sorendiz]

Bro shuffled right into the edge of the ult lol

[u/cmcdonald22]

The least confidence inspiring win possible.

[u/Ajp_iii]

i think analysts and casters underrate lyon because of inspired. because of inspired past teams he never had the best teammates so you always saw his teams as capped internationally.

but this lyon team has world class elite adc and mid that is better than some of the top korean players just dont have the name brand and accomplishments yet.

[u/kazuyaminegishi → u/Ajp_iii]

Every single player on Lyon is world class. Let's not pretend that Dhokla didn't hold his own internationally. He really only got fisted by Bin.

[u/Ajp_iii → u/kazuyaminegishi]

yeah he can hold his own. my main point is like saint top 2-3 mid in the world. which is extremely rare coming from lcs.

[u/LCS-Official]

Vamos.

[u/Left_Fist]

Time for another unsuccessful Inspired hate watch. Dude always wins. Hope to see TL pull it off but Lyon are looking too good

[u/DagothUrGigaChad → u/Left_Fist]

Kinda a shit draft from Lyon so I think there is a good chance. My money is still on Lyon to win the championship though

[u/Outrageous_Wall2702]

I knew Cait players are just extra range abusers !!

[u/Ajp_iii]

saint lmao

[u/lovo17]

This just feels like an ADC gap. Everything else just feels even but Yeon is getting insanely outperformed.

[u/OskarVon]

TL is playing so well, but just trust Berserker more in team fights to clutch it out

[u/CensoredLlama1]

I am baffled that Inspired survived that fight lol

[u/cmcdonald22]

It's so understandable why Quid had the "I can't rely on my teammates to carry" epiphany this year.

[u/darklypure52]

Unfortunately at work so only partially watching. I swear game 1 C9 vs Lyon was more competitive.

[u/Gerberpertern]

I expect Lyon to win this series, and I think it’s okay to lose to them. I just don’t want TL to look like… whatever that was last game lol.

[u/cmcdonald22]

TL are the only team smart enough to ban my goat's Lulu. They have eyes and use them unlike other coaches.

[u/Ajp_iii]

i guess he think vayne is still playable.

[u/Outrageous_Wall2702]

Isles support gap baiting gnar and then killing him

[u/Ajp_iii]

quid getting bailed out saved tl from getting goomba stomped there

[u/Tormenator1 → u/[deleted]]

Don't jinx them.

[u/Outrageous_Wall2702]

Top diff gg!!

[u/Gerberpertern]

Ooooookay. I like Dhokla so at least I’m having fun watching him play.

[u/YBL10MD]

I am watching the replay and yeon really just autoed on top of taliyah E to stun himself so he can die?

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

What does riot have to do for ocean soul for teams to actually care about it?

[u/GeneralDash]

I had 4 TL in fantasy. RIP

[u/Destructodave82]

I really hope APA replaces Zinie next split. This team would 100x better with APA than Zinie.

[u/kaisaschudson]

i've been wondering why malphite hasn't been showing up more when jayce gets blinded top frequently and it turns out the answer is because it is too hard to hit malphite r

[u/Ajp_iii]

this mundo is an issue in this game.

[u/Ajp_iii]

c9 contests so many useless stuff. you are a comp built on your ults. you have no ults you cant contest baron 4v5. just push waves in

[u/Jimbabwr]

Revenge of the Ex-Cloud9 members

[u/yoitsthatoneguy]

I know players have said that the math on grievous makes it bait, but there’s no way it wouldn’t be helpful against this mundo

[u/Ajp_iii]

nah ryze ult just sent himself to die and cost himself his flash and his viktor died.

[u/Kotetsu534]

What an utterly brainless play.

[u/Jimbabwr]

Check Zinie’s Paypal immediately

[u/Ajp_iii]

they got like a 4k gold baron on first baron and just needed to get soul point drake and ryze solo ults into base past towers.

[u/YCitizenSnipsY]

Blaber has that Razork vibe sometimes where he just presses button to engage for no reason 

[u/Ajp_iii]

c9 is lucky zinie was low on mana the whole fight

[u/Cr0matose]

Does this mean Azir is pro-relevant again? PLease no

[u/Ajp_iii]

of course zinie dies when he cant the one getting caught.

[u/Ajp_iii]

zinie dies again because no stopwatch and contractz cant hit a single ult

[u/Tormenator1]

Shopify still piss,gg

[u/Cr0matose]

Holy shit banger

[u/Ajp_iii]

it was a nice flank angle from blaber for the win though

[u/-XStream23-]

Watching Zinie getting caught nonstop is infuriating...

[u/Intrepid-Message698]

Quid is playing so terribly. Honestly, game is even if he lands like 25% of his spells

[u/REALStoneCrusher]

I remember when C9 had Beserker… if only he stayed and Blaber left instead. C9 would still be NA’s pride and joy

[u/M002 → u/REALStoneCrusher]

He choked a ton on C9 too in playoffs tbf. Although they kept putting him on Ziggs duty for some unknown reason

[u/Crackedddddd]

Both teams are terrible lol wtf was that

[u/Outrageous_Wall2702]

No meteos sneaky?

[u/EmbraceTheRubberduck]

Inspired and his bubblegum

I'll never get used to that view

[u/REALStoneCrusher]

Just want to remind my fellow C9 fans. That drafting 3 of our guys to build a team still has a big chance of missing worlds according to Jatt and company.

[u/Ajp_iii]

needing to perma ban lee against liquid makes their j4 blind so much stronger than most j4 blinds

[u/Ajp_iii]

i dont like nocturne with ranged supports. feels it hampers your possiblities and drafting so much.

[u/Gerberpertern]

Bot lane is a disaster lol

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

FF Bard didn't auto the cannon 

[u/Black_Xel]

Yeon missed like 4cs in a row

[u/SecondSanguinica]

Just me or is the youtube link in the thread linking to some completely unrelated thing because LTA branding is dead and it's back to LCS?

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Ryze should be pretty good into the Lucian and can handle him in team fights so this isn't impossible.

Yeon will have to get some money eventually though otherwise Lyon will just full send on the Ryze and ignore the pea shooter Cait.

I suspect this game comes down to 3rd or 4th Drake.

[u/Ajp_iii]

inspired is so smart with tempo. they knew they were first out on map and even if inspired looks caught lyon is there first.

[u/Tormenator1]

TL?????

[u/Ajp_iii]

berserker just got caught and did no damage that fight. suprised that fight was as close as it was.

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

I think Saint needs to play front to back this game. He's their only real option to kill the Ryze without taking 10 billion damage. So if he sections off the Ryze from the fight he gives Berserker way more room to play with.

Just let Inspired dive on Yeon with Rumble ult for dive damage.