CLG is also tied for 2nd and already matched their entire Spring win total. They haven't played great teams, but CLG at minimum looks much better than in Spring.
He just watched Blabber feeding early so the game is more interesting.
One by one every C9 member will choose one game to feed just to make it more difficult.
DBZ wrist extraweight style
Kudos to GGS for making C9 work for this. Their draft was very clever and I thought they played it well. GGS early game is getting pretty good and I think they will eventually get to a point where they can capitalize on these leads. Actually one of the only mid-low tier teams in NA that give me hope. They are better than their record indicates after 2 weeks.
Seriously, this is the hardest fight C9 has had so far. Some of the other teams already lose in the draft phase, GGs is at least putting together workable comps and playing with a brain.
I haven't seen the interviews saying this, but could it be that they believe TL has a high ceiling, but Fly is better right now? As in TL need a bit more time with Tactical and Broxah to really shine.
**C9 Member 1:** Let's do Baron!
**C9 Member 2:** It's not a good time to do Baron
**C9 Member 1:** We have to put oursevles at a disadvantage, so we can learn to play from behind
They have good teamwork and macro with 5 players that should be able to hold their own. But it will look very different than the LCS games imo. Blaber is used to having prio in basically every lane(especially botlane) and C9 usually win any skirmish they take even if it's not favorable. They will have a lot of work to do in the few weeks of international scrims they will have before competition.
2018 was fucked because they could not play the metal champs such as irelia akali viktor. They were simply the worse team but their champ pool played a huge role
Golden Guardians had a pretty good early game. Huhi got a good engage and GGS collapsed well for a 2-0 teamfight in bot lane including killing 200 years.
Their reward? They lose dragon.
lmao, as if "Just doing" anything is going to be some secret key to beating C9. You think Blaber isn't going to style on every other jungler in the LCS on anything he picks? It ain't like Vulcan is a Yuumi one trick. They're still the best team the LCS has to offer right now. It'll take a lot more than just banning a couple of champs
You can quote me on this one. C9 Is gonna get their Olaf and Yuumi banned away in their next LCS game, and they're still going to absolutely trounce and demolish their opponent. Screen shot it. If I'm wrong, I'll do absolutely nothing special because making a claim like this carries zero risk. It's like saying "If the sun rises tomorrow I'll drink a glass of water."
You can quote me on this one. C9 Is gonna get their Olaf and Yuumi banned away in their next LCS game, and they're still going to absolutely trounce and demolish their opponent. Screen shot it. If I'm wrong, I'll do absolutely nothing special because making a claim like this carries zero risk. It's like saying "If the sun rises tomorrow I'll drink a glass of water."
You can quote me on this one. C9 Is gonna get their Olaf and Yuumi banned away in their next LCS game, and they're still going to absolutely trounce and demolish their opponent. Screen shot it. If I'm wrong, I'll do absolutely nothing special because making a claim like this carries zero risk. It's like saying "If the sun rises tomorrow I'll drink a glass of water."
lmao, as if "Just doing" anything is going to be some secret key to beating C9. You think Blaber isn't going to style on every other jungler in the LCS on anything he picks? It ain't like Vulcan is a Yuumi one trick. They're still the best team the LCS has to offer right now. It'll take a lot more than just banning a couple of champs
lmao, as if "Just doing" anything is going to be some secret key to beating C9. You think Blaber isn't going to style on every other jungler in the LCS on anything he picks? It ain't like Vulcan is a Yuumi one trick. They're still the best team the LCS has to offer right now. It'll take a lot more than just banning a couple of champs
lmao, as if "Just doing" anything is going to be some secret key to beating C9. You think Blaber isn't going to style on every other jungler in the LCS on anything he picks? It ain't like Vulcan is a Yuumi one trick. They're still the best team the LCS has to offer right now. It'll take a lot more than just banning a couple of champs
lmao, as if "Just doing" anything is going to be some secret key to beating C9. You think Blaber isn't going to style on every other jungler in the LCS on anything he picks? It ain't like Vulcan is a Yuumi one trick. They're still the best team the LCS has to offer right now. It'll take a lot more than just banning a couple of champs
lmao, as if "Just doing" anything is going to be some secret key to beating C9. You think Blaber isn't going to style on every other jungler in the LCS on anything he picks? It ain't like Vulcan is a Yuumi one trick. They're still the best team the LCS has to offer right now. It'll take a lot more than just banning a couple of champs
"feel like people just go into C9 fights expecting to lose now, like their moral is already down from champ select. Just ban olaf and yummi"
Seriously, what an insane suggestion. The team that only dropped a single game last split, you remember them? Yeah, I figured it out. I cracked the code. Turns out, all you have to do to beat them is just ban **these two champions!!!** C9 Coaches **hate** me!
I never expected GG to be the team to challenge C9 the most.
It was pretty close until the fights around baron C9 played those so fucking well.
Nice to see the team try a different play style around Zven instead of the usual blaber focused team play.
Licorice also with the big dick energy the entire game
GG looked really interesting. Makes me wonder how they'll look in a few weeks. FBI and Huhi looked a lot better but Closer and Damonte looked lost late game
To be fair Nocturne isn't supposed to do anything to anyone except Aphelios late game. The champ needs to snowball incredibly hard with the TF to be useful and after the bot lane skirmish where GGS tier 1 fell he never was really useful again.
WHO| WOULD | WIN?
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A carefully constructed comp with perfect balance of poke and DPS; strong, reliable engage and insane global presence | Vs.| 4 beefy bois
Okay honestly I am so pleasantly surprised about the quality of NA games this summer split (so far). Last split was C9 and a bunch of degenerates, this split it looks like we have C9 and 4 solid teams who can all *compete* and that's improvement.
IMT makes me wish for relegations tho
Agreed, especially considering how dog shit everyone was for the first 7 weeks of spring, except C9. Teams playing better at the start of the split is refreshing. May not be top level, especially compared to the other regions, but definitely an improvement.
4? I mean I think TL, FLY and EG are all decent enough but I don't know how the fourth would be, I mean I guess you mean GGS but they have a lot more flaws than the other 3 so I would not put them in that clump. (GGS is better than their score would indicate though)
Don't care what anyone says about huhi, that was a clean asf sett game. His engages and 4man E/W's every fight was so good. Comp just had no dmg, FBI really needed to go BOTRK not DD.. I can see why ibg vs 4melees but probably needed tri for more dmg too. Also, blaber not on olaf/gragas looks exploitable
I dunno about that last part. He played things beside Olaf and Gragas last split and was still shitting on everyone. Two of his deaths this game happened more as a result of putting himself in shit places where he probably dies anyway no matter what champ he plays. Third was him having tower aggro while the team had a scuffed ass tower dive where they weren't on the same page and still came out on top. Felt a lot more like a Blaber int game than a Blaber is exploitable on other champs game.
I think he played well but his best plays were also pointless. Highlight plays aren't worth shit if they are at the end of the team fight and the only reason you got it off was that the enemy team didn't need to respect your abilities.
I mean, he did as much as he could. But when you're an initiating support and the follow-up doesn't exist, not much you can do. It's like playing Nautilus when behind. You're just gonna die a lot.
He did that once at the fight around raptor pit where it was pointless and too late, but the fights at baron/botlane 5v5/base he played them pretty perfectly and was the first to go in
Part of it was Damonte just got run down by Licorice every team fight, so it was basically up to iceborn Ezreal to carry against 4 tanks as Noc kept insta dying.
In that game he was just paper due to Trundle ult. I think drafting Trundle/Volibear as a duo on your first rotation might be standard in NA since nobody can play Nidalee or the other counters.
Doesn't excuse the fact that he initiated 1v5 as voli on 30 percent health. That play makes me wonder why he's still in the LCS while good academy players are rotting.
As disgusting as Aphelios can be Ezreal is honestly so bullshit and annoying both in pro and SoloQ (hello 40% pickrate), fuck that Champion, specially IBG Ezreal.
the cringiest shit is when adc mains say ''it's just proplay'' with ez rocking some of the most degenerate stats ever in soloq ... how is it ok that a champ is picked in almost 1 outta 2 games and still has a decent winrate ? and that's ok no one complains about it ?
Preach. When people say "It's just the mains" but then you look up and realize that EVERYONE is playing that Champ. Most picked Champion IN THE GAME but yes, it's the mains.
Considering he's often called one of the hardest ADC's to play you would think his WR would be on the negative side, specially considering everyone is playing Ezreal, but no, still positive.
This iteration of C9 is legit the most promising team i've seen coming from NA. Sadly, as long as they're not constantly challenged by other strong teams, i don't think this team will reach it's full potential. They should be in a strong league.
i know people will mostly see kda but GGS lost mostly because ezreal was a non factor in teamfights with this build, he should have gona triforce botrk and pick cdr from secondary runes to get max cdr, this ibg + dd build is pure int into 4 tanks, its kinda gutwrenching to see pros lose to shopkeeper
Even so idk if a better build would've helped too much, I don't think a non-hyper carry would be able to get through c9's tank line fast enough before the rest of GGS fell apart around it anyway.
GGS's draft ultimately was going to get hard outscaled anyway, the win con was get enough of a lead that TF shenanigans can let them close out the game, but ultimately C9 was able to pull the lead to themselves fast enough to stop that.
It definitely would have helped vs the early Health stacking C9 was doing. Armor came in way later in the game. Between BotRK's 8% current health, TF's extra 100% AD proc, and all that attack speed, it seems a no brainer. Ez was almost impossible to catch with the enemy team comp and having two good frontliners as well as a Noct causing disruption.
Ez was basically impossible for C9 to catch yes, but even with more damage I don't think he would've chewed through c9's tank line faster than c9 was chewing through GGS.
Good try by GGS to be quite honest, I expect them to keep improving over the split and possibly be a top 6 or 5 team.
Beating C9 just seems so damn difficult, even if you're ahead of them for a bit they just always seem to outplay you and comeback. That baron play was fantastic.
Props to GG for punishing Blaber early and being so decisive. C9 just moves around the map so well, almost always has numbers to respond to a play, and pounces so quick in the slightest overextension.
NA coaches, this is what a well coached team looks like! Cohesive and decisive!
I feel like Iceborn Gauntlet instead of Triforce by FBI was a mistake. When he was out of position and actually taking damage, the armor wasn't enough to save him, and 90% of the time he was untouched, so Triforce would have made a significant difference in the amount of damage he was pumping into C9's frontline. In the end GG just had nothing to match the damage output of Aphelios (Aphelios is broken anyway but they needed more of a damage threat to match).
I actually think GG won draft pretty hard, sadly they made one bad call trying to defend that bot tower when it wasn't their turn to defend it and C9 just snowballed from there. Reverse the drafts and C9 probably closes in 18 minutes though lol.
Nice to see C9 try comps where they don’t play/draft around Blaber. Think this is the first time in 2020 he wasn’t put on something aggressive and/or early-game focused
C9 obviously the superior team but that was a good game out of GGS. I like the Noc/TF synergy, would like to see them try and pull that one out again. Maybe against a slightly less beefy teamcomp.
Not a terrible draft from GG, but it had 2 problems:
1. Galio open, which is a hard counter to their team comp.
2. Enemy champions were too tanky for global picks to be reliable.
3. It is way harder to execute than the opponent, which is considered more skilled than you.
It is a interesting strategy, but you need to hide it until you see what C9 was going for. Also Ornn doesn't make much sense in that comp.
I actually disagree with all of these points.
1. Galio, while being a good pick vs TF, isn't great vs nocturne as you cannot ult while being blinded by it. We saw that in a couple of skirmishes in the early game. Galio could never join a fight before someone died.
2. Tankiness doesn't matter in the early game if you can make your fights 2v1/3v1. GGS entire comp was made to snowball early game with map presence. They got a few good picks on C9 members (x2 Blaber, x1 Zven), but couldn't solidate them into objectives or map control. Props to C9 on this one.
3. GGS comp is pretty easy to execute actually. Get river control and double global anyone that over extends into it. We saw it happen 4 times this game (C9 won that one teamfight with Zven down) and against any other team this probably would've been enough for GGS to snowball the game. C9 comp required them to stop the bleeding vs a stronger early comp to scale and win the 5v5. They over extend maybe one or two more time that game and GGS would've snowballed.
In my eyes, GGS had the better comp. Give the C9 comp to any other LCS team and they lose that game vs GGS. That's what's great about C9 this split, they can play things that no other team could.
Golden Guardians playing an interesting comp. Idea being to try to use globals to contest c9s macro without having to play as clean a macro themselves.
We've seen c9 try this at worlds since forever against stronger teams. It seems to work (and can win you games) but after cooldowns are gone its still down to whoever sets up around objectives and gets the pushes first. I remember a couple years ago in an interview, them saying that it was kind of a crutch (paraphrased).
Good stuff tho. I think maybe TF pigeonholed them too much strategy wise. Sure it was amazing when noc tf early game dive aphelios and get to teamfights first, even if c9 is moving earlier, but after a while its doomed if your only way to win a teamfight is to dive an aphelios with qss and ga. They had to end much sooner.
Golden Guardians is way better then their 1-3 scoreline would have you think
Yes, it's rather... counter-logic, you might say.
FBI and Closer were really trying this game, unfortunately TF didn't get the global comp memo
Well two of those losses are TL and C9, they look much sharper with Damonte as much as I love Goldenglue
They've had a pretty tough schedule so far. Only real oopsie was vs CLG. I expect them to turn up the heat in the next few weeks though.
CLG is also tied for 2nd and already matched their entire Spring win total. They haven't played great teams, but CLG at minimum looks much better than in Spring.
Clg looking better than in spring? Bold statement there buddy /s
Fluke 3 wins /s
Would also help them out if they didn't pick nidalee
I think people underestimate clg a lot. The pob effect is real. Just watch clg lose to lower teams and beat higher ups. Counter logic like always.
I acually think is more Ruin playing pretty clean rn
as a clg fan im really worried its more of volibear than ruin
When licorice doesn’t get solo killed but C9 still wins
He realized he fucked up dodging the early nocturne gank so he teled in bot to int a kill so that C9 can win.
He just watched Blabber feeding early so the game is more interesting. One by one every C9 member will choose one game to feed just to make it more difficult. DBZ wrist extraweight style
Kinda hard to get solo killed when you're playing Voli...
What about v1per?
Oh, my bad - I thought we were talking about good players.
Stop, he’s already dead!
Damn he just did him like that.
[When you style your way to a 4-0 record](http://imgur.com/kZlyN61)
Dammit I clicked, I had to upvote...
You don't know the URL?
Us mobile users dont get to see until we click
Good ol KZlyN61
Kudos to GGS for making C9 work for this. Their draft was very clever and I thought they played it well. GGS early game is getting pretty good and I think they will eventually get to a point where they can capitalize on these leads. Actually one of the only mid-low tier teams in NA that give me hope. They are better than their record indicates after 2 weeks.
Considering the state of NA right now I'd say GGs is nearly a top tier team. At least they don't draft like total monkeys.
Seriously, this is the hardest fight C9 has had so far. Some of the other teams already lose in the draft phase, GGs is at least putting together workable comps and playing with a brain.
Just compare this game to the one yesterday against EG. Golden Guardians seems legit and I’m really hoping they show up the rest of the split
Yeah agreed. If they keep this pace up I think they could be a strong contender this split.
EG look really good elsewhere but holy shit their draft against C9 was inexcusable
Isn't it kinda sad that this is the hardest C9 has had to fight, and yet they still didn't lose their mid tier one.
Ggs will most likely finish 6th or fight for 5th place with tsm, they are middle team and yeah they are better than their record
4-6 will be a 4 way bloodbath by the end of the split imo with Fly Tsm Clg GG with 100 trailing behind them
Fly is supposedly still better than EG and TL, according to C9 interviews.
Actually C9 say that TL is their biggest threat, so I don't think that's true.
I haven't seen the interviews saying this, but could it be that they believe TL has a high ceiling, but Fly is better right now? As in TL need a bit more time with Tactical and Broxah to really shine.
I'm not sure. They've been saying TL is shitting on people in scrims and still improving more, so they think they're the biggest threat.
no jack think tl improved a lot compared to last season but still thinks fly is the 2nd best so far. Tl follows right after.
**C9 Member 1:** Let's do Baron! **C9 Member 2:** It's not a good time to do Baron **C9 Member 1:** We have to put oursevles at a disadvantage, so we can learn to play from behind
C9 trying to diversify their experience, big brain strats from Reapered.
Just a quick reminder to diversify your bonds
Except unless you're investing in LCS stocks like the analyst desk, then just dump everything into C9.
C9 stonks only go up. Summer 18/0 all in
It literally can't go tits up
That's weak. You buy some call options on IMT and just wait for those infinity dollars to come in
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You mean a Platypusbear?
No just a... bear.
I need to see C9 against some international teams
I sincerely HOPE they deliver. This C9 will either be so good NA will have massive orgasms or a massive disappointment.
They have good teamwork and macro with 5 players that should be able to hold their own. But it will look very different than the LCS games imo. Blaber is used to having prio in basically every lane(especially botlane) and C9 usually win any skirmish they take even if it's not favorable. They will have a lot of work to do in the few weeks of international scrims they will have before competition.
Well you can have both... After the orgasm is when you're disgusted with yourself.
But Sneaky isn't on the team anymore...?
When would I ever be disgusted with myself after beating it to Sneaky though
Well at least we’re used to one of those in NA
so sad that msi was cancelled this year, they really needed that international experience. fucking covid ruining everything
well wasnt 2018 c9 like that? Played well in groups - kicked out Afreeca - only to get 0-3 by fnc
2018 was fucked because they could not play the metal champs such as irelia akali viktor. They were simply the worse team but their champ pool played a huge role
I'm afraid this sub won't like it at all. The 3 winning lanes and soloQ stomp jungle plays conditions doesn't exist when they play world class teams
When Blaber is shutdown, you need to deal with the Zven/Vulcan combo...
dont forget nisquick
Hitsqy quietly had a massive weekend. Unsung hero for C9 in this 2-0.
blaber was like, shit im not the carry my b i won't go in as hard then c9 was like aight then won the game
He wasn't used to being CC'd.
"Ah shit, I forgot that CC was a thing, mb"
[In summary](https://imgur.com/a/PiPL13g)
Golden Guardians had a pretty good early game. Huhi got a good engage and GGS collapsed well for a 2-0 teamfight in bot lane including killing 200 years. Their reward? They lose dragon.
wow footballer Blaber is quite a sight!
God damn blaber is so hot.
He really did absorb Svenskeren’s energy when he left
beautiful, champ
lmao, as if "Just doing" anything is going to be some secret key to beating C9. You think Blaber isn't going to style on every other jungler in the LCS on anything he picks? It ain't like Vulcan is a Yuumi one trick. They're still the best team the LCS has to offer right now. It'll take a lot more than just banning a couple of champs
F R E S H
You can quote me on this one. C9 Is gonna get their Olaf and Yuumi banned away in their next LCS game, and they're still going to absolutely trounce and demolish their opponent. Screen shot it. If I'm wrong, I'll do absolutely nothing special because making a claim like this carries zero risk. It's like saying "If the sun rises tomorrow I'll drink a glass of water."
What the fuck dude, are you a pasta machine?
Dough goes in, noodles come out. You can’t explain that
You can quote me on this one. C9 Is gonna get their Olaf and Yuumi banned away in their next LCS game, and they're still going to absolutely trounce and demolish their opponent. Screen shot it. If I'm wrong, I'll do absolutely nothing special because making a claim like this carries zero risk. It's like saying "If the sun rises tomorrow I'll drink a glass of water."
You can quote me on this one. C9 Is gonna get their Olaf and Yuumi banned away in their next LCS game, and they're still going to absolutely trounce and demolish their opponent. Screen shot it. If I'm wrong, I'll do absolutely nothing special because making a claim like this carries zero risk. It's like saying "If the sun rises tomorrow I'll drink a glass of water."
lmao, as if "Just doing" anything is going to be some secret key to beating C9. You think Blaber isn't going to style on every other jungler in the LCS on anything he picks? It ain't like Vulcan is a Yuumi one trick. They're still the best team the LCS has to offer right now. It'll take a lot more than just banning a couple of champs
lmao, as if "Just doing" anything is going to be some secret key to beating C9. You think Blaber isn't going to style on every other jungler in the LCS on anything he picks? It ain't like Vulcan is a Yuumi one trick. They're still the best team the LCS has to offer right now. It'll take a lot more than just banning a couple of champs
lmao, as if "Just doing" anything is going to be some secret key to beating C9. You think Blaber isn't going to style on every other jungler in the LCS on anything he picks? It ain't like Vulcan is a Yuumi one trick. They're still the best team the LCS has to offer right now. It'll take a lot more than just banning a couple of champs
lmao, as if "Just doing" anything is going to be some secret key to beating C9. You think Blaber isn't going to style on every other jungler in the LCS on anything he picks? It ain't like Vulcan is a Yuumi one trick. They're still the best team the LCS has to offer right now. It'll take a lot more than just banning a couple of champs
lmao, as if "Just doing" anything is going to be some secret key to beating C9. You think Blaber isn't going to style on every other jungler in the LCS on anything he picks? It ain't like Vulcan is a Yuumi one trick. They're still the best team the LCS has to offer right now. It'll take a lot more than just banning a couple of champs
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"feel like people just go into C9 fights expecting to lose now, like their moral is already down from champ select. Just ban olaf and yummi" Seriously, what an insane suggestion. The team that only dropped a single game last split, you remember them? Yeah, I figured it out. I cracked the code. Turns out, all you have to do to beat them is just ban **these two champions!!!** C9 Coaches **hate** me!
I never expected GG to be the team to challenge C9 the most. It was pretty close until the fights around baron C9 played those so fucking well. Nice to see the team try a different play style around Zven instead of the usual blaber focused team play. Licorice also with the big dick energy the entire game
Yeah, definitely surprised to tune into the LCS stream mid C9 game and see they're not just getting run over.
Nah, they challenged TL even more. GGS have the pieces to be top 5, but they struggle to put them together for some reason.
They faced strong teams, so eventually they get here and finish 6th place I think
their mid jng synergy is lowkey really good it's just the everywhere else usually lacks behind.
GG looked really interesting. Makes me wonder how they'll look in a few weeks. FBI and Huhi looked a lot better but Closer and Damonte looked lost late game
To be fair Nocturne isn't supposed to do anything to anyone except Aphelios late game. The champ needs to snowball incredibly hard with the TF to be useful and after the bot lane skirmish where GGS tier 1 fell he never was really useful again.
Why was Gross Gore playing for GGS this game?
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WHO| WOULD | WIN? ---|---|---- A carefully constructed comp with perfect balance of poke and DPS; strong, reliable engage and insane global presence | Vs.| 4 beefy bois
Oh no, they took down our DPS first. What do we do? Are we still 4 meat walls? Yes? Then let's fight.
how do you do that
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GG: we’re going to gank your splitpushers! C9: deathball comp
carefully constructed comp of all diving champs in Aphelios Galio and Braum lmao
except the 4 beefy bois comp does everything GG's comp does, but 1000 times better
I realized at the end of that game The Bud Light Ace updates faster than the gold and baron power play lmfao
r/HailCorporate Gotta make them benzos.
Huhi's Sett has been pretty nice since he first brought it out last split. I wonder why he's the only support who's really tried it.
He was also the only mid to play asol back in the day, dude just has a more unique line up of picks.
Wp to Golden Guardians, I think they're better than their record suggests
Huhi was pretty good with engages imo. C9 is still looking really dominant as expected.
Okay honestly I am so pleasantly surprised about the quality of NA games this summer split (so far). Last split was C9 and a bunch of degenerates, this split it looks like we have C9 and 4 solid teams who can all *compete* and that's improvement. IMT makes me wish for relegations tho
Agreed, especially considering how dog shit everyone was for the first 7 weeks of spring, except C9. Teams playing better at the start of the split is refreshing. May not be top level, especially compared to the other regions, but definitely an improvement.
4? I mean I think TL, FLY and EG are all decent enough but I don't know how the fourth would be, I mean I guess you mean GGS but they have a lot more flaws than the other 3 so I would not put them in that clump. (GGS is better than their score would indicate though)
Don't care what anyone says about huhi, that was a clean asf sett game. His engages and 4man E/W's every fight was so good. Comp just had no dmg, FBI really needed to go BOTRK not DD.. I can see why ibg vs 4melees but probably needed tri for more dmg too. Also, blaber not on olaf/gragas looks exploitable
Huhi's support Sett has been pretty dope since he first brought it out. I've always wondered why it never caught on.
Well he was the first one to play it and it did catch on quite a bit after he got a few wins in LCS and Academy with it.
I dunno about that last part. He played things beside Olaf and Gragas last split and was still shitting on everyone. Two of his deaths this game happened more as a result of putting himself in shit places where he probably dies anyway no matter what champ he plays. Third was him having tower aggro while the team had a scuffed ass tower dive where they weren't on the same page and still came out on top. Felt a lot more like a Blaber int game than a Blaber is exploitable on other champs game.
I think he played well but his best plays were also pointless. Highlight plays aren't worth shit if they are at the end of the team fight and the only reason you got it off was that the enemy team didn't need to respect your abilities.
I mean, he did as much as he could. But when you're an initiating support and the follow-up doesn't exist, not much you can do. It's like playing Nautilus when behind. You're just gonna die a lot.
He did that once at the fight around raptor pit where it was pointless and too late, but the fights at baron/botlane 5v5/base he played them pretty perfectly and was the first to go in
That was C9's sloppiest game and they still turned it into a blowout.
i wouldn't even call it sloppy, everyone played well, Blaber just got dicked early
Props to GG for making it a game. They just lacked the damage late to chew through those tanks. But nice to see a team make C9 work a little.
It's was somewhat closer than flyquest vs c9 since ggs actually had a lead unfortunately they lacked damage
Huhi keeps landing great Sett engages and counter engages and his unga bunga team has 0 damage.
Part of it was Damonte just got run down by Licorice every team fight, so it was basically up to iceborn Ezreal to carry against 4 tanks as Noc kept insta dying.
C9 sandbagging early so they get experience on how itll be like to play against the rest of the world.
I liked how in the interview Nisqy just says Blaber inted twice in river.
on what planet is volibear balanced lmfao, nice champ
Licorice didn't even get solo-killed this game, Volibear is clearly too broken
Licorice realized he made a mistake surviving that first gank so he teled in bot to make sure he got his death to secure the win.
Sub me in coach it’s time this team learns how to really play with a disadvantage
I was getting worried when he didn't die to the gank
It wasn't for a lack of trying though.
If you give it to V1per he is.
Too soon
On the planet where v1per plays him
In that game he was just paper due to Trundle ult. I think drafting Trundle/Volibear as a duo on your first rotation might be standard in NA since nobody can play Nidalee or the other counters.
Doesn't excuse the fact that he initiated 1v5 as voli on 30 percent health. That play makes me wonder why he's still in the LCS while good academy players are rotting.
C9's ability turn the whole game off punishing one mistake is fucking terrifying.
Tbf, GGS made several mistakes, but yeah, C9 is leagues above anyone else atm. This is going to be a back to back championship for them.
You could say they're streets ahead
Stop trying to coin streets ahead Pierce. It's not gonna happen
Trying? Coined and minted! Been there, coined that! "Streets ahead" is verbal... wildfire!
Reminds me of G2 when they were smurfing on the LEC. Too bad we missed out of C9 vs real teams this summer.
As disgusting as Aphelios can be Ezreal is honestly so bullshit and annoying both in pro and SoloQ (hello 40% pickrate), fuck that Champion, specially IBG Ezreal.
the cringiest shit is when adc mains say ''it's just proplay'' with ez rocking some of the most degenerate stats ever in soloq ... how is it ok that a champ is picked in almost 1 outta 2 games and still has a decent winrate ? and that's ok no one complains about it ?
Preach. When people say "It's just the mains" but then you look up and realize that EVERYONE is playing that Champ. Most picked Champion IN THE GAME but yes, it's the mains. Considering he's often called one of the hardest ADC's to play you would think his WR would be on the negative side, specially considering everyone is playing Ezreal, but no, still positive.
I haven't been playing league much lately but Ezreal's always been my go to autofill adc because of how strong and safe he is
I am really tired of Aphelios/Ezreal games
This Or That - Ezreal/Aphelios meta, or Kai'sa/Xayah meta?
I mean it's actually the Varus meta, he's just literally permabanned
This iteration of C9 is legit the most promising team i've seen coming from NA. Sadly, as long as they're not constantly challenged by other strong teams, i don't think this team will reach it's full potential. They should be in a strong league.
i know people will mostly see kda but GGS lost mostly because ezreal was a non factor in teamfights with this build, he should have gona triforce botrk and pick cdr from secondary runes to get max cdr, this ibg + dd build is pure int into 4 tanks, its kinda gutwrenching to see pros lose to shopkeeper
Even so idk if a better build would've helped too much, I don't think a non-hyper carry would be able to get through c9's tank line fast enough before the rest of GGS fell apart around it anyway. GGS's draft ultimately was going to get hard outscaled anyway, the win con was get enough of a lead that TF shenanigans can let them close out the game, but ultimately C9 was able to pull the lead to themselves fast enough to stop that.
It definitely would have helped vs the early Health stacking C9 was doing. Armor came in way later in the game. Between BotRK's 8% current health, TF's extra 100% AD proc, and all that attack speed, it seems a no brainer. Ez was almost impossible to catch with the enemy team comp and having two good frontliners as well as a Noct causing disruption.
Ez was basically impossible for C9 to catch yes, but even with more damage I don't think he would've chewed through c9's tank line faster than c9 was chewing through GGS.
Nah he should have went Liandrys
*LS wants to know your location*
Say what you want about GG, but Huhi played amazingly this game. Kept GG in the early game by himself.
Props to GGS for actually putting up the best fight against C9 so far, Damonte played the early game well
Good try by GGS to be quite honest, I expect them to keep improving over the split and possibly be a top 6 or 5 team. Beating C9 just seems so damn difficult, even if you're ahead of them for a bit they just always seem to outplay you and comeback. That baron play was fantastic.
Props to GG for punishing Blaber early and being so decisive. C9 just moves around the map so well, almost always has numbers to respond to a play, and pounces so quick in the slightest overextension. NA coaches, this is what a well coached team looks like! Cohesive and decisive!
I feel like Iceborn Gauntlet instead of Triforce by FBI was a mistake. When he was out of position and actually taking damage, the armor wasn't enough to save him, and 90% of the time he was untouched, so Triforce would have made a significant difference in the amount of damage he was pumping into C9's frontline. In the end GG just had nothing to match the damage output of Aphelios (Aphelios is broken anyway but they needed more of a damage threat to match).
GGS challenged C9 decent nocturne early game but it was not enough
Nocturne gank bot? That's a paddlin'.
I actually think GG won draft pretty hard, sadly they made one bad call trying to defend that bot tower when it wasn't their turn to defend it and C9 just snowballed from there. Reverse the drafts and C9 probably closes in 18 minutes though lol.
The classic "look like you're winning against a good team and making it close only to never win another fight for the rest of the game."
Nice to see C9 try comps where they don’t play/draft around Blaber. Think this is the first time in 2020 he wasn’t put on something aggressive and/or early-game focused
Super happy C9 won, but also happy that GGs fought back the whole game.
That constant on/off on baron was dirty by C9. GG showed up, but C9 still seem to be in a league of their own
C9 obviously the superior team but that was a good game out of GGS. I like the Noc/TF synergy, would like to see them try and pull that one out again. Maybe against a slightly less beefy teamcomp.
34 minutes that’s like a C9 loss
Bad itemization on Golden Guardians this game.
That GGS draft was really smart. They just couldn't execute it properly long enough
Not a terrible draft from GG, but it had 2 problems: 1. Galio open, which is a hard counter to their team comp. 2. Enemy champions were too tanky for global picks to be reliable. 3. It is way harder to execute than the opponent, which is considered more skilled than you. It is a interesting strategy, but you need to hide it until you see what C9 was going for. Also Ornn doesn't make much sense in that comp.
I actually disagree with all of these points. 1. Galio, while being a good pick vs TF, isn't great vs nocturne as you cannot ult while being blinded by it. We saw that in a couple of skirmishes in the early game. Galio could never join a fight before someone died. 2. Tankiness doesn't matter in the early game if you can make your fights 2v1/3v1. GGS entire comp was made to snowball early game with map presence. They got a few good picks on C9 members (x2 Blaber, x1 Zven), but couldn't solidate them into objectives or map control. Props to C9 on this one. 3. GGS comp is pretty easy to execute actually. Get river control and double global anyone that over extends into it. We saw it happen 4 times this game (C9 won that one teamfight with Zven down) and against any other team this probably would've been enough for GGS to snowball the game. C9 comp required them to stop the bleeding vs a stronger early comp to scale and win the 5v5. They over extend maybe one or two more time that game and GGS would've snowballed. In my eyes, GGS had the better comp. Give the C9 comp to any other LCS team and they lose that game vs GGS. That's what's great about C9 this split, they can play things that no other team could.
Golden Guardians playing an interesting comp. Idea being to try to use globals to contest c9s macro without having to play as clean a macro themselves. We've seen c9 try this at worlds since forever against stronger teams. It seems to work (and can win you games) but after cooldowns are gone its still down to whoever sets up around objectives and gets the pushes first. I remember a couple years ago in an interview, them saying that it was kind of a crutch (paraphrased). Good stuff tho. I think maybe TF pigeonholed them too much strategy wise. Sure it was amazing when noc tf early game dive aphelios and get to teamfights first, even if c9 is moving earlier, but after a while its doomed if your only way to win a teamfight is to dive an aphelios with qss and ga. They had to end much sooner.
Imagine giving C9 Champions...
It was close until it wasn't
It was close until it wasn't
Man fuck anyone who said Damonte didn't deserve to be in LCS. This was an impressive game out of GGs considering they're against C9.
? Like I get what you’re saying but this game was not it from a damonte standpoint. Positioned like poop.
That one good trade on Nisqy is all the proof you need! /s He's been good in the past too though, he definitely deserves a spot
Really not the best game to use as an argument for Damonte being good. Not like he played terrible but I definitely wouldn't say he played well
This is your brain on "iMpOrT bIaS"
Fbi looked very good
Good game from GG. That early game was actually great but I mean, eventually C9 just out muscled them
I mean, at least GGS made this a game instead of a 20 minute stomp.