"C9, what the hell are you doing?"

Electro522·Jul 1, 2017·21 votes·1,845 views

"What is this comp? You're notorious for having a weak early game, yet draft a balls to the wall early pressure comp, while also giving away Sven's Lee in the SECOND phase! What is this?!?"

"Holy hell, you're winning all lanes."

"Holy hell, you're winning teamfights."

"HOLY HELL CONTRACTZ!!!" "HOLY HELL RAY!!!"

"You won! You actually won! WITH A CHEESE COMP AGAINST TSM!!! I am so sorry I ever doubted you."

Basically me throughout that entire game. It was fantastic. Awesome performance, C9, just....awesome!

25 Comments

Inting PillowJul 1, 201711 votes

Rumble with Fervor is just too strong tbh

ProtestantCaesarJul 1, 201713 votes

100% winrate at Worlds, too.

Electro522Jul 1, 20173 votes

Hey, we've all done it havent we?

ChompyWulfJul 1, 20174 votes

Jensen showed Bjerg how to play an ADC mid. Contactz was crazy. Ray showed Hauntzer is a weak link. Surprising but I love it.

Electro522Jul 1, 20171 votes

I wouldn't say that Hauntzer is a weak link. Remember, Ray got bullied pretty damn hard in game 2.

ChompyWulfJul 1, 20171 votes

There was a good bit of back and forth bullying, and a lot of pressure onto Ray was from ganks. He went on to a great KDA and teamwork while Hauntzer really accomplished nothing. Hauntzer is a weak link.

Inting PillowJul 1, 20171 votes

Game one if Hauntzer hadn't engaged and forced 3 of them to flash would have had a very different ending. TSM won directly as a result of Hauntzer stopping a flank and setting up Bjerg to use Shockwave.

ChompyWulfJul 1, 20171 votes

One play in a game where he was carried. Hauntzer was bullied hard, lost his lane pretty bad, and his team put in a good bit of work pressuring C9 and allowing Hauntzer to farm up mid game before finally he was able to be helpful ulting for teamfights. That game was Bjerg carrying, Hauntzer is still a weak link.

Inting PillowJul 1, 20171 votes

Hauntzer isn't a weak link, this series he wasn't very good in lane but he was ganked quite a bit. At least he isn't frontlining as Jhin and dying with both sums up.

ChompyWulfJul 1, 20171 votes

Just because someone else made mistakes on his team doesn't mean he isn't a weak link. Unless he really turns it up against IMT, Flame and Xmithie will be a bigger nightmare than Ray and Contractz.

Inting PillowJul 1, 20171 votes

He isn't consistently weak, he does what he's supposed to in teamfights, he doesn't lose lane every game, he isn't a weak link, and if he is, it's not him being noticeably weak. I think he's stepped up for TSM vs IMT tho

YfrappefortJul 1, 20172 votes

Ray really showed up big time in this series (aside from the mastery derp). Huge TP flank and ultimate on Jarvan in game 2 and very good ultimates on Rumble in game 3.

This is huge for his confidence, knowing that Impact does not have to win it all.

KazaLyn ShaoJul 1, 20171 votes

You can always count on Sven cucking, so if you choose a comp where you can capitalize on his garbage play you'll win every time.

BigBellBruteJul 1, 20171 votes

What is C9 doing? Ensuring that TSM won't pass Immortals for first place this week even if TSM wins tomorrow. Well that is unless IMt also loses to P1 Sunday.

ChompyWulfJul 1, 20172 votes

If TSMs top and bot lanes play like that, and IMT stays on point like they have, no way IMT loses tomorrow.

ReySolomonJul 1, 20171 votes

Everytime I watched TSM fight another NA team they always win but this time was different and nice to see something new.

Smart KittyJul 1, 20171 votes

I was just as doubtful.

"Man, since Ray won in the 2nd game, they're gonna put him in the third game instead of impact!"

Ray starts 3rd game, Sven gets Lee sin again as well as other TSM members getting comfort picks, Nunu jg for Contractz. Was practically raging at my screen.

Then C9 proceeds to objectively demolish TSM.

BigBellBruteJul 1, 20171 votes

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I was just as doubtful.

"Man, since Ray won in the 2nd game, they're gonna put him in the third game instead of impact!"

Ray starts 3rd game, Sven gets Lee sin again as well as other TSM members getting comfort picks, Nunu jg for Contractz. Was practically raging at my screen.

Then C9 proceeds to objectively demolish TSM.

Why would you rage at Nunu? It dumpsters Lee Sin. It doesn't have much in the way of killing lee Sin early. But Lee Sin can't do anything to Nunu and Nunu can just take his buffs at will. So as long as the laners communicate as far as the opposition being out of lane, Nunu can just starve Lee Sin out. It's like having an extra smite that has a shorter cool down than smite.

Electro522Jul 1, 20171 votes

You have to remember that Nunu is rarely ever played, so the number of people that know that Nunu counters Lee, especially in a competitive environment, is bery low.

I certainly didnt know of the Nunu counter until after that game.

Smart KittyJul 1, 20171 votes

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Why would you rage at Nunu? It dumpsters Lee Sin. It doesn't have much in the way of killing lee Sin early. But Lee Sin can't do anything to Nunu and Nunu can just take his buffs at will. So as long as the laners communicate as far as the opposition being out of lane, Nunu can just starve Lee Sin out. It's like having an extra smite that has a shorter cool down than smite.

For starters I didn't know Nunu countered Lee Sin , and I doubt I'm the only one. Also, because everytime I've seen Nunu in LCS he gets destroyed. I also never really though Nunu was that good of a champ. I haven't played the game in a couple months, so idk if he's been buffed or changed lately, but the last time I played people were talking about how useless he was due to his lack of dmg, mobility, and reliable cc. I knew about him being a good counter jungler, but I didn't really see that as enough of a means to pick him, espeically if you were going to hand Lee Sin over to Sven, who's probably the best Lee Sin in NA if not in LCS as a whole. I knew Nunu would be difficult for Lee Sin to kill, but it's not like I expected the junglers prioritize killing each other, over other members of each team anyway.

BigBellBruteJul 1, 20171 votes

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For starters I didn't know Nunu countered Lee Sin , and I doubt I'm the only one. Also, because everytime I've seen Nunu in LCS he gets destroyed. I also never really though Nunu was that good of a champ. I haven't played the game in a couple months, so idk if he's been buffed or changed lately, but the last time I played people were talking about how useless he was due to his lack of dmg, mobility, and reliable cc. I knew about him being a good counter jungler, but I didn't really see that as enough of a means to pick him, espeically if you were going to hand Lee Sin over to Sven, who's probably the best Lee Sin in NA if not in LCS as a whole. I knew Nunu would be difficult for Lee Sin to kill, but it's not like I expected the junglers prioritize killing each other, over other members of each team anyway.

Ahhh ok. Yeah, Nunu is definitely situational. And if the other team's bot lane shows up when you're stealing blue, the jig is up. Nunu isn't the first jungler (or even 20th) if I needed damage in the team comp. But if you set him up right, he can pretty much shield the team from even the damage from an Oriana ult once he has the right items. Yesterday's game did not get to the point where Nunu would have been able to do that yet. So we didn't get to see it.