📝 The team to beat: Crazy Raccoon 2025 World Finals Preview

Crazy Raccoon have been a staple of many an OWCS Grand Final, and the form they displayed in the Korea playoffs suggests much of the same for the 2025 World Finals.

They won the Korea Regional Playoffs in a fairly dominant fashion, qualifying as the first seed from Korea. In a tale as old as time, an underperformance from Team Falcons in the previous tournament pitted them against Crazy Raccoon in the first round, and an El Clásico-esque five-mapper ensued. Falcons would come out on top on this occasion, sending Crazy Raccoon to the lower bracket and setting up the inevitable rematch in the Grand Finals. On their way there, Crazy Raccoon embarrassed both WAE and T1, the next best dive teams in the region, without dropping a map.

Grand Finals produced one of the closest and most exciting matches in recent memory, going the full seven maps and seeing Crazy Raccoon come out on top, mounting an epic comeback from 3-1 down. They looked strong on their signature dive, be it Winston or Wrecking Ball, but Falcons found an answer in Choi “Hanbin” Han-been’s D.Va. They took Crazy Raccoon’s map pick of Ilios off them, which is a rare feat in the OWCS era. Each map was a nail-biter, with clutches, miracles and dominant moments from both teams, but Crazy Raccoon prevailed at the eleventh hour to secure the World Finals’ #1 Seed. In the OWCS era, Crazy Raccoon have won three LAN events, while Falcons have won two. If these two match up in the finals yet again, Falcons have the chance to break even on LAN victories and put Crazy Raccoon’s number one status in question.

Signature Compositions

Crazy Raccoon have proven over the last two years that they are hard to match on any form of dive composition. Park “JunBin” Jun-bin has cemented himself as arguably the best Winston and Wrecking Ball player in the world, and he has the perfect teammates to complement that. Sung “CH0R0NG” Yoo-min and Kim “Shu” Jin-seo are famous for their prowess on Lucio and Brigitte, and Ana, respectively; when they play those Ana compositions, they look almost unbeatable.

In addition to this, they possess a deadly DPS duo to round out this superteam. Lee “Lip” Jae-won is often mentioned in GOAT conversations, and despite playing at the top level for longer than almost anyone else in the OWCS era, he looks as good as ever. Chae “HeeSang” Hee-sang is one of the more flexible DPS players in Korea, and plays each hero to a staggering level given his depth as a player. He even dominated Kim “Proper” Dong-hyun on Genji on map 7 of the Korea finals, a matchup that Proper usually wins handily. They added An “SP1NT” Woo-jin at the beginning of Stage 3, a young, up-and-coming flex DPS player who more than delivered on Genji and Tracer when given the chance. This gives Crazy Raccoon the ability to play a dangerous double-flex DPS composition if they want to, as they did to great success at the beginning of Stage 3, while LIP was on break.

If you want to appear in almost every Grand Finals for two whole years, though, dominance on one composition isn’t enough. Thankfully, Crazy Raccoon have been able to adapt well to meta changes, new heroes and map pools thanks to their second tank player, Choi” MAX” Su-min. While he doesn’t have the ceiling that Junbin does, he is able to cover really well for gaps in his hero pool. He is able to play the ground tanks that are popular on flatter maps, and has come good for the team on many occasions. Zarya is a very strong pick right now, and MAX has shown that he is one of the best with that hero in the region.

Statistics

Crazy Raccoon boast an impressive 77.36% combined map win rate, given the strength of competition in the Korea region. They were unsurprisingly dominant on Control and Flashpoint maps, where their signature dive style is most effective, and had minimal holes in their map pool. The biggest struggle for them was on King’s Row, a map where dive is weak, but they were still able to win 50% of the time. It’s worth noting that they had poor win rates on both Junkertown and Rialto, but neither of those maps will be present in the World Finals map pool.

On top of being a hard team to pick a map against, they seem to be pretty ban-proof. Many teams attempted to ban Junbin’s Wrecking Ball and Winston, but in those situations, they were still able to win 80% of the time. Their backline is in no danger of being banned out either, as when Lucio was banned, CH0R0NG still won 100% of the time.

The most effective bans against Crazy Raccoon seem to be Tracer and Zarya. Keeping HeeSang and MAX away from their signature heroes kept Crazy Raccoon to a 60% win rate in both instances.

What these statistics point to is something that we all already knew; Crazy Raccoon are good. And they’re REALLY good at dive. And if any team wants to compete with them at the World Finals, they will have to bring nothing less than their A-game both mechanically and strategically.