League of Legends

Last week (19th), the 2023 “League of Legends” World Series ended successfully. The T1 team representing the landlord LCK division defeated the WBG team of the LPL league, and together with the leader Faker in the middle, achieved the glory of the four crowns. Looking back on Faker’s four-championship journey with the T1 team, we can see that this journey began as early as 10 years ago. In the team that was still called SKT T1 at the time, Faker had already secured his position as the team’s starting mid laner, and has been struggling all the way until now. , until this year’s World Series, he finally achieved championship glory with these new teammates, and engraved his name on the World Series championship trophy again after 7 years.

2013 The legend begins, defeating the Royal Family in three straight games

In 2013, just his first year as a professional player, Faker and SKT took their talents to the World Series. They defeated the Orange Bears (GAB) team in their debut in the World Championship, allowing the Taiwanese audience to see their talent for the first time. Then they defeated NJBS 3:2 in the semi-finals, and on the final stage Facing China’s Royal Family (RYL), he defeated his opponent with three straight sets and won his first championship trophy without any hesitation. From here, Faker and SKT started to write a BO5 unbeaten record against LPL teams. This record has been maintained to this day. It is really unprecedented and may never be followed. Faker this year and SKT teammates, Impact, Bengi and others Together, we made a perfect introduction to the world.

2015 The beginning of the consecutive hegemony dynasty, establishing dominance

After failing before the World Championship in 2014 and missing out on the World Championship, Faker returned to the World Series in 2015 with new teammates: Bang, Wolf, Marin, Bengi and others. In the group stage that year, SKT showed its strongest strength and won a complete victory to advance to the knockout rounds. Then facing SKT, although Faker was killed twice by Ximen Yeshuo, the bottom lane combination of Bang and Wolf, as well as the top lane Marin and jungler Bengi still stood up. SKT still defeated ahq in straight games, and then defeated ahq in straight games. After defeating OG three times, they faced KOO in the finals and staged a Korean civil war. In the finals, SKT showed the strength gap with its opponents as before, and finally took away KOO 3:1 and won its second world championship.

2016 Achieve continuous hegemony and write a classic BO5 with ROX

SKT, which has won two world championships, has left a deep impression on the audience. In the S6 World Series, many people saw SKT’s name again and couldn’t help but wonder: Is it possible for them to write Consecutive record? When facing RNG in the group stage and quarter-finals, SKT got through with ease. However, when facing ROX in the semi-finals, SKT faced a serious challenge for the first time that year. The huge pressure on the field even made them make mistakes in their BP process, and they actually released Nidalee. In that game, they played Bengi, who had never defeated Nidalee in the jungle this season. At a critical moment, Bengi chose to lock Nidalee and stepped up to help the team, allowing T1 to win the semi-finals. , once again went to the finals to face SSG. In the end, SSG still couldn’t defeat SKT after 5 games. SKT became the only team to achieve consecutive victories in the “League of Legends” World Series and became a legendary team.

2017 World Runner-up, starting the lost years

However, everything in the world will eventually come to an end, as will any dynasty. The combination of SKT and SSG in the 2017 finals was still SKT. However, this time in the last wave of team battles, SSG AD player Ruler decisively flashed his ultimate and caught Faker who was standing in the front, allowing him and SKT to try for three consecutive games. Ba’s dream was destroyed on the spot, and it also announced that SKT’s ruling dynasty seemed to have come to an end again. After that, the SKT team seemed to have entered a moment of frustration. Their performance in the LCK in 2018 was not good, and then when they entered the T1 era, there were disagreements between the players and the coaching staff. Even after entering the World Championship, they were not the best. They lost to the European team G2 once and stopped in the semi-finals. Fast forward to this year, midfielder Faker, the leader of the summer split before the World Championship, suffered a hand injury again, making many people wonder whether the legendary team SKT will miss this year’s World Series again…

2023 The king returns, a string of three LPLs achieves four crowns

As a result, once T1 and Faker returned to the World Series, it seemed like they were back on a familiar stage, and they had found their form again. Facing this year’s major changes to the “League of Legends” World Series format, T1 still showed the strength of the top teams and became the last hope of the LCK division. When faced with the menacing challenges of the LPL division, T1 was eliminated in this year’s knockout stage. After joining LNG and JDG teams, they faced WBG in the finals. As a result, T1 chose not to give their opponents any chance this time and defeated WBG in three straight games. Even though they were the last surviving team in the LCK division, they still defeated them three times in a row. As a representative team of the LPL, it also became the first local team in history to win the “League of Legends” world championship. The number of wins in the world championship in its team history also exceeded 100, continuing to increase T1’s team record, and Faker’s personal record. record.

Where will the limits of the legendary “League of Legends” team T1 and Faker be? Maybe we haven’t seen it yet, but they will definitely continue to fight and use their actual actions to tell subsequent challengers: Don’t challenge them casually.