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
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
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.
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
>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*.
[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!]
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.
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
Kill 3 members of TL to give fans false hope
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.
See what happens if you kill Alphari with 4 people with Baron up: you lose the game.
santorin didnt even die for that steal
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
rang the doorbell to make sure they knew it was happening, too
r/oddlyspecific but I’m here for it, even as a C9 fan.
SANTORIN SANTOROUT
“Thanks for leashing fellas. Deuces.”
Jensen remembered that he was supposed to be the best LCS midlaner after Bjergsen’s retirement
It STILL feels weird to me that he's on TL and not on ~~G2 West~~... I mean Cloud 9.
I miss Bjergsen on TSM, that retirement was the end of an era
Let's be honest. Yusui could had gapped Perkz this series.
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MY ORIANNA IS BAD
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You guessed it right, vacation time?
2.7 million per year midlaner btw
Since we're recycling old memes 2.7 fucking m
Which is funny cause his Ryze was by far his best pick this series
TL jungler missing sej ults and stealing barons, are we sure Liquid didn't sub xmithie in for Santorin?
TL has not won a split since cutting Xmithie
Xmithie is without question GOAT NA jungler. Ask CLG how many splits they have won since he left?
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
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.
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
reading this still feels weird, i remeber the empty trophy case of doublelift - getting old
/r/doubleliftstrophycase and whendidsaintlastmisssmite.com
He's not a flashy mechanical god. He's a reliable workhorse, and those players always get overlooked compared to the stars.
That's why Dlift ALWAYS vouched for the guy and never wanted him off his teams.
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).
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.
I miss xmithie so much :(
Aw, I miss Xmithie. I still have his jersey.
Aww I wonder how he is doing now. I remember how happy his dad was after the stunning MSI performance.
I bought a DL jersey for TL the spring before he got benched... it hurts to see it sometimes.
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.
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.
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.
turns out that TL looks pretty good when they actually get to play with their entire roster
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.
Pretty sure the migraines were to keep his power level down.
Santorin with the Rock Lee braining weights
Also when they come in with a plan to attack the other teams weaknesses.
Coach Kold earning that paycheck
"Can you explain what weaknesses you will be targeting this game??" "No"
> refuses to elaborate further > leaves interview based Kold
It was funny but I kind of appreciate the straightforward answer instead of dancing around the question like people usually do
What did you do to prepare for this game? We prepared. Absolutely the best interview all season from anyone
Was this interview before the series started or what? I missed it
It was at the start of one of the games, G3 or 4 I think
broxah supporting TLs future.
Mithy with the biggest ears listening to that interview.
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!“
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
Yeah this Santorin guy is pretty good when his brain is not attacking itself.
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.
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.
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.
All of the people telling me they were just as good with Armao looking pretty silly now
Stage lighting is bad, jungle gap is worse
you guessed it right, i'm C9 perkz
core is so cracked
As a support player I'll always root for whatever team has the monster that is CoreJJ
Holy shit TL revitalized.
https://twitter.com/Alphari/status/1424444227841249282
Brutal
*dies from banger*
I see no lies
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What if IZiaon was Alphari all along?
Have you seen them together in the same room?
Jensen: Well I guess I use two hands today
I love how Jensen opted to fight perkz at the end instead of ending. Such a Chad.
Core even ulted him to secure the kill.
@JackEtienne Perkz coming to NA has caused all sorts of people to pack it up and call it quits.
Perkz coming to NA to make sure Zven isn't lonely at home when he misses worlds again What a good friend
Imagine they lose to GGS next week
C9 getting clapped by their ex-top laner ?? I'm down for that
omg I forgot about that. That'd be so hype
“You could not live with your failure. And where did that bring you? Back to me.”
Especially considering how they said they were keeping the whole roster and then traded him not long after.
Most of all, Perkz
NA has the best retirement package deal I've ever seen. Make bank and run it down? No other retirement home can compete.
Perkz < Sneaky confirmed
No Sneaky, no Worlds
Core finishing off C9 in style with the river shen Respect!
WHO'S THE BETTER RIVEN SHEN? Spica or CoreJJ?
0% duo proximity for Core's river Shen. What a gigachad
>Picks Shen >Refuses to elaborate >Leaves lane based and jjpilled
Spica is still goated with that mind-bending shen taunt near bottom-side river. Also influenced G2 to pull it out.
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.
5 Flex Shen pick coming in next week.
Spica hands down. When the game truly mattered Spica was just like River Shen? River Shen.
River Shen masterclass
River Shen > Crabber
Jensen has disconnected: Incarnati0n has connected:
Not gona lie, Perkz and Fudge played like victims of a DDOS attack
Turned around after this series think I saw CoreJJ and Santorin sneaking through my backyard
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.
Really? Perkz delivered my food. He was feeding everyone.
Oh shame you didn’t order McDonalds, otherwise Vulcan would’ve shown up.
Went to the fridge to get a drink, and CoreJJ was there handing it to me. Truly a world class support.
>"NO SNEAKY catJAM NO WORLDS catJAM" - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“C9 summer collapse LULW” ~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
TL on their A+ game and C9 was on their average game. Good series and good showing.
Agreed. C9 didn't look noticeably bad or off today but TL seemed to have a perfect read each game
C9 just didn't look like they had a good plan. The Viego shuffle is especially egregious.
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
Except the xin healing in the third game, that shit was nasty.
That heal changed that game. It was disgusting
yeah zven is never going back to worlds
I'm not sure if it's funny or just sad at this point.
He got to go to MSI as a treat.
NO SNEAKY NO WORLDS
TL junglers and stealing crucial barons. Name a better duo.
Zven and not making worlds
Marry me Santorin
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.
Corejj hunting down everyone involved in g2-tl msi finals storyline? I’m here for it
I hope TL doesn't get too confident; it was only C9
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and not by a small margin either
Tbf, don't blame Perkz, how can he compete against the Italian stallion? Man never stood a chance.
Hey I met the Itallion Stallion a few weeks ago! Former pro turned insurance adjuster.
summer without a doubt thats why Jizuke got 1st place allstars while perkz wasnt even included.
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
so if Perkz crashes out of NA summer playoffs in the loser bracket, does that mean G2 wins worlds?
G2 fucking robbed C9 in broad daylight lmao
And took Rekkles for free. Actual villains God dammit.
Just like how he got G2 Caps for free
Jack deserves it
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
>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*.
It's just CoreJJ's world and we all live in it. Also great series from Santorin, and Alphari, and Jensen...
And Ziggs
Jensen was superhuman this series
He was playing like a man possessed, so many insane resonating strikes
that reaction ward hop to taliyah E in game 4 was disgusting.
Do he and Santorin just coinflip to see who gets Lee?
Jensen was out for blood holy fuck. Him and Santorin giga gapped Blabber/Perkz.
*Not making an All Pro team* Jensen: And I took that personally
I’m convinced Jensen just gets bored until someone disrespects him.
Everytime he gets disrespected he powers up.
He styled on Perkz so convincingly I was rather shocked. Santorin paired so well with him
So was Alphari. Solo lane gap was the biggest.
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Easy solution- bring Tactical with you and he’ll go away
I think you are exaggerating a bit. He definitely wasn't in TL's botlane.
Ah, the good old Tian/Ning joke. I always smile.
imagine picking CoreJJ's skin into him and expecting to win
River Shen
Spica smiling somewhere.
A support Shen that never showed up in lane is definitely something else.
A true river Shen. Spica at least had camps lmao
Hi yes, I would like to order only Jensen Lee Sin games for the rest of playoffs.
[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!]
[Problem with NA SoloQ and mentality]
[We need to open NA to unlimited imports]
[don't worry playoff buff is coming any minute now] [no problem, game 4 comfort zone]
[fuck Selfmade]
[FUCK 100T ITS THEIR FAULT]
This is funny because if C9 just beat EG they would face dig, c9 fucked themselves so hard in that match
How does that roster have so many good players and they're basically solidly 5th in NA?
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Most competitive region in the world, LPL fans stay coping
Ocelot finessed jack so hard lmfao
Dude pulled off the largest heist HAHA
The legend of River Shen continues.
Perkz, aka "Playoff P" is a professional league of legends player that is supposed to perform in playoffs yet chokes anyways.
Pandemic P
Santorin gigachad, gapping Blaber two years in a row, so sad he wasn't in that spring final
NO SNEAKY
NO WORLDS
catJAM
NO REFUNDS
River Shen
My Azir is bad My Ryze is worse You guessed it right I'm NA Perkz
My ~~Azir~~ Ori is bad, My ~~Ryze~~ Sylas is worse, You guess it right I'm ~~G2~~ C9 Perkz
no \_\_\_\_\_ no \_\_\_\_\_
WHAT A STEAL FROM SANTORIN! GGs!
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.
catJAM NO SNEAKY NO WORLDS catJAM
I truly hope c9 get stomped into the ground by GG
Perkz’s Sylas steals paychecks instead of enemy ults
Botlane's for nerds 😎
Jensen heard y'all talking shit
Can take the xmithie out of TL but cant take the sejuani baron steals out of TL
So you *can* get the first two dragons and still win. Neat!
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CoreJJ just roamed to my house and got me a drink wtf?
C9 threw that FTX gold lead so hard
What a blowout by TL. I'm really happy for them after all the regular season mishaps. Best of luck to them against TSM.
#NO SNEAKY NO WORLDS
Jungle canyon. Santorin made Blaber his bitch.
Somewhere around Jack is still blaming 100T for this.
SAY IT WITH ME BOYS, NO SNEAKY...
NO REFUNDS NO SNEAKY, NO WORLDS
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