At the Worlds 2025, all teams are giving their best to clinch the coveted World Championship title in League of Legends. T1 has also fought their way to the finals. However, the quarterfinals are amusing fans after a player spoke about one of his champions.
Which match is it about? In the quarterfinals of this year’s Worlds 2025, the LoL team T1, featuring the legendary Faker, faced the Chinese team Anyone’s Legend. Even though T1 was able to win the first match of the Best of 5
, the following two matches did not go well. Match 4 was then won again, resulting in a tie of 2 to 2.
T1 was able to secure the last match. The team’s jungler Mun Oner
Hyeon-jun chose the champion Dr. Mundo, who had already performed well in the tournament. The pick is generally not unusual, but in an interview, Oner explained that he did not know much about the champion.
I read his tooltips while we banned and picked
What did Oner say in the interview? On the Korean website v.daum.net, journalist Yoon Min-seop published an interview with the player. It discussed the match against Anyone’s Legend, where he explained that he picked Mundo, even though he had not practiced with him beforehand.
When asked whether T1 practiced this combo in the 5th match (Mundo and Seraphine), Oner replied:
Seraphine and the other champions were picks I had practiced a bit. They had been used before, so I was familiar with them. But I was concerned because I wasn’t proficient with Mundo. To be honest, I didn’t know much about his abilities, so I read his tooltips while we banned and selected, and asked coach Lim Jae-hyun about his runes and item build. Oh, and there was feedback that his item build was insufficient.
Oner on his Mundo pick against Anyone’s Legends (translated from Korean)
This is particularly amusing considering that it was tied 2:2 in the quarterfinals. A loss would have knocked T1 out of the Worlds. Apparently, the team is quite good at handling new situations.
However, it must also be said that Mundo is not a complex champion where one has to master particularly difficult mechanics.
How does the community react to the interview? In a Reddit thread, fans take the interview and the Mundo pick humorously, especially because it was such a close encounter.
- tiredofdev (Reddit) is shocked how one could do such a thing in such a close match:
T1 are so damn bored at the Worlds
- LogicKennedy (Reddit) thinks about the other team:
Imagine you’re an AL player and read that you lost the most important game of your life to a guy who is playing his champion for the first time
- Mirikado (Reddit) is already looking forward to a possible skin selection:
Oner could do the funniest thing if T1 wins the championship. Make a T1-Mundo skin.
What lies ahead for T1? After the victory against Anyone’s Legend, T1 was able to assert itself effortlessly in the semifinals against Top Esports, winning this encounter 3:0. T1 will face their Korean colleagues KT Rolster in the finals on November 9 at 8 AM. If T1 wins, it will be their 6th Worlds title. A German streamer even reaches out to Faker in a major collaboration: Handofblood enters an official coop with South Park, wants to save LoL, and disses NoWay in passing: “I need a whole season of that”
