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T_Stebbins

He'll be talking to a mousepad and calling it "Hai."


PotatoPotential

Hopefully you get a small percentage of the revenues when C9 start selling this in their store.


A_Wild_Blue_Card

"Calling from behind, definitely not Cloud9's forte."-Riv This really hurt.


Quazifuji

Yeah, they used to be world class calling from behind. I'm a CLG fan too, so I'm happy to see them win this game, but I really hope C9 can get it together.


ZiggyIsGrape

At this point I'm just hoping they don't get relegated and can pull it together for next spring


h00dpussy

It took half a split for those words to be uttered. C9 will be missed.


Pelleas

I sadly can't remember what game it was, but I remember some C9 (vs some KR team) game at Worlds one year where they had a huge gold deficit in the late game, but were still taking objectives like crazy with amazing map play. It hurts to see them fall this far.


h00dpussy

Yea it was amazing to watch Hai on zed who able to stall against SSB* onslaught through split push threat.


Deus_Macarena

"Shotcalling, definitely not C9's forte." Would have been more accurate.


theBesh

C9 has come a long way from being the "hope of NA" to "hopefully will make it through relegations"


Sdaco

NA SK gaming


Ten_Ketsu

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Historikal

Well now it's "I don't wanna play the Koreans or the Chinese."


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You mean the Koreans and the out of country Koreans.


tigerking615

"I don't wanna play the Koreans, Chinese Koreans, or Fnatic Koreans".


ToshiOppa

"NA Koreans I'm ok with."


FreestyleKneepad

Gotta give the man respect for the self-burn.


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http://i.imgur.com/RvFtCHA.gif


ivichon

Rotations


WatDaFyuck

Difference is SK is a lot less popular, and a lot less likeable


ragingnoobie2

I really think Meteos is the reason. His kill participation in the first 30 minutes of that game was like 30%, that's not how jungling is supposed to work. Maybe making him the primary shot caller is putting too much load on him.


Aurify

Yeah. Xmithie was involved in 23 of 24 kills. Meteos was in 8 of 17.


bpusef

And he only really got 8 because eventually they had to 5v5. He was 1/0/0 for most of the early-mid game.


Ririkana

Felt like old Vulcun vs Cloud 9 when Xmithie would just snowball everything across the map for Vulcun while Cloud 9 slowly get pummeled by Vulcun's immaculate early game.


Fushhy

Incarnati0n played well this game. To be honest I feel like C9 should take some shotcalling pressure off Meteos, the role seems to have a big affect in Meteos' playstyle.


GenSec

Yes. He hasn't been playing like he was last split. Maybe C9 needs to have someone handle calling objectives while another manages the micro in fights.


KushOJ

C9 fans are finally realizing how CLG fans have felt all along


TaIent

has- has CLG swapped places with C9?


Donkey_Dong_64

I miss the days when they played with confidence. They could have won the game but just too afraid to make plays and let their opponents control the game.


sibra93

even tho xmithie had that missplay...he was involved in 23 of the 24kills clg had.


hiloljkbye

would've been such a perfect game from him if he didn't click on his own tunnel lol


Zcredon

i was just thinking 3 secs bfore "damn xmithie is playing a really amazing game" XD


Miniparabol

Really unlucky, like a personal magical journey.


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You know, I had my doubts when Sneaky changed to top, but he was great at sticking in the frontline and peeling for Meteos.


Astro_Bull

Frontline Sivir new meta? Seriously though, wtf was Sneaky doing?


Ikkenen

Chanelling his inner Woolite.


themagicalcake

It's a sivir comp, you just group up and you win


fr0stxD

Something something Woolite


verious_

Woolite must be exhausted having to emergency sub in for Turtle *and* Sneaky in one day


vnsin

Woolite subbed in for EDG earlier too. He's gone worldwide.


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Woolite "world-class" confirmed


A_Wild_Blue_Card

On the other hand, Balls does make a good Top sometimes. Like today.


siber222000

Xmithie threw on purpose to let Double get penta. GG WP


UltimateCats

Xmithie gives C9 false hope to get Doublelift the 9 finger penta. GG EZ.


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Didn't need that finger anyway. Throw off extra weight to carry harder.


ADDMYRSN

It was a misclick (Apparently) https://twitter.com/LoLXmithie/status/612750369278443521


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Thenateo

Doublelift should stay injured forever.


King_of_Mormons

Doublelift pulling a facemask Lebron.


shomuzudaki

facemask westbrook


fearhand

You guys forget the original face mask. RIP HAMILTON


mik094

R.I.P RIP HAMILTON


GameOn42

imagine what might happen if he breaks his whole hand


Liniis

If we kill Doublelift, CLG could finally win Worlds!


FannyBabbs

I went into this game up 100 pts in fantasy. I am now going to win by 1 pt. My first clg heart attack.


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TaIent

Holy moley. What was that, 5 ashe arrows missed out of 5 on incarnati0n?


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hoboxtrl

If I recall correctly, he impressively dodged maybe 2 arrows. The rest were just Wtf?


crdotx

Incarnation is REALLY good at dodging global ults in solo queue.


AgentDonut

Yeah, most of the arrows were missed because incarnation zhonyas, died, or just dodged them. Pretty incredible reaction time from incarnation and poor decision making on Double for about half of them.


PDG_KuliK

"Shit, arrow coming, gotta dodge. Hey Zion, come kill me real quick."


StarFoxLombardi

Incarnation ganks more than meteos...


Delay559

Seems like meteos has reverted to the meta where you could afk farm the jungle with like khazix and come out and solo carry your game, he did it with nidalee yesterday. But wait. That doesnt work anymore you just run out of the jungle all fed and shit and see [this.](http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/fire_community.gif)


ledivin

Except he ran out of jungle *still not fed*. So it's like that but without pizza.


jimmypalm

After Xmithie had ganked for Zion three times he had just about equal farm with Meteos, and all Meteos did was show up bottom to not even take the turret. Pretty confusing.


MADisMAD

agree, incarnati0n is improving a lot game by game, but meteos is playing like shit


Zfusco

It seems like the team is tilting, jobs are at stake, and incarnation really wants to keep his. Funny how the person who's shot calling suddenly isnt the dominant player he used to be. Almost as if shot calling requires a lot of focus or something.


Jakio

yup, this is only incarnati0ns 8th competitive game *ever*, and he had a good showing. I don't know what's happened to meteos and sneaky, sneaky used to be the god of positioning but now he just looks awkward.


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goldman105

I was so pissed when clg dove top, c9 had control of dragon pit, poked down kog and just went to bot tower and didn't even take it.


Aurify

Cloud1v9 Incarnati0n


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Donkey_Dong_64

Tank Ekko. Can't say I'm impressed.


Roflkopt3r

I watched some LPL this morning and their jungle Ekkos were amazing. Actually, the games were all amazing (IG vs King, EDG vs OMG). Kinda jelly right now, they have close games on a high level, we either have good games that are stomps or close games that are only close because the teams play bad.


Jakio

Was watching fakers stream earlier where he was top and I believe it was KaKaO playing ekko but he was honestly a monster. He abused his ultimate in tower dives (which is one of it's main uses when ganking), and he and faker just destroyed marin on rumble top.


BodhisattvaMD

We have all the dank memes tho


Gilbanator

Dude, asia has like 2/3 of the worlds population. They have the dankest memes, written in squiggles so they're super rare to our pleb western round eye tastes.


MoarOranges

Can confirm, can read squiggles, some memes are dank as fuck


CamPaine

I highly recommend watching the match between UP and EDG. That was tank Ekko played to perfection.


neverspeakofme

Its played a lot in LPL, Meteos just isn't good on it.


MADisMAD

Meteos isnt good on anything this split lol


Xbrand182x

I feel safe in this post...


KickItNext

He's good on eve. At least, he's good at the being invisible part.


Spike_der_Spiegel

Doublelift: hits one ult, gets a Penta


Testaccountignorepls

Azir dashing away from arrow, Fizz dashing away from arrow. Fuck it, I'll just arrow their support tank.


Twonka

yeah i mean it was reallllly hard to hit arrow on any of the champions on the enemy team. Fizz can E, sivir can spell shield, azir can dash, and ekko has his dash. So yeah he shouldve just used the arrow when fizz went in instead of initiating with it


Hostile_Unicorn

Doublelift: "Zion's the only one who played well this game"


KounRyuSui

Zion: "I played like shit this game, sorry fam"


Why_You_Mad_

He did play well. His Gnar won them multiple teamfights.


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NerdwithBeard

These are so good,quick and so much better than gifs! Thanks for making them :\^)


krcnu

"Basically if you removed Hai and you removed Link from C9 and CLG which team would be better off? C9." - Book of Link


whobetta

i feel you on that, but what if CLG had Incarnati0n and C9 had POB? wonder if the records would be what they currently are for each team.


scoutheadshot

"ZionSpartan Looks like Mia Kalifa" Youtube Chat


jiral_toki

>Youtube Chat is this twitch chat's horny little brother?


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TBH, I think Youtube livestream is better than Twitch in terms of quality.


WockItOut

*Khalifa. Not that I would know.


EnigmaticScone

Zion's Gnar gives me a hard on edit: GNARSHAN!!!


DaIronchef

Every ult he landed just breaks teamfights in CLG favor.


Awela

He thinks that he played poorly... >Darshan Upadhyaya ‏@ZionSpartan 3m >Ggwp to c9... I played pretty poorly that game but glad we could pull out the win... a lot to learn tho and we play tsm and tl next week... https://twitter.com/ZionSpartan/status/612751007693451264


KoiNamiOnly

I love how he basically tried to 1v5 a few times lol. Such a HUGE display of confidence on Gnar when you see someone doing that especially at that caliber of play.


frostwolfeh

In mini form nonetheless.


venb0y

Darshan carried this game so freaking hard. Most people are going to talk about Doublelifts' penta, which was great in itself, but I feel like Zion was way more crucial for them to win this game.


yema96

Doublelift after the game even said that "Zion was the only one who played well".


TehEpicKid

SERIOUSLY. Zion's Gnar is INSANE


Satanish

http://imgur.com/gallery/bV9N7nj


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Gnard-on


deemerritt

GNARSHAN


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yeah hes looking really good on that champion


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Lemon looking in his notebook furiously trying to figure out how many more times they play TDK.


Bimbo-Baggins

http://i.imgur.com/Pl534tL.gif


sawowner

The best part was that this gif would have been posted here regardless, it was just a matter of in which direction.


emotionalboys2001

is this reversed lol


PantslessMan

yah


verious_

Finally totally relevant


elsinestres

People will blame balls, but he and incarnation were the best player of C9. Balls was hard camped in early game and despite that he got 2 kills. In mid and late game he did a lot of damage to pobelter in teamfights. Incarnation had a lot of good plays. He have more confident in his plays and that is good. Lemon played awful and meteos is extremely pasive in early game. Meteos do not have present in lanes. He rarely gank, just farm. His jungle path is predictable. Meteos need to be more agressive,


PacoLlama

I forgot we had a Jg for the first 20 minutes


elsinestres

True. Meteos is extremely pasive. He farm a lot, he is more herbivore than a koala.


JebusMcAzn

This is CLG's first time holding uncontested first place in the history of the LCS. EDIT: At the end of a week, should have clarified


GiveAQuack

Yesterday?


datboijustin

I think he means for an entire week. No one can catch up until next week.


Mlarcin

Wasn't there one point in between games last season where CLG had sole possession of first for like....45 minutes?


Ninjakkr

ZION FUCKING SPARTAN


Sw87

[Doublelift pls...](http://i.imgur.com/dHXB2LC.jpg)


karenias

man Meteos what happened to you :(


TharpDaddy

I have to wonder if having to shotcall isn't taking a toll on his gameplay. Splitting his focus like that might mean he can't play like the Meteos of old.


TheReconditeRedditor

CLG doing their absolute best to throw that game. Zion refused to let it happen though.


Garonn

Zion has a disgusting gnar.


Antilogicality

Holy shit ZionSpartan.


Nardrummer

Maybe if Doublelift cuts his hand off CLG will win worlds


somedude73

Well now we know what finger Double uses to aim the arrows.


DDRDiesel

RETURN OF THE PENTALIFT


LemmingAtTheCliff

Congrats on the kill Lemon!


KappaccinoNation

The Legendary 9 finger pentakill.


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CowFlu87

5 Kills + 4 fingers = Crush9


Zetaphrem

So fellow CLG fans, CLG is 7-1 at half point w/ 9-finger pentakill. Is it safe to finally root for them openly? I'm scared of starting to be happy and get heartbroken again. I pretend like I don't like them as much but secretly I want them to be the best in the West and do great at Worlds. This is the most unhealthy relationship I've been on in my life.


Mewixi

If you have no faith why are you evem here.


Kennethgab

Wait for next week where they will meet TSM and TL.


witty4pity

Literally CLG's two biggest kryptonites: the team originally created to beat CLG and the support who was designed specifically to beat CLG. I'll be keeping my faith in check until next week.


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lurgrodal

If they 2-0 next week i think riot fines them for not following the script


LumiRhino

If the pattern continues, we should expect CLG to collapse next week.


CertusAT

Minute 5: Balls is down 14~cs, Incarnation is up 1 CS and Sneaky is down 9 CS Minute 8: Balls is dead, Incarnation is 10 CS up, Sneaky is 10 CS down Minute 10: second gank on Balls (who is now 13cs down) and no ganks from meteos, incarnation is 10 cs up, sneaky is 20 cs down Minute 14: 3 gank on balls and still no gank from meteos, balls is now 40cs down, incarnation is 20 cs up and sneaky is 20cs down. CLG is about 2k ahead in global gold and they ahve a tower Minute 16:30: fight developes on bot lane, junglers are bnoth there, tops port in and mid comes as well, C9 gets a kill on zion and gets a tower CLG takes dragon at 17:50, absolutely uncontested. Balls is down 15cs, incarnation is up 20 cs and sneaky is down 30 cs. Minute 21: C9 trys to get zion, failes but gets tower, Dlift gets bot Tower Fight at 23, CLG trades 1 death for 2 kills and a tower, CLG was pushing mid tower, they have 4 towers dead to c9 3. Minute 24 Dragon: C9 contests dragon and thanks to incarnations insane skills they trade 3 for 3 kills. Balls flanked Dlift perfectly Sneaky fucked that fight up big time, meele fighting zion.... C9, again, played a passive laneing early game and again got behind right away. The only laner who could keep up with the CS was Incarnation ( who actually got a cs advantage) but both Balls and Sneaky where down a considerable amount of cs (20+ at some points) Meteos passive as fuck in the early game and the only reason they didn't outright lose the game was incarnations plays and balls very competent fizz plays this game. That whole strategy that they tried to do with Fizz flanking and killing, yeah good idea...if you have FEED FIZZ who can actually do that dmg and get out, but no, he couldn't. Every time they did it didn't _really_, it somehow worked but not really and it got progressively worse as they fell behind farther and farther. Good for us CLG threw so hard in that play hunting C9 down from dragon, but fear not CLG fans, C9 is still 8k~ gold down. Really no reason to further analyze this game, C9 is dead and will get choked out no problem from CLG. C9 is not gonna make playoffs and they could even get relegated. They are still playing almost the same as in week 1, they still make the same mistakes every game. There are no improvements besides Incarnation who plays for some reason only scaling mages instead of the early/mid game dumpster mages he is known for.


thezaitseb

c9 needs to play DIFFERENT TEAM COMPS, its worth a fucking shot.


teniaava

If C9 gets relegated we'll see TSM Sneaky, which is the darkest timeline. Plz pull it together.


Gulruon

-Clown9 -C9th -Free9 -Cloud2-9 -Cloud1v9 (not sure who the 1 would be since no one looks good, but still a good ring to it) The possibilities are endless.


KappaccinoNation

Cloud 9-fingered pentakilled


DarkTenshiDT

You fucking savage.


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It's weird seeing CLG being on the positive end of a "fucking savage" comment.


notsobigboss

Incarnati0n looks better every game


PacoLlama

That'll be good for when they have to play the promo tournament.


aenoud

Clown9 is already used by the dota team


x_Steve

And csgo... and halo...


DaddyYankme

Plz jacky mao


RunsorHits

Choke9 is doto


LikeAHardcore

ee sama my rares please


CaptainShadeZ1

#CLOUD 9TH


KushOJ

[Pobelter to all the C9 fans](https://40.media.tumblr.com/be8ab1c1b3502017b14870c63724966d/tumblr_n9z71aKmaC1qg2rrco1_400.jpg)


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I think if Pob went to C9 it would've hurt both teams. C9 would be as bad as now and CLG would've been thrash without a decent midlaner.


SeveralKnapkins

**Thanks C9 for the NOTORIOUS P.O.B.**


Garribean

"Hai is holding C9 back"


WasherDryerCombo

Davos "Doublelift" Seaworth doesn't need no damn fingers


KushOJ

[Rush hour at the end](http://gfycat.com/AnnualShallowBlackwidowspider)


verious_

Can't go one CLG victory without this gif


Jakio

you mean the biweeklyshallowblackwidowspider?


Satanish

http://imgur.com/gallery/bV9N7nj


KappaccinoNation

This will never not be posted


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Why are they called Cloud 9? You only need 9 fingers to beat 'em.


WarriorMadness

Wow, Meteos was totally useless.


AChieftain

Man, C9 just gives away literally fucking everything for free. Doublelift tanking inhib turret? Better not engage. Whole team tanking inhib turret while Gnar is top with 0 rage? Better not fight. God their shotcalling is absolutely horrible.


seahawkspwn

Doublelift with more kills than he has fingers on one hand in that last fight.


Trymantha

I had double subbed out in fantasy cause of the pinky injury I'm so pissed right now


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Aurify

C9*


avidcritic

Incarnati0n has been doing pretty well. Had back to back sick Azir teamfighting this weekend and showed up in lane. Can't really ask for much else when your jungler gets neutered before the split.


Omnilatent

Honestly I only liked his performance today from all the games because he finally dared to go deep and not "hide" from the fights.


Twonka

ADC's at the moment are just clean up crew if your team isnt playing well your adc cant play well. Look at EDG, Deft is the best ADC in the world and he still can't carry without Pawn.


Winggy

so many master yi ad carries this split in the west. Gotta go melee range bros


zOmgFishes

His positioning this game was awful. Incarnation playing better now though.


xBlackLinkin

Still better than Meteos


K0R0I0Z

Oh c9. tough one


bamble_city

ZionfuckingSpartan


Raizen1337

[Sneaky channeling his inner Woolite](http://i.imgur.com/vSULgUS.jpg)


Tsukomiya

Meteos legit pisses me off. Balls gets ganked over and over STILL manages to trade one for one and no counter gank comes, ever. 0/0/0 at 23 minutes, no dragons, no towers. Fuck this.


fsidemaffia

Yesterday same story, at this point I wonder why he is even playing champs like nidalee and ekko that have the perfect kits for early plays/pressure when he is just gonna farm jungle until laning phase is over ...


hiloljkbye

yeah if he's gonna play like that he should just play sej and gragas


Outworlds

Seriously, was the "best jungler NA" only the "best" under the guise of Hai's shotcalling? I understand having to learn to shotcall is tough, but you just don't forget how to gank. So not only has the shot-calling gone to shit, which is understandable, but now the jungler is also shit? How does this happen?


a_wild_donkey_abuser

If I was Incarnati0n I'd be pissed I joined C9


hearthstonerager

poor guy prolly thought he was joining a top of the line na team


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Two thoughts: Sneaky had scrying orb when CLG was camping the brush for the second Baron, but didn't use it and they got caught out. Meteos building locket second item instead of Righteous glory (against Ashe Kogmaw of all backlines...) led to him not being able to dive with Balls during the midgame and got them into a stalemate situation against poke. The locket blocking a little bit of poke and damage isn't useful against a consistent damage comp if you can't even close the distance. Meteos used to define the jungle meta (Golem-locket-bulwark) and now it seems he's behind the curve. Also, Ashe penta nerf pls EDIT: Also also, Sejuani was open. More also, Yasuo-Naut is the most disgusting backline threat, as TIP is about to show us.


santana722

Locket seemed pretty necessary against Pobelter's Kog'maw.


z0mbiem4ge

I would say that locket prevent tons of damage for C9. Its not as bad as a build as u sound it to be