1.) Not respecting the signature power picks against their opponents (TheShy=Rumble, Light=Kalista, Weiwei=Poppy, Crisp= Renata and Xiahu’s= Azir and Neeko).
Similar to what happen to T1 in the 2023 LCK spring finals and 2023 LCK summer Finals where they failed to ban both Doran’s Gragas and Delight’s Rakan respectively, I believe that T1 will be overconfident in not Respect banning majority (If not all) of their champions and will instead try to counter-pick them. This has also happened last year where they failed to ban (or pick) Aatrox and Azir in games 4 and 5, costing them the finals.
2.) T1’s over aggressive tendencies and over-chasing mistakes (especially Faker’s blunders).
In last year Worlds’s finals at game 2, T1 made a mistake of rushing Baron resulting in the misposition of their main carries (especially Faker’s Viktor), resulting to be sandwich by the Baron and Deft’s fed Varus (instead of pushing for priority for Elder DR buff). They have ocean soul and instead of forcing lane priorities, their overeagerness was punished. Also in the same finals, game 3, Faker was caught and if not for Gumayusi’s steal, Game 3 would have swung in DRX’s favor.
This year at Semifinals Game 3, JDG punished their over aggressiveness after taking Baron instead of recalling and regrouping, killing 3 members with Baron buff. This delayed T1’s tempo enough to pick Oner, securing their own Baron buff and having a 2,500 gold lead. If not for Faker’s late heroic move this game would have been lost.
3.) Zeus and Keria’s history of making blunders at the Finals stage.
It is no secret that, these two had unnecessary mistakes at not only Finals domestically and internationally but also in elimination games. Zeus had a bad history of his performance falling off during the last 4 Series Matches, these are: Getting 1-6 by Doran’s Gragas as Jayce (and as Kennen, 1-7), Outperformed by Kingen’s Aatrox (as Fiora game 4 and as Gwen game 5), Dying to Bin’s Sion as Kennen, Outperformed by Doran’s Aatrox as K’sante (and vice versa during the LCK 2023 summer finals).
Keria also had a history of making unnecessary mistakes and champion picks, like getting caught by Kingen’s Aatrox for facechecking, Forgetting to clear vision at hextech portals at game 2 LCK spring finals (leading Doran’s Gragas to burst both keria and Gumayusi), Headscratching Firstpicking/Counterpicking Braum into Delight’s Lulu.
4.) TheShy will gapped the top lane all games.
TheShy had a history of gapping toplaner players at Worlds and this worlds is no exception. This might be a reminiscent of TheShy gapping Wunder, Bwipo, Soaz, 369, and Bin. This Finals will be of no exception. This reminds of the TheShy 1 vs 9 Griffin back in 2018 (but of course Zeus is no Sword). When theShy is on form Nobody can stop him.
What are some reasons why WBG will win against T1?
Also please share some minor reasons/details why T1 will win today’s finals.
This post is aging poorly already lol