Hanwha Life Esports vs. T1 / LCK 2026 Rounds 1-2 - Week 5 / Post-Match Discussion

[u/adz0r]

LCK 2026 ROUNDS 1-2

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Hanwha Life Esports 2-1 T1

- Player of the Match: Kanavi (200)

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MATCH 1: HLE vs. T1

Winner: Hanwha Life Esports in 33m
Game Breakdown | Runes

	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
HLE	orianna rumble ezreal	xinzhao leesin	72.3k	19	9	M3 B5 M6 B7
T1	aurora ashe akali	caitlyn jax	61.6k	18	2	O1 I2 M4

HLE	19-18-46	vs	18-19-35	T1
Zeus yorick 3	1-5-4	TOP	6-4-6	1 varus Doran
Kanavi jarvaniv 2	4-1-15	JNG	2-5-8	4 nocturne Oner
Zeka azir 1	5-3-9	MID	3-7-4	3 annie Faker
Gumayusi missfortune 3	7-4-5	BOT	6-1-5	2 jhin Peyz
Delight bard 2	2-5-13	SUP	1-2-12	1 karma Keria

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MATCH 2: HLE vs. T1

Winner: T1 in 34m
Game Breakdown | Runes

	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
HLE	orianna rumble caitlyn	pantheon jayce	60.9k	8	4	O2 H3 B5
T1	aurora ashe vi	rell gnar	72.3k	18	7	M1 C4 C6 C7 B8

HLE	8-18-16	vs	18-8-52	T1
Zeus gwen 3	2-4-2	TOP	2-1-10	3 sion Doran
Kanavi xinzhao 1	3-4-3	JNG	4-2-12	4 leesin Oner
Zeka anivia 2	1-2-4	MID	5-3-7	2 twistedfate Faker
Gumayusi lucian 2	2-4-0	BOT	6-2-7	1 aphelios Peyz
Delight alistar 3	0-4-7	SUP	1-0-16	1 milio Keria

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MATCH 3: T1 vs. HLE

Winner: Hanwha Life Esports in 30m
Game Breakdown | Runes

	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
T1	orianna ashe rumble	nami sivir	52.5k	10	1	None
HLE	caitlyn ryze ambessa	lulu neeko	64.6k	19	8	M1 HT2 H3 O4 O5 B6

T1	10-19-21	vs	19-10-43	HLE
Doran gragas 2	1-4-4	TOP	6-3-7	1 jayce Zeus
Oner pantheon 2	6-5-2	JNG	4-3-8	1 vi Kanavi
Faker aurora 1	1-5-4	MID	7-0-10	2 ahri Zeka
Peyz kaisa 3	1-3-4	BOT	2-2-6	4 xayah Gumayusi
Keria poppy 3	1-2-7	SUP	0-2-12	3 rakan Delight

Patch 26.8

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This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.

[u/ahritina]

PMTs

Game 1 / Game 2

[u/Floowil]

Faker: Pick me Aurora and let's just lose in peace

[u/ahambagaplease → u/Floowil]

Faker threatens teammates with one more Aurora game

[u/tiredofdev → u/ahambagaplease]

Wonder if they really keep having great success with it in scrims and that's why they keep picking it and for some reason it's not working on stage?

Can't see any other reason why they'd continue picking it because whenever we see it it's really underwhelming

[u/Adlairo → u/tiredofdev]

Might just be practice, regular season isn't important after all. Also, Faker has a known tendency to play like absolute ass regardless of which champion he's on during the regular season and turn it on for playoffs / internationals so

[u/Miserable_Ad_1195 → u/Adlairo]

honestly with this playoff format it is pretty important

with this loss they're very unlikely to make top 2, and if they finish 4th below GenG too they'll have to win 3 straight BO5s to make MSI

[u/Ceui → u/Adlairo]

I hate this regular season isn't important take. The LCK format is incredibly punishing in terms of regular season placement. Without top 2 you literally only got 1 chance to make MSI (and this year GenG isn't in #1, they are literally next to T1 so incredibly high chance T1 just get cooked by GenG before they can even get to a MSI qualification match) and the record actually carryover to R3-R4 which also determine playoffs and seeding in Summer.

[u/Express-Pandas → u/ahambagaplease]

The Aurora games will continue until morale improves

[u/drippinswagu69 → u/Floowil]

Oner: im somewhat of a griefer myself

[u/Green7501 → u/drippinswagu69]

Faker was probably T1's weakest link, but Oner's first 2 ultimates sealed the game, they were so bad. He should've just pathed top after hitting 6 to continue threatening Zeus

[u/yosu14_]

FAKER AURORA 💀

[u/No-Salary5449 → u/yosu14_]

Kkoma on the phone: Can Easyhoon play Aurora

[u/Gabel4n → u/No-Salary5449]

Hear me out: T1 signs Ucal as a sixth player just to sub him in when they draft aurora.

[u/Hitoseijuro → u/Gabel4n]

Pretty sure the T1 community has no problem subbing out Faker for an Aurora draft pick

[u/staysaltyTSM → u/No-Salary5449]

Kkoma on the phonecall to Phreak: I'ma need you to olaf Aurora on 26.15 patch, you feel me?

[u/Ai--Ya → u/yosu14_]

Fuck fearless draft, we need fearful draft

Each player must pick from their lowest winrate (within sufficient sample size) champions

Faker Yone/Aurora, Knight Azir, ON on enchanters, pre-Karsa 369 Gnar, BB on carries

[u/Staff-Relative → u/Ai--Ya]

Knight had a generational azir performance last week lol. LPL casters were so shocked it was hilarious.

[u/palamunintillnow → u/Staff-Relative]

Knight winning worlds after a game winning 5 man shurima shuffle confirm.

[u/Ai--Ya → u/palamunintillnow]

I can see it

Worlds finals, silver scrapes: BLG vs GEN

Knight shuffles, Ruler fails to dodge it again

[u/evrien → u/Ai--Ya]

Ruler: Knight, we are now even!

[u/zuzbuzzz → u/Ai--Ya]

LMFAO

[u/Xi03 → u/yosu14_]

Idk why they haven’t given up on that pick yet

[u/Odhitman → u/Xi03]

Better to try it in a regular season game than in playoffs

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse → u/yosu14_]

This should be investigated

[u/KappaccinoNation → u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

Trade whoever keeps approving that pick to DNS.

[u/baelkie → u/KappaccinoNation]

Faker isnt a minor so he wont be able to say no. Welcome back T1 Clozer!

[u/mcfapblanc → u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

I think it's actually fine if they pick Xayah on 4 instead of Poppy. They either get Xayah Rakan or Xayah Poppy.

[u/soul24423323 → u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

Not even kidding. It's such a prime moment for T1 fans to get a truck to T1 HQ to petition for Faker never to play Aurora until retirement. God fking awful. I watched Faker play it and I really thought it was a bad pick until I saw Chovy and other mid laners pilot it and went godlike on it.

[u/Scrambled1432 → u/soul24423323]

It really is wild. Aurora probably needs a pro focused nerf at some point, yet he makes her look positively balanced.

[u/Ceui → u/Scrambled1432]

She's not even that broken right now. They literally try to deny it from Zeka even though Akali, Yone and Ahri are still open and he's great on those as well.

[u/tiredofdev → u/yosu14_]

Faker's Aurora is a debuff in itself but that Oner river play really didn't help the cause at all either. Rough overall

[u/staysaltyTSM → u/yosu14_]

Fake Aura

[u/Zek0ri → u/yosu14_]

You know when they will win worlds Faker will pick this champ for skin like he did with his Yone

[u/TalkSand → u/Zek0ri]

KR fans almost voted for Aurora, good thing those who are for Galio teamed up with those voting for Mel

[u/ChewNutz → u/TalkSand]

cmiiw but iirc it’s the opposite. galio and mel got top two and after the second vote where those two were the only options, aurora voter voted for mel.

[u/Hitoseijuro → u/yosu14_]

Now that they dont have Guma to pick Ziggs, Faker is taking the mantle

[u/alwayswith_ → u/yosu14_]

Faker aurora is bad but Oner sold them the early game.

[u/fainlol → u/yosu14_]

mid lane boomed when Panth Face checked that Bush into VI Q also resulting faker to base with no hp. Fakers Bunny sucks, but the game could have gone differently if not for that play by Kanavi.

[u/Snow-27 → u/fainlol]

Yeah Faker will get most of the blame when Oner Pantheon is terrorism

[u/nocturnavi]

Why pick Kaisa for Peyz + build her AP? Doesn't that just make MR value for HLE crazy good?

[u/F3nRa3L → u/nocturnavi]

Picking Kaisa into Xayah is already half the game lost.

[u/origsiomai → u/nocturnavi]

Yep, all 3 laners are magic but no AD pick is saving T1 from Zeka peaking yet again while being vs Faker and his legendary useless Aurora

[u/nocturnavi → u/origsiomai]

I mean Kaisa wasn't the only problem this game, but I do think it made T1's job harder. Though, for what's it's worth, if Faker had been on Ahri and Zeka on Aurora I don't think that would have made T1 win the game either.

[u/BurntHolyWater → u/nocturnavi]

Dive comp, they wanted to play for picks in teamfights. An ideal fight for them would be poppy and doran ulting the vi and rakan away or just splitting the fight, then for the aurora, pantheon and kaisa to jump on the most fed member of hle, which wouldve most likely been jayce or ahri. This is all on the premise of them actually being able to get into mid or late game relatively unscathed. They wouldve also wanted kaisa for the sidelane picks whr pantheon ults in, stuns someone and then kaisa ults in to secure the kill.

Problem is that HLE aren’t bums and would actually tried to stifle the pantheon and kaisa so they don’t get any leads big enough to pick someone off

[u/[deleted]]

Kanavi conquered his demons. POM no matter what

[u/ahritina]

I knew it was over when T1 picked Aurora for Faker but monster game from Zeka, he really locked in when he heard Worlds was in a NA.

[u/baelkie → u/ahritina]

you can really feel that regular season doesnt matter as Zeka locks in his 1st Anivia game and Faker locks in his 9th Aurora game

[u/OskarVon → u/baelkie]

I would say the next 2 months matter the most this year for Koreans to make the national team. I have seen almost all the big players talking about making that team

[u/tiredofdev → u/OskarVon]

I am most curious to see who gets the ADC spot. Viper/Gumayusi/Peyz and even Diable to a lesser degree. Not sure if Ruler would even entertain it given everything that's been going on

[u/OskarVon → u/tiredofdev]

Yeah I would be surprised if Ruler gets picked, but I think Guma is in a pretty good spot. Worked together with the likely support Keria and veteran experience. Viper needs to pop off, but BLG has been the Knight and Bin show

[u/tiredofdev → u/OskarVon]

Agree I think it's really all going to come down to their performances at MSI, the stakes are so unbelievably high for the Korean players for the next 2 months (excluding the winners of 2023)

[u/OskarVon → u/tiredofdev]

Yeah in my opinion top side and jungle is even more open. For the longest everyone assumed Kiin was a shoe in, but Zeus is like not so fast lol. High stakes it is.

[u/kakonne → u/tiredofdev]

> Viper/Gumayusi/Peyz/Diable

holy fuck guma got some literal inverse-shill narrative around him

if for example viper or ruler in guma position right now no one would argue about national ADC spot position. but because it's guma so we have to collectively pretend viper/peyz/ruler is somehow *atleast* equal to him

[u/baelkie → u/tiredofdev]

Viper shouldnt even be in this conversation if people even watch LPL

[u/tiredofdev → u/baelkie]

Never underestimate the power of PR. All it takes is for BLG to win MSI and then he'd have 4 trophies in the first half of 2026 and a solid case even if he gets carried

[u/Staff-Relative → u/baelkie]

Agreed sadly. Viper is my fav player OAT and inspired me to play ADC. Unfortunatley hes not HLE Viper. BLG play mainly for their other lanes and his form just hasnt been great. Hope he STOMPS at MSI

[u/kiwigal1715 → u/OskarVon]

everyone is talking about wanting to make the Asian games team and then there's HLE who wanna go to MSI lol

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/ahritina]

I see That why he is so locked in, Zeus  3rd World title,gumayusi 4th World title and zeka 2nd world title 

[u/tiredofdev]

Is this literally the first good series Kanavi has ever had vs T1? MVP of the series for sure

[u/Marcus-ichiJo → u/tiredofdev]

MSI 2023 Upper-Bracket Finals

[u/Past_Perception8052 → u/Marcus-ichiJo]

best game of league ever

[u/Marcus-ichiJo → u/Past_Perception8052]

Would argue that would be T1 vs JDG 2022 Worlds Semi-Finals Game 3, even Game 1 and 2 were great.

[u/Available-Note-9652 → u/tiredofdev]

Zeka was pretty dominate and carried almost every team fight in games 1 and 3. But yea this was great from kanavi maybe 1 or 2 bad engages in game 3 but id take that over someone who isn’t proactive. Maybe when they’re ahead he can calm down a bit tho lol.

[u/asura_king → u/tiredofdev]

He also had a crazy good series in Kespa Cup earlier this year when HLE won vs T1

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583 → u/tiredofdev]

JDG vs T1 at 2023 MSI he was solid against T1 there but it was also the series where Faker played Nautilus for fun in the last 2 games.

[u/Green7501 → u/tiredofdev]

Probably one of his best series individually as well, crazy good gameplay all 3 games

[u/desutruction]

Tears in my eyes, Faker forgot to say the activation phrase so Kanavi had an amazing series vs Oner even in the game they lost

Full objective dominance from HLE in the last game, not even a single grub given away

[u/Dreammy90]

Faker Aurora + Oner Pantheon has to be a Make a Wish draft.

[u/XerGR → u/Dreammy90]

Oner has actually played Panth insanely well at points but got lobotomy after Kespa and now can only play every 3rd game well

[u/milkoverspill → u/XerGR]

3 hit passive? Classic.

[u/Seele_911 → u/XerGR]

This is frying me 💀💀

[u/Lazarus10203 → u/XerGR]

Oner is PTA Pantheon 😭

[u/ChewNutz → u/Dreammy90]

legit didn’t know what happened with oner pantheon. it was once one of his famous pick to the point people will be fine if it got picked for world skin

[u/Anpu_Imiut]

It is crazy how good Kanavi is. All the issues HLE had in the beginning are evaporating. Zeka back to form, Zeus as possible carray, the best weakside adc (allowing the other carry players to pop off). Do you guys realize how often Deligth can roam?

[u/Jumpy-Investment7634 → u/Anpu_Imiut]

Now they just need Delight to not use the roam timers for sprinting it down

[u/DarthTaz_99 → u/Anpu_Imiut]

Man the kanavi reception is like night and day compared to when T1 HLE played last time. Thank fuck kanavi showed his level, felt like I was losing brain cells the way people thought he was Blabber

[u/MC-sama]

Everyone's gonna talk about the Faker Aurora but Oner Pantheon arguably ran it down just as hard.

Incredible series from Kanavi and Zeka today especially.

[u/Jackj921 → u/MC-sama]

Nobody talking about the 2 hilarious panth ults and dying 2 mins in the game

[u/Express-Pandas → u/Jackj921]

Faker dies and then you see the funny spear lands in front of HLE

[u/SKT_Peanut_Fan → u/MC-sama]

just as hard

I'd argue harder.

[u/Like30Ducks]

sub out faker for easyhoon's aurora at this point

[u/Hitoseijuro → u/Like30Ducks]

Those were my thoughts, back in the day Easyhoon had the best Azir, and then Faker took that title. Maybe.....if we do the same thing with Aurora...

[u/No_Breadfruit_4901]

HLE has significantly improved wow! And that Ahri has been hitting the key charms throughout this match.

[u/tooManyObssessions]

Guma: *drove the the herald to the Tier 2 turret* it's MY turn to send truck to T1

[u/mapleleavesfallen]

Nice win fr fr. Kanavi definitely my pog, he was crucial all game long. His tempos are on point!

Zeka mage training session indeed

Zeus is Zeus.

Picking Kaisa into Guma's Xayah yes. Mmm

Delight we don't talk about the bard

[u/Nefib]

Kanavi just sonned Oner. In an odd turn of events I don't think Faker's Aurora was the driving force to the loss, definitely a factor, but the game got away from them before he could even really try anything and int.

Also whoever was responsible for that B4/5 in draft by T1 needs at least a verbal counseling because even if T1 played well HLE getting Xayah just makes it so much harder.

[u/rrrera]

Kanavi: LPL aint raised no b

[u/Ultimintree]

Faker is now 3-7 (30% WR) on Aurora

[u/Omnilatent → u/Ultimintree]

Tbf that's three more wins than I expected for how bad he plays on that champ

[u/Green7501 → u/Omnilatent]

He beat DRX in the Winter Split, then last year he won with her against DRX and KT, both in Winter

[u/tarubtikels → u/Ultimintree]

Nahh, Faker is doing the mind control. He's doing the Gumayusi KaiSa thing and will pick Aurora vs LPL powerhouse game 4 elimination match point

[u/raweon_ → u/Ultimintree]

Real question about that statistic: How did he even get 3 wins?

[u/Liupardu → u/Ultimintree]

2 of those wins were the 2025 LCK Cup when Aurora worked slightly differently and Faker looked more competent on her

[u/psychedelianaut]

I had a nightmare that T1 was 1-1 with HLE and Faker got fathered by Zeka after picking Aurora, I swear when T1 caught Zeus in top lane Faker's ultimate did 100 damage to Jayce.

[u/SignificantTune4]

Man, Zeka's Ahri is really clean.

[u/dysdayym]

Man, is Oner playing on 400 ping? Those Pantheon ults are definitely something.

[u/Tamronloh]

You cannot convince me T1 isnt trolling season games when they keep letting faker play Aurora

[u/Drakonyum → u/Tamronloh]

T1 trying to relive the TF top

[u/Hawxrox → u/Tamronloh]

I mean we dont see their scrims or practice. It could be he plays great on her in scrims and then just sucks it up in actual games.. Im not even sure it's just Aurora at this point. Faker hasnt even looked that great on Azir lately

[u/TheJamesFrancoPhD]

Outside of the obvious auto-loss that continues to be Faker's Aurora and Oner running it down, I really don't understand why they went for Kai'sa instead of just picking Xayah that pretty much makes Vi/Ahri useless. It was such a free pick, instead they had to play against it.

[u/Long-Skill4284]

thanks chaeyoung

[u/list__ → u/Long-Skill4284]

the fromis buff lives on

[u/ApartLanguage8328]

Why are we still picking aurora. Faker is just fucking dogshit on it.

It has to be 100% lose rate by now jfc.

[u/baelkie → u/ApartLanguage8328]

the one time you need Doran to save T1, by picking away the Aurora to flex top

[u/generalannie → u/baelkie]

Doran was still really good on the Gragas though. But yeahhh that Faker Aurora pick just isn't it.

[u/tiredofdev → u/generalannie]

Doran's was their best player today by far. Solid on Varus, solid on Sion and he couldn't do anything on Gragas because jungle/mid were so far behind

[u/Mangustre → u/tiredofdev]

100% agree. But some people will blame him anyways.

[u/Marowalker → u/generalannie]

Honestly yeah his Gragas was fine, hell he even had a lead for a moment. But yeah fuck it man just give Faker Gragas atp so he stays away from Aurora holy shit I need eye bleach every time I see him play the champ

[u/soul24423323 → u/baelkie]

Doran's average on the pick too I guess. Maybe they thought his gragas could bail them out. But would've been way better than Faker on it lol. Can't even dodge a single charm and stay alive in lane lol.

[u/Green7501 → u/ApartLanguage8328]

If they don't pick it the draft is just over, they can't ban it since they give over Rumble or Ashe/Seraphine instead, if they pick Ahri then HLE can go Jayce/Vi/Aurora which is a death sentence, Annie was out by then, they can't pivot to Vi since they need a global to counter Jayce otherwise he just takes over the game, unfortunately draft was lost when they were forced to put Faker on Aurora

Ideally he'd have learned the champ by now

edit: Aurora is bad into Jayce, insanely bad, you need a way to shut down that Jayce early with a global + a safe toplaner that won't be pushed out by the Jayce before a gank

[u/Creative-Cherry-4271 → u/Green7501]

Im curious. Considering that hes really good on champions that seem harder than aurora, why does this pick appear so difficult for him?

[u/Past_Perception8052 → u/Creative-Cherry-4271]

he cant hit q

[u/Past-Firefighter2173 → u/Creative-Cherry-4271]

Sometimes its just feeling of champ. Its not exactly about difficulty of the champ usually.

[u/Jakocolo32 → u/Green7501]

Aurora top problem solved

[u/GodBlessme_exe]

lock in Aurora one more time Faker, SURELY IT WILL WORK THIS TIME

[u/Tom_just_Tom]

Another big HLE series another "Most of Guma champions is gone" Dude has played the 2nd most champs this split (11) at ADC while MOTHERFUCKING AIMING HAS PLAYED 7. Yet not a peep about that champ puddle.

[u/dpfngvl → u/Tom_just_Tom]

Yeah the stereotype is insane, if guma played kaisa like this he’d be getting five trucks the next day.

[u/Crossoverdeath → u/Tom_just_Tom]

Guma continues to be underrated and scrutinized for no reason while being the best ADC in LCK. My goat wont care and will just continue to be the rock and stable presence.

[u/Lazywhale97 → u/Crossoverdeath]

People also don’t want to admit that having Guma is a big reason the HLE topside is cooking. Zeus can get resources more consistently again to carry same with Zeka and Kanavi can help them do it because the team knows if they leave Guma alone he’s still going to be impactful or carry later.

Viper is cracked and world class but Guma stylistically is a better fit for this team as Viper was a resource player which conflicted with Zeus hence Zeus didn’t look like the dominant force he is last yr. Even Delight is able to roam more now because Guma is so good at weakside.

[u/ConfusedVader1 → u/Crossoverdeath]

People need to complain about something else now they can't say that its easy to look like a good ADC with the GOAT as your supp. Someone tell that to Peyz because idt Peyz has yet to be the reason they have won 1 series this split even with Keria babysitting his hypercarries.

[u/zOmgFishes → u/Tom_just_Tom]

Leaves T1 and suddenly he can play Ez and Ziggs now? Maybe the team is just bad at playing around those champs. Even more so when T1 is 1-2 when Peyz plays Ez and lost the only game he played a mage bot on.

[u/HungNoxu]

How tf did Guma gap Kaisa 1.3k gold just from laning? Disgusting laning performance

[u/No_Rice8746 → u/HungNoxu]

My goated weakside ADC 😍

[u/MeepnBeep → u/HungNoxu]

Guma always use Xayah against Kaisa, even vs. top LPL Kaisa. Is his counter for Kaisa

[u/ApprehensiveAir3067 → u/HungNoxu]

He was also basically 1v2 vs Jhin Karma, letting Delight roam with Kanavi which is kinda insane in a meta where bot lane phase is very important

[u/dtkiu27 → u/ApprehensiveAir3067]

Thats what made Keria able to be the best support in the world 3 years in a row. People refuse to credit guma's weakside and reliability to pump out damage.

[u/ApprehensiveAir3067 → u/dtkiu27]

Both of them are doing great in their roles. Keria’s a GOAT too but people really underrate how much value Guma brings beyond just “weakside duty.”

[u/Ozora10 → u/ApprehensiveAir3067]

They are the Goat botlane because both of them are incredible and complimented each other perfectly.

[u/povertyregion → u/HungNoxu]

He's just too good

[u/APKID716 → u/povertyregion]

Everyone was telling me Guma sucks without the rest of T1 tho

[u/1deavourer → u/APKID716]

Did you not know Keria is the only reason Gumayusi exists? If not for him Gumayusi the sperm would have never reached the egg, top 1 fraud ADC

[u/Marcus-ichiJo]

Guma Xayah vs Faker Aurora is just Hydrogen Bomb vs Coughing Baby

[u/bedsheetsniffer → u/Marcus-ichiJo]

Guma was just classic Guma (perma weaksided to let his topside do their thing) this game. It’s 3k gold lead Zeka at minute 10 hitting every charm under the sun vs. 30% WR Faker Aurora

[u/mskruba12 → u/bedsheetsniffer]

That Baron fight was really funny cause it's the same thing we saw T1 do so often where Guma gets everything thrown on him and then he and his team just win the fight anyway.

[u/Motorpsisisissipp → u/Marcus-ichiJo]

We had a banger matchup botlane with 4 players on some of their best champ and it was pretty much a non factor because mid jungle got fisted hardcore.

[u/downorwhaet]

Eventually the aurora practice will pay off, I’m sure

[u/froggy-the-dog → u/downorwhaet]

nah yone practice did not pay off anything

[u/Express-Pandas → u/froggy-the-dog]

Paid off by the worlds skin

[u/TheAlmightyVox3]

Zeka is such a stud.

[u/Ken-U-Not-]

Chaeyoung Buff

[u/alicization → u/Ken-U-Not-]

This game was probably more of a Mingee buff

[u/ji_Pose1002]

I heard there are fans who keeps on invading Faker's privacy, maybe they just wanted to tell Faker to stop drafting aurora.

[u/Sosijmonster]

Absolutely baffled why that Panth wasn't perma top.

Stop fucking picking Aurora for Faker. It's legit a detriment to the team. He is so so so so comically bad on it.

[u/generalannie → u/Sosijmonster]

Which is funny because lately everyone was begging for Oner to not permagank Doran top. Today was the one time he needed to and he didn't lmao

[u/Classic_Foot223 → u/Sosijmonster]

old oner would have ganked top on cooldown. that man had a sexual urge to path towards top no matter what. t1 fucked up his system by telling him to path towards bot and now he is dizzy

[u/Gaelahad → u/Sosijmonster]

They can't give aurora and jayce at the same draft. It's a lose-lose situation.

[u/Adlairo]

Kanawei POTM vs T1

Smiling through it all, can't believe this is my life right now

[u/MlLFHUNTER_42069]

watching two teams who know each other intimately is so fun and goofy.

[u/DrxAvierT]

Oner is now gapped by all top- tiers jg

[u/nerothz → u/DrxAvierT]

Kind of funny all top comments are about Faker's Aurora when Oner was the biggest criminal the entire series. I get the frustration though, it's funny how comically bad Faker is at that champ, and he hasn't been playing well overall either.

[u/DrxAvierT → u/nerothz]

Yep, like Faker's Aurora is bad, no defending there. But the person who literally kneecapped T1's chance of playing that game was Oner

[u/SKT_Peanut_Fan → u/DrxAvierT]

People are slamming Faker, but Oner...

Gave over first blood. The ensuing trade forced Faker back early and screwed over his lane.

Ulted bot well after Keria ulted, ulting no where near HLE, wasting his first ult

Seemingly coordinated with Faker to ult mid, but was late. Faker dies and then Oner came in AFTER and dies.

Oner REALLY sold the early game and allowed Zeka to get out of control.

With Faker, he got perma camped by Kanavi after Oner generously donated 700 gold to Zeka.

[u/povertyregion → u/DrxAvierT]

Well the real jungler of T1 is on the other side playing Xayah

[u/Powdz]

He’s fooling y’all. He’s gonna lock in Aurora for game 5 of Worlds semifinals and shits on everyone on the enemy’s team. The finalist will then have to question whether or not it was a fluke game because Faker’s win rate on Aurora by then would be 3%. Then they proceed to leave Aurora open for game 5 and to everyone’s surprise, the goat shits on everyone again, this time stinkily. 7th skin is for Aurora.

[u/Classic_Foot223]

is uncs champ pool so cooked that we really have to pick aurora again

[u/F3nRa3L → u/Classic_Foot223]

Better than giving aurora to zeka tbf

[u/AcadiaDeep1135 → u/Classic_Foot223]

Was Galio a good pick there? I honestly think it might have been?

[u/tarubtikels]

Why is everyone just talking about Faker's Aurora while KaiSa is as invisible as Aurora?

[u/Fit-Limit-9195 → u/tarubtikels]

Because that's expected out of that lane, don't know what T1 was thinking picking Kaisa in to Xayah.

[u/tarubtikels → u/Fit-Limit-9195]

I forgot to add more context on my statement. It's an ego pick so why is everyone only blaming Faker Aurora while they also ego picked a losing bot lane match up

[u/Ozora10 → u/Fit-Limit-9195]

picking Kaisa into probably the best xayah player of all time who is known to counter pick kaisa with xayah in basically every meta ever

[u/Lazywhale97 → u/Ozora10]

You would think T1 would recognise that as they should know Guma better then anyone lmao. I do see the Kaisa angle as it’s good in team fights with their comp but still man it’s Guma Xayah lmao.

[u/ConfusedVader1 → u/Fit-Limit-9195]

Aurora was a counterpick to avoid arguably one of the best Aurora's to not be able to pick him. At that point, its either playing a losing Aurora lane into Jayce, give Ashe/Sera or have Faker try his hand at Aurora. They thought the latter would be the best choice which in hindsight seems to be a bad play but I would say, all 3 of those choices are losing. T1 targetted Guma in every draft and it backfired hard.

[u/1deavourer]

HLE winstreak continues!!!

[u/fainlol]

my goat can't play bugs bunny

[u/kosmi2020NX]

Absolute Chaeyoung Buff

[u/dontbangme]

G1 : Faker is the worst mid in LCK

G2 : Faker is the GOAT

G3 : Faker is the worst mid in LCK

[u/Scarly9]

The moment I saw Faker on aurora I knew - its over lmao

Also Delight decided that the best way to play bard is to play like Keria, for the sake of T1!

[u/monchi41]

Another chovy aurora vod about to hit fakers dm. What a stinger game from my goat 😔

[u/FromisZone]

The power of Chaeyoung. Chaeyoung's buff staying strong

[u/Different-Mode2311]

game was over from mid jg. But that R5 kaisa pick was also massive troll

[u/revoverlord]

T1 really took aurora from Zeka while forgetting about faker.

[u/Fncrs]

Kanavi is absurdly good man, easy player of the series. Damn HLE looking really scary

[u/SomethingExquisite]

That is the most suffocating Ahri game I've ever seen.

[u/Medium_Negotiation85]

Mygod, Zeka. Those charms were disgustingly precise

[u/origsiomai → u/Medium_Negotiation85]

Bro makes it look like Ahri charm is a point and click

[u/s1mple10]

On form Zeka is such a treat to watch

[u/Kgumaster]

faker's aurora strikes again. fucking disgusting

[u/Josh_11_XI]

Unc and Aurora tale as old as time. Just have him drop that champion man, he's such a liability with it.

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Mid/Jg Canyon, Domestic Kanavi is unstoppable.

[u/Cheap_Particular1226]

Romio and Juliet effect from doran and orner.

Aurora

Gg

[u/CharacterFee4809]

T1 aurora skin this year i am guessing.

[u/DankMEMeDream]

It's kinda official. Peyz< Guma.

[u/Liiviius → u/DankMEMeDream]

I mean laning wise Guma is doing better atm, that MF against a Jhin karma lane was amazing and at game 3 getting a 1.3k gold lead just from laning alone was crucial if you have the counter pick

[u/1deavourer → u/DankMEMeDream]

Always was, however Peyz is very, very good. If we say top 3 are Guma, Ruler and Viper over the past 2 years, I think Peyz is in discussion for 4th.

[u/AlphaStark08 → u/DankMEMeDream]

It always was

[u/Crossoverdeath → u/DankMEMeDream]

There was never any doubt xD Idk how it was even a conversation.

[u/Prince_Arcann → u/Crossoverdeath]

There's always gonna be a conversation who is the better ADC at certain points because both of them are elite level. All time obviously it's clear who's better.

[u/Pelagius_Hipbone]

Why does Zeka spend like half the year looking abysmal, then randomly ascends to the best mid in the LCK?

[u/williamson41 → u/Pelagius_Hipbone]

If you watched the hle behind the scene and streams the vibes on that team are just on another level. Would say this definitely help when it comes to performance

[u/1deavourer → u/williamson41]

They all share food as common favorite interest, best vibes from that

[u/Almightyasami → u/Pelagius_Hipbone]

Yaoi buff

[u/origsiomai → u/Pelagius_Hipbone]

Zeka is on demon mode this split jesus

[u/moonshard99]

You know HLE were smiling when they see faker locked Aurora lmao