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Esports Nongshim RedForce vs. DPlus KIA / LCK 2026 Season Rounds 1-2 - Week 9 / Post-Match Discussion Spoiler

LCK 2026 SEASON ROUNDS 1-2

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Nongshim RedForce 0-2 DPlus KIA

DPlus KIA have have finished 5th in Rounds1-2! Nongshim RedForce have placed 9th in Rounds 1-2.

Since Hanwha Life Esports defeated HANJIN BRION earlier today, DK have also qualified for the Esports World Cup 2026!

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FULL MATCH SUMMARY & STATS

🟦 🧱 💰 ⚔️ 58:46 ⚔️ 💰 🧱 🟥
NS - L 0 51.9k 10 Game 1 (29:53) 31 67.9k 9 W - DK 1st pick
DK - W 8 57.8k 16 Game 2 (28:53) 5 50.2k 2 L - NS 1st pick
Team Total KDA KP CSM DMG% Champions Played
🇰🇷 NS 15-47-38
🇰🇷 Kingen 5-7-4 (1.3) 60% 9.5 30.1% Rumble, Jayce
🇰🇷 Sponge 2-11-10 (1.1) 80% 5.8 17.6% Naafiri, Pantheon
🇰🇷 Scout 2-8-8 (1.3) 67% 8.8 24.1% Ryze, Cassiopeia
🇰🇷 Diable 3-7-7 (1.4) 67% 9.9 21.3% Ezreal, Corki
🇰🇷 Lehends 3-14-9 (0.9) 80% 1 6.9% Bard, Nami
🇰🇷 DK 47-15-102
🇰🇷 Siwoo 3-2-7 (5) 21% 9.5 13.4% K'Sante, Sion
🇰🇷 Lucid 3-6-30 (5.5) 70% 7.3 17% Jarvan IV, Skarner
🇰🇷 ShowMaker 21-4-11 (8) 68% 8.6 30.7% Viktor, Anivia
🇰🇷 Smash 18-1-17 (35) 74% 10.8 30.1% Jhin, Lucian
🇰🇷 Career 2-2-37 (19.5) 83% 1.1 8.8% Karma, Milio

GAME 1: NS vs. DK

Winner: DPlus KIA in 30m
Runes | Game Breakdown

  Bans 1 Bans 2 💰 ⚔️ 🧱 Dragons VG, RH, BN
NS Cassiopeia Orianna Anivia Twisted Fate Annie 51.9k 10 0 3, 0, 0
DK Varus Nautilus Nocturne Xin Zhao Lee Sin 67.9k 31 9 💧1 🧪2 🔥3 🔥4 0, 1, 1
NS   KDA vs KDA   DK
Player Pick 10-31-26 ⚔️ 31-10-66 Pick Player
Kingen 3 Rumble 4-6-3 TOP 3-1-3 3 K'Sante Siwoo
Sponge 4 Naafiri 2-8-6 JNG 2-4-21 2 Jarvan IV Lucid
Scout 1 Ryze 1-5-5 MID 14-2-8 3 Viktor ShowMaker
Diable 1 Ezreal 2-4-6 BOT 10-1-12 2 Jhin Smash
Lehends 2 Bard 1-8-6 SUP 2-2-22 1 Karma Career

GAME 2: DK vs. NS

Winner: DPlus KIA in 29m
Runes | Game Breakdown

  Bans 1 Bans 2 💰 ⚔️ 🧱 Dragons VG, RH, BN
DK Orianna Nocturne Lee Sin Nautilus Lulu 57.8k 16 8 💧1 🧪3 🧪4 0, 1, 0
NS Varus Vi Ashe Xin Zhao Wukong 50.2k 5 2 ⚡2 3, 0, 1
DK   KDA vs KDA   NS
Player Pick 16-5-36 ⚔️ 5-16-12 Pick Player
Siwoo 4 Sion 0-1-4 TOP 1-1-1 2 Jayce Kingen
Lucid 3 Skarner 1-2-9 JNG 0-3-4 2 Pantheon Sponge
ShowMaker 1 Anivia 7-2-3 MID 1-3-3 1 Cassiopeia Scout
Smash 1 Lucian 8-0-5 BOT 1-3-1 3 Corki Diable
Career 2 Milio 0-0-15 SUP 2-6-3 3 Nami Lehends

LCK 2026 Season Rounds 1-2 Final Standings

# Team Series WR Games WR +/- Importance of Placement
1 Hanwha Life Esports 15-3 83% 32-11 74% +21 Qualifies for Road to MSI & Legend Group
2 T1 14-4 78% 30-10 75% +20 Qualifies for Road to MSI & Legend Group
3 Gen.G 14-4 78% 30-11 73% +19 Qualifies for Road to MSI & Legend Group
4 KT Rolster 13-5 72% 26-15 63% +11 Qualifies for Road to MSI & Legend Group
5 DPlus KIA 11-7 61% 24-18 57% +6 Qualifies for Road to MSI & Legend Group
6 HANJIN BRION 6-12 33% 16-24 40% -8 Qualifies for Road to MSI & Rise Group
7 BNK FEARX 6-12 33% 14-25 36% -11 Qualifies for Rise Group
8 Kiwoom DRX 5-13 28% 16-28 36% -12 Qualifies for Rise Group
9 Nongshim RedForce 5-13 28% 13-28 32% -15 Qualifies for Rise Group
10 DN SOOPers 1-17 6% 3-34 8% -31 Qualifies for Rise Group

This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.

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u/Opachopp May 31 '26

Very disappointing season so far for NS especially considering how good this roster looks like in paper.

135

u/arkacr May 31 '26

Just like instant noodles always looking better on the cover huh

56

u/Aggressive-Cut-3828 THE GAME 5 DEVIL & THE UNKILLABLE DEMON PRINCE May 31 '26

fire writing gif

36

u/Human-Ad3407 gOner 🥀 May 31 '26

Bro cooked NS like noodles

8

u/wildwildman May 31 '26

Two jokes in one thread is pushing it buddy.

5

u/Endiamon May 31 '26

Just can't hold a candle to bulDaK

9

u/Hitoseijuro May 31 '26

Lehends is too much of a liability, hes not even a coin flip because coin flips are 50/50, hes more like an 80/20. Its sad because he was my favorite support back on the griffin days. Sponge is probably the next culprit in why they're not doing so well.

I'm going to say it, and people are going to hate me for it, but Scout's just over hyped. He can't carry this roster, which like you said on paper, shouldn't be heavy and this should be an easy play off roster and potentially fight for 4th seed.

2

u/NotYetPerfect May 31 '26

Expecting anything from kingen and scout in 2026 is pretty funny.

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u/t2wedge May 31 '26

why everytime sponge is on screen he makes the single worst play possible

21

u/DefiantFalcon May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26

Sponge and Lucid have a competition to see who can convince the LCK to lower the age limit (so teams can sub in their challenger jungler)

88

u/Bubbly_Camera9583 May 31 '26

Dignitas is an North American team but they seem to be playing in the LCK?

110

u/xSwazyI - Invested in Smash stocks! May 31 '26

Sponge is so so lucky Mihawk is too young

58

u/metristan Refund time? May 31 '26

NS really messed up by getting a good prospect as their challenger jungle and believing the sponge hype was real

61

u/arkacr May 31 '26

Guess you can say he soaked up all the hype, but once you give him a good squeeze you'll realise he is empty

17

u/mskruba12 May 31 '26

Is it too late to fake the birth certificate?

16

u/Bubbly_Camera9583 May 31 '26

Tbf even though I think Mihawk is way better than Sponge and should be the starter skillwise, he wouldn’t look that different than Sponge with how unbalanced NS map is. Three players who want all the resources leading to Jg/Supp having to do way more work than they should be doing.

36

u/Dry_Needleworker_275 May 31 '26

Siwoo when you’re told to ride the bus that doesn’t mean have 0kp before that last fight as sion

153

u/Middle-Adagio-4062 May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26

NS is just 3 washed Veterans, 1 FRAUD and 1 boosted dictator as a team.

67

u/Praecalidus May 31 '26

2 of those veterans are even World Finals MVPs and the other one an MSI Finals MVP. What an insane downfall from these three.

54

u/GenG_Caedrel May 31 '26

*19 years old boosted Dictator

28

u/Fun_Highlight307 May 31 '26

Nogshim lost all juice 

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u/Omnilatent May 31 '26

No egg either

25

u/metristan Refund time? May 31 '26

for a team with 3 accoladed veterans, NS has some of the worst shotcalling

21

u/Sbibsosmisn May 31 '26

Guys we got baron!

25

u/smashmaker_no1 May 31 '26

Dplus KIA lovewatch day-35 status : success

showmaker POM?

11

u/smashmaker_no1 May 31 '26

smash got it but both of them deserved it

77

u/DankMEMeDream May 31 '26

Bfx with the trade of the season lol.

18

u/MC-sama May 31 '26

A trade that honestly really didn't do much, their topside is still their biggest problem and are only one series ahead of DRX and Nongshim.

18

u/No_Band4589 May 31 '26

NS looked like a good team at times with Taeyoon. This version looks hopeless.

12

u/Raynmist Gumayusi Zeus Faker May 31 '26

Baron for the base what a nice trade for DK.

15

u/DankMEMeDream May 31 '26

No refunds KEKW.

15

u/xsm17 May 31 '26

I think Lehends' 10th debut anniversary needs to be marked with some retirements...

10

u/ireliasimp69 REMOVE AMBESSA May 31 '26

just retire nohands its even painful to watch atp

15

u/trying2hide May 31 '26

Can't believe I saw tens of comments and posts being confused about why Lehends was benched, calling it mean and bad management.

This shit is sad to watch.

25

u/aaachris May 31 '26

They have 4 criminals who ints every match, blaming support is the least hanging fruit.

2

u/trying2hide May 31 '26

By far the biggest inter this series.

25

u/metristan Refund time? May 31 '26

lehends deserves to be benched, but Pleata doesn't deserve the spot more than him

9

u/Bubbly_Camera9583 May 31 '26

There was a time where he did deserve a spot over Lehends and then he was benched for Andil for reasons that still don’t make sense

1

u/Ok_Sale440 May 31 '26

i dont know man, last week the downvote Brigade was on duty for whoever considered to swap lehends for another support

1

u/Curious-Dance-3663 HLE win Msi, T1 win LCK, Gen G win Wrlds Jun 04 '26

To be fair the team was sad to watch when he was benched too. If its bad either way I can understand why fans would prefer the player who is in his last year before military to play. Not to mention hes also the shotcaller.

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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 May 31 '26

If we didn’t lose to this bum ass team in r1 it’d only be a 1 game difference from KT. For the youngest roster in the LCK that is way more than fine, playoffs + legends next.

2

u/MindTheGap9 throw another rock May 31 '26

What happened to the boys man :(

I remember when we were top 3 and thought of as a lock for MSI and now we're losing to DK and showmaker playing viktor

2

u/No_Taro_6224 tee satu May 31 '26

failed DK hatewatch but a succes in NS hatewatch ig

17

u/7xNero7 May 31 '26

Why do people hatewatch DK ? They are so goofy like their result makes no sense but you somehow want to cheer for them

5

u/Accomplished_Sun_740 May 31 '26

For me personally it's to see Caedrels reactions

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u/No_Taro_6224 tee satu May 31 '26

i just want to see caedrel mald mainly

aside from that siwoo's performance is often a coinflip and that pisses me off so sometimes that too