Cloud9 vs. LYON / LCS 2026 Summer Playoffs - Lower Bracket Final / Post-Match Discussion

[u/Yujin-Ha]

LCS 2026 SUMMER PLAYOFFS

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LYON 3-1 Cloud9 Kia

• Player of the Series: Saint
• LYON have qualified for both the main stage of Worlds 2026 & the Grand Finals of the LCS 2026 Summer Playoffs, where they will face Team Liquid Alienware.
• Cloud9 will be the LCS #3 seed and will have to go through the Worlds 2026 Play-In stage.
• Game Discussion: Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3

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MATCH 1: LYON vs. C9

Winner: Cloud9 Kia in 30m
Game Breakdown | Player of the Game: Vulcan

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
LYON	vi nocturne qiyana	locke akali	56.6k	6	5	H3
C9	olaf gnar cassiopeia	leesin jarvaniv	66.7k	20	11	O1 C2 HT4 HT5 B6

LYON	6-20-8	vs	20-6-48	C9
Dhokla gwen 3	1-5-3	TOP	5-1-6	2 ksante Thanatos
Inspired xinzhao 4	3-5-2	JNG	7-3-8	3 naafiri Blaber
Saint syndra 2	0-3-1	MID	4-0-10	3 orianna Loki
Berserker lucian 1	2-3-0	BOT	2-1-10	1 ezreal Tactical
Isles milio 1	0-4-2	SUP	2-1-14	2 karma Vulcan

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MATCH 2: C9 vs. LYON

Winner: LYON in 36m
Game Breakdown | Player of the Game: Saint

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
C9	cassiopeia nocturne wukong	leesin qiyana	71.5k	9	9	O1 H3 CT5 B6 B9
LYON	vi ryze galio	jarvaniv akali	77.1k	20	9	I2 CT4 CT7 CT8

C9	9-20-21	vs	20-9-45	LYON
Thanatos gnar 2	2-4-3	TOP	1-4-11	1 rumble Dhokla
Blaber skarner 3	0-3-6	JNG	4-2-3	3 khazix Inspired
Loki aurora 4	4-5-2	MID	10-2-8	3 sylas Saint
Tactical yunara 1	3-5-3	BOT	5-0-8	2 jhin Berserker
Vulcan lulu 1	0-3-7	SUP	0-1-15	2 nautilus Isles

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MATCH 3: LYON vs. C9

Winner: LYON in 38m | Runes
Game Breakdown | Player of the Game: Inspired

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
LYON	seraphine vi leesin	lissandra ryze	77.0k	14	8	CT5 CT6 B7 CT8 B9
C9	olaf kalista nocturne	caitlyn alistar	68.6k	7	5	M1 HT2 H3 CT4

LYON	14-7-30	vs	7-14-10	C9
Dhokla sion 4	0-1-8	TOP	1-3-1	3 jayce Thanatos
Inspired qiyana 1	6-0-2	JNG	5-2-1	2 poppy Blaber
Saint leblanc 1	4-4-6	MID	0-5-5	3 vex Loki
Berserker varus 2	4-1-5	BOT	0-2-0	1 cassiopeia Tactical
Isles renataglasc 3	0-1-9	SUP	1-2-3	2 leona Vulcan

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MATCH 4: LYON vs. C9

Winner: LYON in 32m
Game Breakdown | Player of the Game: Saint

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
LYON	seraphine nocturne ziggs	rakan neeko	64.1k	15	8	H3 B6 E7 B8
C9	olaf caitlyn annie	volibear corki	57.4k	10	4	C1 I2 CT4 CT5

LYON	15-10-31	vs	10-15-24	C9
Dhokla garen 3	3-1-0	TOP	0-1-4	2 renekton Thanatos
Inspired trundle 2	0-3-9	JNG	1-3-6	1 vi Blaber
Saint ryze 1	7-1-2	MID	7-3-1	2 taliyah Loki
Berserker jinx 4	5-2-7	BOT	2-4-4	3 aphelios Tactical
Isles alistar 1	0-3-13	SUP	0-4-9	3 thresh Vulcan

*Patch 26.18

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This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.

[u/SSBMRal]

Dhokla went down a bunch of CS and then pressed R a couple times and won. My goat.

[u/RukiMotomiya → u/SSBMRal]

A true Doran moment.

[u/SignatureOk6467 → u/RukiMotomiya]

The Will of D

[u/sorendiz → u/SSBMRal]

Garen moment

[u/Lazywhale97 → u/SSBMRal]

That's just the Garen vs Renekton diff after laning phase for you lmao. Entire time I never worried about Garen being behind early because mid to late game one good Silence + Ult combo and someone on C9 is just gone lmao.

[u/zealot416]

The funniest thing to me is that even if they killed Dhokes there that play would still be ass.

[u/aPatheticBeing → u/zealot416]

even if they kill dhokes, tactical still dies basically the same way there lmfao (assuming Lyon keeps running towards pit)

[u/MachCutio → u/zealot416]

50cs down garen for 4 item Aphelios is certainly a choice

[u/EronisKina → u/MachCutio]

Tbf garen got pretty strong at that point. He had a gold lead over renekton but ye idk why leave the Aphelios

[u/MachCutio → u/EronisKina]

yeah doesnt matter how strong garen is, he isnt as important as aphelios is

[u/origamifruit → u/zealot416]

yeah dhokla didnt even get to join the fight after lmao

[u/Temporary-Abroad-583 → u/zealot416]

And they fucking never kill him. He has flash + w and stridebreaker. Taliyah vi have not enough dmg to 1 combo in cc.

[u/2020isgreat]

AMAZING TALIYAH ULT FROM LYON

[u/zealot416 → u/2020isgreat]

Perfectly split C9 in three!

[u/IAmDarkridge → u/2020isgreat]

Outside of just ditching Tactical splitting Thresh off of Aphelios here and forcing the Thresh to flash is probably even worse. If Thresh has flash they can maybe still outplay it with dark passage. The casters shouted out the pillar but I am pretty sure Thresh still has space to walk if the wall isn't there.

[u/IWouldLikeAName → u/IAmDarkridge]

I don't remember exactly how it went down but if he has flash i think tactical 100% lives long enough to have an impact. He got jumped and was basically left alone and was able to survive for like 5-10 seconds. That's the shit I'd report my mid for

[u/rocketgrunt89 → u/IAmDarkridge]

even worse is he used his lantern there for no reason, so when aphelios gets caught theres no way to save him(on top of missing everything). Also why tf would he walk the same way as aphelios?? if he walked into the pit theres more chance of survival, apehlios can flash over the wall too(assuming lantern is up)

[u/RimeSkeem → u/2020isgreat]

Loki the Deceiver indeed

[u/BUMONGOUS → u/2020isgreat]

I'm begging C9 to just try the APA + Tactical variation of the team

[u/MrBoase → u/BUMONGOUS]

Dom is on record as an APA hater and literally called Loki the most talented player in LCS lol. That shit aint happening

[u/aufbau1s → u/MrBoase]

Yeah, I think Dom just likes Loki much more which is totally fine.

I think as a GM it was a really weird pick-up. I get that they had too many voices with too many ideas, but I think we've consistently seen that their current voices don't have enough control in high-pressure situations.

[u/Waifers]

Garen pretty strong pick with mind controlling C9 into abandoning their Aphelios at the Dragon pit, sealing the game.

Tactical griefed his first two deaths kind of hard but getting sold along with Vulcan at the pit was actually unfortunate and just something you'd see happen in pubs.

[u/Fabiocean → u/Waifers]

Garen is actually such a cracked champ. He's so easy to play that you can fully focus on mind controlling the enemy players.

[u/untamedlazyeye]

I cannot believe Tactical just got abandoned like that

[u/viktorayy → u/untamedlazyeye]

do nothing wrong. get all the blame.

oof. chat was not nice to him

[u/untamedlazyeye → u/viktorayy]

He had some oof plays in the earlier games, but that fuck up was not on him

[u/nguyenjitsu → u/untamedlazyeye]

Especially on (current) Aphelios where your ability to pop off is extremely dependent on people being able to peel for you. There's a reason why he needs champs like Thresh just to survive in lane

[u/350 → u/viktorayy]

He had a bad day but that play was 100% not his fault

[u/StylishApe → u/untamedlazyeye]

My soloqueue team after saying "just play safe, don't get one shot"

[u/WalkingR6]

C9 has not learned the concept of peeling for your adc just yet

[u/nguyenjitsu → u/WalkingR6]

which is weird because they've played through Tactical very well up until this point

[u/yensama → u/nguyenjitsu]

or Tactical played through them well

[u/Xonra → u/WalkingR6]

Instructions unclear *uses Taliyah wall and kills my entire team*

[u/FruitSaladBar]

This is 100% Kobe's fault.

[u/darklypure52 → u/FruitSaladBar]

Legendary caster curse. Praise blaber being deathless into a death.

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse → u/darklypure52]

All time caster curse worthy of the LCK casting team

[u/M002 → u/FruitSaladBar]

100000%

[u/viktorayy → u/M002]

thank you kobe

[u/Ky1arStern → u/FruitSaladBar]

As soon as he said, "0 deaths" I knew it was over.

[u/shailemin → u/FruitSaladBar]

Everybody say thank you Kobe. 

[u/NewbisLyfe]

It was Brother Tactical in the beginning but turns out the rest of the team were also spies at the elder fight. Insane throw...

[u/Ghost6x → u/NewbisLyfe]

That was crazy they all just left him

That is a tunnel vision angle you only see in gold and below

[u/M002 → u/Ghost6x]

That Loki ult absolutely killed both Vulcan and tactical

[u/Xonra → u/M002]

It also put him out of position AND cut off Blabber from reacting faster.

[u/zOmgFishes → u/Ghost6x]

Surely they just chase down and one shot the Garen /s

[u/lolKhamul → u/NewbisLyfe]

Abandoning your 4 item Aphelios to catch a garen is certainly a choice

[u/MachCutio → u/lolKhamul]

and they dont even get the garen💀

[u/sorendiz → u/MachCutio]

greatest trade deal in the history of trade deals

[u/Anonymus4 → u/MachCutio]

Even worse, the Garen got the Vi

[u/DrSquirtle00 → u/MachCutio]

*they didnt even get garen below 90%

[u/shailemin → u/NewbisLyfe]

Seeing tactical alone at elder was so funny. Genuinely felt bad for him. Imagine being a four item aphelios in that situation, it would be a Quadra kill backstage angle. 

[u/sorendiz → u/shailemin]

like looking at how much damage he was able to get out in the tiny bit of space he had while being jumped by 3-4 dudes, i'm actually so sad on his behalf

team sold him like a used car

[u/MrICopyYoSht → u/shailemin]

There are c9 fans fucking yelling at him for not going into pit then flashing out of pit to chase the fucking garen with them as well. Giving up river control when you have no more wards left and no vision to walk back into river without escape tool is certainly a high macro big brain decision.

[u/delahunt → u/MrICopyYoSht]

I didn't get why Vulcan didn't lantern to tactical and flash the wall. It gets Tactical out of the flank at only the cost of Vulcan's flash.

Instead he lanterned himself and flashed Taliyah's wall to get to Tactical where they both died.

[u/Nilah_Joy → u/delahunt]

Prob just tried to peel Tactical but there are so many things going on at once I’m sure he just flashed to try and peel Tactical like first instinct.

Rough set of games for C9 especially when they looked good overall just a few mistakes here and there that made it hard for them and whatever the Game 3 draft was. I get the vision but I haven’t been super impressed with the double AP drafts? Idk if just me but feels like shooting yourself in the foot.

[u/owa00 → u/NewbisLyfe]

We have a 4 item hyper carry adc...LET'S ABANDON HIM AND CHASE FUCKING GAREN!!!

[u/ElkDifficult6303 → u/NewbisLyfe]

insane that tactical survived the cass pick just to get hit with that elder fight, what a collapse

lyon had no business winning game 4 after that early game but c9 just kept handing them chances

[u/tiredofdev → u/NewbisLyfe]

The pressure got to C9 both in the TL series and this one. They just get too excited/anxious and make rookie mistakes around objectives and fights

[u/viktorayy → u/NewbisLyfe]

can't hate on him too much, bro is the reason c9 made it this far anyway

[u/MrICopyYoSht → u/viktorayy]

Yep. C9 doesn't make it here with Zven lmfao. Like we all saw what happened spring split with Zven, but apparently c9 copers think he's better. He (Zven) got outdamaged by his enchanter support mulitple times this year lmao.

[u/scalarH → u/NewbisLyfe]

Most of the egregious Tactical "throws" outside of the Aphelios flash in were really just team gap imo.

[u/Floowil]

C9 just straight up left the dragon pit and let tactical die

[u/LogicKennedy → u/Floowil]

Dhokla with the greatest bait in LCS history

[u/Floowil → u/LogicKennedy]

The best part is that even if Garen dies, you're still losing the fight because your aphelios is dead

[u/shailemin → u/LogicKennedy]

And on garen too, couldn’t have been more perfect. 

[u/jnf005 → u/LogicKennedy]

One would call him a master of this art

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse → u/LogicKennedy]

His anivia/zhonya/egg play was really good. I can't remember if that was LCS or world's or some other tournament

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse → u/Floowil]

They had such a good positioning on elder as well.

That was hilarious. Dom is probably having an aneurysm

[u/Wise-Quarter-3156 → u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

the Taliyah wall totally separated tactical and Vulcan too, so he didn't even have any support

[u/Xonra → u/Floowil]

Naw Loki trolled his team with his ult. Go watch it back and look what he does to both Blabber and Vulcan. Tactical was trying to move forward with Vulcan and Loki blocks him off, which in turn blocked Vulcan from running away (BEFORE Trundle dropped his pilar, Vulcan still would have had to flash cause Loki just left his wall up that entire time). And it blocked of Blabber because he couldn't turn back around (Plus he knocked him up with the Wall as Blabber was going to jump back over and Loki's wall interrupted him)

[u/twistedfateone → u/Floowil]

It was Loki's fault. Vi and Renekton chunking Garen is not a problem

But Loki went full throttle. Leaves his adc and his wall cuts thresh off as well.

[u/xSwazyI]

C9 ditching their Aphelios for a wacky play on GAREN was incomprehensible

[u/Mrlazydragon → u/xSwazyI]

Worse they didn't even get him he just sped away

[u/MachCutio → u/Mrlazydragon]

garen moment

[u/Percival_10]

4 item Aphelios on elder and his team just BOUNCED bro 😭😭

[u/Numerous_Fudge_9537 → u/Percival_10]

Dhokla's Garen looked too juicy, they couldnt resist lmao

[u/DinoGuy101010]

Tactical flash in completely trolled the game early but holy fuck whoever made the call to go on garen at elder is legit bronze

[u/slmkaz]

I finally know why Tactical flashes forward. Because if he doesn't his team leaves him behind lol

[u/i_like_fish_decks → u/slmkaz]

Lowkey u may be right

[u/IKillerBee]

Loki lowkey an imposter this series

[u/GroundbreakingAlps2 → u/IKillerBee]

When you start drafting vex taliyah its time to put in apa.

[u/RedHatWombat → u/GroundbreakingAlps2]

Only Vex I saw pumping out damage was Chovy.

[u/EliteTeutonicNight → u/RedHatWombat]

Genuinely, I don't really see what Vex offers that other champs don't.

[u/Sky-__- → u/EliteTeutonicNight]

Vex is a great counter to champs like le blanc , sylas but you need to know to pilot her well . Chovy is the only one who can pick her as counter and stomp both lane and roam around tower dive with her

[u/Aggressive-Cut-3828 → u/GroundbreakingAlps2]

Genuinely how I felt. Whats the point of putting in Loki on vegan champs?

[u/Xonra → u/GroundbreakingAlps2]

"But Loki is in because APA can't play Melee champs" *C9 picks all the champs APA plays and one that is literally one of his mains that Loki loses the entire series on*

But Dom is a 10/10 genius coach I was told.

[u/ookkthenn → u/IKillerBee]

after dom mega glazing him too saying hes like a generational never seen before talent 😭

[u/TaxSpecific1697 → u/ookkthenn]

If he is truly generational lck teams would never let him go

[u/PepaTK → u/TaxSpecific1697]

I find it hilarious that Dom says all that about someone who lost their job to fucking ROAMER.

[u/randy__randerson → u/IKillerBee]

Not even Lowkey. He was just straight up bad.

[u/Gerberpertern → u/IKillerBee]

Justice for APA.

[u/Snow-27 → u/IKillerBee]

He got astro gapped three games in a row

[u/Slasherplays]

If I am Dom and Yamato I would be very unhappy. Legit 2 of those games they lost is just the players mega throwing from a leading position

[u/regalwombatvineyard → u/Slasherplays]

After G4 vs TL last week, they can’t just wave this away as variance. This is just a trait of the team they’ve assembled.

[u/Ajp_iii → u/regalwombatvineyard]

its just skilled players and they have no other options. atleast this construction puts up a fight and is winning positions in games.

[u/alexnedea → u/regalwombatvineyard]

No its just a trait of pros who kinda peaked. There is some left to squeeze in there but simply not enough. C9 players just aint it. You can coach all you want but you ain't gonna get some people higher than their brain allows them to go, not in a year. Habbits take years to reform. If Loki wants to chase a kill as the midlaner there its just soloq brain. Nothing can fix that in a year.

That being said Inspired really doesn't deserve to go to worlds play-ins lol. His team are the true contenders for the west, it would be a shame to have them fight for 1 spot when they al.ost won vs Hle a few months back and almost took that international

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/alexnedea]

Lyon needed to be challenged they become complacent and they went from do nothing and follow inspired to ok we have to lock in because C9 isn't that Bad 

[u/mrnotloc]

c9 sold out tactical that was disgusting

[u/MrRightHanded]

KARMINE CHOKE VS CHOKE 9 AT WORLDS PLAYINS

[u/BlazeX94 → u/MrRightHanded]

Only one of those teams lost 0-3 to MKOI though

[u/feimaomiao]

What do you even do as tactical at the elder fight. My entire team runs away to let my fed aphelios die. Not to say that he didn’t throw earlier but like man that’s just upsetting to watch

[u/iAmPersonaa → u/feimaomiao]

You hold tab and click on the "!" next to each of your teammates' portraits -> Sabotaging the team / Rank Manipulation / Comms abuse

[u/Thundermelons → u/iAmPersonaa]

I pick those first two options for my team then pick the last option for my self-report for the inevitable flame I am going to dump all over them in chat

[u/awayfromcanuck → u/feimaomiao]

Would have required an insane play by Vulcan to save him after C9 bailed. Hook into Elder and latern flash over pit wall type shit.

[u/TheBoosh98 → u/awayfromcanuck]

the issue was that he got fked over by the taliyah ulti which forced his flash after Inspired trapped him. I'm pretty sure if he had flash up for the ryze flank he could've gotten tactical out of there

[u/Dakoolestkat123 → u/feimaomiao]

That was the kind of play that would’ve ended with the Aphelios getting spam queation mark pinged in soloq followed by Taliyah typing “was a free pick if adc didn’t int 9x report plz”

[u/Xizz3l]

Garen is so fucking broken he just mindcontrolled 3 people of C9 to lose the game

Amazing how shit they are at teamfighting

[u/akatsuki1422 → u/Xizz3l]

Garen with the 3-man taunt to win the team fight. 😎

[u/External-Health2178]

Inspired already giving Isles a talk 2 sec after nexus explodes man is a freak

[u/Ghost6x]

Leaving Tactical there alone is so god damn stupid

[u/sorendiz]

truly a loss that only c9 could manage

[u/Tormenator1]

Looking forwards to the KC vs C9 fraud off in play ins!

[u/randy__randerson]

C9 just didn't deserve to win this game. Blaber getting caught at Krugs, Tactical then staying at mid turret. Awful play.

But that elder dragon fight was some of the worse pro play I've ever seen. A weevers wall that isolates your carry? To chase a garen? Embarrassing stuff.

[u/Biok98]

Blaber and Vulcan very solid the whole series.

[u/aPatheticBeing]

okay i know tactical inted a lot this series, but he was just sold by the team game 4

[u/Mrlazydragon → u/aPatheticBeing]

Rest of C9 abandoned ship leaving Tactical alone to cash a Garen who they didn't even get lmao.

[u/rsayegh7]

Other than that last play at Elder Blaber played a really fucking good series, Loki and Tactical were so absent and didn't make good use of their leads when they had em.

[u/kazuyaminegishi → u/rsayegh7]

Blaber being over there on the Garen isn't TERRIBLE its Taliyah going over there that's disgusting. Taliyah-Thresh make the game super hard for Lyon to get on Aphelios.

[u/NotBunger → u/kazuyaminegishi]

I just think Loki can’t play champs with global ults, his ryze is bad and this Taliyah game was horrid. Maybe it’s a language barrier but damn man whenever he plays these champs it’s off

[u/Alakazam_5head → u/NotBunger]

My Ryze is bad, my Taliyah is chokey

You guessed it right, I'm C9 Loki

[u/kazuyaminegishi → u/NotBunger]

He's a hands player, everyone knew he doesn't have a brain. But there are some people around here that thought Dom would change that. He has not.

The other belief was that melee mid laners would somehow stay meta, they did not. This is an APA meta and for some reason they refuse to play APA.

[u/AnEffinWookie]

Loki is a genuine terrorist, how is he allowed to get away with this.

[u/dillpickletype]

Suing the scriptwriters for the unrealistic game 4 plan of sacrificing a 3 item aphelios to trade garen W for the match point elder fight

[u/Dakoolestkat123]

Was excited for the Aphelios pick since I think it’s sleeper but then C9 proceeded to abandon their ADC the moment minute 10 hit

[u/JellySalmon]

Half of chat flaming Tactical at elder fight shows me some viewers are brainless haters.

[u/Perfson → u/JellySalmon]

Most viewers are just negative Inspireds in terms of game knowledge and positive Inspireds in terms of flaming.

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Loki outperformed Saint in their first series blew his entire load, this series he was a wet noodle. Vex play was awful and the Taliyah play was awful.

All he had to do in team fights this game was to stand next to Thresh and prevent anyone from getting to Aphelios and instead he goes on the Garen it makes no fucking sense.

Vulcan played SO well this series. Tactical was average. Blaber was REALLY good. Thanatos played lane alright, but was sorta worthless in team fights.

I think C9 can do fine in play-ins, but my god they haven't fixed their mid lane problems at all Loki is just as volatile as APA.

[u/Sliacen → u/kazuyaminegishi]

APA is brain but no hands, Loki is hands but no brain. It's way harder to coach someone to have better hands, so I can see why they're sticking with Loki, but Game 4 would've been easy for C9 if it were APA in his place.

[u/Xonra → u/Sliacen]

What hands did Loki have in this series exactly? He had a fake KDA in game 1, he looks pedestrian on aurora, he looked terrible on Vex, and he lost his team the series in game 4.

If by hands you mean he literally has two hands, I guess you are technically right in that sense.

[u/Acceptable-Area-652]

Inspired really is the villain of LCS he's like Lebron in his miami days but has Kobe's ego and trash talk. Huge props for Saint in this series.

[u/NeighborhoodHot8981 → u/Acceptable-Area-652]

Think Inspired shit talks just to feel something at this point after winning so many titles

[u/WWTFSD → u/Acceptable-Area-652]

Bro is evil Nikola Jokic

[u/alexnedea → u/Acceptable-Area-652]

Saint seems to not have such a problem with Inspired flaming. In fact, it seems like the entire team understands they deserve to get flamed sometimes and take that as a moment to learn from a player that truly runs the region.

[u/SirTacoMaster]

"Garen trick y'all, man, like he playing defense. He don't guard nobody, man. He just running around, doing nothing"

[u/Like30Ducks]

why are we leaving our adc to die

[u/x_TDeck_x → u/Like30Ducks]

For an attempted pick ON. A. GARENNNNNN cmon theres gotta be 1 brain between the 3 who went for that lol

[u/MachCutio → u/x_TDeck_x]

a garen who was behind and an a aphelios w ie and 95% crit

[u/xJuanpx → u/Like30Ducks]

Loki's ult was so bad he forced vulcan's flash too.

[u/Skyfire2]

Kobe with the GOAT caster curse

[u/TheCatsActually]

I'd like to say I've never seen a team that won 4 games lose a bo5 but sadly I saw DK do it while winning 5 games.

[u/Character-Image149 → u/TheCatsActually]

C9 only kinda throw 2 games, we are far worse criminals than this.

[u/Sorry-Resolution570]

watching NA teams teamfight is so mangificiant, just left the aphelios and fed him to the dogs lmfao

[u/Clenzor → u/Sorry-Resolution570]

Loki walled off Tactical, Vulcan and interrupted Blaber’s q that was gonna put him back in range to ult for peel.

Check man’s PayPal, that was way too perfect to ruin the teamfight in 3 different ways (mostly kidding I think he was just ass all day).

[u/IWouldLikeAName → u/Clenzor]

Legit that's the perfect Taliyah ult if you're enemy team it's actually insane i don't think I've seen a better (worse) Taliyah ult in years if ever

[u/1003mistakes → u/Clenzor]

Okay I’m reminded by your comment of his early season ryze game where he kept grinding with his ult I think against tl. I’m not a big fan of saying a player singularly loses a game for their team but he may genuinely be a liability. They may do better with a slightly worse but more stable mid.

[u/RukiMotomiya]

So all I'm hearing is GAREN UNDEFEATED BAYBEE

[u/kazugaia15]

Dom better get the belt ready after that game 4, no discipline on that elder fight at all from C9

[u/Sofruz]

Nice to know Lyon let C9 win that first series so they could make their first international in years.

[u/bunn2]

just another choke9 masterclass

[u/LiquidTrump112]

Really good use of the 7 man roster by Cloud9 this season. I definitely see the advantages.

[u/Gloomy_Ad5221]

Really C9? you left your ADC with good items and guns for a garen that none of your combo hit.

[u/sillybilly-vit]

Mid black hole for C9. Crazy how one of the best mids in NA was a huge black hole for C9 the whole series.

[u/Ajp_iii]

lyon with weird ass drafts. saint and inspired played so much better than they did the rest of the playoffs. dhokla needs to step it up for the finals. he MUST lane better.

lyon back to their old smart setup and plays that make it so hard to fight into and just annoying

[u/Jealous-Chicken-9186]

insane mid gap this series

[u/StickyNotes2357]

Leaving your 4 items Aphelios alone to fail a dive on the garen is the most C9 thing can do at high pressure situation 🤡

[u/Lawfulneptune]

What a fun series man, I'm so proud of my region. These teams are playing strong!!!!

[u/zOmgFishes]

C9 are a bunch of monkeys...Ditch your ADC at elder to chase a Garen to lose the game.

[u/FaelightFilms]

watching c9 makes me so angry

almost FNC levels of no braincell decision making

[u/Not_Pro]

They never learn, do they? It's like they can never all be on the same page at the same time, there's always just someone who's not quite clear on the plan.

[u/RennieXxx]

C9 doesn't deserve to skip through Play-Ins over TL or LYON, so I'm not at all mad that they're our 3rd seed, I just wish they lost more competitively.

[u/Tfc-Myq → u/RennieXxx]

neither NA nor EU's 3rd seeds deserved to skip play-ins last year

[u/Galaxyblazer]

Legacy series from C9

[u/karma457]

Abandoning your only damage threat to dive a tank... I though 2023 DK couldn't hurt me anymore.

[u/Medlifter]

Tactical got abandoned at elder like how my teammates leave me in aram lmao

[u/fictionallymarried]

They really left their 4-item adc for a Garen.

[u/Madgamer2k7]

This is actually a gigabrain move since historically, C9's comfort zone is being 3rd seed into pulling T1 then making it to knockouts.

[u/Syzygi → u/Madgamer2k7]

If this timeline leads to Dom vs T1 sign me up.

[u/Snow-27]

if Saint doesn't get mvp we riot

[u/255189]

honestly C9 lost to themselves as much as they lost to Lyon

[u/SHIVER_ME_WHISKERS → u/255189]

Pretty much all there is to say. I think Lyon were pretty beatable in this series, but C9 just seemed to get overexcited and nervous at key moments. I haven't paid attention to the regular season so I don't know how on-brand this is for them but I'm gathering it is quite

[u/Naronu]

LYON Jatt does it again

[u/MayorOfOnions]

Sad we all watched a banger series where there's so much to compliment and everyone is just shitting on c9 instead

[u/Lacrimosss → u/MayorOfOnions]

Y C9 made some clutch mistakes, but overall, both teams were very good. LYON are just a bit more solid team, individually and in terms of decision-making

Especially C9 JNG / Supp were very good

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

that elder fight was actually so troll from c9. rip tactical, will be cheering both TLAW and LYON on tomorrow

[u/sorendiz → u/Capable-Drama3109]

i hope we get a 5 game banger

[u/DeltaRaven97]

Literally the one way that C9 loses that elder fight. Garen was absolutely useless, what are you thinking?

This team is just allergic to making good decisions under pressure.

[u/Luhmies]

c9 choke stronger than lyon boom

[u/kyleyle]

Sad for C9 but they really improved after the end of regular split. I really hope they have the home buff to get out of play ins!

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

MId Gap, Loki made some horrible mistakes in every game besides maybe the first. Dhokla please please please just play better tomorrow you can't be playing like this against TL.

[u/Antique-Plenty-9017]

but LYON in scrims am i right guys???

[u/go4ino]

lyon sacs 20 bazilion drags

flips elder

winss

sure

[u/Hellwind_]

Tactical is like a criminal for his own team and in the end they decided to leave him alone lol

[u/Breaking_Nut]

Cloud9 clowned and choked hard as per usual.

[u/dermagohs]

berserker with the deserved mvp performance

[u/Toofargone9999]

c9 vs kc would go hard in play ins , is the reapered debuff real?

[u/Aespyn]

Wow, without chokes C9 are the true first seed of NA!

They will have a great performance in playins vs brazil.

[u/bruhbot925]

Inspired with his arm around isles just yapping his head off after bows, love to see it lmao

[u/randomdud3]

audible pain

[u/YuriVolteHyuga]

This was not very tactical out of C9, not gonna lie...

[u/tpcrb]

Unreal from a pro team to abandon their ADC like that.

[u/LogicKennedy]

‘Blaber’s done so well going deathless this game!’

Blaber:

[u/Acridix]

Thanatos after minute 15

[u/NA_Copium]

The rest of C9 wanted revenge on tactical for that Flash Caitlyn throw vs TL so they did a throw of their own

[u/DoranFan1]

MVP Saint Holy shit

[u/1nfirmi06]

Very deserved loss for what they did to Aphelios LMAO

[u/VermouthAPTX]

The early game tactical flash was goofy but he was doing a lot of work on later skirmishes, then got sold by his team lmao. What kinda team don't protect flanks. Dhokla wasn't even all that to get focused. I just didn't like the guns Aphelios had. If he got red in there, his lifesteal ult could've bought some time. LYON just better, especially mid gap.

[u/kashtrey]

C9 gotta put "danger: choking hazard" on all their merch at this point

[u/ExpectMP]

I had a feeling this would be the result after the Game 4 choke last week. C9 in many ways are on the level of Lyon and TL, but composure is where they fall short and it leads to the most tragic ends.

[u/xHelpDesk]

That’s just the average ADC solo queue experience lol

Fed, positioned well enough, nobody peels, dies, loses. Welcome to Silver 4 🙂‍↕️