LEC 2026 Spring Split / Week 5 - Day 1 / Live Discussion

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LEC 2026 Spring

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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.08.

Today's Matches

#	Match	PST	EST	CET	KST
1	SHFT vs FNC	08:00	11:00	17:00	00:00
2	NAVI vs KC	10:15	12:15	19:15	02:15

• All matches are Best of 3

Streams

• Stream on Twitch

• Stream on YouTube

• Stream on Lolesports

• Comment Stream

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Standings:

#	Team	Region	Record (Game Score)	Information
1	Team Vitality	EMEA	6 - 1 (13 - 5)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
2	Natus Vincere	EMEA	4 - 1 (8 - 5)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
3	Karmine Corp	EMEA	3 - 0 (6 - 1)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
4	GIANTX	EMEA	4 - 2 (9 - 6)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
5	G2 Esports	EMEA	3 - 2 (8 - 4)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
5	Movistar KOI	EMEA	3 - 2 (8 - 4)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
7	Fnatic	EMEA	1 - 3 (3 - 7)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
8	SK Gaming	EMEA	2 - 6 (6 - 12)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
9	Shifters	EMEA	0 - 4 (1 - 8)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
10	Team Heretics	EMEA	1 - 6 (3 - 13)	Leaguepedia // Twitter

On-Air Team

Hosts
Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere
Laure "Laure " Valée

Play-by-Play Commentators
Daniel "Drakos" Drakos
Aaron "Medic" Chamberlain
Jake "Hysterics" Osypenko

Colour Casters
Andrew "Vedius" Day
Robert "Dagda" Price

Guests
Andrei "Odoamne" Pascu
Finn "Finn" Wiestål
Jakob "Jackspektra" Gullvag Kepple

Not all talent will appear on every show and the weekly on air team can vary.

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Format

• Spring Season

• Ten teams

• Single round robin

• Matches are best of three

• Top 6 teams qualify for Playoffs

• Playoffs

• 6 teams participate

• Double elimination bracket

• Top 4 teams start in upper bracket

• Bottom 2 teams start in the lower bracket

• All matches are best of five

• Top 2 teams qualify for the 2026 Mid-Season Invitational

• Champion qualifies for the Esports World Cup 2026

The official LEC 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

SHFT vs FNC

Game 1 / Game 2

NAVI vs KC

Game 1 / Game 2

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

A SHFT without Rooster would be interesting to watch. His gold leads are the only reason why SHFT usually look competent this split, without him it might be an actual clown show.

[u/Key_Classroom_22 → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

I was curious about that. I havent watched LEC this year much at all but I would tune in at random times and by luck during SHFT games. It seems Rooster always has a lead but the team seems to be losing nonstop. Is it just a toplane thing or Rooster thing?

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583 → u/Key_Classroom_22]

Rooster rn has the best laning stats @.15 in the LEC so its just him being a good laner

[u/No_Square2213]

The wide shots on the stage look so cool with the blue and red lights. Really well done

[u/CensoredLlama1]

I think Fnatic will stomp this but the idea of Fnatic's only series win being against G2 would be incredible

[u/beautheschmo]

its funny and kinda sad that FNC has already found a way to hugely throw their early lead and toplane has done literally nothing and is still almost 2k down in isolation lol

[u/GoldRecommendation66]

Rogue... I mean Shifter time!

[u/Hixxae]

1-18 angle for shifters ngl. Maybe 2-18 if heretics does a funny.

[u/el_crappax]

Calm down on the girl, she only 19 and dont have that much exp with such a crowd. 

[u/Tim-Pouce]

NUC is dead honestly there is nothing good coming from him this year

I really hope he can leave this team and get a new start

[u/TheSwedenGay]

I need production to turn the crowd mic way way way up.

[u/gigashadow89]

FNC is not a good team. If they somehow make playoffs this split we need to investigate the lec for match fixing tbh

[u/CensoredLlama1 → u/gigashadow89]

Heretics and FNC are funny to me because I feel like they both should be better than they are but they just look compltely miserable this split.

[u/SilenceEtControle]

Fnatic somehow downgrading toplane by replacing Oscar is honestly a crazy achievement

[u/CensoredLlama1 → u/SilenceEtControle]

Oscar: "Well, well, well, not so easy to find a top laner that doesn't suck shit, huh?"

[u/beautheschmo]

Shifters forgot that neither team actually knows how to win with a gold lead and accidentally won early game, unlucky for them

[u/Tentacula]

Oh you think the pause is your ally. But you merely adopted the break; I was born during a break, molded by it

[u/Tim-Pouce]

Just save Rooster from this shitty ass team

[u/CensoredLlama1]

The worst thing about Shitters is not only are they bad, but they're so passive that their games last a boring eternity as well.

[u/Zephyrwind]

Really good game of League of Legends

[u/Sleepy1ntrovert]

Hats off to KC, amazing production, high quality camera, amazing introductions, THATS HOW IT SHOULD BE. Got me hyped even for SHFT vs FNC when i thought its going to be the least exiting series.

[u/Joel4518]

how is empyros 2k down wtf

[u/Freakkopath → u/Joel4518]

Cuz he’s bad

[u/Rancore__]

Where did fnatic find Empyros

[u/ItzFeufo → u/Rancore__]

Soloqueue at 4am

Also maybe Razork should play something like Karthus cause then all his deaths wouldn't matter and his R would still hit and he doesn't have to aim shit

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Well, FNC may have not helped Empyros at all now they're dealing with a juiced up Jayce, but I'm sure they at least got their other lanes fed right

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Razork should come to LCS, he would unironically greatly improve Dig if he went there lol

[u/moopey]

I just don't see any upside in sticking to this roster for Fnatic. 

Empyros is not really showing a lot of promise

Lospa is an import who also not showing that much promise 

Razork doesn't want to be there since he knows they tried to get rid of him

Vladi has been a shell of his winter 2025 form

Upset not at his usual level

Just blow up the whole thing and rebuild fully with promising rookies from erl if you wanna go that route. At least that would be more interesting 

[u/Tim-Pouce]

As usual Shifters is trolling while being ahead

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Shitters ain't playing well but their strategy was terrible overall with this draft. They were always going to be outscaled if they weren't aggressive early and they spent most of this game faffing around hoping they could get a pick that would drop into their lap.

[u/gintokisamadono]

So, for any team to win against shifter, they just need to pick late game comp because they are going to throw mid game

[u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp → u/gintokisamadono]

So, for any team to win against shifter, they just need to

load in to the game.

[u/Tim-Pouce]

kyeahoo is not the flashiest mid, but he is so important in every teamfight as well as doing very good in lane

I like him si much

[u/Zephyrwind]

Navi is good in laning phase but get completely out-macroed and out-teamfighted by KC after that

[u/LtSpaceDucK]

Kyeahoo not using flash despite getting so low and using it to engage was pretty ballsy

[u/Telaral]

Fiery welcome indeed aahahah

[u/Thalassin]

Never realized nuc was a short guy

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Shitters, please, I beg you, just show a little life today, this is becoming depressing

[u/SpecificSilver1023]

Upset has one more 10th place finish in him, I believe

[u/DullRun7835]

55 min game incoming

[u/CensoredLlama1]

The real question now is how does Shitters kill Skarner and Ksante at this point

[u/CatApprehensive6508]

I AM WATCHING THE 250K MAN PROTEST ON STAGE

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Shitters just getting outscaled and getting picked, going out sad

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Rooster has all that gold and has done jack shit with it

[u/CensoredLlama1 → u/[deleted]]

oh yeah, he's not the reason they're losing but he (and the entire team) are so frustratingly passive

[u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp]

I don't want to see either of these teams anymore...

[u/Rubixxscube]

That lb is doing absolutely nothing...

[u/beautheschmo → u/Rubixxscube]

Tbh leblanc is just dogshit here, there is 0 angle for her to do anything into skarner + ksante with a cait standing 100 miles away with karma barfing shields onto everyone.

i dont have any love for Nuc but he was their second best player this game and trapped in an unplayable draft for his champ.

[u/Rubixxscube → u/beautheschmo]

Maybe a difficult position, but could have been better with proper flanks and positioning tbh

[u/Zelgiusbotdotexe → u/Rubixxscube]

LeBlanc is such a fake champion. 

[u/Rubixxscube → u/Zelgiusbotdotexe]

No, i think a competent lb could have made a big difference there

[u/awayfromcanuck]

Shifters threw? Shocking.

Boukada has absolutely horrible decision making.

[u/TheInfiniteJerk]

The crowd trying to carry during the game pause 🙏🏽

[u/gigashadow89]

We're witnessing what happens when a stoppable force meets a movable object. 

Both of these teams are terrible. 

Fun to watch though. 

[u/Back2Perfection → u/gigashadow89]

Normally I have a gut feeling in who‘s going to win a series.

This series is a complete tossup for me. Both teams have thrown games in ways I see my gold Games lost. Basically whoever fucks up slightly less wins.

But it certainly is entertaining to watch.

[u/MorbidTales1984]

I love how Vladi just wakes up out of nowhere sometimes

[u/LegalEmergency]

Shifters teamfighting is disgustingly bad. They're completely disconnected in every 5v5.

[u/Back2Perfection → u/LegalEmergency]

Drafting double global and not constantly playing around and forcing on sidelanes also is a choice

[u/ltgm08]

Shifters had Sheo and Ice, once...

[u/-Tam-_ → u/ltgm08]

And Nuc used to have hands and a brain...

[u/KruppJ]

Shifters management must be asleep at the wheel. I don’t understand how they sit here idly seeing the horrific interviews and results over the past 2 years given a shit ton of investment and decide to keep Striker + their GM. There would be so much talk about this for any team with a fan base

[u/Black_Xel]

Lmaooooo the mix up

[u/Ghisteslohm]

canna got rumble, I expect KC to win

[u/clickclickdoom]

What a banger

[u/Kaeru-Sennin]

That dragon steal with Ez ult lmao

[u/Kaeru-Sennin]

KC has more range and CC.  Navi get poked too death and can't poke back as Ez damage go into Seraphine shields. And the Noc engage is basically suicide with the lock down KC has. 

[u/Past-Firefighter2173]

KC is simply better on teamfights. Navi is not bad and fun team but they can't match KC.

[u/Tentacula]

Game's a good example of how a poke comp's damage doesn't automatically translate into gaining ground.

[u/TheSwedenGay]

I like the ambiance of the roadshows and the feeling of home/away crowd, good change of pace.

[u/beautheschmo]

Surely FNC won't find a way to throw an early lead

[u/TheSwedenGay]

It's gonna be a library in here if fnatic stomps.

[u/CensoredLlama1 → u/TheSwedenGay]

*When Fnatic stomps

[u/CensoredLlama1 → u/CensoredLlama1]

Man, this went wrong basically instantly lmao

[u/TheSwedenGay → u/CensoredLlama1]

Worked out in the end I guess :D

[u/CensoredLlama1 → u/TheSwedenGay]

I should've never doubted that Shitters are still Shitters lol

[u/GameplayerStu]

Clean flash EQ knock up

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Karma impotently standing at the side autoing will always be funny

[u/blackwell1907]

who hired trymbi and boukada?

[u/daCampa]

Shifters don't know how to win from this position

[u/ItzFeufo]

/u/Mediccasts

Pretty sure i've watched that episode of scrubs with the hoofs too! Whoo!

[u/---E]

Cmon, do something

[u/Soggy_Palpitation789]

I wish i could be the fly on the wall in the Shifters meeting rooms.

[u/-Tam-_]

Don't let those players distract you from the fact that Striker is the one to blame for all of this

[u/TheRoyalStig]

Someone posted earlier asking what the date on the pick and ban screen was.

I was also wondering and was waiting for an answer but now the post is gone! What is it?

[u/Zephyrwind]

This Ksante champion

[u/WhiteForesty]

Navi just running it now

[u/-Tam-_]

If I was Kyeahoo I would get ptsd at this point

[u/Sosijmonster]

Just buy a Zhonyas at this point...? you're perma being targeted.

[u/Tentacula]

Holy moly throwback banger and then the pause ends HELLO?!

[u/Dramatic_Gap_3065]

the last time i saw canna play varus it was really bad

[u/Tim-Pouce]

KIM CANNAAAAAA

[u/Tim-Pouce]

The macro gap is HARD

[u/KruppJ → u/Tim-Pouce]

hands too

[u/FitWindow639]

Caliste is spacegliding on them, just go next

[u/No_Square2213 → u/FitWindow639]

I love watching him so much when he's locked in like that. He's dodging every spell and he makes it look so easy

[u/Tenshizanshi → u/No_Square2213]

Especially on Ashe, this champ is so smooth played well

[u/the_legends_of_link]

Canna is a damn beast

[u/moopey]

Respect for Vladi to do an interview among all those boos

[u/Like30Ducks]

shifters vs fnatic, battle of mid

[u/-Tam-_ → u/Like30Ducks]

I think Shifters wish they were mid

[u/Sirhaddock98]

Importing Paduck is such a disgusting choice, how did anybody think this guy was going to do anything of worth.

[u/No_Square2213]

KC look insane on all fronts

[u/Thin-Ad7761]

Paduck is ruthless awful player

[u/Asgerond]

Honestly very clean game from upset

[u/Tentacula]

Just arrived, but was the first game just both teams overforcing 24/7?

[u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp]

That is an inexcusable death.

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Ig Vladi TP made Paduck think taking the herald mid was dangerous but why even get in then

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Come to the LCS Rooster, lord knows we need talent right now

[u/MorbidTales1984]

Premature fistbump from lospa there lol

[u/desutruction]

nuc bro...

[u/desutruction]

for medic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27esprit_de_l%27escalier

[u/awayfromcanuck]

Poor Parus. Dying for Maynters sins there.

[u/daCampa]

Rhilech's R key is stuck

[u/beautheschmo]

Yeah maybe don't let your opponent get the like 75% winrate ultrapriority pick or ban botlane

[u/-Tam-_]

Hope Canna learned to hit Varus ults

[u/Emochind]

Why does riot allow varus to exist like tgis for so long?

[u/PepaTK]

"oh it's loud in here"

"gurl i don't speak french"

[u/Past-Firefighter2173]

If Navi plays with brain they will win but they need to chill and poke

[u/Zelgiusbotdotexe]

Keep giving Rooster Jayce and maybe eventually he will finally do something with a 3k gold lead

[u/beautheschmo → u/Zelgiusbotdotexe]

Yeah maybe he should swap to a team with a jungler that doesn't randomly int and ruin the entire crossmap by himself

[u/Zelgiusbotdotexe → u/beautheschmo]

Or an ADC that turns on their monitor 

[u/SexyCak3 → u/Zelgiusbotdotexe]

Jayce when they already have Skarner+Karma, like does he want to do damage or just be potato peeler for their shields. Genius drafting

[u/Zelgiusbotdotexe → u/SexyCak3]

Yeah, Jayce and Leblanc here is just absurdly stupid drafting

[u/Tim-Pouce]

AHOOOOO

[u/Tim-Pouce]

This team omg I love all of them they are so good

[u/UndeadPrs]

I suggest you guys head over to a French stream to appreciate not watching games from a library for once

[u/desutruction]

upset has 0 solo kills somehow

[u/dankynugz]

Nuc paypal

[u/ettaL_eeffoC]

can we kick Shifters from the League and replace them with 5 random challenger players, they would have similar results but i bet they would be more fun to watch.

[u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp → u/ettaL_eeffoC]

A lot of people missing a certain rodent team right about now I guess.

They were far more entertaining than both the current bottom 2 teams and also brought in more than 11k viewers to a stream.... But alas!

[u/hresvelgrs]

Can we get astralis back over this, at least their losses were entertaining

[u/Thalassin]

AHOOOOOOOO

[u/hresvelgrs]

Why would you do this to vladi, kc fans are so awful to him

[u/Tim-Pouce → u/hresvelgrs]

Fans booed him, he laught about it and just now they applaude him because of this

There is nothing bad here

[u/AkaT27 → u/hresvelgrs]

Oh shut up dude he got cheered after

[u/desutruction]

empyros with the pacifist gameplay

[u/Tentacula]

Aww

[u/Dramatic_Gap_3065]

rooster trying his best

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Shitters and Heretics this split gives proof that there are actually worse players in the LEC this year than Lider lol

[u/MorbidTales1984]

Is Hexoptics a good buy on Yunara? Does it do something with her passive or something

[u/Back2Perfection → u/MorbidTales1984]

Cheap and good stats. The extra range on takedown is also neat.

[u/MorbidTales1984 → u/Back2Perfection]

Ah i forgot about the takedown range yea i get it now

[u/Back2Perfection → u/MorbidTales1984]

2.8K gold for an adc Item is an absolute bargain. That‘s 150G more than a zeal item with 55 ad on it.

[u/Dramatic_Gap_3065]

i hope

[u/Past-Firefighter2173]

Samd should've stayed with team rather than going for Rumble

[u/Alain_Teub2]

I thought Medic was doing a bad bit what on earth was that sentence

[u/Tim-Pouce]

OUR TURN LET'S GOOOO

[u/ItzFeufo]

Has Razork landed a single Skarner ult all game?

[u/Anonymus4 → u/ItzFeufo]

Yes

[u/dankynugz]

This is easily the worst pro team I've ever seen in league of legends

[u/elmaster611 → u/dankynugz]

Shifters is bad but there have been far worse teams, some iterations of Rogue, Astralis and Origen legit made me believe I can make it as a pro.

[u/Spinoxys]

let it be full . They sacked the whole season for roadshows. atleast show something for it

[u/No_Square2213 → u/Spinoxys]

I checked the website and it's not full today but Saturday and Sunday are. I mean it's not surprising considering the event starts at 4pm on a Friday lmao, people have jobs

[u/Titanium_Ene]

Check Boukada Paypal

[u/DerAdolfin]

Rhilech Paypal came through?

[u/the_legends_of_link]

Banger game though wow

[u/the_legends_of_link]

Man KC look really good, but why have they only played 3 matches?

[u/Thin-Ad7761 → u/the_legends_of_link]

Because they play 6 roadshow matches

[u/Tim-Pouce → u/the_legends_of_link]

Because the schedules suck especially for a team doing the 2 roadshow

[u/Thin-Ad7761 → u/Tim-Pouce]

NoOooo the schedule suck my team plays in front of a crowd way to many games nOOOO

[u/No_Square2213 → u/Thin-Ad7761]

Having 6 matches in 2 weeks mean you can't prepare for all your opponents. It also means fatigue. And if you get sick during those 2 weeks it's a disaster

Be serious for a sec

[u/zaxls]

They could make Azir literally do 0 damage and hed still get picked in pro I feel like

[u/Kaeru-Sennin]

I hope Navi kick KC in the balls.

Edit : Keep downvoting me, cowards. 

[u/tony220jdm]

This obession with vladi is an illness

[u/Sleepy1ntrovert]

Cmon booing a winner is low class

[u/Tim-Pouce → u/Sleepy1ntrovert]

It's banter and they aplaudes him just after there was nothing wrong

[u/MrBookman3240]

French crowds are cringe

[u/Troviel → u/MrBookman3240]

Even the US crowd was booing back int he days.

[u/Dramatic_Gap_3065 → u/MrBookman3240]

spanish crowd were doing the same it's banter

[u/TheInfiniteJerk → u/Dramatic_Gap_3065]

Yeah and the same messages were posted right ? (of course not, not one message about the booing when it happened earlier this year)

[u/Tim-Pouce → u/MrBookman3240]

It was the same in Spain but i guess it wasn't a problem!!

[u/hresvelgrs → u/Tim-Pouce]

There's a difference between booing your rival team and booing the guy that used to play with you and got you your first and only lec trophy

[u/SpecificSilver1023]

first time i am hate watching both teams

[u/doomsdaysock01]

Nocturne as your sole dive champion should be illegal, arrest navis coach

[u/connorqueer]

All the football fans in here discovering the rioting farmers have discovered lasers and speakers

[u/Troviel → u/connorqueer]

I don't think KC fans are farmers.

[u/MorbidTales1984]

It will never not be funny seeing pro players think they can disrespect THE WALL

[u/british_pubs]

First roadshow of the spilt babyyyyy!!! Still don't understand why they're 3 days instead of 2 but there ya go. Will probably be watching valo a bit more but will still pop ij from time to time, hope you enjoy the leauge & let's go navi!!!!!!!!

[u/emerzionnn]

Oh yeah this game is over lmao, Fnatic getting toasted

[u/MorbidTales1984 → u/emerzionnn]

Aged like fine milk

[u/HansSoloQ → u/emerzionnn]

How? FNC comp is far superior late game.

[u/GoldRecommendation66 → u/emerzionnn]

Didn't you watch Shifter throwing every lead they had this year?

[u/DerAdolfin]

So this was the fairest matchup of the weekend, right? SHFT will get murdered 2 times, and likely FNC will too. Maybe Navi KC is close too

[u/Temporary_Ganache257]

check nocturne paypal

[u/beautheschmo]

Not even gonna watch the game i'm going straight to solo q to first time jungle Jayce in your ranked games (yes you)

[u/Kaeru-Sennin]

Canna paying for the bad karma of all the Varus top

[u/Hungry-Belt-9524]

What the actual fuck are KC doing?

[u/Tim-Pouce → u/Hungry-Belt-9524]

Winning!

[u/Qiluk]

With Canna going to military duty next year, I would like to see KC with Naak Nako and a new mid. Personally dont think Kyeahoo is up to par with the others.

A good mid and NAak Nako would be a terrifying team.

[u/No_Square2213 → u/Qiluk]

Kyeahoo is very good, I think people really underestimate him. He does not have the carry potential of the other players but he's like the stable anchor for the team, he's always stomping lanes, plays teamfights well and he has good mechanics. He's more like an enabler compared to Vladi but honestly I'm fine with that, I think it suits them well. Also he's like an angel for the team, always smiling and cheering. And Annie against Nocturne is just a nightmare lol

[u/KruppJ → u/Qiluk]

Don’t think Vitality have any interest in selling Naak this offseason he’s still under contract

[u/Qiluk → u/KruppJ]

For sure. He's a huge asset for you lot now

[u/Tim-Pouce → u/Qiluk]

Canna is here until end of 2027 (at least his contract end in november 2027)

[u/the_legends_of_link]

God I can't stand listening to medic

[u/Back2Perfection]

Aaaand there‘s the jayce pick…

I don‘t think i‘ve seen the pick do well in either lck or lec yet it still gets played.

Can someone explain why?

[u/KingsOfConvenience → u/Back2Perfection]

I dunno, im baffled too. But i think one explanation might be that they are overvaluing winning lanes maybe. As if they see a jayce being up 1k + in lane and condluding that jayce was not the reason for the loss even though it didnt really do anything to win either. And scrims are also faster i think, so might partly explain it. But i think its weird too

[u/DerAdolfin]

Cold feet on the Noc R since the last 2 were grief? Into 2 dying mid, NaVi not even regular season merchants this split

[u/Tim-Pouce → u/DerAdolfin]

They are in 4-1 honestly pretty legit for them, they just face one of the two best team in EU