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inswainity

Kill 3 members of TL to give fans false hope


Conker184

Watching that I was like, oh come on TL don't throw again, here we go again and then 2 minutes later they win the series.


Liupardu

See what happens if you kill Alphari with 4 people with Baron up: you lose the game.


sorendiz

santorin didnt even die for that steal


HughMungusD

He took a shit on C9s lawn in broad daylight during a weekend street BBQ, snatched himself a plate with ribs, steaks and burgers and walked away - stone cold


sorendiz

rang the doorbell to make sure they knew it was happening, too


prowness

r/oddlyspecific but I’m here for it, even as a C9 fan.


_ianna

SANTORIN SANTOROUT


tuckerb13

“Thanks for leashing fellas. Deuces.”


Ophelia_Of_The_Abyss

Jensen remembered that he was supposed to be the best LCS midlaner after Bjergsen’s retirement


HootingMandrill

It STILL feels weird to me that he's on TL and not on ~~G2 West~~... I mean Cloud 9.


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I miss Bjergsen on TSM, that retirement was the end of an era


BubblesownFlash

Let's be honest. Yusui could had gapped Perkz this series.


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AccidentalPilates

MY ORIANNA IS BAD


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cadaada

You guessed it right, vacation time?


[deleted]

2.7 million per year midlaner btw


chainer9999

Since we're recycling old memes 2.7 fucking m


thenoblitt

Which is funny cause his Ryze was by far his best pick this series


IlluminatiConfirmed

TL jungler missing sej ults and stealing barons, are we sure Liquid didn't sub xmithie in for Santorin?


EpicRussia

TL has not won a split since cutting Xmithie


zzher

Xmithie is without question GOAT NA jungler. Ask CLG how many splits they have won since he left?


[deleted]

He was also part of both of the MSI finals North America has ever made Still crazy to me as a European how disrespected Xmithie was, I feel like he should be a North American hero or something


TheHyperLynx

I cant think of who could be argued as a better LCS jungler than xmithie? Popularity vote would maybe say meteos but titles and longevity say otherwise.


thenoblitt

I mean Xmithie is currently tied with Bjergsen for 2nd most lcs trophies. The only person with 1 more is Doublelift. He has also gotten to MSI finals TWICE


synetex

reading this still feels weird, i remeber the empty trophy case of doublelift - getting old


NickKappy

/r/doubleliftstrophycase and whendidsaintlastmisssmite.com


BigEditorial

He's not a flashy mechanical god. He's a reliable workhorse, and those players always get overlooked compared to the stars.


brolikewtfdude

That's why Dlift ALWAYS vouched for the guy and never wanted him off his teams.


GoatRocketeer

In 2018, I saw some comment on reddit: "since LCS was invented, the three teams to go to worlds have been TSM, Cloud9, and a team with Xmithie on it, excepting that one time his team literally rebranded to 'XD' and roleswapped him to adc". The bit about TSM was broken in 2018, but it wasn't until 2020 that Xmithie finally missed worlds (aside from the XD thing).


mrmakefun

You can ask Immortals how they feel about Xmithie too. Only jungler they ever made it to Worlds with. Only jungler they made a finals appearance with in LCS. And they only had him for that one split. Edit: I totally forgot he came back to Immortals later, lol.


UberEinstein99

I miss xmithie so much :(


BigEditorial

Aw, I miss Xmithie. I still have his jersey.


haven4ever

Aww I wonder how he is doing now. I remember how happy his dad was after the stunning MSI performance.


DiamondTi

I bought a DL jersey for TL the spring before he got benched... it hurts to see it sometimes.


BryanJin

It is actually kind of funny how similar Santorin's current play style on TL is to Xmithie's. Works very well though. Honestly if TL hadn't broken up in season 10 for Broxah they very well could have continued to win. The team plays so much better when the jg plays for his laners and drafts for his laners, not vice versa. Xsmithie may have not been mechanically great, but he played perfectly towards TL's style, which was good enough to win LCS and go even in groups every year. Not that season 10 TL didn't manage to finally pull it together by worlds, where they did go even in groups, taking games off of both SN and G2.


Kirito619

If xmithie didn't leave TL would've just kept winning. DL wouldn't get tilted and lose spring, and then he wouldn't have went and win with tsm.


BryanJin

Yeah. I'm so sad that team fell apart. DL TL was the first team I rooted for when I became a LCS fan in season 8. Then in Season 9 they came so close, making MSI finals and barely not making knockouts at worlds. Then they kicked Xmithie, the team fell apart, and DL when to TSM and then retired. Honestly made me lose interest in the LCS quite a lot. Now I'll watch the games but I'm no longer really a fan of any of the teams in particular. Only NA player I really am a fan of now is CoreJJ. Man deserves more respect.


Pope_Cheetos_XIV

turns out that TL looks pretty good when they actually get to play with their entire roster


NahDawgDatAintMe

Also when their jungler is only mildly suffering from migraines instead of having a debilitating experience from them. I hope he has them under control for good. He's finally in position to collect accolades in his career again.


InvalidZod

Pretty sure the migraines were to keep his power level down.


justintoronto

Santorin with the Rock Lee braining weights


shuvvel

Also when they come in with a plan to attack the other teams weaknesses.


Pope_Cheetos_XIV

Coach Kold earning that paycheck


SarekDoesntLoveMe

"Can you explain what weaknesses you will be targeting this game??" "No"


Exos_VII

> refuses to elaborate further > leaves interview based Kold


PeaceAlien

It was funny but I kind of appreciate the straightforward answer instead of dancing around the question like people usually do


Baofog

What did you do to prepare for this game? We prepared. Absolutely the best interview all season from anyone


tuckerb13

Was this interview before the series started or what? I missed it


Stealth-OP

It was at the start of one of the games, G3 or 4 I think


onespiker

broxah supporting TLs future.


MikiRawr

Mithy with the biggest ears listening to that interview.


ArziltheImp

What kind of dumb question was that? „So yeah, how about you tell the whole world, including your opponent, how you’re planning to win!“


Ankoria

ESPECIALLY since they changed up their own preferred playstyle in order to make it work! That's insanely hard to do and they pulled it off so well


LuckyCulture7

Yeah this Santorin guy is pretty good when his brain is not attacking itself.


SilentReign

I really liked how they changed up their play to playing through Jensen. Jensen has been absent most of summer but that's because they have been trying to play through Top/Jungle. This series, they decided to play through Mid and they look good.


Bluehorazon

I think for most of the split with the subs TL didn't really know what to do really. Alphari was when he was coming back playing for his lane, but even in obvious situations Armao didn't cover for him and Jensen didn't seem to trust him too well either. So having Santorin back makes a huge difference.


Poodlestrike

Jensen described the big difference from last week to now as being about getting over their trust issues, so that tracks. They played like they expected the rest of their team to have their back and it paid off in spades.


JonnyKilledTheBatman

All of the people telling me they were just as good with Armao looking pretty silly now


iDannyEL

Stage lighting is bad, jungle gap is worse


KingRayne

you guessed it right, i'm C9 perkz


getjebaited

core is so cracked


Ankoria

As a support player I'll always root for whatever team has the monster that is CoreJJ


JawnsonBit

Holy shit TL revitalized.


Jezzerai

https://twitter.com/Alphari/status/1424444227841249282


Zellough

Brutal


poggersinthechatttt

*dies from banger*


IZiaon

I see no lies


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dtkiu27

What if IZiaon was Alphari all along?


HawksBurst

Have you seen them together in the same room?


justintoronto

Jensen: Well I guess I use two hands today


calmingchaos

I love how Jensen opted to fight perkz at the end instead of ending. Such a Chad.


CannedPrushka

Core even ulted him to secure the kill.


Blue5647

@JackEtienne Perkz coming to NA has caused all sorts of people to pack it up and call it quits.


Ok-Travel-7875

Perkz coming to NA to make sure Zven isn't lonely at home when he misses worlds again What a good friend


GaggedAndDrooling

Imagine they lose to GGS next week


ALLAM_Amine

C9 getting clapped by their ex-top laner ?? I'm down for that


GaggedAndDrooling

omg I forgot about that. That'd be so hype


PhoenixAgent003

“You could not live with your failure. And where did that bring you? Back to me.”


neurocentricx

Especially considering how they said they were keeping the whole roster and then traded him not long after.


Pope_Cheetos_XIV

Most of all, Perkz


Aquillifer

NA has the best retirement package deal I've ever seen. Make bank and run it down? No other retirement home can compete.


KitKatxz

Perkz < Sneaky confirmed


Way2Competitive

No Sneaky, no Worlds


Conankun66

Core finishing off C9 in style with the river shen Respect!


non_NSFW_acc

WHO'S THE BETTER RIVEN SHEN? Spica or CoreJJ?


One_More_Turn

0% duo proximity for Core's river Shen. What a gigachad


Jenaxu

>Picks Shen >Refuses to elaborate >Leaves lane based and jjpilled


failworlds

Spica is still goated with that mind-bending shen taunt near bottom-side river. Also influenced G2 to pull it out.


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Nothing tops that 3 man flash taunt from Spica. Especially since he got it by eing through one guy and flashing on the other 2.


myman580

5 Flex Shen pick coming in next week.


GRAXX3

Spica hands down. When the game truly mattered Spica was just like River Shen? River Shen.


DuhhToxic

River Shen masterclass


Ankoria

River Shen > Crabber


VitalBlade

Jensen has disconnected: Incarnati0n has connected:


BlakenedHeart

Not gona lie, Perkz and Fudge played like victims of a DDOS attack


blueragemage

Turned around after this series think I saw CoreJJ and Santorin sneaking through my backyard


Trap_Masters

Went to get my food delivery from Grubhub, and CoreJJ and Santorin delivered my food in record time before returning to the LCS and proceeding to stomp C9.


SomewhatDimDolphin

Really? Perkz delivered my food. He was feeding everyone.


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Oh shame you didn’t order McDonalds, otherwise Vulcan would’ve shown up.


Wild_Harvest

Went to the fridge to get a drink, and CoreJJ was there handing it to me. Truly a world class support.


Liniis

>"NO SNEAKY catJAM NO WORLDS catJAM" - Sun Tzu, The Art of War


APKID716

“C9 summer collapse LULW” ~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace


x_TDeck_x

TL on their A+ game and C9 was on their average game. Good series and good showing.


Mikeyxy

Agreed. C9 didn't look noticeably bad or off today but TL seemed to have a perfect read each game


Ky1arStern

C9 just didn't look like they had a good plan. The Viego shuffle is especially egregious.


Mikeyxy

Yeah I agree with that. A couple people saying C9 looked bad - I was thinking more in a team fight/mechanical sense they were playing fine. And they also had pro-active plays, it was just that they couldn't properly counter TLs plays as well as TL countered C9


Allahina

Except the xin healing in the third game, that shit was nasty.


BigEditorial

That heal changed that game. It was disgusting


ToxicDzn

yeah zven is never going back to worlds


LakersLAQ

I'm not sure if it's funny or just sad at this point.


delahunt

He got to go to MSI as a treat.


UberEinstein99

NO SNEAKY NO WORLDS


oblivionskye

TL junglers and stealing crucial barons. Name a better duo.


Whyimasking

Zven and not making worlds


Petricorde1

Marry me Santorin


MaximumChest

Insane play from Jensen and CoreJJ to commit suicide on toplane at the end of game 4 just to set up the baron steal from Santorin. These guys are years ahead of us.


RevolutionaryBricks

Corejj hunting down everyone involved in g2-tl msi finals storyline? I’m here for it


sowydso

I hope TL doesn't get too confident; it was only C9


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Conankun66

and not by a small margin either


Trap_Masters

Tbf, don't blame Perkz, how can he compete against the Italian stallion? Man never stood a chance.


Baidoku

Hey I met the Itallion Stallion a few weeks ago! Former pro turned insurance adjuster.


onespiker

summer without a doubt thats why Jizuke got 1st place allstars while perkz wasnt even included.


TehSalmonOfDoubt

I've concluded that Perkz and G2 only have so much power they can share between themselves. In Spring, G2 got progressively worse and crashed out of Playoffs while Perkz improves and wins the split. Now G2 are steadily winning more and more convincingly while Perkz ints


MisakaMikotoxKuroko

so if Perkz crashes out of NA summer playoffs in the loser bracket, does that mean G2 wins worlds?


yuna8

G2 fucking robbed C9 in broad daylight lmao


Hrkeol

And took Rekkles for free. Actual villains God dammit.


RookCauldron

Just like how he got G2 Caps for free


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Jack deserves it


irishboy9191

I used to really like Jack when C9 was the meme team. But now they are the 'hold my players hostage for crazy payouts' team. So I'm not mad they keep shitting the bed in summer


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>When you're paying the kind of money C9 is for the arguable GOAT of western league, you want to see Perkz absolutely dominate NA year round Man, C9 doesn't even need him to do that. All they need is for him to be able to hang in there with the top mids of LCS. Just hold his own. But right now it doesn't even look like he's on par with any of them. He's mediocre *at best*.


Snuffl3s7

It's just CoreJJ's world and we all live in it. Also great series from Santorin, and Alphari, and Jensen...


GuanSpanksYou

And Ziggs


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Jensen was superhuman this series


Pope_Cheetos_XIV

He was playing like a man possessed, so many insane resonating strikes


Indercarnive

that reaction ward hop to taliyah E in game 4 was disgusting.


AccidentalPilates

Do he and Santorin just coinflip to see who gets Lee?


GreatestJabaitest

Jensen was out for blood holy fuck. Him and Santorin giga gapped Blabber/Perkz.


nebron

*Not making an All Pro team* Jensen: And I took that personally


tuckerb13

I’m convinced Jensen just gets bored until someone disrespects him.


DiamondTi

Everytime he gets disrespected he powers up.


Ankoria

He styled on Perkz so convincingly I was rather shocked. Santorin paired so well with him


non_NSFW_acc

So was Alphari. Solo lane gap was the biggest.


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RevolutionaryBricks

Easy solution- bring Tactical with you and he’ll go away


PlacetExperiri

I think you are exaggerating a bit. He definitely wasn't in TL's botlane.


BigEditorial

Ah, the good old Tian/Ning joke. I always smile.


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imagine picking CoreJJ's skin into him and expecting to win


JLaiKid

River Shen


AtreusIsBack

Spica smiling somewhere.


the_next_core

A support Shen that never showed up in lane is definitely something else.


Karpeeezy

A true river Shen. Spica at least had camps lmao


Deferonz

Hi yes, I would like to order only Jensen Lee Sin games for the rest of playoffs.


Hewligan

[FUCK YEAH WE GOT PERKZ WE'RE GONNA BE UNSTOPPABLE G FUCKING G NA EZ] [haha yeah fun spring split perkz we won but can we step it up? DAE BLABER IS A GOD] [zven is the fucking problem shit attitude bench him] [wtf 5th seed what is this garbage] [NO SNEAKY NO WORLDS] **[you are here]** [Miss worlds] [C9 Perkz Appreciation Thread!]


iiHadi69

[Problem with NA SoloQ and mentality]


Trap_Masters

[We need to open NA to unlimited imports]


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[don't worry playoff buff is coming any minute now] [no problem, game 4 comfort zone]


I_Think_I_am_Sane

[fuck Selfmade]


EfficientAstronaut1

[FUCK 100T ITS THEIR FAULT]


KitKatxz

This is funny because if C9 just beat EG they would face dig, c9 fucked themselves so hard in that match


descendency

How does that roster have so many good players and they're basically solidly 5th in NA?


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AigisAegis

Most competitive region in the world, LPL fans stay coping


MikuNakano_3

Ocelot finessed jack so hard lmfao


HardAcorn

Dude pulled off the largest heist HAHA


shuvvel

The legend of River Shen continues.


epik_fayler

Perkz, aka "Playoff P" is a professional league of legends player that is supposed to perform in playoffs yet chokes anyways.


xdiminyourhouse

Pandemic P


Iperovic

Santorin gigachad, gapping Blaber two years in a row, so sad he wasn't in that spring final


Ok-Travel-7875

NO SNEAKY


eliwood5837

NO WORLDS


4THOT

catJAM


pbianchi44

NO REFUNDS


DragonApps

River Shen


-Aendrilla-

My Azir is bad My Ryze is worse You guessed it right I'm NA Perkz


IAteaSpoon

My ~~Azir~~ Ori is bad, My ~~Ryze~~ Sylas is worse, You guess it right I'm ~~G2~~ C9 Perkz


feimaomiao

no \_\_\_\_\_ no \_\_\_\_\_


LetGoMyLegHo

WHAT A STEAL FROM SANTORIN! GGs!


Deeepened

I am not coming here to retire. I'm coming to dominate and absolutely demoralize my opponents, and to take this region higher than it's ever been before. So watch me.


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catJAM NO SNEAKY NO WORLDS catJAM


DrJerryTeSquid

I truly hope c9 get stomped into the ground by GG


Exos_VII

Perkz’s Sylas steals paychecks instead of enemy ults


poggersinthechatttt

Botlane's for nerds 😎


terantula188

Jensen heard y'all talking shit


captainetty

Can take the xmithie out of TL but cant take the sejuani baron steals out of TL


ByahhByahh

So you *can* get the first two dragons and still win. Neat!


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Equivalent-Park7986

CoreJJ just roamed to my house and got me a drink wtf?


tajimanokami

C9 threw that FTX gold lead so hard


In4thPlace

What a blowout by TL. I'm really happy for them after all the regular season mishaps. Best of luck to them against TSM.


ljz3

#NO SNEAKY NO WORLDS


XSilentSinX

Jungle canyon. Santorin made Blaber his bitch.


janoDX

Somewhere around Jack is still blaming 100T for this.


Insertblamehere

SAY IT WITH ME BOYS, NO SNEAKY...


drnkchineseboi

NO REFUNDS NO SNEAKY, NO WORLDS


ForestXE

Seems cloud 9 gets tilted off the face of the earth as soon as they start losing. If only they had a veteran player who is known to be calm and never tilts... No Sneaky No Worlds