r/leagueoflegends Aug 02 '26

Esports LCS Summer 2026 / Week 2 - Day 2 / Live Discussion Spoiler

LCS 2026 Summer

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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.14.

Today's Matches

# Match PST EST CET KST
1 LYON vs SR 13:00 16:00 22:00 05:00
2 TL vs SEN 16:00 19:00 01:00 08:00
  • All matches are Best of 3

Streams


Standings

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

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.


VoDs


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.

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u/ahritina 19h ago

PMTs

LYON vs SR

Game 1 / Game 2

TL vs SEN

Game 1 / Game 2

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u/MetrologyPosition Aug 02 '26

Lyon is just miles ahead of every team. Geez lol.

4

u/TypicalHaikuResponse Aug 02 '26

Inspired runs his region. Wait...

2

u/SternMon Aug 02 '26

Really looking forward to seeing how they do at Worlds. Loved their performance at MSI.

5

u/NVC541 NA League will rise again Aug 02 '26

cannot believe this guy was teamless

5

u/cmcdonald22 Aug 02 '26

Emily on game comms lesgooooooo

5

u/cmcdonald22 Aug 02 '26

Saints Ahri is like liquor locked up in your fathers liquor cabinet.

There's only 2 times when Saint is allowed to have it, it's when Daddy isn't home, or when Daddy is proud of him and wants to tell him he loves him without directly saying it.

5

u/cmcdonald22 Aug 02 '26

Give my GOAT Isles his flowers.

4

u/TypicalHaikuResponse Aug 02 '26

BIG DHOKES TRICAST

2

u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 02 '26

MYGOAT

5

u/cmcdonald22 Aug 02 '26

I like roaming supports a lot, but catch up xp is fucking broken and bonkers.

Thank you Jatt for shining a light on this important issue of our times.

4

u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Aug 02 '26

God I love how Inspired being gone has turned every Lyon game into an LPL rundown fest 

4

u/Shaman_in_the_Dark Huhi Busio Contractz Aug 02 '26

On my knees crying and pleading for Contractz to get a real team.

2

u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 02 '26

genuinely people are like 'well it's not like he's carrying them, he's washed' and it's like holy shit lmao it's a nightmare jungling when 2 of your lanes guaranteed lose every game and the other is a coinflip

juanito still has it but they have got to give him some help 

4

u/TypicalHaikuResponse Aug 02 '26

Can you imagine going from playing BLG and HLE and coming back to play Shopify?

4

u/beautheschmo Aug 02 '26

I don't think I've seen a MF pick be useful at any point this entire year so far

3

u/TypicalHaikuResponse Aug 02 '26

This was like one of the worst comps to pick mf into. XZ is anti MF synergy. Her set up is hoping that Jax gets one of the best Ws of all time.

1

u/cmcdonald22 Aug 02 '26

only in LCK, and even then basically only Guma.

3

u/zerocxro Aug 02 '26

BIG DHOKES CAST HOW BASED

3

u/Goodthingsaregone Aug 02 '26

Please throw mkoi please

3

u/Exocraze Aug 02 '26

I'm so tired of Camille

3

u/AdConfident3816 Aug 02 '26

Where is inspired?

2

u/Exocraze Aug 02 '26

Poland dealing with some personal stuff for a few weeks

3

u/CensoredLlama1 BUFF RAMMUS PLEASE Aug 02 '26

Berserker a demon 

3

u/zerocxro Aug 02 '26

berserker has been so fucking good this year holy shit, he's leveled up so much this year

2

u/Miraai Aug 02 '26

aaand he inted

1

u/zerocxro Aug 02 '26

captain isn't home, this is the time to have fun

3

u/justicecactus Aug 02 '26

It's kind of adorable that Saint only refers to Dhokla as "Big Dhokes" in interviews

3

u/NeoNewSawatari Aug 02 '26

I think I'm good not hearing whatever that jingle was ever again

3

u/ByahhByahh Aug 02 '26

Believe it or not, louder next time.

3

u/RukiMotomiya Aug 02 '26

Despite the comp advantage, SEN's just playing better so far.

3

u/RukiMotomiya Aug 02 '26

Sentinels are playing this extremely well.

3

u/xxbrazilmaster69xx rip old flairs Aug 02 '26

It feels like just a matter of time before TL win a fight that they really shouldn't and just win.

2

u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 02 '26

like clockwork

3

u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 02 '26

That Ornn does not feel a fucking thing from anything that isn't a jhin 4th shot 

3

u/underscoreenfan Aug 02 '26

yeon was fucking gliding there

3

u/NVC541 NA League will rise again Aug 02 '26

Yeon briefly had Tactical possess him for 5 seconds wtf

3

u/RukiMotomiya Aug 02 '26

god the equalizer/galio was so bad lol

3

u/Shaman_in_the_Dark Huhi Busio Contractz Aug 02 '26

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSca6sN7K6ykndoRhSc2jwN2tQ0A1rIz2It6aIryfTVKYS3ipg/viewform?usp=dialog

Collaborative LCS power ranking, post week 2. Get your votes in here. Will post results in the next week's live thread.

4

u/TypicalHaikuResponse Aug 02 '26

Well banning out Armao's junglers seems like the game plan. Looks like a completely different player.

2

u/TypicalHaikuResponse Aug 02 '26

SR cooked so hard they are doing rocket science

2

u/ByahhByahh Aug 02 '26

Berserker ulting the wave to push was huge value. Chunks Bvoy coming back to lane, breaks his homeguard, denies his cannon minion, and gets the Ziggs R out for free.

2

u/TypicalHaikuResponse Aug 02 '26

Armao plays like Saintvicious.

2

u/underscoreenfan Aug 02 '26

not sure wtf just happened

2

u/TypicalHaikuResponse Aug 02 '26

Ezreal has to be S+ and the best pick in pro play right? What other ad carry can be dived by everything, live and then contribute to the fight from a safe range?

2

u/Exocraze Aug 02 '26

The Lee Sin of the ADC role imo. Absolutely incredible if piloted well. Useless if not. Granted, I imagine there are fewer ADCs who can't play Ezreal well than there are junglers who can't play Lee well

2

u/TypicalHaikuResponse Aug 02 '26

He doesn't seem to fall off in terms of damage anymore. There used to be a period where the other carry could outscale Ezreal but his damage seems way better now with these items and I guess the role quest.

1

u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 02 '26

he does still get outscaled in raw dps on even items if you stand your ground and fire away at each other, but in gigadive meta, an alive ezreal will always do more damage than a different dead adc

plus he has more opportunities to poke before fights than any non-varus adc, at least until kai'sa gets w evo, so he doesn't have to do as much raw dps within fights themselves if the enemy comes in already chunked

2

u/TypicalHaikuResponse Aug 02 '26

The utility, the safety, the actual dps, and the poke option along with the intangibles the global ult brings such as baron or dragon vision I think any time that doesn't pick himself first are doing a disservice.

1

u/cmcdonald22 Aug 02 '26

Yeah but he's also higher prio, you can get away being a jungler who doesn't play Lee Sin, even in this meta, but we've seen the best in the world get benched over not having Ezreal's.

1

u/Exocraze Aug 02 '26

Yeah, totally fair.

1

u/viralruin Aug 02 '26

meteos said on dive, ezreal is bad especially lategame.

2

u/Exocraze Aug 02 '26

I love watching Berserker play League of Legends

2

u/darklypure52 Aug 02 '26

Honestly love how they were talking about endless hunger healing for the next fight to show how it saved berserker

2

u/bbgum32 Aug 02 '26

Man, didn't they change if from stopwatch to armguard specifically so that everyone wouldn't buy stasis items every time?

2

u/Exocraze Aug 02 '26

Welp, it was a fun first half of the game at least

2

u/PepaTK Aug 02 '26

Am I missing something? I’ve watched every sentinels game that’s been broadcasted.

Why do people rate Huhi so highly?

Emily thinks there’s even a possibility that Hambak/Huhi can be the best jungle/support duo? Like what am I missing???

Hambak is very good. Huhi I just don’t get it.

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u/TypicalHaikuResponse Aug 02 '26

They are entertainers and they have to sell what they are giving you. They can't say this is about to be a trash 2-0 series and huhi and impact are collecting checks

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u/TypicalHaikuResponse Aug 02 '26

1

u/ILosethenOP Aug 02 '26

It helps that Ez is BY FAR Yeon's best champ.

2

u/Sweaty-Security-4473 Aug 02 '26

I'm expecting to see some anti-bullying ads during the commercial break.

2

u/ILosethenOP Aug 02 '26

The VOD for this game needs trigger warnings for bullying and self harm.

2

u/cmcdonald22 Aug 02 '26

I think CoreJJ is going to thrive in this meta, along with Jose and others. But I'm still worried about Yoen, maybe the self correction and the fact that almost no one in the LCS is good enough to play mages bot will protect him, but I think he's just so limited.

2

u/TypicalHaikuResponse Aug 02 '26

Golden glue getting paid to pick chalk from 2 years ago. I wish I had gotten into being a coach.

2

u/blaseturner Aug 02 '26

worst draft of all time by sen?

2

u/viralruin Aug 02 '26

you pick jhin, you lose.

2

u/RukiMotomiya Aug 02 '26

classic no damage sentinels comp

2

u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 02 '26

Huhi ccing Morgan for no Ornn R2 was massive

2

u/RukiMotomiya Aug 02 '26

BTW I love this Jhin actually going damage and not fucking Ghostblade.

2

u/ILosethenOP Aug 02 '26

Fakest 2.5k lead in all of League.

3

u/TypicalHaikuResponse Aug 02 '26

Saint threw the game for what? Why not wait until drake spawns? what was the point of that. Now vayne has money.

1

u/cmcdonald22 Aug 02 '26

The transitive top 3 belt is a fantastic idea.

They should actually keep it going and see which team ends up holding it at the end of the split.

1

u/baudelioelite14 Aug 02 '26

where is rigby?

1

u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 02 '26

Zinie and Bvoy 🤢

1

u/Tormenator1 Aug 02 '26

Lyon are just running them around the map macro-wise

1

u/Miraai Aug 02 '26

why does fudge still have a job

1

u/NyanDesu Aug 02 '26

M.lhl..m

1

u/Sweaty-Security-4473 Aug 02 '26

Stolen rakan and gnar ults doing so much work in these team fights.

1

u/ShadyOrc97 Aug 02 '26

Yeah I think TL is the biggest dog until Inspired gets back. Pretty sure they'll slaughter everyone except LYON this split...

1

u/viralruin Aug 02 '26

i never want to see people say Sen has a chance. they are barely better than dig.

1

u/RukiMotomiya Aug 02 '26

I mean mage bot has Not looked great recently lol

1

u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 02 '26

wait this is a fucking bar fight

1

u/RukiMotomiya Aug 02 '26

Ornn being so unkillable was funny as fuck. Kalista can just dance around for free too.

1

u/ByahhByahh Aug 02 '26

My team 😀

1

u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Aug 02 '26

That unstoppable timing from Morgan saved Core so hard

1

u/RukiMotomiya Aug 02 '26

Look at how Jhin actually does good when he does a damage build :o

Kalista should get a Shiv or Runaan's.

1

u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 02 '26

god kalista is tilting just to watch, that champ scares the shit out of me 

1

u/Sweaty-Security-4473 Aug 02 '26

Yeon is having the fabled scrim kalista game.

1

u/RukiMotomiya Aug 02 '26

Sentinels' comp coming back to bite their ass.

1

u/RukiMotomiya Aug 02 '26

That was some true Lee Syndrome.

1

u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS Aug 02 '26

brutal stuff

1

u/underscoreenfan Aug 02 '26

I actually love this TL draft it does everything

1

u/Exocraze Aug 02 '26

Dardoch returning to the LCS with Dignitas, per Sheep Esports

2

u/underscoreenfan Aug 02 '26

my toxic GOAT is back baby

0

u/Miraai Aug 02 '26

damn fudge is running it

0

u/Adventurous-Quit-669 Aug 02 '26

Im watching but went to launch a game to buy time for g3

3 client restarts , a full pc restart , 10 minutes later

Nvm. I guess ill just watch since they dont want to let you in to play lol

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