LoL - Worlds 2025: FlyQuest, sky is not the limit (12/17)

The League of Legends 2025 World Championship kicks off in Beijing on the 14th of October. A total of 17 teams will compete to, again, succeed T1 at the top of the Riot Games MOBA world hierarchy. On this occasion, Sheep Esports brings you a daily feature on one of the teams taking part. On October 8th, the twelfth episode of our series focuses on FlyQuest.

The best team in the West heads into their second international tournament of the year with a unique status — that of the Western leader and the brightest hope for a non-Asian team to make a deep run at these Worlds. After last year’s unforgettable best-of-five in the 2024 Worlds quarterfinals at the Adidas Arena in Paris against Gen.G, Western fans once again have every reason to believe.

In 2025, FlyQuest didn’t just win—they ruled. After claiming the Split 2 championship despite rising pressure from Cloud9, they entered Split 3 on a mission and obliterated expectations. Across both conferences, FLY looked untouchable, dismantling every contender in their path and asserting a level of consistency few teams in the West have ever reached. They lifted three trophies within a single year, including their first-ever title from Summer 2024, a year ago.

While their core lineup remained the same for most of the year, the Summer Split saw the arrival of İbrahim "Gakgos" Samet Bulut. His entry was enforced after Gabriël "Bwipo" Rau was temporarily benched following inappropriate conduct and sexists remarks on September 9. Gakgos managed one best-of-three series against Vivo Keyd Stars (a clean 3-0), but it was FlyQuest’s existing synergy and leadership that set the tone for another dominant year.

Internationally, their trajectory has followed a steep upward curve. At MSI, they pushed Bilibili Gaming to a five-game thriller and cleanly swept G2 Esports 3-0, proving their status of "leaders of the West" has not been stolen. On top of it, people still remember their impressive Worlds 2024 quarterfinal, where they nearly upset Gen.G with bold drafts and fearless macro plays. That match, more than anything, transformed FlyQuest from promising contenders into a global name.

While many people define their playstyle as chaotic and messy, they are quite the opposite. Their biggest asset is their organization. They have very good fundamentals and a very high teamfights coordination as well as very good punishers. They’re widely regarded as the best team in the West for over a year, and their unique status entering Worlds is well deserved.

Alan "Busio" Cwalina remains one of the finest supports in the region, a player whose map sense and timing constantly tilt games in FLY’s favor. His partnership with the league’s best botlane duo, Fahad "Massu" Abdulmalek, has been the bedrock of their consistency, dominating laning phases and dictating transitions to objectives with surgical precision.

In the jungle, FlyQuest field arguably the LTA’s most intelligent pathing and objective control, turning every small advantage into a cascading lead. This year again, Kacper "Inspired" Słoma proved he is one of the very best junglers in the world. Logically named MVP of the year in LTA North, the Polish jungler may be in the best form of his career at just 23 years old.

With Inspired heading into his fifth Worlds and Bwipo into his sixth, they bring along Song “Quad” Su-hyeong, Massu, and Busio for their second-ever Worlds appearance. Together, their goal will be to take FlyQuest further than their best international result to date, last year's quarters. This third Worlds in the organization’s history, and their fifth-ever international event, could well become a historic milestone.