League of Legends Worlds 2025 Pick’Ems and Crystal Ball released

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 08/10/2025

Riot Games has officially launched this year’s Pick’Ems game for the League of Legends 2025 World Championships.

Pick’Ems is the yearly fantasy game where fans predict the results of every series at Worlds for a chance to win prizes.

And Riot has also confirmed the return of the additional bonus game, Crystal Ball.

Currently, both the Crystal Ball – where you answer questions like what will be the most-banned champion – and the Swiss Stage predictions are live.

As part of the Swiss Predictions, players will have to decide whether one of the two Play-In teams, T1 or Inivctus Gaming, will qualify for Knockouts.

Players will also have to predict one team that qualifies with a perfect 3-0 record, one with a 3-1 record, and a team that qualifies at the last chance at 3-2.

New this year is the factions feature, which allows players to join a leaderboard under their chosen content creator.

There are 10 factions to choose from with content creators like Christian ‘IWDominate’ Rivera and Niklot ‘Tolkin’ Stüber.

Los Ratones’ founder, Marc ‘Caedrel’ Lamont, also has a faction and by far the most members, with over 10,500 players in his league.

The faction with the highest percentage of correct guesses will receive a Nautilus-themed emote.

Players can also create their own leaderboards, which they can then invite their friends to join.

There are five unique Worlds emotes and an esports-themed capsule available in this year’s Pick’Ems.

The top 50% of guessors will receive the Group Hug emote while the top 25% will earn a Dunking Darius emote too.

Those who place in the top 5,000 of all players will receive the new 2025 Worlds Xhin Zhao skin.

And anyone lucky enough to have flawless guesses will receive every Ultimate skin in League of Legends.

LoL Worlds 2025 Play-In preview

LoL Worlds 2025 has a new format and schedule, with the tournament starting soon.

This year, the Play-Ins will only feature one single series. A best-of-five between T1 and Invictus Gaming.

After strong performances at MSI, Korea’s LCK and China’s LPL received a fourth Worlds qualification spot for one of their teams.

However, only one of the fourth seeds will qualify for the Worlds main event and compete in the Swiss Stage, the winner of IG vs T1.

T1 will be the heavy favourites, considering they have won the last two LoL World Championships with four of their current five players.

However, Invictus Gaming are also former World Champions with 2018 winners Kang ‘TheShy’ Seung-lok and Song ‘Rookie’ Eui-jin back on the team.

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

In my seven years of esports writing, I've introuduced esports coverage to newspapers, interviewed some of the biggest names in the industry, and driven viewers mad with the puns in my YouTube scripts. I'm most proud of the latter.

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