Game 1
TheShy opened Worlds 2025 with a solo kill on Doran. Gumayusi was already moving for a lane swap, which let him trade the kill back on TheShy and steady the map state.
IG leaned on objective tempo, stacking dragons and securing the soul. With Corki also coming online, they used long-range poke to keep T1 off contested areas and threatened mid-game fights.
Around Baron, T1 finally found the engage they wanted. They won the fight, secured the Baron, and swung tempo in their favor. With the map opened, Faker’s Taliyah punished IG during the Baron siege, finding two picks that broke IG’s last hold and sealed the game for T1.
Gametime: 34:21
🔵 IG Loss
❌ Bans
Team Comp
TheShy
2/6/1
Wei
3/2/3
RooKie
3/2/4
GALA
1/1/4
meiko
0/4/3
T1 Win 🔴
Bans ❌
Team Comp
Doran
1/3/8
Oner
4/2/8
Faker
4/1/5
Gumayusi
5/1/7
Keria
1/2/11
Game 2
Fearless Draft has been introduced to Worlds and we already saw what it means in this game 2. Faker picked Akali into Rookie’s Orianna, a tough lane where the plan was to go even early. By 15 minutes IG held a small lead, yet Faker was 3/0/2 and ahead in the matchup.
T1 pushed tempo, but IG denied the good angles for Gumayusi’s Miss Fortune and traded well in skirmishes. At Atakhan, Faker found a solo kill on Rookie that swung momentum back toward T1.
The game hinged on teamfights. T1 won a teamfight 4-for-1, but Wei’s Wukong answered with a four-man Cyclone in the next fight to secure Baron for IG. T1 stalled the baron push with a bot-lane flank. But on the 2nd Baron IG picked off Oner near the next setup, took the second Baron, and ended to tie the series 1–1.
Gametime: 37:39
🔵 IG Win
❌ Bans
Team Comp
TheShy
4/1/8
Wei
5/2/14
RooKie
8/2/15
GALA
7/4/12
meiko
1/5/21
T1 Loss 🔴
Bans ❌
Team Comp
Doran
4/6/6
Oner
1/6/9
Faker
7/3/3
Gumayusi
2/4/4
Kero
0/6/9
Game 3
IG put TheShy on his signature Rumble, and with Smolder locked they lane-swapped him into Doran’s Galio top to stack safely.
At six minutes the first big skirmish erupted around Drake. T1 edged it 3-for-2, then re-engaged after a reset to secure the objective. Oner’s Xin Zhao spiked to 5/0/3 by eight minutes.
Rookie’s Hwei outpaced Faker’s Annie, building more than a 2k individual lead by 15 minutes. The jungle was the real gap though. With Oner dictating pace, T1 controlled space and stacked Drakes, reaching soul point at 19 minutes.
Once Smolder hit 225 stacks, IG finally had the damage to contest. They halted T1’s Baron setup and claimed two Drakes off Gala’s burst. T1 then picked off Wei at Baron and secured the first Baron power play of the game, but the real decider was the next Drake fight: T1 were on soul point and IG already had two.
IG started the Drake, but Gumayusi secured the soul and then shredded IG’s backline in the teamfight, sealing the win and putting T1 on series point.
Gametime: 35:26
🔵 T1 Win
❌ Bans
Team Comp
Doran
3/1/11
Oner
10/1/11
Faker
4/4/15
Gumayusi
10/3/8
Keria
0/2/21
IG Loss 🔴
Bans ❌
Team Comp
TheShy
2/8/1
Wei
1/7/7
RooKie
5/3/4
GALA
3/2/1
meiko
0/7/4
Game 4
Fearless Draft shone in the late series. TheShy locked Varus top, a curveball that set the tone from the start. But it was not in the toplane that we got action first.
Mid lane turned chaotic early. A Keria gank went wrong and Meiko finished off Faker’s LeBlanc. Once T1 hit level 6, they hit back hard, spending four ultimates to drop Rookie’s Sylas. IG mirrored on the top side, burning four ults to kill Doran’s Ornn and claim first turret.
IG’s scrappy comp found the first fights, but once T1’s scaling kicked in the skirmishes flipped. By 23 minutes, after a drawn out brawl at Atakhan, the game had 36 total kills with T1 up 23-13.
T1 had reached soul point and built a 4.5k gold lead, tightening their grip on the map. They then won the decisive mid lane fight to close the series 3–1, with Gumayusi landing arrow after arrow on Ashe.
Gametime: 27:02
🔵 IG Loss
❌ Bans
Team Comp
TheShy
2/6/3
Wei
6/7/2
RooKie
2/4/7
GALA
2/5/5
meiko
0/7/10
T1 Win 🔴
Bans ❌
Team Comp
Doran
2/3/19
Oner
6/3/16
Faker
8/2/9
Gumayusi
10/2/12
Keria
3/3/18
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