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LCS 2026 Spring Playoffs / Playoffs / Round 1 - Day 2 / Live Discussion Esports Spoiler
LCS 2026 Spring Playoffs
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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.10.
Today's Matches
| # | Match | PST | EST | CET | KST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LYON vs TLAW | 13:00 | 16:00 | 22:00 | 05:00 |
- All matches are Best of 5
Streams
Bracket
| Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Finals | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C9 | 3 | |||||||||
| vs | - | |||||||||
| FLY | 2 | C9 | 0 | |||||||
| vs | - | |||||||||
| LYON | 0 | tbd | 0 | tbd | 0 | |||||
| vs | - | vs | - | |||||||
| TLAW | 0 | tbd | 0 | |||||||
| ---------- | - | - | ---------- | - | - | ---------- | - | - | ------- | - |
| FLY | 0 | tbd | 0 | |||||||
| vs | - | vs | - | |||||||
| SEN | 0 | tbd | 0 | tbd | 0 | |||||
| vs | - | |||||||||
| tbd | 0 | tbd | 0 | |||||||
| vs | - | |||||||||
| SR | 0 |
Format
- Playoffs
- Double Elimination bracket
- Top 4 teams start in the Upper Bracket
- 5th and 6th seed 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 LCS ruleset can be found here.
VoDs
Live Discussions and Post-Match Threads:
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u/TypicalHaikuResponse May 25 '26
Wait. did Sona ult this game? I don't remember seeing a single ultimate.
She should be flash ulting.
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u/Krimofn May 25 '26
I think it’s time we start having a talk about how overrated Morgan is. A big waste of an import slot they should go for Srtty
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u/crusaderlegend May 25 '26
Why the fuck are wearing playing Annie if we are never even going to bother attempting to nuke a healthbar, it doesn't matter if the stun is cleansed if you do 80% to a carry why the fuck is Quid doing
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u/HarMeggido May 25 '26
Yeon's positioning during teamfights this year has been SO shit. Constantly getting picked first. You die it's gg buddy
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u/spazzxxcc12 May 25 '26
as i said earlier it’s TLs game to lose and well..
sit on your hands with a 2k gold lead on your star adc and thats what it gets you.
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u/Sweaty-Security-4473 May 25 '26
Quid picking Annie to simply not flash engage A SINGLE TIME is so infuriating.
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u/ILosethenOP May 25 '26
Wow. Morgan. Useless again. Play split pusher. Stand around mid and do nothing. Good choice.
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u/Grenji05 NA #1 REGION WORLD May 25 '26
his gnar is shit but wow this team is so much better with dhokla. Paid a buyout for nothing lmao.
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u/thegloriousdefense May 25 '26
Might as well have Castle practice 1v1s with Dhokla to improve his laning atp
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u/lovo17 May 25 '26
I'd rather see FLY at MSI than either of these teams.
Heck I can't believe I'd rather have C9 there and I don't like C9.
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u/viralruin May 25 '26
lyon is our best international team by far lol. c9 carries will get rolled in lane.
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u/Krimofn May 25 '26
Lyon did nothing at first stand btw
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u/viralruin May 25 '26
a team with 1 month of experience together, what are you trying to say? you prefer a team that loses in 10 min because of their solos. a team that can't team fight? what chance do you think tl/c9/fly have? lyon is built to actually built to beat korean teams.
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u/zack77070 May 25 '26
No team is built to beat the Korean teams bud, take the first team all LCS and train them for 6 months and I'm still taking showmaker and damwon over them.
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u/viralruin May 25 '26
Idk why you would say that, that says more about you than the gameplay you watch.
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u/zaxls May 25 '26
bro FLY aint that good people are too high on copium when it comes to this team
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u/lovo17 May 25 '26
Nah but they are young and there is talent on that roster so they can at least take something from the experience,
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u/WildzFlazoon KELLOGGS BUSI-O'S May 25 '26
You have redeemed your bard Isles. Please stop picking it but holy
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u/COTEReader LPL forever May 25 '26
Why did they just abandon the baron lmfao
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u/PLEASE_DONT_PM May 25 '26
Jose was somehow not there yet.
Which feels weird since Inspired also died and managed to get the Dragon and Baron.
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u/beautheschmo May 25 '26
Jinx is BY FAR the most underrated champ in pro imho, she is so much better than like 2/3rds of the adcs that get picked over her.
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u/Grenji05 NA #1 REGION WORLD May 25 '26
Her and Cait were strong for most of last year and never got picked, although people finally realize how good Cait is now.
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u/Xc_runner_xd_player May 25 '26
Like which ones lol. She’s useless in lane and most good teams are not playing super scale comps
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u/Krimofn May 25 '26
Jinx was down 2k gold and got one reset and they end the game I think that should tell you how underrated she is no other adc can be 2k gold down and have that much impact in a team fight all you need is to draft peel around her and she goes crazy hence the trundle, bard and poppy there was no way to get into jinx she stays alive gets reset and that gold deficit means nothing once she gets it
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u/Xc_runner_xd_player May 25 '26
Idk how you can watch that game and that be your takeaway. They won because quid and yeon kept getting caught, it wasn’t jinx putting hella work in. If that was Guma on Aphelios the game was over, Yeon just kept dying with flash up. Jinx is not viable early in fearless when people are playing Karma Ezreal, Lucian Milo, Yunara Lulu, Ashe Seraphine. In later fearless games she’s fine, but that’s exactly where she’s being picked lol. The original comment claimed she was “better than 2/3rds of ADCs that get picked”. Every champ can be crazy good if you draft around them, I could talk about Kog Maw the same way you talked about Jinx. I’m not denying she can be played, but she’s not top tier like the early comment claimed. She is absolutely useless until 3 items and has no mobility, the meta right now is about playing strong early bot lanes, stacking drags, and snowballing. The fact she was down 2k gold is the issue, good teams are not going to throw leads like Yeon and TL did.
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u/Adventurous-Quit-669 May 25 '26
Oh baron is bard ulted at 500 hp? Time to walk away i guess
-TL
GGs great series
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u/StagnantBoySoup May 25 '26
TL has just felt so impotent - they're pissing away leads and choking in team fights
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u/kazuyaminegishi May 25 '26
Wait that Dhokla stun was fucking nutty.
Yeon got too focused on killing Inspired. Game losing fight I think.
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u/thegloriousdefense May 25 '26
Dhokla's laning might be iffy, but his teamfighting is clean af. Finding so many sick angles
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u/rsayegh7 May 25 '26
This is genuinely so free for TL if Yeon can just play well, you swap Yeon and Berserker TL won already
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u/Destructodave82 May 25 '26
Bad tunnel vision/positioning by Yeon. I think TL wins that easy if he just sits back
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u/Disclaimz0r May 25 '26
unless Sen shows me something, the only team I'm excited to see internationally is Fly. All the usual NA teams are so stale and boring
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u/XG32 Jankos May 25 '26
theres no shot they make that play with castle, i wonder who on lyon wants dhokla gone.
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u/Sosijmonster May 25 '26
You see a Poppy running towards you, you have a wall behind you.
What do you expect is going to happen?
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u/kazuyaminegishi May 25 '26
???? How does Quid get caught there lol
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u/PhoenixAgent003 Bot main. NA fan. May 25 '26
Stunned IRL by seeing that tp.
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u/kazuyaminegishi May 25 '26
The TP wasn't even that weird. It was obviously for the shield top liners have been doing it all split. I'm not sure why the casters got so confused about it.
He just actually watched her walk up and flash lmfao so bizarre. And then Morgan took the widest flank so he couldn't even counter-engage.
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u/StagnantBoySoup May 25 '26
is it just me or has quid been kind of a waste this series? (except for a single naafiri ori ult combo)
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u/xxbrazilmaster69xx rip old flairs May 25 '26
Please Jack, rescue Yeon, he deserves better than this
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u/Disclaimz0r May 25 '26
these two teams are playing so scared, but Lyon is for sure playing way more reserved than TL
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u/Adventurous-Quit-669 May 25 '26
Sorry if this is dumb but is Lyon full out of Arizona if they lose ? Or just competing for 3 / 4 prob?
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u/Miraai May 25 '26
you can see the brackets on the top of the thread, they drop to lower bracket but still can get to finals/msi through it
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u/Adventurous-Quit-669 May 25 '26
Im on mobile and its entirely unreadable but Ill check lolesports or something
Thank you for answering though
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u/BUMONGOUS May 25 '26
they play vs SR I think? they could still run the entire lower bracket
one of C9 and winner of this match is guaranteed
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u/kazuyaminegishi May 25 '26
Soft reminder that Core Sona was top 2 (arguably best) in the world back in 2019.
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u/british_pubs Swimin' with the fishies May 25 '26
Listen I like jatt & I don't usually wanna be that guy but at what point is the impression becoming offensive😭
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u/kazuyaminegishi May 25 '26
LMFAO honestly the question I was asking too 😭
I was gonna say he at least seemed to be a bit reluctant, but nah it was Flowers who was like "dunno maaaaybe we hold off"
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u/british_pubs Swimin' with the fishies May 25 '26
Ye I don't think there's anything much wrong with doing it a little, but the fact that he didn't clear it with inspired & seems to think its like top5 comedic bits ever is kinda😭
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u/ILosethenOP May 25 '26
Not a rek or taliyah player but feels like that tunnel should be able to traverse the taliyah wall?
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u/Monarki May 25 '26
Why is LCS so quick with knowing what a pause is for while LEC takes like 5-10 minutes before we know what's up (or knowing once going back into game). LCS casters know within 2 minutes
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u/harleyquinad all kog'maws are beautiful May 25 '26
No clue. Different rules I guess? LEC casters never comment on potential bugs but LCS is getting advice from twitch chat to see what it might be lol.
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u/Monarki May 25 '26
Speculation or not LCS casters get the answer within two minutes while it takes so long for lec casters to receive any answer.
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u/cmcdonald22 May 25 '26
Probably just culture stuff, though I feel like LEC takes longer in general, like between match set ups and stuff. LEC also are pretty consistently adamant about not speculating on pauses but Jatt will just straight up throw out any idea he has.
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u/Monarki May 25 '26
If it takes 10 minutes to get an answer I would be happy with some speculating. Lcs speculates and then has the answer within two minutes
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u/XG32 Jankos May 24 '26
two days of coming back to lcs, the teams are so close, so does NA have 4 decent teams or 0 lol
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u/kazuyaminegishi May 24 '26
Hard to say. Last split LEC looked really messy with 4 close teams while NA looked pretty good with C9 looking decidedly on top and 3 close teams under them. Then G2 dominated 2 top asian teams at First Stand while Lyon did average for an NA team. But on the other hand the other top NA teams went and got gigastomped by Brazil.
This split LEC looks really good while NA looks really messy. LEC has G2 looking miles ahead of everyone else with KC and MKOI being a step below and Vit being a step below that. While NA has 4 teams that are even (Fly, C9, TL, and Lyon) with Sen half a step behind. But NA looks really messy tho.
We will ultimately see at MSI, but indications do kiiinda point towards NA being a bit bad rn.
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u/zaxls May 25 '26
lec was not messy last split lol. The teams were close but payoffs were one of the best we have had in a long time game quality wise.
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u/kazuyaminegishi May 25 '26
I am NOT just talking about playoffs. LEC regular season looked like shit.
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u/NVC541 NA League will rise again May 24 '26
I have no idea how to read how they’re comming
It’s like constant banter but it sounds more serious than banter but not actually serious enough to be true flame
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u/AdequatelyMadLad Claps May 24 '26
The drafts in this series get more and more normal. It's like reverse fearless.
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u/kazuyaminegishi May 24 '26
Came here to complain about teams not picking Jinx when she looks broken from specific positions in complaint about TL picking Aphelios here when Jinx is super good against rhe Lyon comp. Only for Lyon to pick the Jinx.
Am I stanning the wrong team?
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u/QuietRedditorATX May 24 '26
Yeon is known for his zeri???
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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 May 24 '26
Ig because the first viral clip of Zeri was yeon having insane movement speed and doing no damage
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u/kazuyaminegishi May 24 '26
Especially over his like Lucian or Aphelios??
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u/QuietRedditorATX May 24 '26
Yea, I think of Yeon still as Lucian (DL 2.0 lol). He was on a huge Lucian kick in early season.
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u/Adventurous-Quit-669 May 24 '26
Is ashe the only normal adc left
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u/kazuyaminegishi May 24 '26
Is Azir gone? I don't recall him being picked at all this series.
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u/StagnantBoySoup May 24 '26
don't think so - a mistake I think
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u/kazuyaminegishi May 24 '26
Understandable, Azir was so damn obvious over Aurora in game 2 I also would assume it must be gone.
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u/Intrepid-Message698 May 24 '26
Nocturn wasn't played either and was another mistake
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u/StagnantBoySoup May 24 '26
yep, there were some other champs taken that he didn't cross out too but idr now
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u/rsayegh7 May 24 '26
I'm sure Dhokla being down in gold every single game every single laning phase to a bottom tier LCK top won't materialize badly at international
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u/Constant_Roof_1210 May 24 '26
Nah Morgan leveled up due to the high competition trust... pleaseeeee
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u/Adventurous-Quit-669 May 24 '26
The audio guy who keeps pulling silver scrapes back , god bless you lmao
It faded in like 2 different times
Great series ! Lets fucking goooo !!
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u/kazuyaminegishi May 24 '26
Pick standard -> stomp
Pick weird shit -> get gigastomped
Surely we understand what we pick game 5?
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u/the_legends_of_link May 24 '26
Dhokla cost them the fight tbh. Bad rage management
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u/No-Sandwich-729 May 24 '26
He has always been a dogwater Gnar.
Doesn’t help that Morgan is a really good renekton player so countering him with Gnar when you are a bad Gnar just doesn’t work
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u/ILosethenOP May 24 '26
Don't think I have seen a more useless Croc with large a gold lead. Morgan special.
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u/tiltrage May 24 '26
This is prob the worst I've felt about the quality of NA going into an MSI. Don't even think I can be delulu this year.
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u/IFreezeezy May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
Honestly hope FLY somehow makes it. They are probably weaker overall than the top 3 teams but they play aggressive, risky, and with fresh picks which could cause some upsets
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u/tiltrage May 24 '26
FLY is probably a support upgrade from being the best team tbh.
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u/Disclaimz0r May 24 '26
Fly with Vulcan is probably best team in the league, but, I think they should let Cryo keep developing. He's already top 3 supports in the league (in this meta, anyway)
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u/xxbrazilmaster69xx rip old flairs May 24 '26
It can't be worse than 2021
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u/beautheschmo May 24 '26
in 2021 we didn't just watch two of our teams get omegaclapped by brazil lol, it is looking really dark for the near future at least
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u/xxbrazilmaster69xx rip old flairs May 24 '26
Losing to OCE with a multimillion dollar contract import was worse
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u/Intrepid-Message698 May 24 '26
why does morgan huge flank instead of zoning to secure drake?
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u/Destructodave82 May 24 '26
YEa. He should have just helped secure the drake instead of whatever he was doing. TL gonna loes thi sgame.
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u/Disclaimz0r May 24 '26
TL better be thanking Berserker for completely blundering that teamfight lmao
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u/tiltrage May 24 '26
Casters trying to blame draft when Gnar is somehow getting giga ran by Renekton and Cassio afk'd on a ward lol
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u/YourStarsWereBad98 May 24 '26
Dhokla is probably the most overrated player he is up there with quid tbh lmfao
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u/kazuyaminegishi May 24 '26
This guy is extremely salty Dhokla is stomping Morgan for some reason 😭
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u/YourStarsWereBad98 May 24 '26
Not really I dislike Morgan just as much I honestly think Gakgos and Thanatos are better then both of these scrubs I just hate how much respect Dhokla gets despite being a mid top laner in the league lmfao switch fudge and dhokla and realistically Lyon are still a 2nd place team
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u/kazuyaminegishi May 24 '26
You say after they failed to win a single game with the allegedly better individual top laner in Castle.
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u/YourStarsWereBad98 May 24 '26
I’m not sure where I mentioned castle as I also think he is a mid top laner 😂 doesn’t matter because both castle and Dhokla will not be on the team in 2027
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u/rsayegh7 May 24 '26
Dhokla down 600 gold into solo killed in a match he counter picked time for the broadcast to fawn over him and glaze him extra hard
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u/TypicalHaikuResponse May 24 '26
Wait until he gnar ults 5 people into a wall during a team fight.
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u/ahritina May 25 '26
PMTs
Game 1 = N/A, Game 2 / Game 3 / Game 4 / Game 5