RQ Singapore official data: Kennen at 19.3% on Day 2
Riot has published the full table of Legends fielded at the Singapore Regional Qualifier, together with the Best-Of award lists. The picture is clear: Kennen goes from 11.5% on Day 1 to 19.3% on Day 2 and takes five of the eight Top 8 seats. The winner, though, was Gorica's Akali, a Legend that reached Day 2 with just four players. One Qualifier is left before the Regional Championships: Los Angeles, September 25-27.
The fieldKennen grows, Irelia stalls
Day 1 already said a lot: 218 players on Kennen, 11.5% of the field, ahead of Irelia (143, 7.6%) and Master Yi, Wuju Bladesman (124, 6.6%). On Day 2 the gap widened instead of closing: Kennen rose to 58 players and 19.3% of the field, while Irelia dropped to 7.0% and remains the worst converter among the most played decks. Riot's own comment does not dodge it: «there is no question that Kennen remains a powerful choice for players».
The other archetypes that gained at least two percentage points from Day 1 to Day 2 are Master Yi, Wuju Bladesman (6.6% to 8.3%), Azir (4.9% to 7.3%), LeBlanc (4.2% to 6.3%) and above all Jayce, which more than doubled from 3.0% to 6.6%. At the bottom of the table Vi, Ivern, Shen, Viktor, Zed and Ambessa disappear entirely: none of these Legends saw Day 2.
218 → 58
Kennen's players on Day 1 and Day 2: in share terms, from 11.5% to 19.3%, the highest figure of the tournament.
4 players
The Akali decks left on Day 2, just 1.3% of the field. One of them won it all.
The winnerThe Akali that broke through the Kennen wall
Gorica's list pairs Akali, Rogue Assassin as Legend with Akali, Deadly Weapon as Champion, on a rune pool split evenly between six Calm and six Fury. The deck runs three copies each of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shuriken Flip, Mournful Witness, Astral Heron, Stellacorn Herder, Defy, Discipline and Kai'Sa, Survivor, with Forgotten Monument, Sigil of the Storm and Void Gate as battlefields. It is a build meant to survive the turns in which Kennen tries to close the game and to flip the exchange, not to race.
The Top 8 context helps explain the result: only three Legends represented, five Kennen, two Master Yi, Wuju Bladesman and one Akali. Whoever goes all the way with a rare deck in such a concentrated field usually does so because they prepared that specific matchup.
| Legend | Day 1 | Day 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Kennen | 11.5% | 19.3% |
| Master Yi, Wuju Bladesman | 6.6% | 8.3% |
| Rengar | 6.2% | 7.6% |
| Azir | 4.9% | 7.3% |
| Irelia | 7.6% | 7.0% |
| Jayce | 3.0% | 6.6% |
| LeBlanc | 4.2% | 6.3% |
| Akali | 3.8% | 1.3% |
Best-OfThe award lists are the usual faces
The Champion's Best-Of prize, a foil plated Legend, went once again to familiar names: MICE TheManLand takes it again with Ornn after winning the Barcelona Regional Qualifier, CTG Alanzq with Mel, DSG Prismaticism with Rengar, MICE Squirtle with Azir as a two-time RQ winner, V0LKATA2 repeats his Best-Of with Draven and Jibbs brings it home with Jhin. In the article Riot publishes the full lists, sideboards included: they are the most useful material of the whole piece for anyone who wants to copy something already tested.
Why it matters to us. Singapore is the penultimate Qualifier of the year and captures a meta that reaches European tables unchanged: if you play the Showdown Series in Lucca this weekend or a store tournament, show up with a plan against Kennen and know what to do against Master Yi, Wuju Bladesman. The Best-Of lists published by Riot are ready to test, and the window to adapt them is short: after Los Angeles, September 25-27, it goes straight to the Regional Championships.
In short
- Kennen is the most played deck of RQ Singapore in all three stages: Day 1 (11.5%), Day 2 (19.3%) and the Top 8, where it holds five seats out of eight.
- Gorica wins with Akali, a Legend with only four players on Day 2: Akali, Rogue Assassin, six Calm and six Fury runes.
- Jayce, Azir, LeBlanc and Master Yi, Wuju Bladesman grow by at least two percentage points between the two days; Irelia is the only top-group deck that loses ground.
- The last Regional Qualifier of 2026 is RQ Los Angeles, September 25-27.
Source: Riot Games – Singapore’s Top Decks. Images: Riot Games.
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