Peyz's Kalista and T1's Baron Control Break FURIA

TL;DR: With a series sweep on the line, T1 finished the job in 35:20 by turning a massive bot-lane edge into full map control. Peyz on Kalista created the early separation, Oner's Vi justified the draft call, and T1's 2 barons to 0 overcame FURIA's stubborn fight count in a game that sealed MSI 2026 with authority.

Key Takeaways

• Peyz's Kalista exploded for 11/3/8 and a +1076 GoldDiff@15, proving the bot-lane gap was the clearest reason T1 could dictate tempo from the opening waves.
• Oner on Vi finished 5/4/11 with a +1041 GoldDiff@15, validating the pre-draft focus on Vi and giving T1 the reliable engage that the 50% live draft edge was built around.
• Even though FURIA posted 23 kills to T1's 21, T1's 9 towers, 3 dragons, and 2 barons translated into 72.3k gold and the game-winning map advantage.

Early Game

This was a closeout game, not a reset button. T1 entered Game 3 already up 2-0 in the best-of-5, so every lane trade carried elimination pressure for FURIA. Early on, the most important story was not the raw kill count but where the resources landed: bot side. Peyz on Kalista built a +1076 lane lead by 15 minutes, and that advantage gave T1 first access to river, dragons, and the kind of skirmish setups this composition wanted.

FURIA did have answers in the lanes. Tutsz on Aurora found room to breathe with a +684 GoldDiff@15, and JoJo's Seraphine sitting at +1013 showed that the underdogs were not getting rolled everywhere at once. In the jungle, Tatu's Nasus also kept punching back, eventually reaching 8/3/9, which is a real output in a game against T1. But the map never truly belonged to them, because T1's engage structure was easier to trust when neutral objectives spawned.

That matters when revisiting prediction 1. Pre-draft analysis specifically highlighted Vi, and she absolutely delivered as predicted. Oner was not just present on the pick; he was the bridge between lane pressure and objective conversion, turning early access into clean starts around fights.

The Turning Point

The game stayed scrappy longer than T1 would have preferred, especially with FURIA reaching 23 kills overall, but the decisive swing came when superior structure beat raw chaos. T1's composition had been favored by the live draft model at 50%, and this was the phase where that edge became visible in practice. Vi, Taliyah, Kalista, and Renata Glasc gave the LCK side clearer engage windows and better control once teams grouped in fog of war.

The first Baron did not just add gold; it changed the geometry of the game. With Faker's Taliyah at 1/3/9, he was not the flashy carry here, but his role in shaping the map and cutting off escape paths mattered every time T1 collapsed on a corridor. On the frontline, Keria's Renata Glasc ended 0/7/17, a stat line that tells you how messy the fights were, yet also how often he was present when they mattered. When the second Baron followed, the objective score reached 2 barons to 0, and that was the cleanest proof that T1's draft edge had materialized in-game, satisfying prediction 2 directly.

Closing Out

From there, the game looked noisy on the scoreboard but decisive on the map. T1 finished with 9 towers to 3, stacked 3 dragons, and converted those wins into a 72.3k to 64.3k gold finish. Doran's Varus at 4/6/8 was not a spotless side-lane performance, but it gave T1 another source of pressure that FURIA had to respect once Baron waves started crashing.

The final result also says something important about closing discipline. FURIA landed punches through Nasus, Aurora, and Seraphine, and their 23 kills show they never stopped contesting. But T1 understood the difference between winning fights and winning the map. A dominant bot lane, reliable engage, and objective control were enough to turn a competitive mid game into a firm finish.

Polymarket Market

The market read this game correctly in broad terms. T1 closed draft as a 93% favorite after opening the series around 91%, and the result matched that expectation: the favorite delivered. What the price did not fully capture was how volatile the game state would feel despite the likely winner. FURIA still produced 23 kills, and Tatu on Nasus made several stretches uncomfortable, but T1's draft logic held because Vi enabled cleaner objective play and Kalista converted lane priority into Baron control. This result closes the series at 3-0; the full series-market wrap-up belongs in the series recap.

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*Odds via Polymarket, 2026-07-06 08:26 UTC.*