The community exploded in debate about SKT T1 Faker and T1 Faker, but the answer was obvious

The community explodes comparing “SKT T1 Faker” and “T1 Faker”

After the 2025 World Championship final, T1 officially completed an “unbreakable” achievement in the history of League of Legends: winning the World Championship 3 times in a row and having 6 World Championship trophies in history. As for Faker, he became the first and only player to achieve this milestone of 6 championships. Worth mentioning, Faker completed this achievement in the years when people thought he was on the other side of his career slope, when he was nearly 30 years old. And when T1 Faker is too “unmatched”, the audience remembers “SKT T1 Faker”.

But SKT T1 Faker is outstanding, and T1 Faker is great

When compared to SKT T1 Faker, everyone understands that it is Faker facing himself. The SKT T1 Faker version, temporarily calculated from before the period of ups and downs and then a complete decline (2017 – before Worlds 2021), is the version of a superstar player, a genius in handling champions with the second highest skills in professional League of Legends.

At that time, Faker was not yet an in-game leader with divine team calls or “magical” handling moves, nor did he have a bravery forged from countless failures. Faker’s act of breaking down and crying is the clearest proof: a superstar witnessed himself being defeated for the first time.

After that, Faker had to endure the fluctuations of the times and of SKT T1/T1 itself. Faker himself had to witness his old teammates come and go while T1 could not find its old glory. Faker himself also has to practice while working on advertising contracts and livestreams continuously to meet T1’s revenue.

Next, are the detractors and gossip when Faker reached the bottom of his form. In 2020, there began to be talk that Faker should retire, and that Clozer would be the new future of T1 and ShowMaker would inherit Faker in the No. 1 LCK Mid Lane. In 2021, things are even worse when Faker has to sit on the bench often and people believe that it is time for the “Demon King” to rest.

Then in the present, Faker not only equaled the achievement in number of World Championship trophies with SKT T1 Faker in the past, but also fulfilled his own dream in 2017: 3 consecutive World Championships. Furthermore, Faker is currently calm and brave even when the whole team is challenged to the extreme. The current Faker is willing to step back to let his juniors shine, and encourages his teammates every time someone makes a mistake. The current Faker is no longer a “burning trash talk”, but every word he says can become the truth and make the community admire and admire.

SKT T1 Faker is a genius superstar, but cannot motivate or become a leader to lead his teammates to success. Although the LCK or MSI titles may have been more, Faker’s bravery in the Worlds arena at that time was still too little. That’s why he collapsed and failed. But then, he stood up and became the current T1 Faker.

At the moment T1 defeated the KT main house, Faker not only won the World Championship, but he also defeated his old self. Similar to Sun Wukong defeating Luc Nhi My Hau, Faker currently does not have too many titles in a year, but he is a lighthouse for his teammates, a support when failing and a fulcrum for victory. T1 Faker is not a superstar with individual skills that surprise viewers, but is a great player far beyond League of Legends or Esports in general.