Recently, T1 has not had any difficulties when surpassing Kwangdong Freecs. No more the atmosphere of the “horse horse” team in the first leg of the LCK group stage of the Spring 2024, when KDF's opponent was a too powerful T1 at the present time. Not to mention, T1 also shows the maximum seriousness, even though their banned turns still feel very bold and adventurous. Like Combo 2 ADCs below in game 1 or to smolders for Bull in game 2. However, T1 still shows absolute destruction in both games and winning is not too difficult. The total of two games less than 1 hour and 30 minutes, including the time of rest and ban.
T1 easily won against KDF
But there is a feature, has been made by KDF as well as many teams made in recent matches when confronted with T1: “Gank” thoroughly Zeus. According to many judgments, with the high performance, plus always grasping strong generals like Aatrox, Jax … Zeus is really the most dangerous fuse of T1. Therefore, locking and limiting the ability to increase the power of Zeus is considered the principle of victory. Not to mention, the recent T1 rivals (KT Rolster, Oksavingsbank Brion or even KDF recently, have very noticeable Toplaner (Perfect, Morgan, Dudu).
The teams are thoroughly performing the “gank” Zeus
This image is no stranger to the time in the match
However, after many victories and the shows of Zeus as well as the entire T1 team, maybe the continuous exploitation of the opponent is also a “tactic” that T1 wants to perform. Specifically, everyone clearly sees that Zeus is “ganked” from time to time in the first stage of the game. However, this is accidentally “freeing” the pressure for other lanes, especially the bottom line – the most rated area in a current team for Riot's edits.
But in return, this will help the bottom line T1 completely overwhelm the opponent
In addition, Zeus has an advantage of accidentally “serving” very well for this gameplay: the ability to “farm” and regain the advantage very quickly. In fact, despite being “ganked” continuously, in the necessary stages, Zeus knows how to maximize contribution to T1. Typically, the match against KDF recently, he took advantage of the Hextech ports very well to get the position behind the opponent squad. Since then, Zeus's apocalypse and toned warriors have become unstoppable.
Zeus has little resources but can still thread behind KDF and destroy the fragile champions on the opponent's side
Not to mention, Zeus's “gank” also helped Gumayusi – Keria to be comfortable to put pressure on the opponent. This is a very useful tactical element, when the teams are prioritizing the strong gunner generals at the end of the game such as Smolder, Varus … The being poured a lot in the early stages will make these gunner difficult in intrinsic and increase strength. As Bull's Smolder was completely “waste” when 10 minutes without 60 soldiers.
The “sacrifice” of Zeus is maximized by Gumayusi – Keria is overwhelming by T1
Of course, for the opponent to “gank” the position of Zeus will be able to make it difficult for T1 to confront strong names like Gen.G. However, T1 is very successful in controlling everything and maybe Gen.