League of Legends Worlds 2025 Swiss Stage has already prompted some shocks, with reigning champions T1 ending spherical two within the 1-1 bracket after an sudden loss to LCP representatives CTBC Flying Oyster.
In an interview with Esports Insider, T1 jungler Mun ‘Oner‘ Hyeon-jun opened up concerning the loss to CFO, sharing his trustworthy ideas on the group’s preparation. He additionally spoke concerning the sacrifices behind T1’s sustained success, the present jungle meta, and what it really takes to remain on prime when each group is chasing your legacy.
Esports Insider: Thanks Oner for taking the time for this interview. I perceive that it’s not the very best time proper now, however I wish to hear your ideas on the sport in opposition to CFO.
ESI: Final 12 months at MSI, we had an interview, and also you stated to me that situation issues much more than suggestions typically, and that the situation of the group leads to what in the end is the efficiency within the sport. Are you able to inform me concerning the preparation that you simply and your group did for right this moment’s match in opposition to CFO, and what the circumstances have been you in whenever you went on stage right this moment?
Oner: Effectively, as we’re all in a marathon occurring to stage always, I really feel just like the primary precedence needs to be sustaining your greatest situation. And I can’t communicate for my very own group, however I’ve a sore throat, and naturally, some folks might imagine that it’s only a petty excuse, however I additionally suppose that it’s such a bummer that I didn’t take excellent care of myself, my very own well being.
Personally, I additionally felt a bit of regretful that I didn’t get good sleep final evening. And that additionally leads as much as I had loads of errors, team-wide errors that have been exhibiting up within the sport right this moment, simply gameplay-wise, which leaves loads of remorse. In order that’s simply one thing that we have to work on.
ESI: I’m sorry to listen to that you simply’re not feeling effectively. I hope you get higher quickly. One thing that you simply stated actually caught with me as a result of as a rule, T1 units the usual for each different group. How do you enhance your self figuring out that, sometimes, there isn’t somebody you wouldn’t look as much as since you’re thought-about the very best?
Oner: Yeah, actually, as a back-to-back champion final 12 months, in fact many groups, perhaps everyone seems to be considering that means.
However I really feel that in each meta, there are all the time sure groups that find yourself exhibiting up higher, and so they find yourself performing higher than us. And that’s why, with these groups that adapt so effectively to these meta, there’s simply somebody to be taught from. So I imagine that as groups undergo these modifications, in addition they climb up or down. So I really feel like there are all the time groups to be taught from.
ESI: I’ve a couple of questions on meta, however earlier than that, I needed to ask you about this 12 months’s Worlds Anthem, ‘Sacrifice.’ It commemorates the sacrifices execs must make to even make it to Worlds. I’m curious to know, what sacrifices did it’s important to make in your private life to get the place you at the moment are?
Oner: As a professional gamer, I really feel like you find yourself devoting your complete 20s, early 20s to mid-20s to your profession.
So I imagine that I even have sacrificed my early to mid-20s. You additionally find yourself sacrificing your individual well being and your soul actually. So I feel if I regarded deeper into it, I’m positive there’s much more that I’ve sacrificed, however I feel these are the largest issues that I’ve sacrificed to be right here.
ESI: Going to the meta, Riot tried to push loads of AP Junglers throughout this Worlds patch, however we haven’t seen many play. Do you suppose they are going to be extra out there and are available up extra when best-of-threes and best-of-fives arrive?
Oner: Truthfully, proper now due to the character of Better of One, I really feel like that’s why you retain seeing higher-tier AD jungles, and these are some picks that we can not ban within the very first sport.
So I feel that’s why you find yourself not seeing AP ones, as a result of within the present meta, you will have so many AD jungles which can be sturdy which were performing so effectively on stage. So I feel it’s worthwhile to have them type of denied or eradicated earlier than you begin seeing [AP ones].
I might anticipate to see extra of them in a Better of Three or 5, perhaps one to 2 video games in these Better of Fives.
Oner: Personally, to be trustworthy, I really feel prefer it’s simply too early, perhaps too quickly to determine how my kind is true now, as a result of it’s simply the character of better of ones.
It may very well be luck. Perhaps it’s simply that your opponent was taking part in very well. I feel there are simply means too many variables to think about. So in a best-of-one, I don’t suppose I can determine how my kind is, however as we go alongside in Worlds and attain best-of-fives, I feel that’s once I ought to be capable to actually say one thing about my kind.
