Players like Canna will be the key to T1's success. While stats certainly aren’t everything, those are still incredibly impressive numbers. who are themselves over 1500 gold ahead of the third-placed team.
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It shows up in the stats as well: T1 have the highest Turrets taken at 15 minutes, the fastest average game time, and the highest Gold Difference at 15 minutes of 3617, which is full 750+ gold ahead of second-place DK. T1 look like the most dominant early game team in the world right now, demolishing teams pre-15 minutes to secure insurmountable gold leads on key carries Kim “Canna” Chang-dong and Lee “Gumayusi” Min-hyeong. They emerged from Group B as first place, dropping only a single game to the LPL’s EDG, who were and are considered a tournament favourite. (Picture: Riot Games / Getty Images)Īnd to be blunt? T1 fans should come into this playoff series confident. T1's path through the Group Stage was almost perfect, but dominant. First up, they will have to take down HLE. They will need to do a lot more than that, though, if they want to secure another World Championship. Even so, they managed to take a game off of reigning world champs and current LCK champions, DWG KIA, in the finals this summer.
In 2021, they are looking to add a fourth title to the organisation and Faker’s name.īesides, it wasn’t easy to get here, as this roster is currently their 11th permutation seen this year, and they fired their coaches just before the LCK Playoffs. To put it in context, most of T1’s lineup would have been 11 when Faker won his first Worlds title in 2013.
T1’s team is full of rookies with fire and mechanics to spare, with Faker taking on the role of veteran presence within the roster.