T1 vs. DRX Prediction on May 08, 2025

Match info

We continue to follow the action at the League of Legends Champions Korea Season 2025 (LCK Season 2025) as we watch Rounds 1-2.

The playoff fights are intensifying. Among others, T1 and DRX are vying for a spot in the Seoul-hosted offline tournament’s main stage. If it’s a minimum to ask from the current world champions, it appears to be an intractable problem for DRX. Let’s see if the latter can surprise everyone, including themselves, by defeating T1 on Matchday 2 of Week 6 (Thursday, May 8, at 5 p.m. local time at LoL Park). According to their odds, Klarna eSports betting sites don’t think that’s possible.

Meeting statistics

The current form of T1

After beating the strongest team in China, BLG, in the Grand Final of the Worlds 2024, and fighting their way to the title to become the five-time world champions, T1 underperformed in the first tournament of the 2025 season, the LCK Cup 2025. They were placed in the Baron Group, where they confidently took first place. Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok and company, virtually without the help of Lee “Gumayusi” Min-hyung, recorded 4-1. They advanced to the second round of Play-In, where they beat Nongshim RedForce with a score of 2-0, thus moving on to the Playoffs. And there was an upset: T1 lost to HLE in the first round, finishing in the top 6.

They started the LCK Season 2025 in a bad way. After three weeks, they were in fifth place with a score of 3-3, which was a bad result for a T1-level team. They are currently in third position after an additional two weeks of competing. Being 6-4, their score remains unsatisfactory.

The current form of DRX

After an unimaginable triumph at the Worlds 2022, DRX’s fame quickly faded, which was evident already a year after the great triumph in San Francisco. After all, they failed to attend the Worlds 2023. Last season wasn’t a revelation and didn’t change the paradigm of DRX’s performance—they very often finished big tournaments even outside of the top 8.

At the LCK Cup 2025, DRX failed to qualify for the Playoffs, finishing seventh, which, in their current form, can be called a good result.

With a score of 3-7, they are in the second-to-last position in the standings in five weeks at the LCK Season 2025 – Rounds 1-2; they still have a chance to make it to the Playoffs, but only theoretically.

Head-to-head

The teams have faced one another four times in the past year. T1 haven’t dropped a single game yet. Overall, T1 won 20 out of 25 mutual encounters.

Match analytics

The history of head-to-head meetings between T1 and DRX is unlikely to change in the next match, as far as we can tell. T1 are currently playing poorly in Seoul, but they are going to face one of the worst teams of the year. All things considered, the current world champions ought to have no trouble closing out DRX without losing the series.

Tip: Maps Handicap: Handicap 1 (-1.5), with odds of 1.43 on GIZBO.