T1’s Worlds 2025 Skins Hide Faker’s Six Stars and Doran’s “Krug Lord” Meme
Riot Games has locked in the T1 Worlds 2025 Championship skins for League of Legends Patch 26.14, arriving July 15, and the six-skin set is stacked with inside jokes only long-time T1 watchers will catch. The line commemorates the Korean org’s 3-2 grand-final win over KT Rolster, which secured T1 a third straight world title and Faker’s record sixth overall championship.
The lineup is Choi “Doran” Hyeon-joon on Ambessa, Moon “Oner” Hyeon-jun on Xin Zhao, Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok on Galio, Ryu “Keria” Min-seok on Seraphine, and Gumayusi on Yunara, plus his Prestige Miss Fortune. According to a developer breakdown reported by Inven Global, the core art concept for this skin line is ‘Ascended Warriors,’ capturing the narrative of T1 — a team that competed fiercely to reach the summit and finally ascended to the ranks of mythical beings. The development team established three pillars for this concept: ‘Legacy,’ which embodies the heritage of victory; ‘High Status,’ which expresses the dignity and hierarchy of a winner; and ‘Effortlessly Cool,’ which translates a restrained playstyle into a modern aesthetic.
Faker’s Galio Recall Carries Six Stars for Six World Titles
Six stars orbit Galio before he ascends into the sky, representing Faker’s six World Championship victories, with the recall ending as the T1 logo appears beneath him. The tribute covers all six of his titles, won in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Riot’s artists reportedly reworked the champion’s silhouette entirely for the tribute, as Riot redesigned Galio’s wings so their shape resembles the T1 logo, requiring entirely new animations.
Faker apparently pushed his own note through the feedback process too. Faker even suggested making the space backdrop larger, but Riot ultimately scaled it back to ensure the animation remained clear during gameplay. Elsewhere on the kit, Galio’s Q ability incorporates the Summoner’s Cup into its visual effects, while his taunt recreates Faker’s iconic “shush” gesture, a nod to the celebration he has used in multiple cinematics to silence his critics. With this skin, Faker has 10 skins in the game now.
Doran’s Ambessa Turns His “Krug Lord” LCK Meme Into a Permanent Gag
Doran’s skin carries the set’s biggest laugh. During T1’s match against KT Rolster in the LCK Road to MSI 2025, Doran attempted to clear the Krugs while playing Gwen, but with his health already low, failed to realize the jungle monsters would finish him off — and the clip quickly became a meme within the League of Legends community, which Doran embraced by turning it into a reference in his Worlds 2025 skin. In the recall, Ambessa pulls the Dorans’ sword, shield, and ring — the starter items in the game — from the Worlds trophy before charging into battle while a Krug watches nearby, a direct reference to Doran’s longest-running community meme, where he was known as the Krug Lord.
Ambessa herself became Doran’s pick after a community vote, and per a Riot dev briefing translated by Inven Global, the team had to incorporate item memes derived from Choi Hyun-joon’s summoner name and the Krug meme within a short motion, managing to combine the fun Krug element without compromising the heroic pose of the warrior heading to the battlefield. Not every idea survived, though — Choi Hyun-joon initially requested a younger-looking design for Ambessa, but this was not reflected in order to maintain the champion’s original identity.
Oner’s Tiger Totem and Keria’s Jacket-Toss Recall
Oner’s Xin Zhao skin is built around his stage presence. Oner asked Riot for a jacket-style cape inspired by his way of wearing a jacket on stage and bold red weaponry to match T1’s signature colors, and rather than adding a traditional cape, the artists created a dynamic jacket silhouette that flows dramatically during gameplay. The recall animation also serves as a tribute to Oner’s championship journey, with Xin Zhao recreating iconic moves from Lee Sin, Poppy, and Pantheon, the three champions Oner used to win his World Championships, and at his request the T1 team jacket appears at the end of the recall.
Keria’s Seraphine leans into a different mood entirely. Keria asked for cute and beautiful over serious and rugged, notably picking Seraphine over Neeko, the community-poll favorite, with Riot redesigning her cheek marking into a “K” for his own initial. The recall shows Seraphine performing in a T1 jacket on a giant LED stage, with the close-up and jacket-toss referencing Keria’s own jacket-removal moment during Game 5 against Anyone’s Legend at Worlds 2025, and to pull the sequence off, concept artists hand-drew between 12 and 16 frames of 2D animation.
Gumayusi’s Yunara Recreates a Lucky Worlds 2024 Butterfly
Gumayusi’s pick of Yunara has a personal backstory. Gumayusi picked Yunara partly because her designer, Max Perlman, had said the champion was essentially built around his playstyle. He then shaped the look himself, requesting a twin-bun hairstyle inspired by the Korean character Pucca and a more stylish overall look, with one easter egg hiding inside Yunara’s orb, where T1’s mascot Ati appears in different colors.
The recall’s centrepiece is a callback Gumayusi explained himself. As he put it in comments carried by Insider Gaming, “As for the butterfly, during the Worlds 2024, a butterfly came to the stage. The fans liked it and saw it as a symbol of good luck, so we ended up including it in this Worlds skin.”
Prestige Miss Fortune Honours Three Straight Titles, Ward Salutes Coach Tom
As Finals MVP, Gumayusi also gets a Mythic-tier Prestige Miss Fortune skin layered with career nods. Riot created three different gun sets for T1’s three title years — 2023, 2024 and 2025 — swapping them in whenever the ultimate is used, with a Baron doll appearing in one animation as a nod to his famous Baron steal in 2022, and the recall running through career-defining moments — dodging Kalista spears against Weibo Gaming in 2023, Ashe arrows against Bilibili Gaming in 2024, shooting down Ziggs bombs against KT Rolster in 2025 — before ending with Gumayusi lifting the FMVP trophy.
The collection extends beyond champions. There is also a tribute ward for the coaching staff — in the same spirit as the earlier kkOma ward honouring Kim Jeong-gyun, this one celebrates T1 coach Im “Tom” Jae-hyun with a “Magical Cat Strategist” ward that reimagines his hairstyle and headset as a cat. A hidden gag sits in the design too: the skin also features Dr Mundo on the pages of his notebook in reference to coach Tom telling Oner to first-time Mundo on-stage at Worlds 2025.
On pricing, the T1 Worlds 2025 Championship skins will be available in the in-game League of Legends store when Patch 26.14 goes live on July 15, 2026, with each champion skin sold individually for 1,350 RP, while Signature Editions with exclusive player signatures, borders, chromas, and icons will also be available. The MVP skin follows a separate model: Gumayusi’s MVP Miss Fortune skin has a different release model, sold as a Legendary skin
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