T1 has done what no League of Legends team has ever done before. They beat KT Rolster three to two in the 2025 World Championship Grand Final to complete the first-ever three-peat in the tournament’s history. Faker now has six world titles. Nobody else even has four.
The series started in T1’s favor with a Game one win, but KT stormed back to take Games two and three. For a moment, it looked like the underdogs might actually pull off the upset. T1 had other plans. They won Game four to force a decider and took Game five to close it out.
Game five was textbook T1. They drafted a dive composition built around layered engage tools: Faker on Galio, Doran on Camille, Oner on Pantheon, and Gumayusi on Miss Fortune. KT went for scaling with Smolder and Ziggs, betting they could poke and survive long enough to outscale. They couldn’t.
The turning point came at a mid-game dragon fight. T1 locked down KT with their coordinated engage, and Gumayusi unleashed a devastating Miss Fortune ultimate through the crowd control. KT never recovered. T1 snowballed the lead and closed out the game.
Gumayusi earned Finals MVP for his performance, particularly his teamfight dominance in Games four and five. Oner, Gumayusi, and Keria now have three consecutive world titles each. Faker has six total from 2013, 2015, 2016, 2023, 2024, and 2025.
The numbers are absurd. T1’s core has reached four straight World Finals since 2022, winning the last three. Faker has never been eliminated before semifinals in any Worlds appearance. This run stands alone in League history.
Bdd carried KT throughout the tournament and gave T1 everything they could handle in the final. He played Smolder in Game five and was KT’s best player across all five games. But T1’s experience in high-pressure situations showed when it mattered most.
KT’s historic run falls just short
This was KT Rolster’s first World Championship Final appearance. The Telecom War between T1 and KT is the oldest rivalry in Korean League of Legends, making this matchup even more meaningful.
KT experimented with side-lane focused champions like Yorick and Mordekaiser earlier in the series. They pushed T1 to the brink. But T1’s clutch factor and teamfighting execution in Games four and five proved too much.
T1 will receive championship skins for 2025. Based on Game five, expect Faker’s Galio, Doran’s Camille, Oner’s Pantheon, and Gumayusi’s Miss Fortune to be strong contenders. Riot will confirm the champion selections in the coming months.
