The French Orgs keep dominating, Team Heretics in crisis... The LEC Spring Split after Week 4
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The fourth week of the LEC 2026 Spring Split just ended, and some parts of the standings are starting to take shape. Team Vitality have officially secured their playoff spot with a sixth straight win, while Team Heretics keep sliding. With the Évry Roadshow kicking off this weekend, here is what stood out.
Vitality: playoffs locked
Vitality extended their win streak to six and locked playoffs in the process. The 2-0 over GIANTX ties the franchise's , set ten years ago in 2016 Spring (The 2016 format was in Bo1’s back then).
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all-time win streak record
In their current form, they are one of the best teams in the league and are clearly convincing.
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The player that represents this team’s form perfectly is Lyncas. The Lithuanian jungler was often tagged as the future of the European jungle before Skewmond was, and for years the breakout kept not arriving. It is arriving now. He’s making exceptional macro choices and connects perfectly with his teammates especially with his toplaner, Naak Nako, who has been the outstanding player since the start of the season. For Lyncas, the upside that made him a talked-about prospect is finally stringing together into a complete player.
The other story is Carzzy. This is the version of him that made MAD Lions title contenders — aggressive in lane, decisive in teamfights, a win condition when the game opens up. It has been a while. And the Carzzy-Fleshy duo looks sharper with every series.
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Vitality are sitting out both roadshows. Their last regular-season matches land in week 6, after which they sit idle for two weeks while the rest of the top half plays three or more Bo3s in front of live crowds and arrives at playoffs in peak rhythm. Vitality will have to restart the engine. Six wins in a row can turn into rust. The playoff lock is real, so is the trap.
Karmine Corp : Busio on top
Karmine Corp are cruising. They are also barely playing. KC have fewer games on the board than any top-six team this split, and almost every opponent they have faced sits in the lower half of the standings.
But none of that seems to bother Busio. The American support leads every LEC support in kills per game at 2.4. The second-best mark in the role, Labrov, sits at 1.1. That is not close — it also puts Busio ahead of several LEC players in raw kills. His KDA is 9.7. He walks into 15 minutes with a +277 gold lead on average. Those are carry-role numbers, produced on a champion pool that includes a Séraphine game where he finished top kill of his own team.
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Which brings us to this weekend. KC will face NAVI on Friday at Les Arènes in Évry, the opening match of the spring roadshow. NAVI are coming in with real momentum. After their 2-1 win over GiantX, Rhilech has been excellent all split and the team has been stacking wins without fanfare. If KC are the clear favorites the table says they are, Évry is where they prove it or not. The pressure does not ease after. The LEC lands in Madrid two weeks later with G2 and MKOI both on KC's schedule. The next month decides whether Karmine Corp are a genuine title contender, or a good team that beat the teams they were supposed to beat.
Jojopyun: the best laner in the LEC
MKOI took down Heretics 2-0, and the result fits into the bigger story of Jojopyun's split. The Canadian has been dictating mid matchups on a game-to-game basis for weeks now, arriving at 15 minutes with the map already tilted in his direction. At this stage, the argument is straightforward: he is probably the best laner in the LEC right now. Jojopyun has on average twice the gold difference at 15 minutes compared to the second-best midlaner in the league (kyeahoo).
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Two individual frustrations
GIANTX bot lane.Noah and Jun went missing in two series that mattered. A 0-2 loss to Vitality and a 1-2 loss to NAVI followed the same script — a bot lane that used to generate pressure for the team now generates nothing. Combining the stats of GIANTX’s last two matches, Jun and Noah have a total of 39 deaths.
In what is likely their last year together, can the iconic Korean duo turn things around before it ends?
BrokenBlade. G2 went 2-0 on the week, but BrokenBlade was the weak link in both games. Caught in lane. Caught in side waves. Caught at the start of teamfights. It creates situations G2 are not supposed to be in. Zoom out and it fits the pattern. They looked messy in the Winter regular season and then dismantled everyone in playoffs. This is classic G2 regular-season noise. Worth flagging. Not worth panicking about. Is BrokenBlade still on vacation ?
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The bottom three: a league split in two
The LEC has already broken in half. Six teams sit above 91% playoff probability. Three sit below 7%. Fnatic are marooned in between at 24%. There is no gradient anymore — there is a wall.
Team Heretics are in open crisis. A 0-2 loss to MKOIthis week pushed their playoff odds to 0.0004% — that is not a typo. Sheo was moved down to Academy mid-split, Daglas came up in his place, and the rebuild is happening live on stage. Head coach Hidon captured the mood after the MKOI defeat:
"I made some mistakes and we're paying the price for it."
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SK Gaming lost 2-0 to Karmine Corp this week, and whatever shape the "Mikyx and friends" project was supposed to take has faded. Even comfort-pick drafts built around Diana and Amumu could not close the gap. The roster was built around the best support in recent LEC history, a bet on chemistry and veterans. The KC loss echoed what Mikyx himself admitted a week earlier, after the win over Fnatic:
If we don't make playoffs again, it's been a bit of a failure.
With G2 and Vitality left on the schedule and a 0.02% probability, the math has moved past hope.
Shifters lost 0-2 to G2 yesterday. The series confirmed what the split had already suggested: the team is not close to a top-tier side. Rooster has been their most consistent laner. The Boukada-Trymbi jungle-support axis has not found its rhythm. Macro decisions unravel even when the early game goes well. A month-long Korea bootcamp turned out to be solo queue only, with no scrims. After the earlier 0-2 to SK, Nuc told RFT.GG:
"I don't know if we have what it takes to move forward."
In his tweet after the G2 loss (below), he still tried to pull something positive out of the series.
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Next stop: the roadshows
The LEC did not schedule these roadshows by accident. Évry this weekend, Madrid two weeks after — same calendar beat, designed to put the top half of the league in front of live crowds in the cities where the fanbase is densest. The French block at Les Arènes lands in the middle of KC's first genuine stretch of competitive matches. The Spanish leg sends the league straight into G2 versus MKOI.
For the bottom three, the regular season is functionally decided. For the other seven, the roadshows are where the seeding fight actually happens. The next three weeks of LEC look like the most consequential stretch of the split.
