Fearless Draft exposes Riot's defeat to League of Legends
Although the Fearless Draft has been allowed to apply the Fearless Draft test since 2024, until this year, when the LCK Cup 2025 also uses this competition mechanism, this special game mode will be more noticeable. However, the fact also proved: Fearless Draft only shows that Riot has completely failed in balancing the League of Legends game.
Fearless Draft brings many factors that make the audience excited about seeing the generals seemed to have “flew color” from the meta for a long time.
Specifically, the fact that Riot could not balance the generals of the game created a huge difference in the win rate of the blue and red side. The blue team is always the team that will have convenient and easy -to -operate options while the red side must choose General Counter. But when applying Fearless Draft, and the match pulls to game 5, the number of options of the red side is not too much.
According to the overall statistics of the LCK Cup 2025, the blue team does not account for the overwhelming win rate (61.5% – 38.5%). However, it is the figure in the group stage in the playoffs. In fact, considering the matches in the playoffs and especially the finals or confrontations between the top 4 strongest teams (T1, HLE, Gen.G, DK), almost the blue team always won.
But also makes an imbalance clearly, as in the Gen.G – HLE match, 100% of the winning team is on the green side
Specifically, when 3 teams are HLE, Gen.G, T1 confronting each other, only 2 red teams win. It is Gen.G (meeting HLE, group stage) and HLE (meeting Gen.G in the playoffs). Meanwhile, T1 could not win any victory when on the red side even at Worlds 2023, they were considered a team that often had “strange” options for the opponent Counter if on the red team. That season, T1 was also the team with the highest red team win rate (80%, before the match against JDG).
In the LCK Cup 2025 final, Gen.G had to bring out generals that they probably also knew that it was the “shortage” of the players, such as Trundle – an extremely difficult general to coordinate Combo. Even when Chovy can use Aurelion Sol, this general is just the most likely choice among the remaining names, and Aurelion Sol himself has been reduced, leading to disappearing after a short time of dominating Meta last year.
The players must use the outlets and inefficient generals because there are no more possible options.
The very high possibility that Riot will not be able to apply Fearless Draft officially all League of Legends in 2025
With what the teams have shown at LCK Cup 2025, Riot probably had full reviews and comments on Fearless Draft when applied to professional League of Legends. It is the outstanding win rate of the Blue team, especially 100% of the winning rate in the final between the two teams that are considered to be quite balanced, which has shown the problem of balancing the general has not been completely solved.
The high possibility of Riot will not apply the official Fearless Draft for the remaining tournaments of the season, except for First Stand.
If Riot actually applies Fearless Draft, they need to ensure any generals can promote up to 100% power, whether on the blue or red side. On the contrary, perhaps Riot needs to overcome the existence before taking into account the application of Fearless Draft to the official tournaments.