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Day 2 of the 2025 LoL Worlds Knockout Stage is upon us! This match promises to be fun. The most beatable team from the LCK, versus the underdog that could perhaps beat anyone? Tune in in a few hours to watch the battle between inconsistency and no expectations!
| Match | KT Rolster vs CTBC Flying Oyster – LoL Worlds 2025 Quarterfinals |
|---|---|
| Kick-off | October 29, 2025, at 12 am EST / 8 am CET |
| Top pick | KT to win 3-1 |
| Betting favorite | KT |
Both teams were sitting in the 2-0 bracket and ready to lock in their playoffs spot on round 3 already. But that day, only KT took it, with CFO having to go all the way until round 5 in order to secure their quarterfinals appearance.
That said, now they’re both here once again. Honestly, it’s an odd match. CFO makes a lot of mistakes on a team level, but displays strong individual performances. As for KT… it’s hard to tell what they’ll do. But the one thing that’s for certain, is that this match will be a treat to watch! If you’re going to be betting on this LoL Worlds match, you’re going to want to read the next section.
Image source: Colin Young-Wolff / Riot Games
The teams to qualify to the LoL Worlds Knockout Stage started off with the most unexpected one all right. In the LCK, KT is the team that will cause upsets while never being a real contender. So no one would have guessed that they would finish Swiss with a better score than HLE or T1, and particularly not than GenG.
However, their score doesn’t reflect their performance. Their path through the Swiss stage was on the easier side, beating MKOI, TSW, and a TES that was starting their yearly international choke. Their wins were a consequence of them being better than weak teams, rather than of actually good play by them.
Despite being 3-0, KT should be among the worse half of the quarterfinalists.
Image Source: Christian Betancourt / Riot Games
CFO is the protagonist of the story. They seem like fun people, but they for sure are fun to watch. As the first team from the LCP to advance to the playoffs since AHQ in 2015, they’re the underdogs with a big dream.
CFO has plenty of weaknesses. Throws in the mid to late game, shaky objective control, repeated Atakhan and Soul point disasters… They also have limited champion pools that have already been crucial weaknesses in international Bo5s, and lack diversity in their gameplay.
But they’re fearless. They make up for their weaknesses by shoving punch after punch, and they for sure don’t read name plates. Doggo is the most aggressive ADC in the tournament, and his aggressiveness most of the time doesn’t turn to inting. The rest of the team is also always just as happy to take fights.
What they can accomplish is up for debate, though they’re unlikely to go very far. But you won’t want to miss their matches.
My heart absolutely roots for CFO. Most people recognize that it would be a beautiful story if they won Worlds – but honestly, even if they just reached semifinals.
There are plenty of reasons to not put much faith in KT. As pointed, KT has not needed to shine in their path through the Swiss stage. They’ve taken most of the occasions they received to claim victory while doing the bare minimum. They’re dominating in score only, and half of the teams still in the running looked better than them for sure.
CFO looks too fragile. The Oysters have done a fantastic job at finding creative ways to fight, to get skirmishes and kills out of nowhere. The same can be said of their laning. But in every area besides these two, they’re shaky to the point of creating their own downfall.
Every neutral objective is a source of stress for the viewers who wish for their success, as there’s always a reasonable chance that they’ll mishandle the fight around said objective. They don’t find ways to handle a threat, or they just take a fight they can’t. To top it off, Kaiwing also has a tendency to try to look for the hero flank rather than playing a simple, clean, not-flashy game.
That said, CFO excels in their aggressiveness. Doggo doesn’t seem to know the meaning of fear, the concept of being squishy, or the reasons why ADCs don’t flash into the enemy turret. Apart from some incidents of flashing in to fail to finish off a kill in a teamfight, he makes it work.
Early aggressiveness is exactly what has made KT bend the knee at Worlds. They fell clearly behind MKOI and TES (in game 1) and only caught up because these two teams forgot how to play the game. They were toe to toe with TSW until minute 17. CTBC Flying Oyster could punch a massive hole through that opening. That’s pretty likely to happen, in fact. The big question mark is whether they, for once, will hold that lead and convert it into a victory. My heart wishes for a yes, but my bet is a no.
| Market | Odds |
|---|---|
| KT to win | 1.63 |
| CFO to win | 2.22 |
| Over 4.5 maps | 2.26 |
| Under 4.5 maps | 1.59 |
CFO has their chances, but saying that they’ll win is just giving too much credit to the heart’s bias. They’ve shown their weaknesses in Best of 5s, and these shouldn’t have gone away. The mistakes that they were making regionally are also still very much there. KT should be able to capitalize on that. I definitely see CFO taking one game in the series, but two doesn’t look likely to me.
Featured image source: Colin Young-Wolff / Riot Games
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