T1 have punched their ticket to the 2025 League of Legends World Championship. The road here was anything but easy—and the journey isn’t over yet—but securing a spot at Worlds does lift some weight off their shoulders. In the fourth and final game against DK, the team unveiled a surprise “support Rammus” pick, but it failed to produce any of the scenarios DK had hoped for.

With their backs against the wall, DK turned to Cho “BeryL” Geon-hee’s secret weapon: Rammus support—the first of its kind ever seen in the LCK. After the opening exchanges in lane, Rammus roamed top, only for T1 to collapse and claim first blood. Recognizing the pick as a glaring pressure point, T1 kept hunting Rammus; Moon “Oner” Hyeon-joon’s Sylas vacuumed up the kills.

T1 next tried to catch Rammus in mid as he attempted to recall. The armadillo slipped away, but T1 found an even bigger target—Choi “Lucid” Yong-hyeok’s Naafiri—and cut him down. Down in bot lane, they also picked off Jeon “Siwoo” Si-woo’s Jax. Up top, Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok’s Annie outplayed Heo “ShowMaker” Su’s Morgana, and from there T1 were firmly in the driver’s seat.

T1 were so far ahead they could even take 3v4 skirmishes on even terms, and while a 3v4 unfolded in bot, they comfortably knocked down mid and top waves, ballooning the lead to a 10,000-gold gap by 18 minutes. DK did find a pick in top lane, chaining Jhin and Morgana’s crowd control to pick off Annie and then taking the outer top turret, but in the extended follow-up fight T1 routed DK and even secured Atakhan.

With the snowball rolling, T1 kept winning teamfights and took Baron Nashor as well. To their credit, DK weathered T1’s Baron-empowered push to buy time, but the deficit was already too great to overcome. T1 won the final teamfight, closed out the game 3–1, and locked in their spot at Worlds.

This article was translated from the original that appeared on INVEN.