LCK Season 2026 Week 3 Highlights and Takeaways

The past week in the LCK further clarified the gap that is beginning to form between the top teams and the rest of the standings. These early results suggest a tightly contested battle among the league’s leading squads, with the top five teams set to qualify for the Legends Group in the second part of the season, and a few potential surprises still to come.

Before a new week that could bring further shifts at the top of the standings, Sheep Esports looks back at the key storylines from the past week of LCK competition.

Week after week, continue to hold firm. The team remains at the top of the LCK standings without having lost a single series so far. Pushed to the limit by earlier in the week, the Worlds finalists had to work hard to secure the victory after falling behind, overcoming DK’s resilience to close out the match.

In their series against league bottom side DN SOOPers, KT dominated convincingly and continue to show week after week that they are serious contenders for one of the two MSI qualification spots.

With two additional MVP awards collected this week, now sits alone at the top of the MVP standings with four distinctions across his team’s five victories. Against this week, the 2022 World Champion once again confirmed his current form, posting a 14/0/8 performance on Aurora in the first game before finding decisive plays on Yone to secure the win for his team. currently hold second place in the standings, and their highly anticipated clash against KT Rolster is scheduled for April 29.

In a decisive Game 3 against Dplus Kia, thrilled spectators with a high-level Pyke performance that completely dismantled DK’s early game. However, it was not enough to secure the victory for , as the rest of the roster struggled to match his level during the series. Despite achieving 100% kill participation, Keria and T1 ultimately fell to a Dplus Kia squad whose individual talent and team play showed promising signs for the remainder of the season.

A toplane duel between and completely swung in one player’s favor. The LCK Cup finalists secured a 2–0 victory, and KRX toplaner solo killed his lane opponent three times in the same game. Playing a dominant K’Santé that quickly snowballed in the Jayce matchup, Clear was nearly unstoppable and earned the MVP of the series, while Rich likely struggled to deal with the constant dashes and pressure from his opponent.

In a matchup that looked unbalanced on paper, KRX tried their best to challenge T1 in the first game, notably thanks to a Baron Nashor steal from . However, during the following sequence, attempted a highly questionable Ryze ultimate that ended with KRX split apart, leading to an ace for T1 and ultimately the victory for the three-time world champions. T1 later closed out the series to reach an even record of three wins and three losses—one victory ahead of KRX in the standings.