The familiar gameplay of T1 is almost eliminated
Apply a lot of new mechanisms at the same time, Riot makes many teams difficult. Of course, the mission of the players is still to adapt as quickly as possible. But obviously, the element of “coming upstream” in each game is no longer available and maybe, only after the early stage the audience was able to know which team was the winning team. The recent “victim” is T1.
The T1 gameplay is almost “eliminated” by Riot
In particular, the “backward” game, making the most of the opponent's errors to find the opportunity to turn the situation is the characteristic of T1 in difficult times. And with Atakhan charms, Riot almost completely eliminated one of the forte of the World Champion 2024.
Try to set the situation: Faker makes a mutation with a Shurima Shuffle situation or sound wave, but the opponent is not defeated, but merely returns to the neck pedestal faster. Failure is almost certainly happening after T1 and there will be no more “sorrow” phase.
Faker pushed back and Oner inspired but did not have any shut down network because Atakhan gave the opponent to revive
Not only T1 but LCK Cup 2025 is also a “victim”
While LPL had a test season, LCK had to apply Fearless Draft at the same time with the major changes that Riot brought into League of Legends. The combination of Fearless Draft and Atakhan charms are making professional matches quite … “one color”.
The “strange” generals have not appeared too much, in addition to a few exceptions like Yasuo or Xerath recently returned to the professional arena. But only 2 out of 65 generals have been used (as of the t1 – DK match) is still too little compared to the expectations of the audience.
The “strange” generals have not appeared much
The scenario of all the past matches is pulled up to 3 games, and the teams will spend the ban on the most decisive game. Also, when entering the battle, the team on the green side will have a much advantage. Because, Atakhan charms appear near the Baron cave area and this is the position where the blue team is easier to control, while the red side will be easier to control the dragon charm.
Because of Atakhan charms, the ability to “snow snowball” once the team has the advantage is promoted. According to statistics of Gol.gg, The win rate of the blue team is 83.3% – the extremely high figure after 4 matches. Only one time there is a team that does not take advantage of Atakhan, it is Oksavingsbank Brion in the match against Drx.
The win rate of the green side (control of Baron – Atakhan) is almost 100%
Perhaps in the future, Riot will have to recalculate new mechanisms in League of Legends, especially the professional arena. They had to speed up Atakhan after receiving too much negative feedback. However, everything may have not been completely resolved.