Picture by Colin Younger-Wolff by way of Riot Video games
Drafts make or break the high-octane matches.
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When Prime Esports walked off the stage following their 0–2 loss to KT Rolster within the 2025 League of Legends World Championship Swiss Stage, the frustration was palpable. For a workforce with a championship pedigree, expectations have been excessive on the house turf, however nobody felt the sting of defeat greater than head coach Yoon “Homme” Sung-young.
After the Worlds 2025 Swiss Stage match, Homme didn’t shrink back from taking accountability. He mirrored on what went incorrect and the way a lot of it, in his eyes, got here right down to his personal selections.
“I really feel like at this time, I’d say that almost all of it falls on me as a result of the opponent ended up getting so lots of the good [draft] picks,” Homme mentioned to Dot Esports in an unique interview. “We truly noticed many errors through the goal fights. So, I consider that so long as we’re capable of refine these factors, I consider that we’re capable of put together properly to do even higher and have a greater exhibiting subsequent time.”
He admitted that KT had outmaneuvered them from the draft onwards. In each video games, the LCK fourth seed workforce’s compositions regarded sharper and extra cohesive, particularly when it got here to preventing round impartial aims, which Prime Esports didn’t match. They’d poor goal management within the first recreation, with simply two Dragons and one within the subsequent recreation, when the enemy secured the soul as properly.
Homme additionally acknowledged that a few of the workforce’s struggles stemmed from the draft itself, significantly from his early resolution to lock in Jarvan IV, a decide that has but to search out success at Worlds 2025, at the moment sitting at 0–9. Nonetheless, the Prime Esports coach defined that the difficulty doesn’t lie with the champion itself, however relatively with the way it suits into the general workforce composition.
“Jarvan IV, as a champion, doesn’t have any issues, however you undoubtedly can discover a whole lot of synergy with sure particular champions that you may play with Jarvan. He’s truly rather a lot higher to play at any time when the opponent has a low-mobility composition.”
In hindsight, Homme felt that his eagerness to safe the decide early within the draft might need been untimely. “I believe at this time the error was that I picked him too quick (through the champ choose).”
With a number of different AD jungle champions just lately nerfed, Jarvan has turn into a consolation choice for a lot of groups, which is a development Homme now questions. “These days, a whole lot of groups have been choosing him too rapidly,” he admitted. “Lots of groups are simply choosing him [Jarvan IV] simply approach too rapidly. That’s not one thing you ought to be doing.”
Regardless of the loss, Homme didn’t dwell on the frustration for lengthy and rapidly shifted his focus towards enchancment. “I consider that I can undoubtedly study from this error,” Homme mentioned. “From right here on, it’s about making up for it, refining our method, and ensuring we’re well-prepared for the subsequent match.”
Prime Esports nonetheless have a path ahead within the Swiss Stage, however their margin for error is shrinking as stronger groups from the Swiss Stage will now stand in TES’s method to make their path to the knockouts tough. Nonetheless, if Homme’s introspection interprets into actuality and the workforce solves their non permanent woes, they might simply turn into the favorites to win all of it in China.
