Game 3 Recap: KT vs T1 – Cuzz’s Mundo Takes Over

Event: League of Legends 2025 World Championship (S15) – Grand Final
Matchup: T1 vs KT – “LCK Telecom War”
Game 3 Result: KT wins → KT leads the series 2–1 and reaches match point
. Draft Highlight: KT picks a triple frontline comp – K’Sante, Dr. Mundo, Alistar – forming an unkillable wall in front-line fights.

Overall Summary

In Game 3, KT drafted a heavy tank frontline with K’Sante, Dr. Mundo, and Alistar, aiming to out-scale T1 in mid–late game 5v5s.

For the first time in the series, T1 actually secured a clear early-game lead, primarily through dragons and skirmishes. But once KT’s three-tank core completed their items in the mid game, T1’s comp couldn’t cut through the frontline—Cuzz’s Dr. Mundo in particular ran straight at T1 with zero fear, turning every extended fight in KT’s favour.

KT comfortably closed out the game and took a 2–1 lead, securing the championship point.

The MVP of Game 3, without any doubt, went to Cuzz’s Dr. Mundo, who was “going wherever he wanted” and completely unanswerable in teamfights.

Early Game

• 6 minutes:
  T1 secures the first dragon of the game, establishing early objective control. Immediately after, KT looks for a fight and chases all the way to mid lane, finding an opening onto Faker and claiming first blood.
• 11 minutes:
  In an extended skirmish, T1 initially manages to go 0–2 in kills, but Cuzz’s Dr. Mundo pulls off a clutch Smite contest on the objective, then continues to chase down T1. KT converted the fight into a 1–3 trade overall, walking away with a huge win and starting Mundo’s snowball.

Mid Game – The Triple Frontline Comes Online

• 15 minutes:
  Doran finds a crucial flank teleport. Keria starts the engagement on KT’s Corki, and then Peter’s Alistar is also taken down. Off the back of this, T1 secures the Rift Herald, trying to accelerate the game before KT’s tanks fully scale.
• 23 minutes:
  T1 takes another dragon, but by this point KT’s top jungle duo (K’Sante + Dr. Mundo) are essentially unkillable. In the ensuing teamfight, Mundo and K’Sante completely dominate the frontline, T1’s comp crumbles, and the teamfight is a disaster for T1. KT seizes firm control of the game.

Late Game – Mundo Goes Wherever He Wants

• 27 minutes:
  KT starts Baron. Doran’s Renekton gets caught, but it doesn’t matter—Cuzz’s Dr. Mundo is entirely online and unstoppable. KT takes back-to-back 0–2 skirmishes and then secures Baron, blowing the game wide open.
• 33 minutes:
  With the game slipping away, T1 forces a desperate engagement and manages to delete Bdd at the start of the fight. Even so, Mundo stands in the middle of everyone with no pressure on him, refusing to die. KT wins the battle anyway and secures the Chemtech Dragon Soul.
• 36 minutes:
  KT executes a clean 5–0 ace and marches straight into T1’s base to end the game, taking a dominant win and going up 2–1 in the series, putting themselves on championship point.

MVP – Cuzz’s Dr. Mundo

Cuzz rightfully earns Game 3 MVP for his performance on Dr. Mundo:

• Repeated clutch Smites in early and mid-game.
• Unkillable frontline in every 5v5.
• Constantly chasing T1 down the map, dictating fight pace and positioning.

In this game, KT’s entire strategy revolved around letting Mundo and K’Sante hit critical tank items—and once that happened, T1 had no realistic way to cut through the frontline. Cuzz’s Mundo “went wherever he wanted,” and Game 3 became a showcase of pure front-to-back teamfighting dominance.

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