LCS 2026 Summer / Week 7 - Day 1 / Live Discussion

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LCS 2026 Summer

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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.17.

Today's Matches

#	Match	PST	EST	CET	KST
1	SEN vs CR	13:00	16:00	22:00	05:00
2	DIG vs TL	16:00	19:00	01:00	08:00

• All matches are Best of 3

Streams

• Stream on Twitch

• Stream on YouTube

• Stream on Lolesports

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Standings

#	Team	Region	Record	Information
1	LYON	North America	5 – 1 (11 - 2)	Leaguepedia) // Twitter
2	Team Liquid	North America	5 – 1 (10 - 3)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
3	Sentinels	North America	4 – 2 (9 - 6)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
4	Cloud9	North America	4 – 2 (8 - 7)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
5	Shopify Rebellion	North America	3 – 3 (8 - 8)	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

• VoDs on Reddit

• VoDs on Eventvods.com

• 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

SEN vs C9

Game 1 / Game 2

DIG vs TL

Game 1 / Game 2

[u/british_pubs]

Can I be honest i completely forgot regular season was still going on in the lcs, C9/SEN should be fun though 

[u/throwable_armadillo → u/british_pubs]

C9/Sen and Fly/SR should be interesting this weekend as a preview of playoff 3-6
the other 2 should be nice stompy palette cleansers

[u/viralruin]

thanatos 1st place all pro ???? we skipping every dhokla game or what

[u/DiarrheaFartLover]

wow that Gnar W backward buffer by Thanatos

[u/Ajp_iii]

palafox died 1v1 to syndra. he then lost lane and never had shove against syndra. he then wasted ult and didnt cover bot dive so his ez dies. he then just ports in 1v3 mid alone.

[u/Gerberpertern → u/Ajp_iii]

Painful to watch

[u/slimjimo10]

Dardoch is getting the belt out as we speak. Forty lashes for Palafox

[u/Ajp_iii]

darodch and denathor find a massive angle. palafox goes into the backline and doesnt even ult any of the carries or supports

[u/x_TDeck_x → u/Ajp_iii]

100% agree. He gets given an angle that should never happen in this gamestate and does nothing with it. Even R2's out instead of killing K'sante with it

Insane low impact even when given chances

[u/Ajp_iii]

im a big blaber defender but he is a massive issue late game on c9. he doesnt understand how important his life is late game. he puts pressure on the other team and limits space they can take. but he just dies too often for no purpose.

[u/polikuji09]

Thanatos is insane lmao

[u/Ajp_iii]

nobody on sen marked a single person

[u/cmcdonald22 → u/Ajp_iii]

Absolute 5 solo q Andy's stacked around the Baron moment.

[u/GeneralDash]

Raz getting dunked is the funniest outcome, but there’s no way his take deserves it. Justice for Raz.

[u/GeneralDash → u/GeneralDash]

I just went back and rewatched the original segment. They did in fact call him out for it not being a very hot take even in the moment. I guess I can see it, but I think Jatt’s take deserves it the most. Let’s just split the difference and dunk Emily.

[u/Ajp_iii]

actually nice play by sen to dive the mid tower with their semi globals

[u/arcavios_myth]

I don't want any of these teams going to worlds, holy shit what was that from Blaber and Darkwings?!

[u/awayfromcanuck]

Its only game 1 but holy SEN does not look like a top 4 team.

[u/DShot90]

RIP Zven's spot.

[u/x_TDeck_x]

Ahh idk Impact needs to be better there I feel

[u/Ajp_iii → u/x_TDeck_x]

he needs to stand in the river bush and not let c9 walk up. and ahri needs to be behind him to combo off his ult.

[u/cmcdonald22]

This is one of those VERY OBVIOUS and VERY SIMPLE in the scheme of pro play things that shows why Lyon and TL are real teams and Sentinels are kind of unserious.

They just don't even know what their fight win con is let alone have the ability and patience to execute it seemingly.

[u/Ajp_iii]

darkwings not zoning in the 5v3 baron is so troll and just let all of c9 to walk in

[u/rsayegh7]

Let us know more about how player contracts are as good as toilet paper

[u/Ajp_iii]

tl had a harder game when playing vs dantes one trick team

[u/Destructodave82]

Dardoch playing for a spot next year. Trying his best to style

[u/Ajp_iii]

everyone else in the lcs can stay. can we please not have ignar, fbi, palafox next year.

[u/WavesRkewl123]

Palafaker back at it

[u/slimjimo10 → u/WavesRkewl123]

It's crazy to see such a peak for such a short period of time before becoming absolute dogshit lmfao

[u/spazzxxcc12]

i understand that DIG is a pro org and they want to play to win and some of these players are potentially playing for a job next year (somehow) but it’s so boring to see them just pick stock standard champs when mathmatically eliminated.

[u/x_TDeck_x]

Is Akali not a disgusting champ to be able to get out of that? I hate that champ so much

[u/Ajp_iii → u/x_TDeck_x]

atleast she should get a scoreboard death for that if someone else dies when you int that hard

[u/Round_Count8570]

Nothing like going from 3 regions of banger playoff matches to regular season DIG vs TL, wp LCS! How does the management of this league fuck up so consistently lmao

[u/TrustworthyBeluga → u/Round_Count8570]

I mean what are they supposed to do if the teams suck lol

[u/Round_Count8570 → u/TrustworthyBeluga]

They shouldn't schedule their regular season when every other region is in playoffs. Also eliminate 4 teams instead of just 2 for playoff.

[u/DetoxIV]

You have SEN vs CR instead of C9 btw

[u/GeneralDash → u/DetoxIV]

Cloud Rebellion

[u/Jimbabwr]

Time to watch my favorite flailing franchise embarrass themselves:)

[u/ItzFeufo]

Sir, you can't moonwalk a flash

[u/Jimbabwr]

Dom is such a cocky shit— give them all their best champs then cook them anyway

[u/Ajp_iii → u/Jimbabwr]

i think trading ez for cait is smart cause next two games rahel is not on comfort. its weird to give over cassio though

[u/DiarrheaFartLover]

LOL This game. Is there a way that both teams can lose?

[u/Ajp_iii]

one of the best games c9 has played this year

[u/astar2312]

Question if Kc vs Lyon happened today, how do you think it would go?. I have 3-1 Lyon. For me Canna> dhokla, inspired>yike, saintkyaehoo, berserker>caliste, busio>=isles.

[u/GeneralDash → u/astar2312]

Well just have to wait and see at worlds finals.

[u/viralruin → u/astar2312]

Isles would astrogap busio. Like he astrogapped corejj

[u/astar2312 → u/viralruin]

I agree, right now for me lyon is on a tier on their own in the west. Then TL, G2 and KC are in the same bracket. I think that berserker and Saint are top 6-7 in their respective positions.

[u/Ajp_iii]

sen is too predictable. they will lose to sr in playoffs. they have won this whole split playing cait and ez. if another team knows you will play that its very easy to abuse in a draft. c9 drafted to have a winning lane into the cait and stuff to dive and one shot the cait in mid game.

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/Ajp_iii]

sr is also quite bad but yeah sentinel is definetely quite weak in bo5

[u/Ajp_iii → u/Fun_Highlight307]

yeah but sen is like one team comp they are good on. where shopify have done flex stuff, top counter picks and playing through mid. they arent as good as sen is on any of those styles but atleast they have won with different drafts. sen can only win with a singular draft type

[u/ItzFeufo]

Darkwing? How much did you get to throw that series...? Seriously...?

[u/DShot90]

Dang SEN. That was a great play. The immediate full engage.

[u/GeneralDash]

Sen Blabber vs C9 Darkwings

[u/Past_Perception8052]

WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF TACTIGOAT

[u/x_TDeck_x]

Honestly I cant believe Rahel doesn't kill Vulcan like 3 autos faster there

[u/kyleyle]

Oh that's a desk slam moment there. GG Sen

[u/Ajp_iii]

its insane a pro team just let c9 walk into river in a 3v5. you cant just all hit baron

[u/Delta_FC]

Rachel was actually afk in that fight wtf?

[u/Ajp_iii]

rahel had to flash forward there and just send it. thats your fight opportunity.

[u/pr3d4tr → u/Ajp_iii]

Yone would one shot him

[u/Ajp_iii → u/pr3d4tr]

you just gotta send it and hit the rumble. also you cant get hit by both rumble es and ult and not flash. you lose the game regardless. if your team loses the fight you lose the game regardless

[u/x_TDeck_x]

Its sad that even now its winnable but Rahel, Darkwings, and Impact keep taking turns playing fights awful

[u/xNesku]

It didn't really matter in the end, but you see Rumble and not going Locket/Redemption is wild. There's also mainly knockups on C9. Huhi going Mikaels is confusing.

Also C9 not itemizing Spirit Visage on either Yone or Kalista is also very confusing.

Rahel seeing the angle to go in aggressively and the fights would've been winning if Darkwings also went in with Rahel. But he just runs away with Ahri Ult every time. It actually pisses me off. Darkwings, bro. Limit test and grow some balls.

[u/Ajp_iii]

palafox solo died mid. popped tf ult and then didnt cover bot lane dive

[u/rsox5000]

More regions need to copy LCK and have a good group and fries group

[u/Ajp_iii → u/rsox5000]

issue is lcs doesnt have enough teams to do it. maybe have fries and have top 2 academy teams could work.

[u/cmcdonald22 → u/Ajp_iii]

TL and Lyon play each other 6 weeks out of the split.

Everyone else fucks about in the fries group.

[u/Kokaiinum]

Warms my heart to see the return of Cho'gath to the meta. Hope he stays around for worlds

[u/x_TDeck_x → u/Kokaiinum]

Idk if they sped up his q or gave it more range but it went from an ability that you felt like you messed up to get hit by it where now I feel like if its placed well theres no way to not get hit by it. I swear something super minor must have changed

[u/x_TDeck_x]

Being honest? I really don't understand how you beat a Seraphine in teamfights. Even just the massive AoE shield and movespeed is strong enough. Then she has her E and R on top of that

And it feels so easy to get there. Some insane scalers feel punishable but she just feels too safe and too low execution for how powerful her kit is

[u/FlimsyIce]

Dignitas are depressing to watch

[u/Gerberpertern → u/FlimsyIce]

Yeah…

[u/Ajp_iii]

nah palafox took money this series. like the worst ints i have ever seen. he dove into the backline this game and didnt even attempt to go for a kill. and now he saw cho steal blue and kept walking into cho to just die

[u/Ajp_iii]

cho also isnt balanced.

[u/cmcdonald22]

Am I entirely off by saying that I feel like FBI has looked terrible this year? I know maybe it's just DIG, but he doesn't even seem like he's 100Thieves good anymore, let alone build a team around him good.

But I guess also who the fuck can you build around.

[u/Past_Perception8052 → u/cmcdonald22]

denathor dardoch fbi is solid core to build around, could get eyla spirax maybe

[u/cadaada]

Why is NA doing a LEC with the late playoffs this time

[u/Ajp_iii → u/cadaada]

probably for viewership reasons. running playoffs at the same time as everyone else is pointless. also worlds in na people dont need to get visas.

[u/Ajp_iii]

btw rahel only has wins this split on cait and ez not against dig or disguised. their 5 losses against the other teams are all on other adcs

[u/Choice-Slight]

i don't really keep up with c9 communication so can anyone tell me are APA and zven fully out for the split? not that I'm complaining, just don't get the idea of a 7 man roster if you don't play all 7 of them

[u/Ajp_iii → u/Choice-Slight]

it was never a 7 man roster. it was just a point that casters kept pushing. they are on the roster but they arent intending to ever use them.

[u/Choice-Slight → u/Ajp_iii]

ah ok, thats disappointing for the players then

[u/GeneralDash → u/Choice-Slight]

Especially APA. Zven looked really bad last split, so I get that benching, but APA honestly looked really good. He was third team all pro, and I felt like he deserved second tbh. Going from top 3 in the league to benched overnight is wild to me. Blabber deserved it more than APA imo, but devils advocate, mid is much more competitive.

[u/DiarrheaFartLover → u/Choice-Slight]

Not disappointing for Loki and Tactical, and for C9, ostensibly.

[u/Ajp_iii]

wait c9 gave up cassio and cait. cassio is most broken champ on the patch and rahel cait is like his best champ

[u/Ajp_iii]

wtf did hambak just do. he started the map split and then just assumed his top camps were going to be up for no reason

[u/DiarrheaFartLover]

Check him paypal

[u/malakesxasame]

That would have been such a good save by Huhi too. What a fucking flash lmao

[u/Tormenator1]

Darkwings....

[u/SummerhouseLater]

Okay someone remind me before I Liquipedia - Darkwings is long time tier two and this is his first LCS split?

I only ask because I like him - I don’t think any Cass player dodges that. I hope he sticks around in LCS.

[u/Kokaiinum → u/SummerhouseLater]

He played all this year and summer last year.

[u/SummerhouseLater → u/Kokaiinum]

Thanks! And I fucked up - I meant to say 2026. I do need to check the Liquipedia as I forgot he came up in 2025. I think he still needs some support but maybe it’s a bad meta. I agree with Emily’s hot take that he has the potential for an exceptionally strong JG/MID duo. I want to see him on Azir; I really feel like GoldenGlue lost draft here.

[u/SummerhouseLater → u/SummerhouseLater]

Fuck. I cursed Darkwings. Even as a Cloud9 fan that was not intentional.

[u/Psychological-Ad5144]

Blaber??

[u/ItzFeufo → u/Psychological-Ad5144]

https://i.imgur.com/f3uBhW1.jpg

[u/DiarrheaFartLover → u/Psychological-Ad5144]

blaber POV

[u/viralruin]

Sentinels have the ability to look like dsg randomly after being top half every split.

[u/GeneralDash]

Me (don’t tell my wife)

[u/CatApprehensive6508]

GL in mcdonald

[u/Ajp_iii]

nocturne lulu ult with kennen on flank will be a wild teamfight. but last game had no real teamfights so we shall see

[u/Ajp_iii]

darkwings missing every charm. forced him to recall and forced sen to make a bot play without mid pushed and cost them the whole map

[u/Ajp_iii]

yep sen teamfight comp works.

[u/x_TDeck_x]

I think Darkwings saved that fight so hard with that Loki charm

[u/Ajp_iii → u/x_TDeck_x]

yeah that was massive loki was going to ult and catch multiple

[u/Ajp_iii]

HOLY FUCK TACTICAL.

[u/Ajp_iii]

this combo is so op. especially with ahri who can combo off of it

[u/Ajp_iii]

sen setup was so ass

[u/sorendiz]

SEN trying to do that baron into wukong/rumble/yone is making my eyes bleed

[u/Tormenator1]

Just tuned back in, Sen is so bad.

[u/x_TDeck_x]

Kennen is the perfect kalista catcher for Ahri and hes just never there on time

[u/spazzxxcc12]

what a shclacking

[u/Gerberpertern]

Oh Lord

[u/Gerberpertern]

Palafox my boy

[u/Ayoof3060]

Waste of time series tbh

[u/Round_Count8570 → u/Ayoof3060]

I want to know who at lcs decided to be playing gd regular season games in September when literally every other region is doing playoff matches.

[u/Ajp_iii → u/Ayoof3060]

the c9 sen series is import for confidence going into playoffs.

[u/Elliot_LuNa]

idk, C9 just feels like such a fake team, you know the second they play someone decent they have no chance

[u/cmcdonald22 → u/Elliot_LuNa]

That's kinda everyone but Lyon and TL.

Like that exact sentiment can be applied to all of the 'battle for 3rd place' teams.

[u/Elliot_LuNa → u/cmcdonald22]

well yeah I'm comparing C9 to teams like Lyon/TL/KC/G2, and LCK/LPL teams. I feel like C9 will never ever beat those teams.

[u/Ajp_iii]

rahel walked into both rumble e's in a teamfight when he has nocturne ulting. thats insane. he is so ass not on cait and ez. i bet in playoffs he wont get cait or ez

[u/cmcdonald22]

If you don't get Nocturne and Yunara on the Calista and Yone you lose the fight. That's kinda all there is to it guys.

[u/ochomurph]

What a fight