WORLDS 2026

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Gen.G 1-3 Bilibili Gaming

Congratulations to Bilibili Gaming for winning their first Worlds Championship!
* Finals MVP: Knight

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MATCH 1: GEN vs. BLG

Winner: Gen.G in 38m
Game Breakdown | Runes

MATCH 2: GEN vs. BLG

Winner: Bilibili Gaming in 53m
Game Breakdown | Runes

MATCH 3: GEN vs. BLG

Winner: Bilibili Gaming in 37m
Game Breakdown | Runes

MATCH 4: BLG vs. GEN

Winner: Bilibili Gaming in 42m
Game Breakdown | Runes

• Patch 26.20

This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.

Congratulations to

BLG KNIGHT

on winning the Worlds 2026 Final MVP award!

Game 1: Locke (2/2/1) loss

Game 2: Cassiopeia (4/1/12) win

Game 3: Viktor (5/2/11) win

Game 4: Twisted Fate (2/1/17) win

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Congratulations to Bilibili Gaming, who bring the Worlds trophy back to the LPL after 5 years!!

TOP - BIN

JNG - XUN

MID - KNIGHT

BOT - VIPER

SUP - ON

Coach - DAENY

The best team in 2026!

I want to say that Riot did a really massive work, 180 champs reworked, new map, new mobs, new minions, new visuals overall, genuinely insane they could pull this off, while they could just do nothing and league would stay alive for 10 more years, I think it’s unfair to say they just copypasted wildrift to pc those comments genuinely fry me. People also cry that it became cartoonish, but league been like that for 7-8 years now

It’s so easy to critique, it’s so hard to build and evolve. Glhf everyone let’s see where this game we love goes

My biggest hope for League Next was updating the modes of all champions because a lot of them, even irelia who got a VGU in 2018, didn’t look good at all. So whenever they said there was a massive update i was hoping they would actually do it but knew it was a far fetched idea. But seeing the model previews and in game ones, they’re all updated. I would assume maybe a certain few will be updated at launch and as time goes on more will be added, but that’s way more than i expected. i think riot really did their big one with what we have seen so far.

I need to see Vedi sat up on stage getting ragebaited by fan takes and trying to not crash out, it would be truly glorious.

Outside of arcane its insane that this has been the most played videogame in the world yet its just such an unpopular brand.

Halo has been played by way less people and master chief is a much more iconic character with loads of merchandise. Hell, even ghost from call of duty is more popular.

Don't even get me started on pokemon, etc.

Like, why is league so culturally irrelevant?

This is a screenshot of the trailer (so very low quality/resolution of course) vs an image of Garen currently using his ult in the model viewer (credits to Shuggie on twitter).

As you can see, seems like the animation is the same, more or less the same rig too, but the model itself is completely different. The entire design/outfit is tweaked to look more current and more in line with newer depictions of Garen like cinematics. You can also see that his hands, feet and sword are smaller and less bulky, so it seems like they're reducing the exaggerated proportions that most in-game models currently have.

While Garen is a release champion, he got a Visual Update back in 2013, so his current version already 13 years old but also not what everyone considers a fully outdated champion who never had a significant update. For context, Yasuo was released in December 2013 and many people considered him the "cut off line" for League Classic (as in, Yasuo onwards we're in "modern league" already).

You can also see Ashe with her "Still Here" cinematic design, Leona in full armor, etc, so it seems like pretty much every character will be getting visual updates to their models, even if not full VUs/ASUs like Ahri, Caitlyn, Lee Sin, etc. Maybe the *really* new ones like 2020 onwards might only get texture changes, but looking at Garen I feel like it's possible they will do a pass on everyone to have their updated designs.

I'm only unsure if the models we see on the "champion selection" are still gonna be fully separate ones like in Wild Rift or if they're really putting them in-game, just with maybe minor changes to be lighter on memory. And if the very oldest champions who never got their animations updated will also get those (personally can't tell from the ones in the video).

Fairly new, and I'm still pretty bad at the game, and I was really struggling trying to learn Akali. But I pulled this off, so this was an exciting moment for me. Ik the gameplay is probably bad and isn't anything crazy, but I'm happy I pulled it off.

If the rumors are true that instead of runes were getting essentially 3 champion specific augments, and we saw some stuff like Vayne Dashing through walls, Graves' old ability, Morgana ult healing.

What other augments/reworks would you want to see?

Personally:

-Renata: I hope they give her some more stuff to actually be useful as her ult feels really bad at times.
-Sona: More focused augments to specialize more into healing or damage
-Seraphine: Similar to Sona, AP caster or Enchanter builds
-Thresh: Extra range and different scaling to play ADC Thresh

Just a few concepts, what would you all want to see?

With Worlds Finals being today we are expecting to get a teaser for League Next, while we probably won't see the full scale of the planned changes today, what is something you think could be in League Next, but probably wont be.

For me I would really like to see map skins of some kind. Like an Ionian map or Zaun or Bilgewater. I think the layout would have to be largely the same across all maps, so new players don't get confused, but i think you could put different objectives on each map but keep them in the same spots or atleast reskin the ones we already have to fit each theme. They almost definetly won't do any of that, but they could though.

I mean, he seems to never be that represented in the videos or the live show. I appreciate how the main group is the one singing, but back in my day, the DJ / Producer would also get some of the spotlight ;)

I loved the theme music from this as well as all of the skins that came from this theme. From Bard with his hot cocoa shrines to Syndra with her snowballs. The winter blessed skins are okay, but they don't hit as hard nor as COMFY as the Snowdown skins did.

Up until recently their transfer boards for the LEC and LCS listed SHFT and DIG respectively but those slots have now been replaced with ???? and ???. Not entirely unexpected as SHFT was rumored to want to "rent out" their spot or some such but DIG is a complete surprise.