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Flameingblack posted:VICI gaming has fined Mata the equivalent of $8,000 US Dollars for "Negative Attitude" in their match set against IG. I really hope Mata and Dandy get out of LPL and go somewhere else because they are some of my favorite players of all time and I can barely watch their games now.
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Catching up on NA LCS: I don't even like TSM all that much but watching Bjergsen massively outplay Winterfox over and over again after a horrible level 1 is pretty enjoyable.
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Emery posted:Welcome to being a C9 fan, on any given day against whatever opponent, you might see the best team in NA or a bunch of low golds who somehow wandered onstage Yeah man, cheering for arguably the most consistent team in NA over the past two years is a tremendous burden for the fans.
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Mar 9, 2015 15:51
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I wish the LPL casters weren't so godawful. What does "rotating down bottom to get that dragon control in his BACK POCKET" mean??? And that's with the emphasis they played on back pocket.
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KicksYouInHalf posted:Yeah man, cheering for arguably the most consistent team in NA over the past two years is a tremendous burden for the fans. They haven't been consistent at all this split. Sometimes they look like C9 and sometimes they get outplayed badly in lane and the game becomes unrecoverable very quickly. Balls especially when he hasn't gotten Maokai or Rumble has been shakey as gently caress. Hai's champion pool has been a consistent issue for EVER and somehow that situation still hasn't improved. Every champion Meteos played well has been nerfed to poo poo and the current popular junglers aside from Nidalee he's had very mediocre performances on. They tend to ban out their own loving champions half the time too. As a C9 fan this season has been depressing.
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Sexpansion posted:I really hope Mata and Dandy get out of LPL and go somewhere else because they are some of my favorite players of all time and I can barely watch their games now. Same. It's cool we can watch the Chinese scene now but even just keeping up with the LCS and OGN is tough enough.
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mistaya posted:They haven't been consistent at all this split. Sometimes they look like C9 and sometimes they get outplayed badly in lane and the game becomes unrecoverable very quickly. Balls especially when he hasn't gotten Maokai or Rumble has been shakey as gently caress. Hai's champion pool has been a consistent issue for EVER and somehow that situation still hasn't improved. Every champion Meteos played well has been nerfed to poo poo and the current popular junglers aside from Nidalee he's had very mediocre performances on. No team has ever had a winning record against c9 in regular splits since they joined and the only teams that have a chance to change that are gravity and tsm. They may not be playing their a+ game but they are still a tremendously consistent organization over long stretches of time. Since their 1-3 start this split they are 8-2. Balls sucks on lulu and lissandra but that shouldn't be any more surprising than lemon dying to level 1 brush cheese or hai's champ pool. C9 probably won't finish first in a split for once but I would hardly call their performance depressing.
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Flameingblack posted:to not showering. If this practice were used in NA then Maplestreet would be in debt *shudder* 
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For twice, since TSM beat them last time. Honestly it's probably just salt because TSM is the better team this year.
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mistaya posted:For twice, since TSM beat them last time. I said in regular splits, not playoffs. Though if TSM wins in the last game of this split, it's probably safe to say that C9 will go 0-18 in the summer split this season.
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Mar 9, 2015 18:36
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C9 lookin' pretty bad this week.
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People really want to position C9 as scrappy underdogs somehow.
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All I want is for GE to crush in their pink suits and cat ears.
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rabidsquid posted:People really want to position C9 as scrappy underdogs somehow. How are they not underdogs to GE? Ge are better than SKT right now and I'm pretty sure SKT would eviscerate C9.
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Sexpansion posted:How are they not underdogs to GE? Ge are better than SKT right now and I'm pretty sure SKT would eviscerate C9. They are huge underdogs to GE, but I just mean in general.
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I thought the narrative was "Is C9 Back?!" They're not scrappy underdogs they're like, the old veterans who're getting shown up by the punk new kids. (Except to GE tigers I mean.)
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rabidsquid posted:They are huge underdogs to GE, but I just mean in general. Well it's not exactly surprising given how long people have been calling on them to replace Hai and Lemon Nation. Now add the calls to replace Balls as well (and probably Meteos too if the jungle meta changes) and it's understandable that some people would look at them as underdogs. Not to say that there aren't some legitimate reasons to criticize them, but for how much they get called out you'd think that they were DIG or Coast and not sit in third place with the same roster that was the best in NA for a long time.
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mistaya posted:I thought the narrative was "Is C9 Back?!" Hehe, old veterans being shown up by the likes of TSM and CLG, new kids on the block. (yes I know the rosters are moderately different, it's still funny though).
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rabidsquid posted:They are huge underdogs to GE, but I just mean in general. Fair enough, I thought you meant IEM.
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TSM hulked out on them so hard during the 2014 playoffs that we can no longer consider c9 a true heavy weight contender
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exethan posted:TSM hulked out on them so hard during the 2014 playoffs that we can no longer consider c9 a true heavy weight contender To be honest they've looked like about the third or fourth best team in NA all split. Right now I think TIP, CLG, and TSM all look better.
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I think TIP and C9 are both having problems with draft and boneheaded top/midlane mistakes so it's a toss up between the two but CLG and TSM definitely look to be top 2.
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youre saying this just because happy xiaoweixiao is the best thing in the world but its ok because i like them over c9 too
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Cloud 9 has kept the same roster since its founding despite at least two of its players struggling for the better part of a year now to remain near the top in their positions. Every other team has made significant roster changes since last year, often spending big money to secure top international talent. Through all of that C9 has remained competitive. They are underdogs in a way.
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Which top international talent is this exactly? Also if your teams biggest hurdle has been that some players may no longer be the best you are for sure an underdog story the likes of T8.
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C9 started with Nien, Hai, Yazuki, WildTurtle, and Lemonnation. Then they lost to Team MRN. How do you get much more underdog than losing to Marn's team?
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rabidsquid posted:Which top international talent is this exactly? Also if your teams biggest hurdle has been that some players may no longer be the best you are for sure an underdog story the likes of T8. 3/5 s3 world champs, some solid OGN B-teamers, arguably the best mid-laner in Europe, the OCE champs/rank 1 players, etc. etc.
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Right now I'm just wishing I understood Mandarin to watch the LMS because apparently that's the wild west for the meta. To the point that Riven has been picked recently, And Master Yi... and Ryze. http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/2yeb70/715_of_champions_have_been_played_in_s5_pro_play/
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Calax posted:Right now I'm just wishing I understood Mandarin to watch the LMS because apparently that's the wild west for the meta. Someone played jungle Riven in the year of our lord 2015 Season 5 jungle? I can't imagine they got anything other than slam dunked face first into the pavement for it. 
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Ziggs has really fallen off from his prevalence last season, but that seems like a singular role where you're really only ever going to see whichever champ is best at it, which is now obviously Xerath. Not sure if his stun duration nerf is going to keep him out of the meta now but we haven't really seen him in awhile anyway. that was a weird misquote. It was somebody in EU, I want to say Kikis? Anyways we saw that one jungle Riven game very early this season. rabidsquid fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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rabidsquid posted:Ziggs has really fallen off from his prevalence last season, but that seems like a singular role where you're really only ever going to see whichever champ is best at it, which is now obviously Xerath. Not sure if his stun duration nerf is going to keep him out of the meta now but we haven't really seen him in awhile anyway. I don't think it was Kikis.(checks leagueopedia) nope. Although AHQ yanked out Mordekaiser W1D1 and lost. Edit: Jungle Riven was played by Team WE by Spirit http://lol.gamepedia.com/Spirit Lost both games. WE also fielded a mid Cho. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRmu2-1xUSM Calax fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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So it looks like the Alex Ich/Crumbzz NACS team is a reality: http://www.thescoreesports.com/lol/news/671 I imagine they'll be a strong challenger team, but I have no idea how good of an LCS core Alex/Crumbzz is. Crumbzz is a smart guy that I respect a lot and is currently sitting around top 20 challenger, so you know he's good, but man he looked really bad with Dig this split.
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Sexpansion posted:So it looks like the Alex Ich/Crumbzz NACS team is a reality: http://www.thescoreesports.com/lol/news/671 quote:Rengifo and Ichetovkin will be joined by Maria "Yuno" Creveling in the support position. Creveling previously played for Team Roar’s bottom lane alongside Shan "Chaox" Huang. And Yuno? poo poo that team is going to be awesome if Crumbzz doesn't look like poo poo like he did on Dig. Never heard of Intense, but isn't RF Legendary a pubstomper streamer like Gosu/Boxbox/etc.?
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Lightning Knight posted:And Yuno? poo poo that team is going to be awesome if Crumbzz doesn't look like poo poo like he did on Dig. Never heard of Intense, but isn't RF Legendary a pubstomper streamer like Gosu/Boxbox/etc.? Supposedly Yuno is very good though I've never seen her play. And yeah, Legendary is a very high tier soloqueue player.
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RF Legendary is the Nidalee guy. I have no faith in this team at all and expect it to end up like Fusion at the very best.
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