LoL Worlds Favorites: Who Will Win Worlds 2025?
The League of Legends World Champions is the pinnacle of LoL esports and the main event in the yearly calendar. It brings together the top sides from around the world to compete in a month-long tournament to find out who is the greatest. In this piece, we’re looking at the LoL Worlds favorites for 2024.
This year’s iteration is being held in Europe, spread between Berlin, Paris, and London for different stages of the tournament. Currently entering the best-of-five knockouts stage in Paris’ Adidas Arena, Worlds 2024 will conclude on Saturday, Nov. 2 with the grand final being held at London’s O2 Arena.
Updates
Oct 16 – Knockouts imminent
The Play-ins and Swiss stage brought the usual Worlds heat, with tonnes of entertaining matchups and many heartbreaking eliminations. Now the final eight head to the quarter-finals, where a best-of-five, single-elimination bracket will be used to determine the world champion.
Quarter-finals matchups:
- Thursday 17th – LNG Esports (LPL) vs Weibo Gaming (LPL)
- Friday 18th – Hanwha Life Esports (LCK) vs Bilibili Gaming (LPL)
- Saturday 19th – Top Esports (LPL) vs T1 (LCK)
- Sunday 20th – Gen.G (LCK) vs FlyQuest (LCS)
Sep 26 – Play-Ins Underway
The Play-In stage, featuring eight lower-seeded hopefuls, has kicked off. Early wins for MAD Lions KOI and PSG Talon have put them both on the verge of qualification, where two best-of-three series wins will move teams on to the Main Event. Four of the eight will eventually progress, while the rest will earn an early ticket home.
Who Will Win Worlds 2024? Predictions
LoL Worlds 2024 predictions get harder each and every season. Changes to qualification spots over the years mean that the LCK and LPL each have four teams attending, with the overall winner almost guaranteed to come from one of these regions.
Still, there can be unexpected champions within that restricted pool. Nobody saw DRX as LoL Worlds favorites in 2022, and the underdogs had a difficult path against EDG, Gen.G and T1 in the knockouts, yet Deft and co. defied the LoL Worlds betting odds to win the tournament against all expectations. Despite being the greatest ever, Faker and his T1 roster weren’t favourites last year either, but came out victorious when the meta swung in their favour.
Worlds 2024 Favorites: Which Team Will Win Worlds?
Gen.G
Of all of those LoL Worlds qualified teams, Korea’s Gen.G currently sits top as Worlds 2024 favorites with odds 1.65. They won four LCK splits in a row, a run only stopped by an upset from Hanwha Life Esports in Summer, and are far and above the strongest side in Korea. A roster reshuffle this season saw them become even stronger than last year, allowing them to finally break their international curse by winning the Mid-Season Invitational.
The team has positional GOAT contenders in multiple roles; Canyon making the plays as jungler and mid laner Chovy currently showing perhaps the highest level of performance ever seen in the game. Kiin and Legends were brought in in the top lane and support respectively to elevate the team further, while teenage bot laner Peyz continues to develop. So far at Worlds they’ve looked dominant, beating Weibo, Top, and Hanwha Life to reach the knockout stage – the hardest run of any team, by far, that they made look ridiculously easy.
Bilibili Gaming
After the addition of mid laner Knight from rivals JDG, Bilibili Gaming has become the force in China and enter the 2024 World Championship quarter-finals with 7.00 odds. They won both LPL splits with relative ease, but failed to do much internationally at either the Mid-Season Invitational and the Esports World Cup.
Their raw firepower is immense, with top laner Bin giving the team one of the scariest solo lane duos in history. Their bot lane of Elk and ON is one of the strongest at Worlds, and the only question marks may be around the jungle.
Wei has already been benched for the returning XUN in their Worlds 2024 run which saw them scrape through Swiss by beating Dplus KIA in their final qualification opportunity.
Hanwha Life Esports
Coming in as minor outsiders, currently the second favourites to take home the Summoner’s Cup is Korea’s Hanwha Life Esports with odds of 6.00. Winning the LCK has no doubt boosted their stock immensely as the side had previously just been seen as the home of Gen.G rejects due to the roster featuring Doran, Peanut and Delight.
The team’s best-of-five victory over Gen.G in the LCK summer finals has shown that they do have what it takes to beat the best teams, but they’ll need to do it numerous times on the biggest stage to win Worlds. So far they’ve failed to at Worlds 2024, having only beaten smaller-region opposition to qualify for the knockouts. Their rematch with Gen.G ended in defeat, while victories came against PSG Talon, G2, and FlyQuest.
MSI and World Champions
So, which team will win Worlds this year? In my eyes, the LoL Worlds favorites have got to be Gen.G. Were it not for the loss to Hanwha then they’d currently be competing for a Golden Road, and they’re well in contention to become the greatest team that League of Legends has ever seen.
With Chovy in the mid lane having broken the international curse, and, in all honesty, having performed well personally in previous international ‘failures’, then there’s really nothing stopping Gen.G from winning the biggest tournament and going on to create the next League dynasty.
Odds provided by Betway on Oct. 16.
