The Telecom War had its place in the League of Legends (LoL) Worlds 2025 Finals as T1 and KT Rolster (KT) faced off. The long-running rivalry between the two organizations is storied and only continues to grow with the five-game series that saw T1 emerging victorious 3-2 and T1 achieving their dream of a three-peat. Despite the two entering as the LCK’s lowest seeds, the two LoL Worlds veteran organizations went on to battle in the Grand Final.
T1 entered Worlds 2025 led by Hall of Legends inductee and five (now six)-time world champion “Unkillable Demon King” Faker (Sang-hyeok Lee), and consisting of an almost fully in-tact team from their Worlds 2024 team: Oner (Hyeon-jun Mun), Gumayusi (Min-hyeong Lee), Keria (Min-seok Ryu), and the newest addition, Doran (Hyeon-joon Choi). Their competitors, KT, came in strong with the dominant Bdd (Bo-seong Gwak) leading the way for a team consisting of PerfecT (Seung-min Lee), Cuzz (Woo-chan Moon), deokdam (Dae-gil Seo), and Peter (Yoon-su Jeong).
The first game saw a strong start from KT, who claimed grubs, two drakes, and up 6-1 with a roughly 2k gold lead on T1. Bdd nabbed First Blood as he, Peter, and Cuzz engaged with T1’s Jungler, Oner. However, the team couldn’t find victory during pivotal team fights, and T1 was able to secure a victory.
Bdd on Mel dominated the second game, which also saw KT snatching up Neeko and PerfecT giving a strong performance on Rek’Sai. Throughout the game, T1 made a valiant effort to scale in order to match KT’s dominating gameplay, but they were unable to emerge victorious. KT won game two with a roughly 10.8k gold lead and Bdd finishing with a clean 12/5/6 KDA.
Game three once again saw KT emerging victorious, smashing through T1 with Cuzz’s Mundo. Without the damage to take Mundo down, T1 was unable to find footing and fell to KT. With game three, the champion Mundo had a 100% win-rate for Worlds 2025. (Most notably, in game five of the quarterfinals between T1 and AL, T1 made the decision to have Oner on Mundo in order to prevent AL from picking Mundo. However, Oner did not know much about Mundo’s skills and spent the draft reading tooltips as Coach Tom offered advice for runes and items.)
Match point for KT, game four, saw a stellar performance from Oner who, with clutch smites, was able to claim neutral objectives and overcome KT’s aggressive play. Tempo was strongly in T1’s favor and they saw team fight victories that pushed them to victory.
Game five saw Faker on Galio and Doran on Camille, a strong combo with their synergistic ults, however it also saw Bdd on Smolder. Gumayusi on Miss Fortune would go on to deal massive amounts of damage and help clutch team fights with well-timed ults. Despite Bdd accumulating stacks quickly, he was no match for T1 whose team composition would go on to dominate the game, winning with an almost 13k gold lead.
Both teams put on incredibly spectacular performances throughout the entire five-game series. Bdd undoubtedly had an incredibly strong performance, and KT as a whole is a team who showed great potential and a bright future. Peter and deokdam’s contracts are both ending on November 17th, so fans of KT should keep an eye out. T1, on the other hand, maintained their dominance on the professional League of Legends scene, achieving the first ever Worlds three-peat, and T1 Faker beating the same records he made as SKT T1 Faker, accumulating a total of six career Worlds championships. Gumayusi, who only signs one-year contracts, will see his current window ending on November 17, 2025, which is also when Doran’s will be ending. T1 fans should keep an eye out.
T1’s ADC, Gumayusi, who had a rough beginning to the season, proved everyone wrong and was also the recipient of the World’s MVP Award. Hall of Legends inductee Uzi (Zi-Hao Jian) was there to present the award. His performance as not just Miss Fortune in game five but throughout the series was consistently strong.
LoL Esports YouTube Channel has posted all games from the Worlds 2025 Finals as well as a highlights reel for spectacular plays from the series.
According to Esports Charts, the Worlds 2025 Finals reached peak viewership of 6,737,568 viewers, not including the viewership from co-streamers such as Los Ratones’ Caedrel who co-streamed the Worlds 2025 on Twitch, of which the VOD has accumulated more than 6.1 million views. The entire Worlds 2025 accumulated 133,600,406 hours watched during the 88 hours and 55 minutes of airtime.
The LoL Esports X account announced on November 7, 2025, that Worlds 2026 will be in Allen, TX and New York City, NY in America.