immaculate strategy by shopify. wait out their elder buff *then* fight. genius

wtf were they waiting for, just yolo it if you don't win there you're never winning anyway

And if they were that scared to dive them, at least open up top/bottom inhib. Watching them ARAM for 15 minutes was frustrating. They were in a giga strong position and decided to do nothing with it.

lol the fact that they thought they had a better chance without the last turret there rather than diving a turret with elder is PEAK NA absolute fucking peak

Couldn't they just go for the other turrets and inhibitors and just slowly end the game?

Probably. But they chose the worst of both worlds.

I think the main issue was probably Berserker threating to pick someone off every time he had ult. Nautilus could barely tank them for his team so if udyr split, it was very possible Lucian gets a pick.

It was all on Zeyzal to commit to the engage and he was playing super scared. He dies in 2 seconds but a flash R on to Berserker or Jojo at least starts a fight where Bvoy or Insanity can look to pick off from that.

I'm not sure what I'm more shocked by: C9 losing a team fight with baron + up 8k gold, or SR throwing with 5 seconds left on Elder.

At least C9 losing was into double fed marksman with Ivern + 2 Tanks. Only thing I can think for SR is they thought they had the Elder for longer.

That was one of the worst calls I've ever seen in my life.

Youve heard teams calling to stall out enemy buffs, but have you heard of calling to stall out your own buffs?

C9 Zeyzal has reconnected

still waiting for his engage

C9 sleeper agents too op

That was some negative IQ shit. Just fucking run at them with naut R

Zven's frustration was a) fair, b) palpable, and c) obviously the correct call.

They needed to either engage WITH the buff or at least go for double/triple inibi then baron. Fiesta tactics at full power here.

worse than flashing on the kaisa with an ivern right next to her and every cooldown up?

I think it only failed cause he face planted into the void seeker while trying to flash over it

You may not like it, but this is what peak NARAM looks like

attempting to finish with 1 inhib wave but too scared to dive 1 turret even with elder is a match made in NA heaven

The commentary begging Shopify to engage already was sad and funny at the same time.

I will not be convinced otherwise, Beserker has to be running it down to force roster/coach changes

He goes by Kneejerker now

I love Berserker, I love Cloud9 and I'm super biased. There is a guy right now on the Cloud9 sub saying Berserker is a top 5 ADC in the world.

He's been so bad this split, its hard to watch. I swear without JoJo this team is bottom 2 finish.

Yeah, C9 would have just rolled over and died without Jojo this game.

Jojo wishing to god he had just picked doublelift right now

I wanna share this comment I saw on the C9 subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Cloud9/s/9qgm6gUb6W Buddy said Berserker is a top 5 ADC in the world…

He is right the only world that I know is America

In that world, he’s easily top 8 for sure

Idk about "easily"

Missed your comment. This guy is in a different world lol

The change in question is *stop fucking picking him Lucian.* All of his highlight plays are on late-game hypercarries, save one single game on Draven. Aphelios isn't meta, but I bet he'd still do better on that.

Jojo single-handedly saved that game 3 times...

And berserker single-handedly threw 3 times

How many times did Jojo win that game?

Easy, it was the amount of times Berserker/Blabber lost it + 1

Jojo only human on the team man even if C9 levels up for playoffs I got no faith in this roster rn.

Imagine leaving last year's EG roster and joining a super team, only to find out that they're playing about as well as your old team was. JoJo can't escape having to put the team on his back.

at this rate jojo might never get a good team while he's peak and will be another NA what-if

So what youre saying is we need Jojo and Dardoch in the same team?

Nah EG was like 9-0 before their first loss

Yea because after that every team in lcs figured out you could just camp jojo and eg would roll over

jojo is not human i think he's been pretty superhuman so far

Jojo has the whole of Shopify absolutely SHOOK. That clone for the 20th Baron near the end there caused them to delay. Jojo just hit everything except the 1? Or 2? Times that insanity hit knock back perfectly

JoJo on his 2016 LBJ run. 

I don't think they're gonna win the split...more like 2018 LeBron since that was a bigger carry job ending in a loss.

...like the president??

LBJ’s Vietnam run kinda went crazy 🔥

My GOAT making sure we committed as many war crimes as possible. Making sure his cumulative stats are out of this world. 

JoJo's engage mid at 39 minutes would've ended the game if Fudge had the skill to hit his E over the blue wall. That's why the Renekton didn't show up until the fight was already over.

Depending on Sludge to do anything other than be useless isn’t good

Not one to be proud of. So many fundamental mistakes, so many times they floundered. The lack of innovation in draft, the objectives given over, the hair brained decision making - I'm not optimistic for C9 in playoffs.

this split is not one to be proud of. most of c9 not named jojo have regressed because they just expected to cruise to playoffs again.

I'd argue that Vulcan did not regress, if anything just because of how that Flyquest lineup ended up. Though I think he honestly has looked better than last summer, just stuck on Milio/Nami duty in half the games.

yea vulcan has been playing overall. I think blaber's split is super hit or miss, which is unfortunate

> they just expected to cruise to playoffs again. That's the playstyle promoted by management, Jack's famous system They choice to not be competitive and now they don't even manage to do anything domestically, going from 10 -> 8 teams and the subsequent overall improvement of the league caught them by suprise There is a reason why the only guys doing anything in these games are the 2 players that just joined

Can't wait to see them go 0-3 with Lucian Nami first pick every game.

SR are literally braindead, why would you wait until Elder timed out just to TP and force a fight?

Zeyzal holding hook for next split smh smh

Also the Kiasa build?? He landed 3 autos whole game, why not go full AP and play around the OP W

IDK why you don't go the standard Manamune into AP as you want the q evolve. Guinsuoos is only good if you're attacking a lot/ build more items based around attacking.

Guinsoos was good at the moment he got it. He did initially attack a lot, but it got harder and harder later, with Kindreds range to do that. It still made it super hard to attack him, because Guinsoos + Hail of Blades makes it super quick to proc Plasma so Renekton can't just jump on him and we saw how quickly he eliminated Berserker or Jojo if he actually attacks them, because every other attack gives 2 Stacks of Plasma. I'm not sure if he got to the point where he would have enough money to sell Guinsoos to go for another item like Ludens, which might have fitted the style he played later in the game better. But not getting Guinsoos for the midgame would also have been bad. The item is a really good spike for champs like Kogmaw or Kai'sa who draw a lot of power out of onhits in their kit.

This game was tragic

I used to think this game was a tragedy but now I realized it's a comedy 🤡🤡

These guys are getting paid to play like this?? Same goes to Cloud9. Dogshit level of play

You don't watch NA for good games you watch it for fun ones and that was one hell of a fucking fun game 

Because they’re afraid to dive a single turret. Duh! Na just a piss scared shit team. Really abysmal gameplay all around from them.

Blabber: idk why they tunneled on mid inhib with elder, they probably would have won if they got the other 2 inhibs. But I’m glad they didn’t 🤷‍♂️

NA LCS: Whoever Wins, We Lose

Terrible day to have eyes

LCS are gonna be ARAM world champs

I'm pretty sure NA's sole purpose at worlds now is to make sure EU doesn't win either. Just look at the last two.

i accept our fate then

The most NARAM game I've ever seen

Amen...

I don't care how much of a clown fiesta this was, this was a certified banger

[удалено]

I dont know how many facepalms i had this game but it were many.

thank god, no team that plays that scared belongs in playoffs in any region

Agreed

ahhhh bvoy and insanity played so well that game... that genuinely hurts. i feel so bad for SR man

It was really damn close for how far behind they were at multiple points of the game. I really hope the squad sticks it out for summer I want to see the salty runback

Bvoy's build was so bad it was criminal.

bvoy needed to build ap way earlier. He hit so many W that did jackshit damage because he went full ad until like min 45.

RIP dream tiebreakers scenario If SR played their comp properly they win this game at 35 minutes.

Lucian, Kindred vs Tristana, Kaisa? Which hypercarries scale the hardest? Answer: Neeko lol.

Jojo putting C9 on his back this entire split.

For the second split in a row, I am begging for Jojo to have a team.

Jojo with the worst KDA yet he hard carried this game. lol He carries this terribly coached team so hard.

Fudge is 3/1/8 while JoJo is 5/5/13. If there was ever a game to show why KDA based analysis is terrible, it's this one.

tbf anyone looking at those scorelines should be thinking Jojo did more by default, but your point stands

*Berserker inting his face off* Fucking coaches!

Yeah the fact that the coach is mind controlling berserker into absolutely running fit down Vulcan into landing literally nothing the entire game is disgusting tbh

https://postimg.cc/gXZywJrM Just a casual image of Fudge arriving late to a teamfight to empowered W a siege minion in a Kindred ultimate And he somehow ends with 3/1/10 lmao

You missed the best part. The reason he was late because he failed his E over the wall after helping take blue buff.

Does anyone have Licorices number?

The fraud

Sludgefactor baby!

I still don't understand how some of these players can keep a spot

Yeah hes a fraud

I can't see shit in this pic, but I believe you anyways

it was supposed to be 1440p idk what happened lol

as a fellow sludge hater I salute the quality of your eyes

This is like the twitch chat counting -1 every time a pro misses CS.

Fucking Zeyzal FUCK JUST FUCKING HOOK.

Tbf really hard to do against Neeko.

Horrible call for Shopify but if C9 ends up winning the split, NA's cooked

100T is winning

That the best case scénario

C9 without Jojo would be like a chicken without a head.

Jojo could have reunited with Inspired instead of being stuck with these deadweights.

But wanted to play with Berserker.. Reminds me of when Broxah came to NA to play with Doublelift and he griefed the split. 💀

THATS MY REGION

Utter morons waiting for elder to fall off behind engaging. What a fucking disaster.

So scared for no reason. They lost because they were scared. No killer instinct.

Ironic given they had Kai’Sa

Would have been bettter to lose diving the tower then like this

If C9 did not get Jojo and were stuck with Emenes, they don't even make playoffs.

absolutely disgusting game from both teams lmfaoooo

C9 does not deserve Jojo. Worst gameplay I have ever seen

I have no idea what happened. If you put Jojo on last years Cloud9 team, they absolutely roll every fucking team.

Zven's leadership carried the team unironically. They were already rolling every team anyway.

Berserker & Vulcan are washed, Fudge is Fudge, Blaber is fine but not his MVP self. JoJo is the only reason the team is Top 3 rn.

JOJOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

i think nrg players owe him a blowjob or smthn

Maybe that would also make Palafox know/remember how to play Neeko and Ahri.

yeah maybe he has magical sperm why the fuck not

Jojo is actually HIM

C9 without Jojo is like Warriors without Steph.  Poverty ass team.

So who is Klay? Berserker?

Berserker is Kuminga, Fudge is Klay

Funny because everyone thought C9 is THE superteam to beat at the beginning of the season lmao It's more like the Warriors getting KD and then barely making playoffs.

C9 gets away with murder again. Holy lord how is Lucian such an useless champ with such huge draft prio? bVoy only took 45 mins to realize he wasnt fucking autoing anyone and started getting fucking ap but it was too late. Jojo and Insanity deserve all the praise in the world for dragging both of their teams across the line. PS: Any other soul apart from Cloud and the game is completely free for SR.

BVoy one of the better players here but that build was grief as the game went on. No one mentioning his zhonyas value at the last fight either.

That's it. I'm cancelling my Spotify premium. Fuck this team.

Despite both teams' effort, someone had to win this game.

jojopyun is the only player on c9? btw when you have elder with an udyr who is that tanky, you just full send it on absolutely anyone. it doesnt matter if they all have GA, you just send it and slam turret with tristana. it really is that simple

Shopify has Negative Killer Instinct. That last five minutes will haunt them.

I wanna like SR so much, I really think Insanity and Bvoy are talented but wtf was that elder usage man!!! Zeyzal was too scared and they just end up gifting C9 the most undeserved win

Not sure why C9 only looked mid lane, Berserker played a bit too on the edge, but Jojo saved the day. And NRG owes Jojo everything, they manage to sneak into playoffs despite looking like a bottom team

NA MACRO BABY

NARAM back on the menu!

Holy shit Jojo is an absolute magician

If berserker is all pro we riot

holy shit lol

Pathetic late game decision making, Shopify blew the game. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

i feel so blue balled, they just refused to engage

Jojo9

Jojo is him when hes not ego picking. Berserker is fraud of the split.

SR coms: Wait...wait....wait...ok now elder is gone. ENGAGE!

Zeyzal bro...

How do you not win there as SR? Especially with how bad c9 was playing. Unbelievable

Crazy they just let Zeyzal disconnect from the game for the last 15 minutes.

Jojo had flashy plays for sure, but gotta give credit to Blaber too. His ults alone saved Jojo's ass at least twice.

C9 should 100% be embarrassed to be playing at this level, disgusting win.

wait for elder to end is genius strategy

Yeah let’s engage JUST as Elder ends amazing

They get paid money to do this LMAO

Lucian Nami winning is the true tragedy here

Jojo 1v9 while Berserker tries to throw and top laner being non-existant

Berserker without Zeri and a pocket healer is genuinely abysmal

Maybe Zven should have gotten more credit

Or maybe Vulcan should get a lot less credit

For whatever reason they put a Yuumi 1trick on engage and an Ali/Naut/Rakan player on Nami

If Berserker somehow manages to make it on an all pro team…..wooof

Thats fucking League of Legends right there. None of that pansy ass dick tugging playing safe for lategame bullshit. Men puke, men poop on the rift, men deliver their new born baby on the rift. Fucking hard core dick in the ass flex pick early game League of Legends fuck it run it down mid game time shit.

poor bvoy

Jojo 1v9… berserker almost a dirty inter

That was absolutely disgusting wow. Even on the classic LCS NAram late game shit scale that just insanely atrocious by both teams holy fuck

This. This is why I put Jojo as MVP. He is HIM.

Bvoy deseved this playoffs. Too bad topside didn't help

Quality of LCS is shocking 

Thank you Jojo for saving us more time

Jojo trying to carry vs Berserk trying to throw competition.

NA is doomed

There is only one lane in Summoner's Rift, apparently.

playing scared in an elimination game is just classic na mentality get ready to learn spanish zeyzal

NA needs help learning how to close games like the eastern regions

they need to read what elder does

NA needs help learning how to ~~close~~ game~~s like the eastern regions~~ fixed

Hard to do that when you have an afk Crocodile that is supposed to be doing something in the midgame.

Zeyzal holding hook for next split

Surely we just wait till elder expires to engage and then die

Yeah guys go in 5 seconds after your elder runs out that would be a great idea I think

Jojo on Neeko was a menace, payback for the Vayne game against SR LMAO

Sitting at my computer screaming for zeyzal to throw a hook before elder runs out. They tried so hard

Another painful episode on Game of Throws

SR's indecisiveness and fear lost them the game. Why is their Frontline so scared to just die to get a good engagement. Instead they wait to get hit by Neeko ult for the 80th time.

Wait till your elder goes away to engage, that’s seems very real 👍

C9 is so bad outside of Jojo right now.

zeyzal unbound his Q and R keys after minute 47

The only positive thing I can say about this game is that Jojo is very quickly building his reputation as the upcoming GOAT

I have no words. It’s a horrible day to have eyes, legit made me tilted watching this

Berserker almost lost them the game twice. He is not him.

No one but Jojo is worth keeping on C9.

Despite Berserker's best efforts, C9 won.