T1 mid laner ‘Faker’ Lee Sang-hyeok has once again proven why he is the greatest League of Legends (LoL) esports player of all time.
On the 27th, T1 defeated Gen. G Esports, also from the LCK, in the semifinals of the 2024 LoL World Championship (hereinafter referred to as Worlds) held in Paris, France, and advanced to the finals.
With this, T1 and the current roster called ‘Geo-Pegu-Ke’ (‘Zeus’ Woo-je Choi, ‘Oner’ Hyun-jun Moon, ‘Faker’ Sang-hyeok Lee, ‘Gumayusi’ Min-hyeong Lee, ‘Keria’ Min-seok Ryu) have made it to the Worlds finals for the third consecutive year with the same roster, an unprecedented record. 슬롯사이트
Despite winning Worlds last year, T1 and the Geo-Pegu-Ke players have been under pressure to prove that they are the ‘best team’ and the ‘best players’ throughout this year.
The biggest factor is that they have lost to Gen. G in the LCK finals four times since the 2022 Summer.
Before this semifinal, T1 had lost 10 matches in a row to Gen.G since their MSI victory in 2023.
However, T1 proved once again why they are the champions by defeating their ‘natural enemy’ Gen.G on the most important stage, Worlds.
In this match, T1 took the most important set 1 and succeeded in taking the initiative.
The ban pick that took advantage of Gen.G’s weakness, who thought that T1 did not prefer mid Yone, was impressive.
When T1 picked Yone on the blue side, Gen.G seemed to be sure that this was Choi Woo-je’s top Yone and took out Renekton.
However, T1 gave Yone to Lee Sang-hyeok and chose top Gragas.
At the beginning of the match, Gen.G tried to dive top, but Choi Woo-je, who chose Gragas with strong tolerance, received it perfectly.
After that, the tight match tilted towards T1’s sharp Baron Nashor try.
T1 then pressed Gen.G and won in 30 minutes.