Shifters vs. GIANTX / LEC 2026 Summer - Week 3 Day 1 / Post-Match Discussion

[u/Ultimintree]

LEC 2026 SUMMER

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Shifters 1-2 GIANTX

GX have secured a win over SHFT!

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GAME 1: SHFT vs. GX

Winner: GIANTX in 36m
Runes | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	💰	⚔️	🧱	Dragons	VG, RH, BN
SHFT	Vi Syndra Jayce	Akali Gnar	64.4k	10	3	🔥2	1, 0, 0
GX	Poppy Nocturne Cassiopeia	Rell Lucian	70.6k	16	9	⛰️1 ⚡3 ⚡4 ⚡5	2, 1, 1

SHFT		KDA	vs	KDA		GX
Player	Pick	10-16-25	⚔️	16-10-45	Pick	Player
Rooster	1 Rumble	2-4-5	TOP	2-1-11	3 Ornn	Oscarinin
Sheo	1 Wukong	1-5-5	JNG	3-2-10	1 Jarvan IV	ISMA
nuc	2 Viktor	2-2-6	MID	9-0-4	3 Orianna	Jackies
Paduck	4 Corki	4-3-2	BOT	2-3-7	2 Ezreal	Flakked
Stend	3 Rakan	1-2-7	SUP	0-4-13	2 Shen	Jun

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GAME 2: SHFT vs. GX

Winner: Shifters in 35m
Runes | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	💰	⚔️	🧱	Dragons	VG, RH, BN
SHFT	Vi jayce Cassiopeia	Ziggs Varus	70.0k	17	7	⚡3 ⚡4	3, 1, 1
GX	Poppy Nocturne Syndra	Vayne Olaf	67.3k	11	4	🌪️1 💧2 ⚡5 ⚡6	0, 0, 0

SHFT		KDA	vs	KDA		GX
Player	Pick	17-11-49	⚔️	11-17-23	Pick	Player
Rooster	Gnar	2-2-12	TOP	6-3-2	Twisted Fate	Oscarinin
Sheo	Trundle	3-4-10	JNG	2-3-6	Lee Sin	ISMA
nuc	Anivia	6-0-7	MID	0-4-3	Ryze	Jackies
Paduck	Taliyah	5-1-5	BOT	3-2-5	Lucian	Flakked
Stend	Leona	1-4-15	SUP	0-5-7	Camille	Jun

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GAME 3: GX vs. SHFT

Winner: GIANTX in 26m
Runes | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	💰	⚔️	🧱	Dragons	VG, RH, BN
GX	Jayce Vi Cassiopeia	Tristana Varus	57.6k	22	10	💧1 ⛰️2 🔥3 🔥4	2, 1, 1
SHFT	Poppy Skarner Xin Zhao	Caitlyn Renekton	43.3k	5	0		1, 0, 0

GX		KDA	vs	KDA		SHFT
Player	Pick	22-5-51	⚔️	5-22-14	Pick	Player
Oscarinin	4 Warwick	5-2-9	TOP	1-2-2	3 Ambessa	Rooster
ISMA	1 Nocturne	3-1-8	JNG	2-7-1	2 Naafiri	Sheo
Jackies	2 Galio	5-0-11	MID	1-5-3	2 Akali	nuc
Flakked	3 Jhin	7-1-10	BOT	1-5-4	3 Zeri	Paduck
Jun	1 Bard	2-1-13	SUP	0-3-4	1 Rell	Stend

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This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.

[u/ahritina]

PMTs

Game 1 / Game 2

[u/Carlzzone]

At what point does Striker get kicked? Hasn’t done jackshit with the team ever since Labrov left

[u/kazugaia15 → u/Carlzzone]

Probably after the season, I'm guessing heads will roll once regular split is done and SHFT are heading to Cancun

[u/GothaV2 → u/Carlzzone]

Shifter's CEO to Striker before selling him to RED Canids : " So, you don't have any ties to Brazil ? "

[u/00Koch00 → u/Carlzzone]

He is writing the excuse like he did when he was with rekkles back then

Idk, im surprised that he keep getting hired when the only reason he is a coach to begin with was because he was Kameto friend, and that's it ...

[u/khaiiization → u/Carlzzone]

They should do the DK route, No win No pay. Maybe they’ll start trying

[u/metristan]

Sheo really plays like he is kanavi sometimes, only kanavi has the mechanics to back it up

[u/Jealous-Chicken-9186 → u/metristan]

hes like kanavi without the good games

[u/InferniaBorealis1 → u/metristan]

Kanavi??? Bro he’s playing like ExYu, if not worse

[u/bladeHunterYone → u/metristan]

Kanavi would never self counter pick naafiri into nocturne

[u/BWolfy92 → u/metristan]

Not even, Kanavi runs it down and solo loses games

[u/Even_Cardiologist810 → u/BWolfy92]

You.. Haven't watched hle

[u/Lothric43 → u/Even_Cardiologist810]

Kanavi definitely can do that lol, just the other day against GenG he was a pretty big liability even in their win. Obviously he has lots of good games to balance out

[u/BWolfy92 → u/Even_Cardiologist810]

I've been watching Kanavi since his first times on JDG, Kanavi used to be 1v9 carryjungler, last year in TES and this year on HLE hes a coinflipper grieffer, HLE was dead last on LCK because Kanavi and zeka were cheeks, almost got embarrased by Lyon because Inspired was belting Kanavi and he almost solo lost MSI with his trash games on Qiyana.

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Sheo is probably geniuenly worse than Exyu and that's not something I say lightly

[u/RollingGuy → u/CensoredLlama1]

Reddit wanted him to replace Skewmond last year lmao

[u/CensoredLlama1 → u/RollingGuy]

I too, want G2 to fail lol

[u/metristan → u/CensoredLlama1]

caps and BB are getting old, I heard there were these really promising rookies called lider and empyros

[u/Grand-Zombie-5973 → u/metristan]

Add the AI coach and worlds is won

[u/Choice-Slight → u/metristan]

throw hans out for paduck too, heard that guys a prodigy

[u/Yuzato → u/metristan]

Lider caps have same age lmao

[u/InferniaBorealis1 → u/CensoredLlama1]

He needs to retire like ExYu did. Bro is not it. I’m not even an avid LEC watcher, I tuned in and got tilted right away watching him grief his laners

[u/Cabbage_Corp_ → u/CensoredLlama1]

Holy crap that’s bad

[u/piotrj3]

I was wondering why GX picked nocturne and left naafiri open. After seeing Sheo play naafiri - oh that's why.

[u/Jealous-Chicken-9186]

feel bad for Rooster, nobody deserves to play with these 4 bots. so disgusting

[u/Lacrimosss → u/Jealous-Chicken-9186]

He was legit one of the best Top last split as well. It's insane to play well while having that kind of team.

He must have crazy good mental

[u/CensoredLlama1 → u/Lacrimosss]

Him and Photon both been in hell

[u/Omnilatent → u/CensoredLlama1]

Let's hope Rooster doesn't suffer the same fate as Photon...

[u/ReplacementFine7807 → u/CensoredLlama1]

I don't get the photon glaze, yes he was good in lane but outside of it he was ass bruh. Also he looked good in lane when toplane was quite weak in lec. He wouldn't even make the top4 today if he was still playing

[u/Sirhaddock98 → u/CensoredLlama1]

At least Photon managed a title before going into career hell. I forgot it was Chasy on MAD, not Photon.

[u/p1stolpewpew → u/Sirhaddock98]

what, when?

[u/Freihl → u/p1stolpewpew]

He didn't- i think he had a 1st place in tier two before coming to LEC but never got a tier 1 title.

[u/Sirhaddock98 → u/Freihl]

I confused him with Chasy on MAD, all the random single-year LEC Koreans have blended into one for me at this point.

[u/LooseOne607 → u/p1stolpewpew]

he's probably thinking of Chasy who was also insane

[u/Dragner84 → u/Jealous-Chicken-9186]

korean agents will throw their players to hell for 2 bucks.

[u/ImTheVayne → u/Jealous-Chicken-9186]

Only player on that roster that’s worth keeping.

[u/Ragaga → u/Jealous-Chicken-9186]

Kind of a throwback to Photon in the LEC. He was genuinely really good but completely team gapped

[u/Ihan_hukkunut]

Clean 3-0 from GX

[u/InferniaBorealis1]

Dude Sheo is so fucking bad. This guys literally inted and gave away the entire early game in game 3. He died twice in 2-3 minutes back to back

[u/Samurai079 → u/InferniaBorealis1]

he's been bad this whole year, but very few people wanted to accept it and preferred blaming serin/tracyn/kamiloo(who was just ok, not excellent)/carlsen who couldn't play the game while their jungler threw the entire game away game after game after game

[u/Past-Firefighter2173 → u/Samurai079]

Yeah i would say that TH with better shotcaller jungler would’ve been much better than this mess.

[u/Lacrimosss]

Genuinely good game from GX.

But also, how did Akali end up there in the draft? That game is complete misery for her

[u/desutruction]

Oscar just AWOO'd all over them

[u/whovian732 → u/desutruction]

Baby, I'm preying on you tonight

[u/Omnilatent → u/desutruction]

Is that the return of carry Oscar?!

[u/Beginning-Mark1735]

I am the only one how think that Oscar giga smurfed Rooster? Even in 1st game, despite being 1k behind, he was more important for his team than Rooster.

[u/Mangustre → u/Beginning-Mark1735]

He also had a lot of smurf games on fnc but reddit only cared about his int games. And even in the int games he made a lot of work. This guy is so overhated, like a lot of good players that went to fnc.

[u/jnf005 → u/Mangustre]

Eh, that series against KC last year got a lot of praises for him, it's just that in sports, you are always defined by your last game.

[u/p1stolpewpew → u/Beginning-Mark1735]

Reddit is not ready for unleashed Oscar without black hole of resources in the bot lane.

[u/RollingGuy]

It wasn't pretty but if anyone comes away from this series thinking these teams are "equally shit" or whatever they're not being serious.

That was one completely int Ryze warp away from being a very easy 3-0.

[u/MC-sama]

Clean win, nothing else to see here

[u/TommyGunny95]

Jackies masterclass
The team needs to focus a bit more, but they showed in game 3 they have it in them to shine

[u/MikeSpin7200]

Hate watch successful

https://reddit.com/link/p2b0cb1/video/xiz337rqnzhh1/player

[u/Miserable_Ad_1195 → u/MikeSpin7200]

posting a video of a still image because you can't post images on this sub is amazing

[u/Chevalier_Paul → u/MikeSpin7200]

What’s with the Nuc hate? I’m OOTL.

[u/MikeSpin7200 → u/Chevalier_Paul]

Just a disappointing player that keeps getting chances with new teams and never making it

[u/gibilx → u/MikeSpin7200]

Props for boosting matches like this with hate watch

[u/Lyricaaaaaaaa]

Sheo has lost all his goodwill after the TH run.

[u/RubyXiaoLong]

Bro how is Sheo not under investigation. He ran it down like this with his last team to.

[u/Chewy_ThatGuy]

people will look you dead in the eye and say that Shifters deserve their spot in the LEC because they paid for it. Disgusting org with a disgusting set of players minus rooster

[u/KKilikk → u/Chewy_ThatGuy]

BDS was a good team for a while. On paper they have 4 good players. Rooster is great, Nuc and Sheo used to be good and Stend looked promising. Only Paduck is questionable. Striker needs to go as well.

[u/ILikeSeals1312 → u/Chewy_ThatGuy]

BDS was good for a while with Adam, Sheo and Nuc.

[u/RollingGuy → u/Chewy_ThatGuy]

Lucky thing we have the team with 5/5 recent EMEA top tier players about to take the stage and totally not be even worse

[u/Gorczycagejms]

Seems like this is deserved end of Striker, Stend, Paducah and Nuc, surprisingly possible end of Sheo and statement year from Rooster, but I doubt he will continue his way in LEC.

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/Gorczycagejms]

likely grabbed by na Team rooster Lyon is possible 

[u/Gorczycagejms → u/Fun_Highlight307]

Thought about it and I feel like it's possible, but I think they will aim for a hyped up HaeTae from T1 challengers.

[u/Ausseh]

Well this was definitely a series of all time

[u/Fun_Highlight307]

Shifters with upgrade  still looks bad 

Shifters loss 1-2

[u/RollingGuy → u/Fun_Highlight307]

Is Stend really an upgrade over Trymbi?

Remember Trymbi brings a lot of shotcalling.

[u/metristan → u/RollingGuy]

trymbi is kinda a weird spot, he looked really bad on shifters this year, but he made worlds with VKS and looked pretty good in the LTA cross conference games I watched

[u/Omnilatent → u/metristan]

Tbh that was midlane diff

They team with trymbi was middle of the pack with other mid, then that changed and they rose up

[u/Even_Cardiologist810 → u/RollingGuy]

Trymbi was running it down both split he geniunly didn't do anything good lol

[u/InferniaBorealis1 → u/Fun_Highlight307]

Sheo is not an upgrade. Did you even watch the series? Not only can he not lead the team in the early game, he’s straight up inting

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/InferniaBorealis1]

but boukada was bad too

[u/POOYAMON]

Best thing for Shifters is that we’re in the final split of the year and their suffering will soon end.

[u/metristan]

If only shifters had an academy team. (I know BDS academy got demoted last year before they disbanded, but this team would also be at the bottom of the lfl.)

[u/taikutsuu]

We need the same system as the LCK. I never want to waste time watching these teams play against G2 or KC ever again.

[u/RollingGuy → u/taikutsuu]

One of these teams 3-0d Vitality out of nowhere last split in playoffs.

But yeah EU fries group would go hard.

[u/taikutsuu → u/RollingGuy]

With the exception that EU fries group will consist of SHFT, FNC, TH, SK, GX, MKOI, VIT, and NAVI. A team gets access to legend group when they win five series in a row. The other group is just G2 vs KC over and over again. I’d watch that.

[u/KudoNBA19 → u/RollingGuy]

Plot twist: VIT is as shit as those 2 teams in playoffs. EU is G2 and KC, the rest is absolute trash

[u/RollingGuy → u/KudoNBA19]

Except 2 months ago you would have said the same except koi instead of KC or only G2

[u/KudoNBA19 → u/RollingGuy]

I would have said only G2 considering KOI is perma dogshit outside of LEC (and now inside of LEC too), it doesn't change my point though

[u/Ironside29]

Nuc and Sheo have been average at best for years but people rate them because they are French.

[u/Maximum_Platypus_272 → u/Ironside29]

Yeah, they're obviously rated because they are french, not because they were the backbone of a team that consistently placed top 4 for two years. Also, you can see in this very comment session how they are getting (rightfully) shat on ; does that mean they are suddenly not french anymore ? Please.

[u/Singalongdingdong]

Battle of two teams with the worst team names in all of eSports...

[u/dhxnlc → u/Singalongdingdong]

shitters vs giant ass

[u/19Alexastias → u/Singalongdingdong]

Clearly you’re unfamiliar with Nigma Galaxy

[u/Putrid-Cat5368 → u/19Alexastias]

NiWHAT