The sixth week of the LEC 2026 Spring Split is in the books, and the playoff field is locked. Six teams have wrapped their regular season; the four remaining — KC, G2, MKOI and GX — travel to Madrid this weekend for the final roadshow of the split, hosted by MKOI. Fnatic are out. sit top at 8-1, for now. Here is what stood out.
Fnatic are mathematically out after the 1-2 loss to Vitality and MKOI winning against Shifters. There was some progress this week, mostly in the early game, but it never added up to the wins they needed. The roster's biggest issue has been there since week one: a near-total lack of compositional flexibility. Fnatic can essentially only execute front-to-back, and every attempt to deviate from that template has unraveled in midgame. Vladi made the same diagnosis in an interview with RFT.GG. He pointed to limited champion pools across the roster, which lock Fnatic into hyper-carry compositions with weak-side top — and leave the team almost no room to play the opposite.
The exception was Upset. The German bot laner produced his sharpest stretch of the split in Week 6, including a monstruous performance on Ezreal against Vitality on Game 1. Among LEC ADCs, he leads kill participation at 71% and gold differential at 15 minutes at +270, sits second in KDA at 5.4, and third in gold per minute at 519.
Vitality finished 8-1 and stay top of the standings, pending Karmine Corp's three Madrid matches that could yet flip the order. The week was a 2-1 over SK and a 2-1 over Fnatic — wins, but not the kind of dominant performances that defined April. The teamfight execution dropped a level. The decision-making did not always resemble the team that ran six straight wins through Week 4. The streak is still alive. The form is not as clean.
Shifters are eliminated, but Sheo's arrival from Team Heretics has changed the team in real time. The mid-jungle synergy with nuc already looks rehearsed: Sheo is highly proactive in the early game, stacking drakes, ganking and diving across the map. The midgame is still where it collapses — the team keeps "shifting" out of leads in the same 20-to-25-minute window every series — but the early shape is the most compelling this roster has shown all split. They beat Heretics 2-0 and lost 1-2 to MKOI. With Summer in view, this is the version of Shifters that should have started the year.
MKOI clinched playoffs and split the week's storylines with Jojopyun's continued dominance. Among LEC midlaners, the Canadian leads CS differential at 15 minutes at +10.6, sits second in both XP and gold differential at the same mark (+253 and +285), second in damage per minute at 712 and third in gold per minute at 422. At this point, the argument is settled: he is the best mid laner in the LEC right now. The rest of the roster has been shakier around him — and Jojopyun's leads are too often the only thing holding series together.
The real test starts Friday. MKOI host the Madrid Roadshow at the Madrid Arena and play three straight series against the other three teams in town: GX, KC and G2 — all top-six sides fighting for seeding. Three days, three opponents at their level, in front of a home crowd that lifts and weighs in equal measure.
Heretics have already lost two starters this split — Stend replaced by Way then Sheo to Shifters— and the rebuild is not finished. Ice will be replaced by Hype for the Summer Split. What is left on stage is a lineup composed almost entirely of rookies, trying to find their footing in a league that does not wait. The jungle-bot connection has not been there all split — and Daglas, who came up from the Academy mid-split to replace Sheo, has had no real time to build it. Drafts collapse before games begin.
The bright spot, narrow as it is, is Tracyn. On the right matchups, the Polish toplaner can still produce — flashes of the player Heretics promoted from Los Heretics last year. It is not enough to change the trajectory.
The math is closed at the bottom. Fnatic, SK Gaming, Team Heretics and Shifters are all eliminated. The six qualified teams are set, in current standings: Vitality, Karmine Corp, NAVI, G2, MKOI, GIANTX. KC are the only side still in position to catch Vitality at the top — three Madrid wins would do it. Everything below first place gets decided over the next three days.
The roadshows were never neutral scheduling. Évry put KC in front of its own crowd at the start of their hardest stretch. Madrid does the same for MKOI, with the seeding fight stacked into a single weekend. Three days, four MKOI series, and the last regular-season picture before playoffs.
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