Hanwha Life Esports vs. T1 / LCK 2026 Season Playoffs - Lower Bracket Final / Post-Match Discussion

[u/Yujin-Ha]

LCK 2026 ROUNDS 3-4

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Hanwha Life Esports 3-1 T1

• HLE moves on the face GEN.G in the LCK Grand Finals. T1 will be the LCK's #3 seed at Worlds 2026.
• Player of the Game: Zeka

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MATCH 1: HLE vs. T1

Winner: Hanwha Life Esports in 48m
Game Breakdown | Runes

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
HLE	bard vi cassiopeia	ksante pantheon	95.9k	19	10	CT4 B5 CT6 B7 CT8 B9 CT11
T1	camille leesin nocturne	nidalee camille	86.8k	13	6	O1 H2 I3 CT10

HLE	19-13-31	vs	13-19-34	T1
Zeus jayce 1	2-1-4	TOP	2-4-8	3 gragas Doran
Kanavi qiyana 2	1-5-5	JNG	4-4-3	3 naafiri Oner
Zeka ryze 1	6-1-8	MID	2-4-8	1 orianna Faker
Gumayusi jhin 4	9-1-2	BOT	5-3-5	2 lucian Peyz
Delight alistar 3	1-5-12	SUP	0-4-10	2 milio Keria

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MATCH 2: T1 vs. HLE

Winner: Hanwha Life Esports in 29m
Game Breakdown | Runes

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
T1	cassiopeia vi leesin	locke akali	56.2k	9	4	I1 O2
HLE	bard nocturne ezreal	nautilus kalista	63.0k	14	9	H3 C4 B5 C6

T1	9-14-20	vs	14-9-39	HLE
Doran rumble 1	0-2-1	TOP	1-2-10	3 galio Zeus
Oner pantheon 1	4-4-5	JNG	1-3-13	1 jarvaniv Kanavi
Faker syndra 2	2-4-1	MID	3-1-5	3 yone Zeka
Peyz yunara 3	3-3-5	BOT	8-1-2	2 caitlyn Gumayusi
Keria lulu 4	0-1-8	SUP	1-2-9	2 karma Delight

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MATCH 3: HLE vs. T1

Winner: T1 in 31m
Game Breakdown | Runes

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
HLE	bard cassiopeia kalista	kled ahri	65.8k	18	7	O2 B5 CT6
T1	camille poppy skarner	shyvana chogath	69.1k	24	7	HT1 H3 CT4

HLE	18-25-60	vs	24-18-62	T1
Zeus olaf 1	4-5-8	TOP	4-1-11	3 ksante Doran
Kanavi leesin 3	9-6-8	JNG	0-6-15	1 vi Oner
Zeka twistedfate 4	2-4-14	MID	10-4-5	3 akali Faker
Gumayusi ashe 2	2-6-13	BOT	9-4-11	2 zeri Peyz
Delight seraphine 1	1-4-17	SUP	1-3-20	2 yuumi Keria

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MATCH 4: T1 vs. HLE

Winner: Hanwha Life Esports in 29m
Game Breakdown | Runes

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
T1	camille missfortune shen	vayne renekton	47.9k	2	2	None
HLE	cassiopeia kalista bard	anivia sylas	63.4k	16	10	I1 M2 H3 O4 O5 B6

T1	2-16-4	vs	16-2-39	HLE
Doran jax 3	0-5-0	TOP	1-0-10	4 gnar Zeus
Oner nocturne 1	1-2-1	JNG	6-2-3	3 chogath Kanavi
Faker azir 3	1-4-0	MID	5-0-7	2 viktor Zeka
Peyz jinx 2	0-2-1	BOT	4-0-6	1 xayah Gumayusi
Keria tahmkench 2	0-3-2	SUP	0-0-13	1 rakan Delight

*Patch 26.16

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This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.

[u/themegabuster123]

T1s strategy of do nothing and pray that peyz can carry just didn't work at all lol.

[u/Pacify_ → u/themegabuster123]

Who is going to do anything in this game? Jax vs Gnar a dead lane. Azir is (wonky) later game scaler in a very strong Viktor lane. Chogath just ate everything. Bot lane is..... Tam Kench/Jinx lol

Nocturne ult was all they had, and when the ult failed to get anything for the first 2 ults, the game was pretty much over.

[u/YGocs → u/Pacify_]

1st picking Nocturne and not drafting around it is next level dogshit drafting.

[u/vegeful → u/Pacify_]

Picking Noc while team is tahm jinx is inting. Especially when enemy pick tank champ so u cant even bully them.

[u/ResponsibleWelcome10 → u/themegabuster123]

Their only game win is from Doran making it work despite peyz repeatedly dashing in and throwing the game btw.

[u/DistractedbyBaddies → u/ResponsibleWelcome10]

These peyz games remind me of his gen g days. Idk if it’s the pressure but he sprints it during playoffs in crucial moments.

[u/Lysandren → u/ResponsibleWelcome10]

Peyz try not to dash into melee range challenge. Difficulty impossible.

[u/South_Spend4541 → u/themegabuster123]

Ngl but Peyz has been so bad this playoffs

[u/staysaltyTSM → u/themegabuster123]

They can do nothing but feeding feast stack like they did is much worse

[u/MC-sama]

Another year, another GENG HLE LCK finals

[u/Aggressive-Cut-3828 → u/MC-sama]

EL CLASSICO GONNA BE SO FUN PLEASE DONT BE A 3-0

[u/ZalpaEZ → u/Aggressive-Cut-3828]

Nah this time is 2024 playoffs again, Geng beat Hle 3-1 in the upper bracket, Hle eliminate T1 3-1 and then win finals 3-2. It’s literally the same script as 2024 even with T1 eliminating Dk 3-1

[u/Nycro_]

Kanavi was the size of a tower by the time Raptor had his first stack

[u/LifeConsequence686 → u/Nycro_]

The funny thing is i think kanavi only had 3(?) Stacks on camps, he was chomping champions and objectives on cooldown basically

[u/soul24423323 → u/LifeConsequence686]

It also helped when his opponent basically did not contest any of the objectives. that's 4 free stacks on drake 😂

[u/Perfect-Positive-321 → u/Nycro_]

this Cho is so obese that America gives him a free burger

[u/Aggressive-Cut-3828 → u/Perfect-Positive-321]

THIS CHO SPEAKS PERFECT ENGLISH???

NOT A WORD OF KOREAN

[u/One_Archer7471 → u/Nycro_]

Gigachad: smite into feast vs. Chud: feast into smite, into finally reading ability description at 14m

[u/Tight_Inflation3153 → u/Nycro_]

My 600lb life Cho'gath VS Chozempic

[u/Curiousoctos]

Imagine being T1 and knowing that you are playing an unplayable game against that giant with wobbly eyes that you have to stare at the whole game

[u/CLGbyBirth → u/Curiousoctos]

Seems like T1 can't play against Cho Gath.

[u/Kalos_Phantom → u/CLGbyBirth]

they keep picking garbage like pantheon and nocturne to frontline and somehow that just doesnt work

its been at least 4+ series of this

[u/Marowalker → u/Kalos_Phantom]

At least the rest of the draft is kinda good… in theory. You can outrange Cho with Jinx and Azir at a late enough time (still needed a frontline tho, overall draft was garbage), but Faker’s brainwashed by Chovybelt and Peyz being Peyzpal this whole series certainly made things a whole lot harder

[u/squishykkura → u/CLGbyBirth]

It’s their ZIGGS 2026

[u/KozuKy16 → u/Curiousoctos]

omnomnom, what is counter strike to a mf CHOMP.

[u/Classic_Foot223]

what is t1 even good at

[u/psykrebeam → u/Classic_Foot223]

Playing for bot lane in 1st 10min

[u/Dear-Cat1260 → u/Classic_Foot223]

babysitting peyz

[u/Dry_Clap_joke → u/Dear-Cat1260]

Legends lowkey was doing it better

[u/NottyShinchan → u/Dry_Clap_joke]

Keria was never a good babysitter anyway; but shackling him to bot is causing T1 games as he is the only insurance this team has for winning if Peyz is not 5k ahead by mid game

[u/Dear-Cat1260 → u/Dry_Clap_joke]

lehends the goat msi mvp fr fr

[u/zOmgFishes → u/Classic_Foot223]

Camping bot so their ADC just runs into the enemy team 3 games in a row...frustrating.

[u/Omnilatent → u/Classic_Foot223]

Glazing Peyz

[u/Moreinius → u/Classic_Foot223]

Worlds. Might actually be the first year they don't win, cause HLE is really strong this year. But we've said that like the past 4 years. So who knows.

[u/NoahsArk19 → u/Moreinius]

This years T1 has gotten eliminated by:

• reverse swept by DK
  
• throw 5k lead against G2
  
• throw like 8k lead against KC

This is the lowest aura iteration of T1

[u/Reaper3693 → u/NoahsArk19]

Clearly you weren't here for Musical Chairs T1 during 2020 - 2021

[u/Cephardrome → u/Reaper3693]

2020 was legit painful to watch

[u/ToplaneVictim67 → u/NoahsArk19]

Ppl compare to last year, but only bo5 loses last year t1 had was against hle and geng

[u/chapichoy9 → u/Moreinius]

hle will somehow have a game 5 banger series against blg gen g or t1 in QF again and go out again

[u/Hangar1984 → u/Moreinius]

"First year they don't win" Bro they haven't won all worlds since 2011, chill out

[u/agiasiauto → u/Classic_Foot223]

Babying botlane for zero return. Meanwhile Guma does his thing as always and HLE rightly wins through their laners.

[u/baelkie → u/Classic_Foot223]

beating DK LO

[u/NoahsArk19 → u/baelkie]

They got reverse swept by DK already this year.

[u/Classic_Foot223 → u/baelkie]

dk might be frauds but they still have more titles than t1 this year

[u/Aggressive-Cut-3828]

KANAVI EXPOSURE THERAPY WORKSSS

[u/Medium_Negotiation85]

T1 were outclassed in almost every sense

[u/Pacify_]

Such a clean game from HLE, didn't ever look close even once. Just flawless game control.

I get T1 were a bit pushed in draft, but man what they ended up getting simply did not work into HLE comp what so ever. I think my biggest question is why you would first pick Nocturne while Chogath is still up.

[u/Cake_is_Great]

Shout-out to HLE for ending the series so I can go watch IG Vs AL

[u/Aggressive-Cut-3828 → u/Cake_is_Great]

thanks for telling me this is up

[u/zOmgFishes]

T1 is like a one trick pony man and once you figure it out the games become easy for HLE. The one game T1 won was on the back of Doran carrying...Of course they blind and weakside him with zero coverage in game 4 while Oner just camps bot.

[u/xSwazyI]

Like the casters said our draft would have gone hard years ago🤣

[u/Cupcake_Warlord]

Everyone's better than Gumayushi until it's time to be better than Gumayushi

[u/Shinhinm → u/Cupcake_Warlord]

Truer words were never spoken

[u/Full_Environment_205 → u/Cupcake_Warlord]

This aged like wine

[u/Manic-Monk → u/Cupcake_Warlord]

This should be top comment, it’s been true for years

[u/No-Night-91 → u/Cupcake_Warlord]

Guma is just like his brother, legendary Starcraft 2 pro Innovation.

Stonecold and does not give af.

Clicks people to death while everyone hypes up Peyz to oblivion.

[u/Fr3nzyy]

the genius strategic minds on T1 drafting 3 losing lanes and nocturne lmao 

[u/acoolrandomusername → u/Fr3nzyy]

Also it’s so obvious when T1 first picks Nocturne teams will just pick a comp Oner can do nothing against

[u/Fr3nzyy → u/acoolrandomusername]

legit, not defending Oners play today but b1 nocturne into xayah/rakan slam and then these are the lanes I have to play with I'd be tilted before the game even started

[u/Ajp_iii → u/Fr3nzyy]

And zero cc which your azir and jinx need to hit off of. The Jax top is so bad in that draft. Oh and they also have zero catch for rakan so rakan can blind w anywhere and never die

[u/skunaed]

I know it's been said countless times, but I'm really impressed with zeka this year

especially compared to last year where lots of people were calling him trash, guess he proved them wrong

[u/shailemin → u/skunaed]

Zeka had stated multiple times that their winter split 10th place finish led to him working the hardest he’s worked in his career, and it shows. 

[u/BleiEntchen]

If game 4 would have gone few more minutes, we would have move to cinemaxx to see full cho.

[u/Jacobcutielie]

Keria sums it up well: Guma helps a lot with the team's mental state.

[u/Aggressive-Cut-3828 → u/Jacobcutielie]

Guma + Zeka + Zeus is literally the most unboomable team ever

Never forget the DRX run STARTING FROM PLAY INS and the EDG reverse sweep

[u/Omnilatent → u/Aggressive-Cut-3828]

I still remember vividly my extreme disbelief when watching that series what Zeka did G3-5 to the REIGNING WORLD CHAMP and finals MVP Scout

[u/AlNorte_DelSur → u/Omnilatent]

While also winning BOTH sides of the Akali - Sylas matchup.

[u/zOmgFishes → u/Jacobcutielie]

T1 never looked this one dimensional in years...Even last year they won game 5 against KT by getting Doran ahead of all things. like Doran was 1-0-2 at 6 mins last year, 2-0-2 at 13 while Guma was 0-0-0. Now it's a miracle if Oner even walks towards his Top laner in the laning phase.

[u/GotTheKush → u/zOmgFishes]

Which is funny cuz I feel like a common complaint of Oner last year was he never walked bot in laning phase.

[u/mattyety → u/GotTheKush]

It was common complaint all years, Oner always played top with Guma on his team.

[u/roxisnotforsale → u/Jacobcutielie]

The first time I notice Guma as more than just one of Faker's minion is when he hug Faker after that incident after game 1 GEN-T1 2024. Usually he seems like a cocky player, but at that time he seems like the most mature one.

[u/wwwhoo]

what does g4 t1 comp even do LOL

[u/toxicfireball → u/wwwhoo]

Lose Lane > Lose Map Control > No damage and instant die

[u/wwwhoo → u/toxicfireball]

dont even think t1 outscales with money. nocturne is a wet paper bag by minute 11

[u/baebushka → u/wwwhoo]

nocturne goes in and gets 1 tapped by the chogath xayah

[u/Curiousoctos → u/wwwhoo]

The champ puddle getting exposed with the playstyle they're forcing themselves into. All/most of the enchanters were out by then, they still had to find a hypercarry for Peyz and a support that can keep him safe, so that's what you got.

[u/Pacify_ → u/Curiousoctos]

Its funny, I think they should have pivoted back to a Mel bot lane or something.

There wasn't many choices left. Ezrael is very meh. I suppose they could have tried a MF/Ziggs angle.

Try Jinx after it looking so homeless last time was definitely a choice. Maybe they had some okay scrim results with it.

[u/Ajp_iii → u/Pacify_]

Ez can atleast fight for lane avoid the slow cc that hle have. But kench is the worst part of that draft. The champ does literally nothing

[u/darkadamski1 → u/Curiousoctos]

It says a lot when HLE literally got an exodia comp and T1 literally just got scraps from the dumpster

[u/TheAlmightyVox3 → u/wwwhoo]

Lose

[u/LieApprehensive4990 → u/wwwhoo]

eggs in peyz basket but the lights were too bright for him

[u/Steeelu → u/LieApprehensive4990]

Peyz giving HLE another free Playoffs win, looking at you summer finals 2024

[u/vegeful → u/wwwhoo]

T1 has show how op is picking tank in game 3. But decide to pick carry champ for Doran at game 4.

Classic T1 draft.

[u/themcvgamer → u/wwwhoo]

they won, if Faker every ult was the Ruler Varus ult

[u/Ashankura → u/wwwhoo]

Nothing. This comp has 1 win con: let's hope the enemy turns his monitor off so we can get a reset

[u/scalarH → u/wwwhoo]

That was looking like Impact Jax

[u/mar33n]

t1 the past called, they want their draft back

kanavi is unc enough to be great on cho

[u/bulletproofikon]

I get that Peyz is a more carry-orientated player and I personally also think he's really gifted, but T1 are too easy read because they play for him too much. If a team neutalizes Peyz then T1 just can't win. It also it puts so much pressure on him to carry. Really feels like HLE are the counters to T1 and Gen. g are the counters to HLE.

[u/Vafireems]

Peyz using two guma skins about sums up this series.

[u/WardoToo]

LMAO, I feel like Faker shouldn't have gone for that play. Literally his former teammate has read him like a book on which angle he might be coming from. Felt like an obvious omega bait that Guma has probably seen that play rehearsed for a hundred+ times already. Feels like game 4 was just giga belt to ass and T1's botlane got astro gapped too. Keria was useless on Tahm Kench, the pick was just not it. Everyone on T1 literally got SMOKED this game.

[u/a7mdar1 → u/WardoToo]

He saw that road being built hundreds of times before he knew where to walk

[u/MedJenk122 → u/WardoToo]

As a comment above said: That aint Ruler

[u/WardoToo → u/MedJenk122]

Never seen Unc get read like a goddamn book. Guma was movin' different, i thought it was a little odd hugging the wall like that, turns out, he probably kinda knew if T1 was hard forcing like that is Faker was coming from behind. Hell, the Nocturne ulti felt hella anticipated too. Almost as if he's daring Oner to dive in.

[u/GodBlessme_exe]

Guma with the GIGA bait, that isnt ruler pal

[u/WardoToo → u/GodBlessme_exe]

That's what I'm saying!!! Like, Did you see how he weaved that? Literally a 6th sense in knowing which angle Faker is coming from, hugging that wall on botlane was textbook safety movement placement because Faker would need to over reach to try and get to him with the ulti shuffle.

[u/TheAlmightyVox3 → u/GodBlessme_exe]

You can go for Guma, just be aware that he might be the one going for you.

[u/staysaltyTSM → u/GodBlessme_exe]

Delight really charmed everyone there that faker raged flash divide

[u/EliteTeutonicNight → u/staysaltyTSM]

He might be up and down this year, but Delight Rakan is always chef's kiss.

[u/a7mdar1 → u/staysaltyTSM]

He was actually running away from them cause of nocturne's ult

[u/QiuQiu0 → u/GodBlessme_exe]

I know they lost that game but in g3 he really big dicked on Doran and Peyz mid lol

[u/Skyfire2 → u/GodBlessme_exe]

Doesnt even get caught on mid wave smh

[u/Celegorm07]

I’m happy it’s HLE in the finals so it can be competitive. T1 would get cooked against GENG

[u/kosaki16 → u/Celegorm07]

I dont wanna watch unc get giga gapped by chovy again

[u/xsm17]

Nom nom nom

[u/Choice-Slight]

apart from some slip ups in game 3, this series looked so easy for HLE. really well played especially from the botlane who were an absolute rock

[u/Fluffy-Limit-6710]

I am starting to think you can't give chogath to kanavi. Overall HLE clearly the better team. Hopefully we'll get 5 games final.

[u/Mammoth_Shallot_2595]

how do you cook up that kind of draft with series on the line..

[u/bedsheetsniffer → u/Mammoth_Shallot_2595]

They realized they couldn't get 4th seed so 3rd is the next best thing

[u/Dashster360]

We are so fucking outmatched bruh

[u/fnc_dino]

kanavi was on pace of 2min/stack lol

[u/W33B520]

Isn't this the 2nd time T1 pick jinx Vs knavi cho?

[u/lohohohoho → u/W33B520]

That’s right, in the same playoffs, where T1 got boomed by HLE in game 5 in the prev meetup to complete a 3-2 reverse sweep.. you think T1 will learn but nah

[u/aemon3041]

Oh god, T1 really only have 1 strategy do they ?

[u/blueaxis-dev]

They should've ff'd game 3 if they were gonna play like this

[u/a7mdar1]

Jinx tahm? Where are we 2023? Gone the days of keria making tik toks on tahm

[u/yleee___]

Guma is built different man. This guy is so underrated.

[u/trumpisapdf → u/yleee___]

Imo he's the only ZOGK member who didn't benefit a lot from Faker's clutchness, in the sense that he already seemed super clutch/calm from the beginning. Even at his first worlds (2021) as a 19 yr old he already looked like he had ice in his veins.

[u/rem4life1 → u/trumpisapdf]

iirc he debuted in a worlds qualifier match, dude is made for the bright lights

[u/tarubtikels → u/yleee___]

But they always said at the start of the year, peyz is the missing link to T1's roster.....

[u/kanonshiomi → u/tarubtikels]

i distinctively remember at the start of the year with kespa cup t1 fans said "we finally got a zeri player to carry" well look how that zeri player is doing for them

[u/No-Night-91 → u/yleee___]

But I was told by Reddit that Keria was carrying Guma and Peyz was exactly what T1 needed in an ADC.

Was Reddit lying to me?

[u/DivineEchoes → u/No-Night-91]

95% of us here are gold or below. We have ZERO idea what Guma brings to the table. B-b-but Peyz Zeri goes BRRRRR so he must be the better player!

Guma unlocked Keria's full potential. With Peyz, the support GOAT is nothing but a babysitter.

[u/MrSangHyeok]

Guma once again doing highest damage in 3 out of 4 games on low resources. But yea let's forget about him.

[u/Luvkingdom → u/MrSangHyeok]

But T1 fans called him passenger adc and how Peyz was the last piece of puzzle the team needed to win LCK

[u/Needmoreshinies]

2nd time HLE played Kanavi Chogath into Peyz Jinx and it worked exactly the same way

[u/chikyu8]

No exaggeration and copium. They will not win Worlds this year.

[u/DankMEMeDream]

T1 and getting assblasted by Cho. Name a more iconic duo.

[u/omega_blister]

Deserved win. Way better team overall.

Also, a poor performance on Azir by the 🐐

[u/ToplaneVictim67]

My lord, once delight online series felt way easier, geng big favourites, but if delight keep this form for tomorrow theres chences for hle

[u/Jhinster101]

It doesn't matter how far behind in gold Guma is from Peyz. He always finds a way to make an impact.

[u/ResponsibleWelcome10]

Statement series from Peyz.

Singlehandedly shutting up everyone calling him the best player in the world.

[u/Aggressive-Cut-3828 → u/ResponsibleWelcome10]

Im a big mind the gap enjoyer but my god vedius saying peyz is the most impressive while he doesnt watch lck really irks me

[u/Aggressive-Cut-3828]

DELIGHT RUNNING CIRCLES AROUDN THEM LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[u/WardoToo → u/Aggressive-Cut-3828]

The duality on which Delight you'll get from HLE is baffling. Brother can be out there looking like prime Beryl or be sprinting it down like Peter.

[u/a7mdar1 → u/WardoToo]

He can be prime beryl or prime retiring beryl

[u/Reaper3693 → u/a7mdar1]

HLE Rammus would go hard

[u/GreatSunshine → u/Reaper3693]

orange tank skin would unironically be an insta buy for me

[u/toxicfireball]

Delight and Kanavi actually ran circles around T1

[u/chikyu8]

Tom: "Sorry I apologize for my draft. I will do better next time (recycled comment all year)"

[u/D_Dayz]

Least biased casters

[u/OviaElNoob]

Everyone is better than Guma, until they have to be better than Guma

[u/YGocs]

Putting your eggs into the Oner basket and he didnt do shit he whole fcking game.

[u/YourOpinionlsDumb → u/YGocs]

The whole series*

[u/Xsodia432 → u/YGocs]

you meant this whole split

[u/staysaltyTSM → u/Xsodia432]

he did something last split?

[u/williamson41]

Reminder that Delight is 11-5 against keria in B05. Delight is one of the only support who has consistently showed up against keria in his entire career.

[u/tvsklqecvb → u/williamson41]

I need this Delight against GenG tomorrow XD

[u/Prince_Arcann → u/williamson41]

He has also been historically very underwhelming vs GENG, let's hope tomorrow he shows up again

[u/Dear-Cat1260]

i know t1, i miss zofgk too thats some zofgk ahh comp

[u/KozuKy16 → u/Dear-Cat1260]

those days where keria plays tahm like an engage champ, fun times.

[u/nerd_reader_5159 → u/Dear-Cat1260]

you are keria, yet this is not T1

[u/Ajp_iii]

Btw t1 hasn’t beaten hle since April 4th. They are just so bad midgame and all of hle is so good midgame. They’ve been worse than hle almost all year but people keep trying to sell that t1 can compete with them.

T1 has a massive champion pool/limited play style options. They don’t scale into a series at all. And this is all on top of not knowing which fights are good or not midgame. The only time their mid games are good is if keria is ahead and can force the picks midgame to make.

Not going senna naut or ez Leona game 4 is trolling. Kench jinx does nothing and they have zero cc or engage in their comp. Rakan can literally never get caught. 4 games zero engage champs for keria is reportable.

Worlds format group stage benefits them but unless they learn multiple styles of comps they will lose in playoffs

[u/Nefib → u/Ajp_iii]

They are just so bad midgame

It's been obvious for so long. Getting memed as the "circus" has unfortunately fooled a lot of people for far too long. Even when they were looking a lot stronger (relatively) earlier in the season their clean games were few and far in between. Now with their topside just progressively playing worse and worse as the season goes on their games are just outright hard.

HLE and GenG are obviously insanely good teams, but they're also just really bad matchups for T1 because of their solo lanes. Their drafts also don't do them many favors; I've said for a long time that T1 gets very low value out of their B1/R5 picks, and now that their topside is struggling that issue is even more prevalent.

[u/CheeseCakez1191 → u/[deleted]]

that’s what happened when you have to play champs that can babysit peyz 24/7

Like Keria having to play Milio, Lulu, yuumi and tahm for the entire series? yeah just pack it up

[u/Aggressive-Cut-3828 → u/CheeseCakez1191]

I said this forever ago that having a hypercarry is just bad for this team thats built around keria roaming as a result of guma 1v2ing bottom lane and that t1 are gonna struggle trying to play thru bottom lane

[u/Fluffy-Limit-6710 → u/CheeseCakez1191]

Guma stock climbs with every T1 peyz game

[u/Pacify_ → u/Ajp_iii]

. They are just so bad midgame

Yeah, T1's midgame has become a liability somehow. Its quite a change, usually its when they manage to take games.

T1 has a massive champion pool/limited play style options

I feel like they are limiting themself. The Gwen/Blitz/Jhin/Qiyana game showed they actually can do other things, but instead they just keep pushing the same style comps no matter what

[u/chacharat → u/Ajp_iii]

some people said earlier this game that T1 will be more flexible since they got better adc… but guess what

[u/YellowShallot]

Let's let Cho scale for free we surely can kill him later

[u/MidEUW]

This last draft was so bad by T1 idk e What happened

[u/nucc_164]

T1 drafted for 2023 lmao

[u/Omnilatent]

GUMA

IS JUST

BETTER

[u/tarubtikels → u/Omnilatent]

When peyz glazers always say "Thank god we have peyz". They haven't even got any trophies yet and their disrespecting their previous adc like that 💀

[u/T-Impala → u/Omnilatent]

They said Guma was the problem 😂.

[u/Cupcake_Warlord → u/T-Impala]

The problem is that we all love to see ADCs pop off but hypercarry specialists just don't win at the highest level. Go look at the winners of every international for the past 10 years and then look at the champs they are playing. Utility ADCs who can go even and teamfight well are just infinitely more valuable to a team because putting resources into topside gives you infinitely better macro options in the midgame.

[u/BeautifulIncome5 → u/T-Impala]

Even if guma win his 4th consec worlds those clowns will think peyz is better

[u/Zeilar → u/BeautifulIncome5]

Crazy that it's very likely someone will win their 4th consecutive Worlds. And if HLE win, Zeus would also join the very exclusive 3-Worlds-titles club.

[u/Useful-Pension-7554]

Somebody tell Easyhoon it's not 2015 anymore with those drafts. He needs to catch up...

[u/beautiful-love]

I didnt know it was delights birthday but I would have voted him for POM. He did great

[u/irihime]

Keria completely invisible this series

[u/Fluffy-Limit-6710 → u/irihime]

Hands too full with babysitting to show up to work

[u/mercury4l → u/irihime]

I’m not sure what you expect him to do when he is drafted Milio Lulu Yuumi Kench

[u/AlphaStark08]

"Everyone is better than guma until it's time to be better than guma" never gets old lmao

[u/SSSantaclaws]

This is why you don't let go of your best players guys. At least not to the same team.

[u/Luvkingdom → u/SSSantaclaws]

Guma wanted to leave, but T1 fans shit talking about Guma who won final MVP at their last worlds saying they finally got an adc who can play hyper carry is the fked up part 

[u/trumpisapdf]

T1's bot centric strat just doesn't work against the best teams, it's so predictable and easy to shut down. It's just an antiquated way to play.

[u/Historical_Pitch9610]

0/2 jinx using gumayusi skin against gumayusi. the close up zoom on jinx recall really sums this whole series 

[u/chapichoy9]

welp t1 got a lot to work on if they want the 4peat

[u/hazman_pds]

Picking Azir in big 2026 :

[u/Bullshitbanana]

The most 4-0 3-1 series ever

[u/T-Impala]

Transaction complete. Thank you Peyzpal

[u/Dreammy90]

Old ass draft from T1. JonnaStrong Classic

[u/calindu]

Cho mains are sweating right now

[u/viktorayy]

WEIRD how there was a 4-0 in a bo5 but good job HLE 👍

[u/nearlygrean]

GG HLE better than T1 every games in this series.

[u/CLGbyBirth]

HLE was just the better team T1's either gameplan was just Peyz. There were no threats from T1 not to mention draft diff.

[u/Motor_Leadership7005]

hle is just the better team currently they are outperformimg t1 on every level

[u/slb0716]

> ban bard every game against Keria
> win

Who could’ve thought of this strategy?

[u/Shuoh]

t1 may have lost but these casters and analysts seem to have taken it harder than the players themselves

mfs sounded distraught

praying for them rn

[u/Performensch]

Oner will need therapy after what Kanavi did to him this series.

[u/MendaciousPretension → u/Performensch]

HLE all played well, but Kanavi gap was real

[u/EffectiveType1]

How could my heckin wholesome circus do this to me?

[u/keiosf]

First in my generation to see T1 becoming the anti-clutch team now 🤣

[u/baelkie]

god bless LCK for changing the salary cap changes so T1 cant get fisted by this HLE in 2027, they truly are T1’s biggest fans

[u/Skyfire2 → u/baelkie]

HLE can just tank the luxury tax

[u/antoniomargaretti4 → u/Skyfire2]

they got the tanks too tank the luxury tax

[u/viktorayy → u/Skyfire2]

literal parent company is an insurance company. fuck you money is the default for these companies sadly.

[u/Dreammy90 → u/baelkie]

Well HLE can afford the cap. GENG is hit the most

[u/Pelagius_Hipbone → u/baelkie]

TL:DR of the changes?