FlyQuest run it back, opponents should be afraid | LTA Roster Analysis

FlyQuest is returning to the LTA North with the exact same roster as 2024, and their opponents should be scared.

FlyQuest’s performance at Worlds 2024 was the Cinderella story of North American LoL Esports last year. The team rallied to a quarterfinals performance for the ages, five games against the god-like Gen.G LCK roster. They, like their rivals Team Liquid, have decided to make zero changes to their players, and it’s looking good. Here’s how I think FlyQuest sits in relation to the rest of the LTA North, let’s get to it.

FlyQuest 2025 Roster: If it ain’t broke…

There were very clearly two teams that landed as a cut above the rest in North America last year, Team Liquid, and FlyQuest. Following the introduction of the still-ongoing lane swap meta at MSI 2024, these two were pioneering that meta together, sharpening one another like blades against whetstones. However, come LCS Finals, come Worlds, it was FlyQuest that proved themselves the superior competitor. If they’re not the favourites, they’re darn close.

In the top lane, Gabriel “Bwipo” Rau makes his return. Bwipo has proved himself time and time again as a top-tier regional talent able to let haymakers fly on the international stage, especially with signature spicy picks. Bwipo, vocal as he may be, stands as one of the region’s best top laners going into the LTA’s premiere.

In the jungle, Kacper “Inspired” Solma, likely the best jungler in NA last year. Fiddlesticks pick forgiven, Inspired is an aggressive, play-making, multi-pronged threats that helps set FlyQuest’s plans in motion. Look to Inspired to return to his famous skirmish-heavy playstyle with the death of the power-farming mages in the jungle, FLY’s plays will live or die by Inspired, and the prognosis is looking positive.

QUAD-rupling down on a sure thing

I, like many NA fans, was skeptical of another LCKCL solo laner imported for FlyQuest at the beginning of 2024. Song “Quad” Soo-hyung proved any doubters, myself included, completely wrong. Quad has the capability to be a force-of-nature-level carry for FLY, turning pressure into gold advantages and gold advantages into games that snap open for the green-clad defending champions like a party cracker.

In the bot lane come Fahad “Massu” Abdumalek, and Alan “Busio” Kwalina round out the roster. Massu was NA’s golden boy last year, raking in Rookie Of The Year, almost entirely off of his nothing-short-of-phenomenal Summer Split run. Busio, to quote one of the grandfathers of LoL Esports coverage, Nick Geracie, was clearly “destined to be much better than [2023]” and that the community would “look back on this Busio stuff and be like ‘ha ha ha’.” The Oracle of Delphi Geracie hits another bullseye.

The American support settled into his role as an enabler for carries like Quad, Inspired, and Massu, and the bot lane’s well-built synergy carrying over from last year is one of the strongest points for these two, overshadowed only by their phenomenal play at Worlds 2024.

In short, FlyQuest should be at the tippy-top of fans’ power rankings heading into the LTA’s launch this weekend. You’re welcome to shuffle them back and forth with Team Liquid, but before any games are played, FlyQuest and their Spring Split champion rivals should be the only two truly battling for that top slot. We’ll only know the truth come that fateful opening tournament, but there’s no reason to think the FlyQuest hype train has any brakes on it for the time being.