Revealing the “Youth” of T1
In recent days, the scandal revolving around Zeus leaving T1 has become the focus of attention and was discussed in the forums from Asia to Europe. As a result, T1 chose to recruit Doran as a new upper lane player in the 2025 season after failing to retain Zeus. Although only in the form of “fire fighting”, Doran is still a classy player and has affirmed his name when he has won the LCK. In the context of difficulties when Zeus refused, this deal was probably a stable solution for T1.
Doran recently officially joined T1
However, according to the former H-Dragon coach, T1's recruitment of Doran is equally thrilling. Even, they need the help of a reluctant “precious” to own this player. Specifically, after expiring contract with HLE, Doran expressed his desire to play for KT when this player has a lot of friends here. However, KT chose to put their faith in their young talent, so they could not make any decision.
The former coach H-Dragon revealed: “Doran really wants to join KT but this team has many people who like Perfect so the deal is not done. Is KT KT help T1 again?”
This gives T1 the opportunity to contact Doran after failing to recruit Zeus and quickly reach an agreement with this player. Obviously, using an experienced player at LCK like Doran is a much safer solution than pushing a young player to the first team. Some spectators joked that KT indirectly helped T1 in this deal in the context of their difficulties in failing with Zeus. This is really quite surprising when KT is “great rival” with T1 and creates “great telecommunications battle” in the past.
Doran used to play and had many friends at KT, so at first he wanted to return to this team
Doran proved to integrate quickly with the collective T1
On the evening of November 21, Doran had a first livestream at T1's headquarters as a way to debut with fans. There is an interesting detail discovered by the audience that Doran quickly learned how to communicate with “special” teammates at T1. Accordingly, T1 players often have a habit of talking over the wall when the stream rooms are arranged right next to each other. And even in his first broadcast, Doran learned this and talked drunk with Oner in the next room.
Doran proved to integrate very quickly with T1 when learning the habit of talking “through the wall” of this team
In fairness, the strength of T1 “new” formation does not change too much when they only change the right position on the top. Moreover, the latest joining of Mata position will also help a lot in researching Meta as well as building a play for the whole team. Even T1 can completely stronger and compete many big titles if Doran integrates quickly and plays with high performance in the upcoming 2025 season.