AKALI ENTERS THE TOP 10

Kennen remains the deck to beat after another deep Singapore run and wins in Fuzhou and Foshan, with cheap card selection feeding both early movement and large finishers. Pressure both battlefields and make it defend before committing your best attacker, where its Assault bonus cannot help.

Yi remains Kennen's closest challenger after its Wuhan win and deep Singapore finishes, making a lone defender expensive to dislodge without committing much of its board. Use removal before combat and force it to spend protection cards; attacking both battlefields stretches those answers but does not switch off the lone-defender bonus.

Rengar's fresh finishes keep it among the leaders: Trophy Hunter lets it wait for your commitment, while each unit play adds temporary Might to the fight. Make it spend several unit cards to settle one combat, then look for a fresh attack on a later turn after those bonuses expire.

Irelia's Beijing win keeps it near the top, and the Heron builds add discounted follow-up cards to Fervent's repeated attacks. Remove or displace Astral Heron before its first-card trigger, rather than waiting until the discount is already available.

Azir moves up after winning Shanghai, with Equipment that survives trades and lets Arise! rebuild a threatening board of Soldiers. Remove Equipment before Arise! is played, and challenge its holds before the point lead makes each replacement carrier harder to race.

Diana slips behind Azir as the latest results offer less reinforcement for its movement plan, though Hwei can still turn one Ride the Wind into a decisive fight. If you have Reaction removal, use it on Hwei after Ride targets it and before the spell resolves to deny the move and its payoffs.

Fresh Fuzhou finishes keep Nasus in place, with Heron discounts and the Legend's rune refund supporting threatening Watcher turns. Remove or displace Astral Heron before the first-card trigger, then pressure both battlefields to stretch the resources left for protection.

Kai'Sa holds its place with new Wuhan and Beijing finishes, using small scorers and damage spells to buy time for Temporal Breach to clear a token or replay a valuable friendly unit. Keep pressure in separate places and preserve a follow-up threat instead of committing everything to the first fight.

Akali's Singapore win and follow-up Foshan finishes turn it into a leading contender, with Heron supplying efficient plays and Herder keeping the movement plan fed with cards. Remove Herder to restrict that card flow, and attack on your own turn when Rogue Assassin cannot rescue its unit from the showdown.

Rek'Sai adds a Wuhan podium finish but is overtaken by Akali's breakthrough, with its strongest turns still starting from an early conquest. Make it spend real cards to win that first battlefield; denying the conquest stops Void Burrower from finding the next play for Breacher to accelerate.

Fiora's Singapore Top 8 keeps it relevant, but building a large unit can still concede the early point lead. Against the Worthy and Dragon Form branch, remove the exhausted carrier before Dragon Form resolves so it never reaches the Mighty threshold that enables the ready.

Jayce rises on its Foshan runner-up finish, with Gear ramp supporting both Aurora turns and a hard-cast Elder Dragon. Remove Platewyrm Egg before its next use or Dazzling Aurora before the end step, while keeping enough pressure that Jayce cannot simply wait for the expensive play.

Ornn's Barcelona title still gives it a strong foundation, but its latest Shanghai and Foshan finishes have not matched the decks climbing past it. Attack the Gear engine before Patched Porobot is played, keeping it below three other Gear to deny the draw and reduce the material supporting Forge God.

Ezreal stays in the middle of the field after another Foshan finish, with efficient removal that still needs a surviving unit to convert the exchange into points. Spread threats across locations to make its damage spells more expensive to cover everything, then remove the scorer it is relying on to conquer.

Draven's pre-regional first place keeps it relevant, but newer deep runs elsewhere push it down despite the cards it earns from winning combat. In the Audacious build, remove the champion before combat to deny its combat-win point; the Legend can still draw if Draven wins that fight with another unit.

LeBlanc loses ground as other decks add fresh finishes, although its Temporary copies can still turn one successful battlefield into a powerful Deathknell turn. Banish or return the copied token to hand before LeBlanc's next Beginning Phase to prevent its death trigger, or remove Karthus first to prevent the extra trigger.

Viktor's new Fuzhou finish keeps it in place, with dying small units feeding removal while Leader leaves replacement Recruits behind. Remove Viktor, Leader before the other non-Recruit units die to cut off those replacements and make the next attack harder to rebuild.

Lillia slips as other decks add fresh finishes, but ready Sprites still punish slow starts by threatening both battlefields. Contest them before Lillia's next turn: Temporary kills them at the start of its Beginning Phase before they can hold, also removing their contribution to the next Sprite's discount.

Vex edges up after its Fuzhou runner-up finish, using Apathetic to restrict fresh enemy units while Gloomist draws from holding a battlefield. Develop attackers before Apathetic arrives or remove it before deploying them; its trigger does not stop units that were already in play.

Kha'Zix loses ground without a fresh deep finish, but Mutating Horror still rewards carefully chosen fights against isolated units. Establish a second defender before combat begins, or remove Horror before it attacks, to deny its extra Might and bonus XP.

Mel's Beijing runner-up finish reinforces the Empower plan, where Applied Researchers discounts spells and enables Soul's Reflection to shrink a defender before Mel attacks. Pressure it on your own turn: the Legend's shrink ability cannot be activated during that showdown.

Lux moves up after its Singapore Rebound finish, with Empowered Researchers making the Ekko and draw-spell turns easier to sustain. Remove Researchers before that sequence begins; countering Sacrifice can stop its draw, but does not undo Ekko's separate rune-refund trigger.

Lucian climbs after its Shanghai runner-up finish, with Merciless and Relentless Pursuit turning an equipped attacker into pressure at another battlefield. Remove Merciless before combat or deny its first conquest, so its ready trigger and Pursuit's return to base cannot set up the next attack.

Ambessa slips as newer results pass its earlier finishes, though an Empowered Wolf remains a demanding threat to answer. Save kill or banish effects for it, or beat it in combat; damage outside combat cannot touch it, and Matriarch's ready ability cannot be activated during a showdown.

The Sigil builds still need a slow ramp turn before Dazzling Aurora can take over, even though banking Power gives the deck a dangerous top end. Split your pressure while the ramp pieces enter exhausted, and if Dazzling Aurora lands, remove it before the end step so Sivir never gets the free high-end unit.

Zed's Clones and Flow spells can keep attacks coming, but the deck still struggles to defend the battlefields it takes. Make the Clones defend, where their Assault bonus does nothing, and save removal for the unit Zed commits its ready effects to.

The XP shell still depends on Master Yi, Tempered winning one clean fight before the rest of the board comes online, even though that turn can push the deck to Level 6 at once. Recall or remove Tempered during the Showdown before it conquers, so Hunt 2 never happens and the team-wide Might stays offline.

Volibear's best draws still depend on Herald surviving long enough to make the first Dragon affordable, even though Gentle Gemdragon can turn that Mighty play into a much bigger follow-up. Kill Herald before the first Dragon comes down and attack the other battlefield during setup, so the discount disappears and the big unit has to defend instead of snowballing.

Shen’s two-unit build can punish open lanes, and Scourge of Shadows plus Hand Hammer lets one pair hold a battlefield while replacing cards. Contest the other battlefield before Shen’s next turn, forcing Shen to split the pair or add a third defender and lose the exact-two-unit payoffs.

The Hextech Gauntlets plan still needs one oversized conquest to turn Piltover Enforcer into a second attack. Hold removal for the Gauntlets carrier on the first battlefield, answer it before the excess-damage conquest lands, and push the other lane so Vi never gets the ready trigger.

The tag shell still needs several units in play to make Brush and Friendship worth the setup. Pick off the unit supplying a needed tag, and if Ivern spends Defy to save it, start the next Showdown on the other battlefield before that same cluster can cash in.

Pyke can still find the right answers with Stacked Deck and clear threats with Falling Star, but it struggles when opponents make those delayed Gold and rune turns matter right away. Split your pressure, and when Pyke uses Bloodharbor Ripper to bounce a unit for exhausted Gold or Ripper's Bay to turn that bounce into an exhausted rune, attack the other battlefield before those delayed resources can fund the next scoring turn.

The Mech build is better at turning one established unit into a wider attack that keeps pressure on the board after conquest. Kill the first Mech before Production Surge is played and attack the other battlefield during the rebuild, so Rumble loses the discount and cannot turn one lane into its whole turn.

Jhin's Fury and Mind shell can still lock down one battlefield with expensive spells, but it asks for too much time to turn that control into a real score. Create pressure on both sides before the spell turn, forcing Jhin to choose between stabilizing one lane and developing the body needed to win the other.

Hostile Takeover and ready Sprites can still steal a battlefield, but Renata needs time to set up that swing. Pressure both battlefields before the Sprite turn is established, and if Renata spends Hostile Takeover on the first lane, hit the other before that swing becomes a second point.

Jax's Equipment shell still leans on one geared carrier turning later plays into immediate pressure. Force the Equipment commitment at one battlefield, then answer that carrier and make the other battlefield matter before Jax can use the same hand twice.

Renekton stays on the fringe, but saving its Legend’s Energy burst for an extra Ambush unit gives it a better late-game plan than spending runes on an opening attack that stalls. Draw out that commitment before sending your best attacker, and count the runes it can recycle as well as the ones still ready when judging what it can play.

Poppy, Paragon anchors both the XP build and the Aurora build even while the deck remains mostly fringe. Read Grim Resolve or Shepherd's Heirloom as the XP version and Catalyst of Aeons or Dazzling Aurora as ramp, then pressure both battlefields before either setup gets a safe lane.

Annie’s end-of-turn rune reset helps it keep fighting after an aggressive turn, but its units still need help to hold a battlefield. Force an answer at one battlefield before attacking the other: Dark Child readies only two runes at the end of Annie’s own turn, and it cannot recover runes recycled for Power.

The protection shell can keep one invested unit alive long enough to turn saved cards into a real scoring push. Attack both battlefields and make Sett spend its tricks on the first Showdown, then score the other before that preserved unit can convert the exchange into a point.

The Bandle Tree and Sprite package can still build a tricky board, but it has not shown a reliable way to turn that setup into a clean finish. Pressure both battlefields before the engine is established, forcing the generated bodies to defend instead of lining up a coordinated scoring turn.

Leona's stun package still needs both an unbuffed friendly unit and another fight where the lasting Might matters, though Back Off and Determined can disrupt one Showdown while building the next threat. Force Back Off at the first battlefield, then shift pressure before Leona can set up another stun, denying the follow-up buff the deck needs to turn defense into a scoring turn.

The Aurora setup is too easy to interrupt before it reaches Elder Dragon, though Scryer's Bloom can still make that end-step turn reliable. Remove Dazzling Aurora before the end of Miss Fortune’s turn to stop its end-of-turn unit, even if Scryer’s Bloom has already arranged the top of the deck.

The Discipline, Stupefy, and Watcher core still defends one battlefield well, but the deck has not found a cleaner way to turn that control into points. Present threats at both battlefields before the Watcher turn, bait the first Reaction on the smaller fight, and score the other lane while Ahri's clean answer is spent.

The shared movement shell can still score out of nowhere, but the different Champion builds have not backed that up consistently. Against Windrider lists, kill Windrider before its third move so that move cannot trigger the extra point.

The buffed-carrier setup still asks too much time and protection for one battlefield, even though Centered and First Mate can turn that unit into a repeat scoring threat. Pressure the other battlefield before the pair is assembled, then move or remove Centered after Lee Sin commits; separating it from the carrier cuts the extra Might and forces the deck to choose which lane keeps the investment.

Jinx still struggles to replace its options when its opening attack fails, though Super Mega Death Rocket! can still turn the first conquest into another scoring threat. Contest that first conquest before the Rocket can be reused and force early trades, denying the second wave while making every discard harder to replace.

Darius can turn cheap Legion plays into a large board, but Trifarian needs to survive long enough for the second-card payoff to matter. Answer Trifarian before its ready trigger resolves, and make the remaining units defend before Darius can turn that board into points.