For the first time in League of Legends history, Korea is guaranteed to win the Summoner’s Cup as two Korean teams meet in the finals. KOO Tigers beat all expectations driving KT into the dirt, but can they kill a God?

Game 1:

For the first game of the finals, Faker decides to bust out Kassadin but opts in for Ignite instead of Teleport.  At first, this seems to be against the midlane meta at worlds, but the lack of the TP is made up for with the Shen ult from Wolf and the Rek’sai ult coming from Bengi.

KOO Tigers decides to ambush Wolf and blow a lot of cooldowns on the SKT Support. However it does result in first blood. The early game is definitely characterized this game by the bloodbaths in the side lanes, but until the 30 minute mark the battle is largely quiet and at a standstill. At least in terms of the core there were plenty of skirmishes that almost blew into full out war, but no advantages were made, Even KOO was keeping up, but once Kassadin and Marin’s Rumble were extremely potent in power, they torched KOO in the first game of the set.

Game 2:

It was almost deja vu for those who were awake enough in the states to watch the first game, but KOO finds a convincing early game advantage over SKT, clawing their way closer and closer to a winning game, eager to not repeat the mistakes from last game.

SKT, however, keeps up in gold by taking full advantage of Smeb and continuously ganks him but, KOO fed Kuro early on and played a wonderful midgame compared to game 1. It still wouldn’t be  good enough as SKT ambush KOO at the baron pit and aces the team there and secure the baron. It doesn't take another few minutes before SKT walk right into KOO’s side of the map and take the nexus outright. KOO played better in game 2 than game 1, so if they hope to delay the series, they’ll keep up that trend and play good enough to keep their lead because both games so far have been like exploding dams. They keep up as much as they can, but once SKT breaks a hole in your cement dam, you’re done.

Game 3:

Game 1, KOO threw a rock into SKT’s window. Game 2, KOO knocked down their mailbox with a metal bat. Both games, SKT comes out ahead because despite those early game leads, KOO had failed to do any real sustainable damage to the palace of SKT. This time however, they took a battering ram to the front gates and blew things open with an ace five for one exchange in the bottom river.

Most Korea experts would argue to not let Hojin have all the kills, but fortunately, he put all critics to silence as he ended up snowballing his entire team, racking up his more than fair share of assists. For once, SKT had no way to get back into this game as the lead became insurmountable. Marin was behind 70 cs and the team had been behind 10-11 thousand gold for the majority of the game.

SKT had a few good plays here and there but with no answer to KOO’s lead, they folded like paper and received their first loss at Worlds 2015.

Game 4:

For every action, there’s a reaction. In response to KOO’s total takeover in game 3, SKT didn’t even let KOO get a lead so that they could make a comeback and wipe the smiles off their faces. Instead, Faker plays Ryze to his utmost potential and steamrolls over the entire KOO Tigers team seemingly as a one man army, as not a single person could come close to shutting him down from the beginning to the end.

With that, SK Telecom T1 is the first team in League of Legends to win a second World Championship. Not only that, but there wasn’t a single team at Worlds this year who came close to shutting down SKT’s quest for glory. Now for Season 6, who can challenge them for the throne?