Zeus has won the first title since leaving T1 but it may not be enough.

Zeus - T1: Only the LCK Cup 2025 may not be proven

In November 2024, Zeus left T1 in the most noisy transfer deal in the history of this team ever. At that time, besides arguing about the "reasonable affair" in Zeus's decision, many viewers also want to see an important thing: no T1 and especially Faker, Zeus can do things. or not.

An opinion came when Zeus left T1: Can Zeus be glory without Faker?

After about 4 months, Zeus brought back the first title when not playing with Faker. Only thing, that title is LCK Cup - the tournament is considered to start and test for Fearless Draft - a new competitive mode of professional League of Legends. Of course, there are still many praise for Zeus. But perhaps, only LCK Cup 2025 is not enough.

Zeus is elected as FMVP of LCK Cup 2025

First, need to repeat, Zeus had very slow adaptation to the new team. Then when starting the LCK Cup 2025, HLE lost 2 important matches against Gen.G and the other Dplus. It was these defeats of HLE that once made the team suspected, before Zeus regained his form and really contributed to the common play of the Summer LCK Champion 2024.

In addition, one important thing: leaving Faker, but Zeus's new team is still a top team of LoL today. They still have a leader (Peanut), a prestigious pair of BOT (Viper - Delight), a middle line capable of creating mutations (Zeka). It can be said that HLE is no less than T1, T1 Worlds 2024, and this is the arena that they are played comfortably instead of title pressure like Worlds.

But LCK Cup 2025 may not be enough for Zeus to assert himself is fine and still win the title even without Faker

Another factor is also worth considering: the main rivals of HLE at the upcoming Regular Seasons (Gen.G, T1, DK, KT) have really sprung up? T1 uses SMASH - the gunner up from Challengers to test. While DK is too liberal with "weird" options. And Gen.G, the players themselves like Canyon or ChoVy often make mistakes in matches. Therefore, the question of whether the top LCK teams have played with the best or not still left open.

T1 is also ready to test SMash in the last tournament.

Of course, Zeus is still excellent with the FMVP of LCK Cup 2025 and Zeus still plays well in all generals. But this is also Zeus and T1 fighting at Worlds 2024. At that time, he still used from the pure tanker to the gladiator or became one of the two main sources of damage of T1. As such, Zeus is simply maintaining his own form rather than superior progress.

Zeus himself is only maintaining his style rather than any progress too great

The answer to the involvement of Zeus - T1 may be in the Regular Seasons 2025 and then MSI - Worlds

With First Stand only 5 teams and brief play time, it will be difficult for Zeus to further review even if this is an international tournament and not even counted on the overall achievement of a team in 2025. Thus, the real arena for Zeus to prove itself can live comfortably and conquer titles only Regular Seasons, and then MSI - Worlds.

Regular Seasons 2025 and then MSI and Worlds are probably enough for Zeus to show that he is still good enough to win the title without Faker

Of course, Zeus is a player who is extremely talented and it doesn't need to be discussed. But if Zeus really wants to claim "leaving Faker everything is still okay", the upcoming big arenas are the peaks that really need him to conquer compared to the current LCK Cup 2025.