Worlds 2025 Pick'Ems Guide: Knockout Stage

Now that the Swiss Stage is officially over, it's time to start making your playoffs picks at Worlds 2025! The Knockout Stage Pick'Ems are officially open, so let's take a look at how to make your picks and how you can better guide your selections for the best chance at scoring big rewards.

Remember not to take too long to make your picks as the Knockout Stage predictions close on October 28th at 9:15 am CET with the start of the first match of the playoffs between Gen.G and Hanwha Life Esports.

We invite all of you to join the official Strafe Esports leaderboard for Worlds 2025 Pick'Ems. There, you'll be able to compare picks against one another as well as against our own team of experts!

How to Do Your Worlds 2025 Pick'Ems for the Playoffs

To access the Worlds 2025 Pick'Ems, you can visit the official LoL Esports link for the challenge. Once there, you will need to log in with your Riot ID before you can make your picks for the Knockout Stage.

For this part of the Pick'Ems challenge, you will need to predict how the entire Worlds 2025 playoffs bracket will play out, from the Quarterfinals all the way to the champions.

This is the final stage of this year's Worlds Pick'Ems, which means this is your final shot at coming away with some of the amazing rewards on the line for the top scorers.

Strafe's Picks: Worlds 2025 Playoffs

Strafe's Worlds 2025 Playoffs Pick'Ems predictions. (Source: LoL Esports website)

Quarterfinals Predictions

Despite being the reigning World Champions, T1 haven't shown great form so far at the tournament, and will have a tall mountain to climb if they want to defeat an Anyone's Legend squad that has always looked competitive on the international stage in 2025. Can AL finally put an end to the LPL's curse against T1?

Much like T1, Top Esports really struggled through the Swiss Stage. G2, meanwhile, will be feeling confident after their win over FlyQuest, and should be hungry to return to the Semifinals once more.

Next we have Gen.G and Hanwha Life Esports, who will give us a rematch of the most recent LCK finals. Given that Gen.G won their last encounter in comfortable 3-1 fashion, they will be heavily favored to win this bout once more.

Last but not least, we arrive at what is perhaps the toughest Quarterfinal match to predict. CFO have shown just how competitive they can really be as they became the first APAC team to reach the playoffs at Worlds in 10 years. That said, KT have shown incredible highs by breezing through the Swiss Stage (or when they took down Gen.G in the LCK playoffs less than a month ago). For that reason, we believe KT should come out ahead in this match.

Semifinals Predictions

Judging by their Swiss Stage performances, Anyone's Legend has been a far better team than G2 at Worlds 2025. What's more, the team appears to be clicking at just the right time, and will be serious contenders to come away with the trophy in the end.

And then we have Gen.G. KT may have proven to be Gen.G's kryptonite in the LCK, but there is simply no denying the fact that Chovy and co. look like the best team in the world right now. This time, expect them to make Worlds Finals.

Grand Finals Prediction

We're expecting it to come down to Anyone's Legend and Gen.G for the title of World Champions. The two squads have already met twice this year (at MSI and the EWC), with both series going the distance but ultimately going the way of Gen.G in 3-2 fashion.

This time around, we simply have no reason to believe things will go any differently, closing out our Worlds 2025 Pick'Ems guide with a win for Gen.G.

Pick'Ems Rewards

The Worlds 2025 Pick'Ems challenge will reward everyone who participates, making it a worthwhile venture for everyone! The more accurate your predictions, however, the higher your score; and the higher your score, the greater the rewards.

Here's a look at the complete list of rewards players stand to earn from this year's Worlds Pick'Ems challenge:

• Participation
  • Swiss Stage: "HONK!" Emote
  • Playoff Stage: 1x Esports Capsule
• Top 50% of players: "Group Hug!" Emote + Participation rewards
• Top 25% of players: "The Answer" Emote + everything above
• Top 5000 players: Trials of Twilight Xin Zhao skin (+Xin Zhao champion unlock) + everything above
• Perfect picks: DJ Sona skin + Elementalist Lux skin + Gun Goddess Miss Fortune skin + K/DA All Out Seraphine skin + Pulsefire Ezreal skin + Soul Fighter Samira skin + Spirit Guard Udyr skin + all of these champions unlock + everything above

Make accurate predictions to earn the best possible rewards during the Worlds 2025 Pick'Ems challenge. (Credit: Riot Games)

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