At last, the grand finals. How do each player compare to their counterpart? Seems like most fans are seeing this as the top lane finals and expecting the rest to be gapped. The “God of Top” vs Zeus
T1:
Zeus
Oner
Faker
Gumayusi
Keria
Head coach: Im “Tom” Jae-Hyeon
WBG:
TheShy
Weiwei
Xiaohu
Light
Crisp
Head coach: Yang “Daeny” Dae-in
T1 should win. However nothing is certain because in sports anything can happen on the day and there will always be some favourites underperforming and underdogs overperforming.
In terms of why T1 should win, they’ve looked the much better team throughout Worlds and have had the tougher matches, plus mechanically I think T1 are better overall.
Another thing I’d point out is that a lot of people are using DRX from last Worlds as an argument for why Weibo have a good chance. But I don’t think Weibo is like how DRX were last Worlds, both 4th seeds sure but there are some significant differences. DRX had a mid and top hitting all time crazy high peaks at Worlds in Kingen and Zeka, and Pyosik and BeryL’s unique off meta pools caused problems with pick/ban for T1. I don’t think Weibo has these elements, only top is in insane form and the rest play meta, it should in theory be a lot easier for T1 to deal with this compared to the problems DRX posed.