Myrtus' Lulu Lifts KOI Fénix Back Into LES Playoffs

TL;DR: With their LES 2026 Summer Playoffs life demanding an equalizer, Movistar KOI Fénix beat Team Heretics Academy through a decisive bot-lane advantage. Myrtus’s Lulu posted 3/2/13 and a 8.00 KDA, giving 13 the protection to turn a huge early gold edge into a 1-1 series reset.

Key Takeaways

• 13 built a +1962 GoldDiff@15 on Yunara, a bot-lane gap that turned Movistar KOI Fénix’s damage source into the game’s defining carry.
• Myrtus delivered a 3/2/13 line and 8.00 KDA on Lulu, supplying the protection and tempo that held KOI Fénix together.
• Movistar KOI Fénix overcame a 17-19 kill deficit with 9 towers and 72.8k gold, proving objectives mattered more than the raw kill count.

Early Game

Team Heretics Academy entered Game 2 with the series momentum after their 46:40 Game 1 win, but Movistar KOI Fénix immediately found the lane that could change the script. 13’s Yunara surged ahead of Lure’s Lucian, converting a +1962 gold lead at 15 minutes into constant pressure whenever the bottom side opened.

That advantage was especially important because the draft was effectively a coin flip. The live model placed Movistar KOI Fénix at 50%, while the wider draft discussion saw Heretics’ Mordekaiser, Ryze, and Xin Zhao as dangerous tools for isolating carries and disrupting teamfights. Yet KOI Fénix’s bot pairing refused to give those tools a clean target.

The Turning Point

The match’s pivot came when Myrtus’s Lulu made Yunara impossible to remove cleanly. Her 3/2/13 score reflected more than survival: every shield, speed boost, and defensive answer let the fed marksman keep dealing damage through the chaos. The support’s 94% KP made her the connective tissue between picks, resets, and objectives.

Elsewhere, Mercy9’s Ryze fought hard with 6/4/5, while Papiteero’s Mordekaiser carried a +1097 GoldDiff@15 on Mordekaiser. Team Heretics Academy also secured 3 dragons to KOI Fénix’s 2, but their individual advantages never became a map-wide finish. KOI Fénix repeatedly traded combat losses for structures and space.

Closing Out

At 34:10, the blue side had completed a composed win built on economy rather than a prettier scoreboard. Team Heretics Academy led the kills 19-17, and both teams claimed 1 barons, but Movistar KOI Fénix’s 9 towers to 6 created the decisive map control. Their 72.8k to 64.1k gold edge showed how efficiently they converted pressure into permanent gains.

XnS’s Khazix endured a difficult 3/5/5, but the jungle role helped keep lanes connected long enough for the bot-side scaling plan to take over. The 50% draft edge therefore materialized—not as a draft stomp, but as the cleaner execution of a composition that protected its central carry.

Polymarket Market

Polymarket read the single game correctly: Movistar KOI Fénix were 56% favorites at draft close and delivered the expected result. The market was more confident than the 50% live draft model, and the game justified that confidence through execution. Heretics had 19 kills, 3 dragons, and threatening solo-lane pieces, but they could not prevent the Yunara-Lulu core from converting bot pressure into a 8.7k gold lead and three extra towers. At series level, KOI Fénix rose from 32% to 50%, a +18.0pp move that leaves the next game as a true momentum contest.

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*Odds via Polymarket, 2026-08-20 17:36 UTC.*