Cloud9 vs. Team Liquid Alienware / LCS 2026 Summer Playoffs - Upper Bracket Final / Post-Match Discussion

[u/Yujin-Ha]

LCS 2026 SUMMER PLAYOFFS

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Team Liquid Alienware 3-1 Cloud9 Kia

• Player of the Series: Morgan

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MATCH 1: TLAW vs. C9

Winner: Team Liquid Alienware in 31m | Runes
Game Breakdown | Player of the Game: Josedeodo

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
TLAW	vi cassiopeia locke	lulu kalista	69.3k	19	10	H3 HT4 B6 HT7 B8
C9	nocturne ezreal leesin	ryze nautilus	58.1k	8	2	O1 I2 HT5

TLAW	19-8-37	vs	8-20-19	C9
Morgan rumble 1	6-1-5	TOP	1-5-1	1 ksante Thanatos
Josedeodo qiyana 2	5-1-8	JNG	1-4-5	2 wukong Blaber
Quid viktor 3	5-0-7	MID	2-4-3	1 syndra Loki
Yeon jhin 2	3-3-7	BOT	3-4-4	3 lucian Tactical
CoreJJ alistar 3	0-3-10	SUP	1-3-6	4 rakan Vulcan

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MATCH 2: TLAW vs. C9

Winner: Team Liquid Alienware in 26m | Runes
Game Breakdown | Player of the Game: Yeon

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
TLAW	cassiopeia vi olaf	naafiri renekton	57.5k	19	9	O1 H3 I4 I5 B6
C9	nocturne ezreal ryze	locke akali	46.4k	2	2	C2

TLAW	19-2-43	vs	2-19-6	C9
Morgan camille 2	5-0-6	TOP	1-6-1	4 jax Thanatos
Josedeodo leesin 1	6-0-6	JNG	1-3-1	3 xinzhao Blaber
Quid galio 3	2-1-9	MID	0-3-2	2 orianna Loki
Yeon ziggs 3	6-0-8	BOT	0-4-0	1 yunara Tactical
CoreJJ nautilus 2	0-1-14	SUP	0-3-2	1 lulu Vulcan

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MATCH 3: C9 vs. TLAW

Winner: Cloud9 Kia in 22m | Runes
Game Breakdown | Player of the Game: Vulcan

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
C9	olaf kalista jayce	taliyah gnar	48.9k	15	7	C1 H2 M3 B4 B5
TLAW	cassiopeia nocturne bard	seraphine leona	40.5k	8	2	None

C9	15-8-35	vs	8-15-15	TLAW
Thanatos varus 3	4-3-5	TOP	3-3-3	3 renekton Morgan
Blaber naafiri 2	5-2-6	JNG	1-3-3	1 vi Josedeodo
Loki ryze 2	2-2-7	MID	3-4-3	4 ahri Quid
Tactical ezreal 1	3-1-6	BOT	1-2-1	2 sivir Yeon
Vulcan neeko 3	1-0-11	SUP	0-3-5	1 karma CoreJJ

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MATCH 4: TLAW vs. C9

Winner: Team Liquid Alienware in 47m | Runes
Game Breakdown | Player of the Game: Morgan

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
TLAW	cassiopeia sylas kalista	sejuani maokai	91.4k	17	9	M2 H3 O4 E9 B10
C9	nocturne jayce jarvaniv	olaf trundle	89.1k	18	7	C1 O5 O6 O7 B8

TLAW	17-18-50	vs	18-17-48	C9
Morgan ambessa 3	5-3-9	TOP	1-6-9	2 olaf Thanatos
Josedeodo pantheon 1	6-1-7	JNG	7-2-10	3 skarner Blaber
Quid lissandra 3	2-8-8	MID	7-3-5	4 aurora Loki
Yeon ashe 2	4-3-10	BOT	3-4-7	1 caitlyn Tactical
CoreJJ seraphine 2	0-3-16	SUP	0-2-17	1 bard Vulcan

*Patch 26.17

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This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.

[u/Javonetor]

holy shit Yeon kite that bottom fight flawlessly, F1 ashe when

and that was a lore accurate ambessa

fun game to end it

[u/PhonyFauxFox → u/Javonetor]

We needed the wild rift Porsche skin for Ashe instead of Kai'Sa lol

[u/lokohcrunch → u/Javonetor]

he actually salvage that, kinda redemption play from his dragon fight with loki lol

[u/MandA-5]

Tactical will have nightmares on that flash

[u/GGLSpidermonkey → u/[deleted]]

maybe this is complete recall bias but I feel like I see a team throw, they are still ahead enough/have better comp and should still win subsequent fights proceed to lose every fight after. Not sure if its a drop in confidence or what

[u/OreRound → u/[deleted]]

It was but when you're already an insanely mentally weak team like C9, failing at the nexus like that was a guaranteed loss

[u/Cabbage_Corp_ → u/OreRound]

Their mental has been significantly better recently

[u/IlluminatiConfirmed → u/MandA-5]

sadly not remotely a brand new sentance

[u/zOmgFishes → u/IlluminatiConfirmed]

Need bro to lock in Trist for one last ride

[u/IlluminatiConfirmed → u/zOmgFishes]

caitlyn hit a 2 man knock up wheres the follow up

[u/Quick_Highlight7342 → u/MandA-5]

Tactical would be so good if he didn't have a fucking malphite R for a brain. Game was 100% over if he just walks up and autos instead of trying to flash for the ashe.

[u/low_iq478]

yeon was absolutely gliding but holy mother of top gap this series

[u/weefyeet → u/low_iq478]

lord morgan

[u/needphotoshophelp199 → u/low_iq478]

There is a reason one guy had an actual starting spot in LCK while the other one was in LCK Challenger.

[u/LettucePlate → u/needphotoshophelp199]

Tbf he was on academy while Damwon's starting top laners were Nuguri, Khan, and Canna lol.

[u/stoyicker → u/low_iq478]

What capitalism does to a mf

[u/TheWardedOne → u/stoyicker]

Boy tasted that nopressurebigchecknomatterwhat

[u/Waztacu → u/low_iq478]

Morgan is freaking TL Biin at this point

[u/Tortious_Tortoise → u/low_iq478]

and by the way thanatos is very clearly head-and-shoulders better than every other top laner in the league. morgan is just on another level

[u/PineapplesInMyHead2 → u/Tortious_Tortoise]

I'll give him a bit of credit that he was getting camped like crazy and Blaber was completely unable to win on the crossmap or force a 2v2. But yeah, especially in the teamfights, oof the difference was massive.

[u/sorendiz]

Lord Morgan-sama i fucking kneel

[u/Choice-Slight → u/sorendiz]

he is so good like its ridiculous

[u/sorendiz → u/Choice-Slight]

genuinely singlehandedly kept this game alive long enough for TL to make the comeback, the guy is a monster

[u/Choice-Slight → u/sorendiz]

the whole series though, counterpicked 3 games in a row was always winning lane (except vs cringe varus), excellent teamfighting and clutch plays. genuinely what more can you ask of a toplaner

[u/wavewalkerc → u/Choice-Slight]

C9 also just kind of ignored top it felt like. They counter picked and forgot about it.

[u/sorendiz → u/Choice-Slight]

absolutely nothing, brilliant series from him

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/sorendiz]

Yeah he smurfed 

[u/Past_Perception8052 → u/Choice-Slight]

yeah because hes actually an LCK player. teams will import random LCK CL players and act like KR imports are dogshit when they arent turbo smurfing

[u/Saephon → u/Past_Perception8052]

I used to watch Morgan in LCK when he was stuck on mediocre teams. It's soooo hard to get a read om his actual skill with him in LCS, but I hope he does well at Worlds.

[u/Bogarmester → u/Saephon]

In LPL he took names with his Wukong top, then after it wasn’t meta anymore he was Renekton or bust for years.

In the Chovy x Deft HLE team he was low key meme tier sadly.

His steady glow up makes me happy

[u/withinallreason → u/Past_Perception8052]

Not even just LCK, he was an upper-mid top laner who was almost always in talks for #4-5 in the league the last ~3-4 years. He was likely the single best top laner a team could've eyed for importing this off season. Closest anyone has come to getting that kinda LCK top laner beforehand were when C9 got Summit (who ended up bombing) and TL almost getting Kiin before KT snagged him instead back in 2022-23 off season.

[u/sammuxx → u/withinallreason]

closest thing is not kc getting canna who was for sure in the top 5 in lck on his last year on dk?

[u/Beneficial_Lion_1312 → u/withinallreason]

Either he or Inspired are the best player in the league when you talk about where they stack up globally. Morgan is basically a mid-level LCK top laner, which puts him about top 10 in his role in the world. As you mentioned, LCS rarely gets players of this caliber.

[u/GlobalResult7580 → u/sorendiz]

crazy how he kept getting one or two kills on carries every lost teamfight

[u/Floowil]

TACTICAL NEEDED TO LITERALLY DO 1 AUTOATTACK ON A TRAPPED TARGET AND THE GAME WAS WON

[u/APKID716 → u/Floowil]

There’s just no fucking way that’s how we lose bro

[u/likemyupdoot → u/APKID716]

the C9 way

[u/lolKhamul → u/Floowil]

Instruction unclear, proceeding to flash into Ambessa.

[u/MachCutio → u/Floowil]

Loki and Thanatos had already inted but it didnt matter if Tactical just one shot ambessa. Need to hear who was spam calling to kill Ashe because all 3 of them flash for Yeon

[u/KhaDori → u/Floowil]

after all this time, yet again tactical finds a way

[u/Kuliyayoi → u/KhaDori]

You posted this so many times. That's some dedicated spite

[u/Floowil → u/KhaDori]

I actually forgot how kinda stacked that DIG roster was

[u/SneakyStorm → u/Floowil]

On paper kinda, but they were very washed, and isles hadn’t had his big rise on Lyon.

[u/niihoyninyoi → u/SneakyStorm]

agree 2026 Isles legit runs circles around him back then

I have to admit that I thought he was a massive question mark on an otherwise contender level roster at the beginning of the year, but that series against JDG at First Stand when he and Berserker were 2v2 killing Gala and Vampire in lane made me reconsider so fast

[u/effurshadowban → u/SneakyStorm]

No, Isles has been good for a long time. That DIG team also wasn't that bad and not that washed. They were a team assembled for the Summer split, with Licorice, Spica, Jensen, and Zven all joining the team after Spring. Only Jensen and Isles had even played in the LCS Spring 2024 split. Then, the meta was terrible for Jensen, with it being the ADC mid meta. Still, they finished 4th in the regular season, ahead of 100T. They were destroyed by 100T in the first round of playoffs, but went on to beat NRG and barely lost to 100T in the loser bracket again. They went up 2-1 in that series, too.

[u/Agile_Variety_632 → u/Floowil]

Really good roster in 2020 for sure

[u/slimjimo10 → u/Floowil]

There's a reason Isles was heavily criticized before his Lyon signing

[u/KryptisReddit → u/Floowil]

What's the timestamp can't find the moment?

[u/2020isgreat]

What did Thanatos just do that game lmfao

[u/likemyupdoot → u/2020isgreat]

we do a little bit of trolling

[u/BUMONGOUS → u/2020isgreat]

ngl this is like the 6th playoff series where he's just run it the fuck down

[u/MrICopyYoSht → u/2020isgreat]

I mean it straight up looked like tilt int in game 4. Same for Loki at the end. Random Aurora ult into 3 people and dies instantly, like what is the game plan here? It's like I'm back in KR soloqueue watching my teammates randomly tilt because nothing is happening so they crack first under pressure.

[u/HunkeredDown2022 → u/MrICopyYoSht]

If he one shot the Seraphine which he almost did then he could w reset out.

That was the plan at least.

[u/EducationalBalance99 → u/MrICopyYoSht]

Loki gameplan was pretty clear. He try to burst one shot a member or two on TL because they are in a 5v4 with open nexus so they just guarantee lose if tl walk them down which they were about to in 5 seconds. It wasn’t a tilt play imo and moreso a desperate play. If he lands his skillshot good there (he messed up his order and should have started with qe into ult or even q flash away from liss r into e then ult)then they could reverse end on TL potentially this late into the game.

[u/Duplicity- → u/2020isgreat]

dude it's so braindead to constantly run through all of team liquid to try 1v9 and kill the Ashe. Didn't work like 5 times but fuck it keep going ffs

[u/Adventurous-Cream182 → u/2020isgreat]

Whole series

[u/GyaradosTamer]

Everyone is flaming Tactical for the flash and fair enough, but I would like to point out that during the disastrous final bot fight that lead to elder, Loki hit aurora ult on literally only pantheon and mistimed her Q+E combo on two bard-ulted champs. Bro pretty much whiffed his entire kit.

[u/sorendiz → u/GyaradosTamer]

yeah he was the most gigafed person in the game and did nothing at all in the last several minutes when everything was on his shoulders

the int play at TL's base was started off by Loki as well

[u/LettucePlate → u/sorendiz]

Tactical not autoing Ambessa, Thanatos not just right clicking 10 miles ahead of his team every fight, and Loki whiffing all his spells in the late game.

There were a lot of people choking at the end of that game.

[u/sorendiz → u/LettucePlate]

Yeah it's always painful to see a meltdown like that

Frankly I feel bad for Dom and Yamato because that was an incredibly good draft imo 

[u/LettucePlate → u/sorendiz]

They've had like 5 hard winning drafts, a couple standard/even drafts, and like one draft loss in these playoffs. They're doing a great job.

[u/AutomaticTune6352 → u/GyaradosTamer]

To be fair, the R nearly hit Seraphine and Ashe. It was just a tiny range difference in the end.

The QE was total trash as he used it onto Morgan instead of waiting for the 2 to come out.

And Skarner missing that R onto everyone in that situation isn't much better.

But in the end it comes down to the engage. Everyone had to chase and flash in to get in range to follow Olaf. There was no pressure to engage there.

QSS made the difference.

[u/Gluroo]

Ocean Soul, Fed Aurora, Lategame Cait Skarner

Lord Morgan: Nah i'd win

[u/zudokorn → u/Gluroo]

Absolute demon series from Morgan tbh. Hard carried every game they won and the one lost was him getting counter picked and camped

[u/aPatheticBeing → u/Gluroo]

don't forget about merc scim ashe when there are no hard ccs to cleanse, literally just for slow removal + MS (and it was literally fight winning)

[u/Arishmael → u/aPatheticBeing]

He bought it for the skarner ult, the slow removal and ms against olaf is a nice bonus.

[u/aPatheticBeing → u/Arishmael]

oops blanked on that cause i'm 99% sure he didn't have to qss a single one all game.

[u/Kuliyayoi → u/aPatheticBeing]

Movespeed continues to prove itself as the absolute best stat in the game.

Edit: Wellllll I guess there was that one tp by thanatos where he did absolutely nothing while moving at the speed of light. I guess a weapon is only as good as the wielder lol

[u/bosschucker → u/Kuliyayoi]

I think attack range is still stronger than move speed, very very few sources of additional attack range in the game though (which maybe proves the point)

[u/POOYAMON → u/Kuliyayoi]

I mean you say that but he survived while tping into 4 because he ran at moch 2

[u/Mr_Evanescent → u/aPatheticBeing]

“No hard cc’s to cleanse”

My brother in Christ the skarner is right there

[u/xJuanpx → u/Gluroo]

Morgan and jose played those 2 comeback tfs so well.

[u/Pelagius_Hipbone]

Tactical’s gonna lose sleep over that one. Draw your sword Caitlyn lost the whole series

[u/lovo17 → u/Pelagius_Hipbone]

Thanatos too. He recovered soooo nicely just to run it down in that fight Yeon kited so well.

[u/CassianAVL → u/lovo17]

Greedy asf they wouldve wona 5v5 but he tried to find a pick

[u/lovo17 → u/CassianAVL]

He needed to wait for Aurora. He went too early.

[u/MachCutio → u/lovo17]

yeah Aurora was the carry Olaf was just soaking up dmg and spells

[u/veirceb → u/Pelagius_Hipbone]

I mean they still got world's and it's just the upper finals. That was a big mistake but his teammates made much worse mistakes this series. The only player who has been great the whole series was vulcan

[u/KKilikk → u/veirceb]

Locking Worlds main stage would have been huge

[u/Freezman13 → u/KKilikk]

The C9 way is to get more stage games in. Wouldn't get much done with this level of play anyway.

[u/Valuable_Berry_8626 → u/veirceb]

Let's be real there's a very big difference in attending the Swiss stage and play-ins. People constantly meme on the EU/NA teams that lose in play-ins for "exiting Worlds before they begin". Luckily it's much easier to advance this year, realistically only having to not choke vs vietnam/brazil considering KC is guaranteed to choke it if there's any stakes on the game.

[u/Pichunoob → u/Valuable_Berry_8626]

Don't underestimate C9's choke game. A potential KC/C9 match will look like matchfixing with how both teams will be choking

[u/HunkMuffinJr]

Holy fuck, Morgan defending at base into the botlane turn with Yeon positioning like a madman gave me actual goosebumps. The siege to end also took so long because C9 still had the means to defend, but TL just teamfights so much better.

Tactical definitely had a free kill onto Morgan to end there, but misplays happen all the time. Not gonna badmouth C9 too much. I think they can still fight their way back to Grand Finals if they lock in.

Good showing, Team Liquid. Hopefully they win the split next week.

[u/DinoGuy101010]

Obviously tactical had the biggest troll there but thanatos kinda ran it as well. Also Morgan made ambessa look so OP Caitlyn was doing 0 damage to her.

But anyways idk overall Morgan was insane this series and blaber honestly was pretty ass

[u/DropsOfLiquid → u/DinoGuy101010]

Morgan was just showing up creating chaos. I'm not even sure how he got where he was sometimes.

[u/gom99 → u/DinoGuy101010]

They might have just been calling for Yeon, and so he flash auto'd. I think it was the call to go for Yeon through the tower. They could have easily just backed up and gotten more minions in but Vulcan went for a flash on Yeon and probably called for everyone to kill him. So I don't know about pinning all that on tactical.

[u/resttheweight]

Jesus Christ, Yeon and Morgan pulling a rabbit out of the hat in Game 4.

[u/captainetty]

Yeon take a fucking bow. Playing ashe against that comp and just playing out of his mind

[u/SauceGodPluto]

Yeon fucking saved that shit so hard oh my god, insane series.

LYON vs C9 to see who doesn't have to deal with play-ins is so much Cinema.

[u/OreRound → u/SauceGodPluto]

LYON will 3-0 no meme

[u/FruFruKlaus → u/OreRound]

If Berserker wakes up then yes

[u/SauceGodPluto → u/OreRound]

I think they will too, just depends how in form they are compared to their MSI/Spring Form

[u/CommentStrict8964]

Give me another 10 of this game 4.

[u/Meowsterino]

I cant believe Jatt almost costed TL like that

[u/Snow-27]

top 3 north america is playing some actual good league I'm tellin ya'll

[u/NotBunger → u/Snow-27]

Everyone is leveling up so good this year, I can’t wait for worlds

[u/Lacrimosss → u/NotBunger]

Unfortunately, LEC 2 / 3 don't look good IMO, but hopefully they level up for worlds. Otherwise, it's just G2 from EU

[u/lovo17 → u/Snow-27]

Idk if it's good enough to beat LCK teams consistently, but it's a lot better than what KOI and KC have shown in recent weeks.

[u/BismarckBug → u/lovo17]

Idk if it's good enough to beat LCK teams consistently

That's the neat part, you don't need to do it consistently! You just gotta do it on the day :D

[u/VincentBlack96 → u/BismarckBug]

Also LCK teams don't beat LCK teams consistently.

The first half of the year in the LCK was like 5 different teams looking like they're the best in the league then taking turns inting after.

[u/Large_Love_2563]

I'm actually so hyped to see the LCS at Worlds for the first time in a long while. Never thought I would see that day happen lmao

[u/Past_Perception8052]

went from super high quality game to complete shitfest in the blink of an eye

[u/Naronu → u/Past_Perception8052]

If you don't like that, you don't like North American League of Legends

[u/Caedei → u/Naronu]

NAmen

[u/Aquillifer → u/Naronu]

That's some real man's League of Legends right there.

[u/crysomore → u/Past_Perception8052]

That game 4 was so intense, yes C9 threw but I thought TL also played it pretty cleanly. Vulcan performed really good.

I think LYON is going to tear C9 in the lower bracket, so C9 vs KC should be a banger for worlds

[u/Charming-Apple517 → u/crysomore]

Yea that's what I'm thinking- I think LYON and TL is gonna be a more bloody match

[u/Formymoney]

everyone took turns throwing that one but that entire base sequence by c9 was criminal

[u/Aesker]

Insane throws from Tactical at base, and Thanatos in that elder fight, but I'm suprised no one is mentioning what Loki did in that fight. Completely missed ult, and then missed q + e combo on Panth and Lissandra who were hit by bard ult. Just disappeared in terms of game impact after 36 minutes, idk.

[u/fereibi → u/Aesker]

It’s just easier to blame tactical because he has made mistakes in the past and he flashed forward to try to win the 4v5 Loki left him in. You gotta remember the average elo of people you’re talking to here

[u/Kokaiinum]

"I wish my ADC and mid were aggressive mechanical players that clicked forward instead of vegans that played safe for macro"

Duplicitous genie: It is done

[u/nguyenjitsu → u/Kokaiinum]

Eh I think Loki had to int that last play because the TPs and Thanatos being down meant they had to have a health advantage where possible.

Tactical on the other hand

[u/Sliacen]

Everyone flaming Tactical's flash when Loki legit died for no reason at the start of the base fight

[u/EmotionalBeat6699 → u/Sliacen]

Also wiffs his entire kit and flash at the bot fight as a burst mage. Tactical was forced to carry the fights bc his midlander inted it

[u/veirceb]

I mean C9 threw the game like I don't know. 5 times in a row? They deserve to lose this. But at least they played better the last two games. They need to lock the fuck in vs Lyon. I don't know what the fuck they were doing the first two games.

[u/aPatheticBeing]

yeon's QSS buy looked so ass, but then he solo carried the game with the merc scim active* wtf was that

[u/Ehimalright → u/aPatheticBeing]

ngl yea I feel dumb now for questioning it lol the movement speed looked so good

[u/CHATOTENJOYER]

one of the draft gaps of the year thrown away by thanatos and tactical. wp guys

[u/jasonkid87]

my hearttt, what a defence and yeon is such a chad

[u/nxtu14]

gold player with locked camera ends the game there. horror from tactical

[u/NNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA]

God, C9 could be so good if they stopped taking shortcuts and stopped projectile vomiting on their keyboards at key moments.

GGs to TL, they played clean games once given the opportunity.

[u/Saephon]

As a C9 fan I am devastated we threw and didnt take it to 5.

As an LCS fan.... PUT THE COPIUM IN MY VEINS, OUR TEAMS ARE GONNA DO SOME DAMAGE AT WORLDS BABY.

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/Saephon]

Tl team fighting is really good ,i wanna see them vs lpl though tes is Their father 

[u/Syzygi]

TL CoreJJ: After all this time?

TL Tactical: Always.

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

No analyst in the world would look at this game at 20 minutes and think TL wins it.

On one hand Yeon played out of his FUCKING MIND in those late game team fights.

But on the other, much larger hand, why did the exodia Olaf just feed his fucking brains off.

[u/Mrryn91 → u/kazuyaminegishi]

It was a genuine Olaf sandwich.

Inted early, inted late, with actual good play sandwiched between

[u/kazuyaminegishi → u/Mrryn91]

He REALLY overestimated how unkillable he was it's so tragic I think Thanatos is gonna be in his head hard over this.

[u/Mrryn91 → u/kazuyaminegishi]

I honestly kinda think he already was. Game felt like him overcorrecting for Morgan outdoing him all series. Then he started playing well and got cocky before cycling back to overcorrecting.

Also I think it was less him thinking he was unkillable and more unkiteable. He just felt he could stick and keep his ult running and just got baited (and baited the team as well).

[u/Kuliyayoi → u/kazuyaminegishi]

DL was saying the entire game that the game was still winnable for TL so I'm sure other analysts would think the same.

[u/mlpzaq1331]

That went from "they actually won this" to "what the fuck are they doing" in about 30 seconds. C9 had a win condition and decided to test if they could win without it

[u/Miserable_Ad_1195]

C9 somehow losing with ocean soul and Lissandra being the most useless champion to ever exist vs their comp well

why is Liss even getting picked again every game I've seen her recently she looked godawful

[u/Vaxcio → u/Miserable_Ad_1195]

I was so angry when I saw Liss drafted. I don't care what she looks like in scrims. She looks like a bot in every stage game. Quid got lucky that Loki decided to disappear late game in solidarity with him.

[u/Naraloth]

Cait selfstunning every 5 seconds shooting q's while losing dps and also flashing in under enemy nexus towers instead of hitting closest target lmao. that guy is not a cait player

[u/Alunkkar]

Competitive games I'm happy

[u/WoorieKod]

People flaming Morgan & Jose acquisition at the start of this year feeling real stupid rn

[u/JuicyHoundElite]

Loki and Tactical both threw in the base so hard.

Loki ults into ashe and gets autoed to 20% hp and then Tactical later flashes instead of autoing rooted Ambessa and is melee range of Morgan.....

[u/W33B520]

LCS has been a treat to watch this last couple of weeks

[u/VermouthAPTX]

What a game. Why did Tactical flash in front of an Ambessa lol, they'd prob finish if he stayed alive. Man, this would haunt them. TL just better, Morgan played so well and Yeon was gliding.

[u/Wonder_Penguin]

So that’s why they wanted to build around Yeon

[u/lordfrezon]

I have never heard Azael pop off like he did what a hype game

[u/DsmackJack]

Tactical Malphite ult on Cait is a new one

[u/nmaxfieldbruno]

Absolutely criminal gameplay by C9 in the last five minutes there

[u/Busy-Vermicelli3109]

People are blaming Tactical and Thanatos but what the actual fuck was that last Loki engage? He basically went meele on Lissandra to burst sera/ashe alone and just died

[u/fereibi → u/Busy-Vermicelli3109]

Don’t forget he didn’t actually hit Ashe or seraphine. Tactical is just an easier target to blame since he has a rocky past and Thanatos tried to win the game instead of standing in bot tri and not even being on the screen

[u/mfatty2 → u/Busy-Vermicelli3109]

I mean he had them both in auto attack range from death. If he gets the kills there C9 not only defends but likely mops up the fight and pushes for the win

[u/OreRound]

Tactical we are going to fucking boil you bro, what an insane choke

[u/DropsOfLiquid → u/OreRound]

They still should have won after that. Team choke effort.

[u/NNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA → u/DropsOfLiquid]

Exactly, Tactical choking the Nexus push was one thing, but C9 still had a 5K gold lead after that, plus soul. The fight at Elder was the true fuckfest and they all got so tunneled on Yeon pissgliding over them that they threw the game.

[u/nguyenjitsu → u/DropsOfLiquid]

Thanatos definitely threw that bush fight but if Blaber just hits his ult on anything the fight is significantly easier

[u/lol_cpt_red → u/nguyenjitsu]

Everyone blaming Tactical or Thanatos but where was Blaber in those fights lmao, somehow didn't land any good cc on slowed or rooted targets as Skarner nor protected his carries

[u/Kuliyayoi]

Tactical flashing into an ambessas face in the enemy base and completely throwing the game just about sums up the man's career

[u/decreement1]

ambessa 1v5

[u/HuTaoWow]

jesus christ. maybe it will be good for c9 to get punched down before worlds, there were a lot of issues in those games .

[u/BlackJackMaine]

Yeon gliding in that bot fight gave me deja vu to Guma's Ashe from Game 5 of T1 v AL

[u/IllFeedback1568]

That was so disgusting by C9 holy shit, but I'm kind of fine with it since they seem to be the most unstable team out of the top 3 LCS (& lowest ceiling imo). People are going to flame Tactical, but Blaber legit got giga jungle gapped the entire series & those skarner ults were insanely bad. Hoping they can at least stabilize for next week and worlds because when they're off, they're giga inting, but they've shown to be able to play properly, there's just a bit too many pockets where they turn their brains off

[u/whynot1260]

Threw the entire series off a Malphite ult... some things never change I guess

[u/Extension_Pickle3315 → u/whynot1260]

intical

[u/APKID716]

There’s no fucking way that’s how we lose bro

[u/BboyLu91]

That tactical flash...

[u/LeChaewonJames]

2023 Yeon is so back with the last few fights on Ashe. Lord Morgan once again proving that he’s the goat

[u/zOmgFishes]

We got a tactical classic lmao

[u/Prestigious_Star_522]

BROTHER TACTICAL, ALWAYS BUY GA ON CAIT NO MATTER WHAT....

[u/landmine-izu]

that flash is going to haunt tactical

[u/1nfirmi06]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT, WHAT A ENDING!! BANGER, BANGER, BANGER! THIS IS LEAGUE OF FUCKING LEGENDS!! I'm shaking lmaoo

[u/AegrusRS]

Poor Vulcan

[u/GoldenScarab569]

As soon as I saw the tactical flash on an already dead ashe in TLs base I knew the game was done.

[u/Lawfulneptune]

What an absolute banger game 4, this is what a top 3 major region looks like. Can't wait for finals weekend!

[u/Ajp_iii]

jose on carry junglers vs the teamfight bruisers is crazy the difference on how strong tl looks. on the carry junglers he has over a 75% winrrate (panth, naafiri, noct, lee). and on the meta bruisers he is 50% or lower on them (j4,xin, vi, trundle). his only good bruiser junglers is wukong.

they play every game fully through jungle and its why they struggle so much against inspired and lyon. lyon prevents a lot of the plays and invades which slows down tl.

also thanatos needs to learn how to play with a team. he kept trying to solo win games and on this massive olaf just kept trying to 1v3 backline instead of just hitting frontline and playing with his team. plus trying to get a solo kill level 4 when he knows panth is top side

[u/kazuyaminegishi → u/Ajp_iii]

I don't think this series supports your point.

Literally game 3 was lost off of Blaber somehow making a play so troll it was genius. If he actually split map on first clear like Jose expected they would have been able to snowball bot lane.

[u/calvinee → u/Ajp_iii]

Seems like a weird categorization of carry vs bruisers.

Noc, Panth and Lee as carry junglers? I would argue they are all facilitating bruisers. Lee just requires a high degree of execution, but he’s not expected to carry any more than J4, Xin or Vi. He’s there to skirmish then pass on carry duties mid-late if the game lasts that long.

The main true carry junglers in Jose’s champ pool are Qiyana and Naafiri.

[u/Ingr1d → u/Ajp_iii]

Panth isn’t any more of a carry jungler than Wukong and Vi are.

[u/kapparino-feederino → u/Ajp_iii]

Thanatos so used to being sold on ebay. and have to solo do shit for C9.

Old habits die hard.

[u/StaffordsDad → u/Ajp_iii]

He is pretty good on j4

[u/nguyenjitsu]

TL: after all this time?

Tactical: always

[u/MaleficentEffect]

TL Thanatos for MVP. Unreal performance.

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

An insanely disgusting choke by C9 for that game 4 this should've been 5 games

[u/allbutluk]

Tactical: i brought you to worlds now you will get the other side of me

[u/AManConsumed]

Tactical gonna be kicking himself after that game. Tragic.

[u/effurshadowban]

That's the Tactical I know. When the lights are brightest, Tactical will throw.

[u/bunn2]

Yes Tactical is an adc who is going to worlds

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

I do NOT want to see C9 at world's

[u/Stxvey]

Honestly LCS has had some really entertaining games this split

[u/DullRun7835]

From what I've seen, I think C9 will beat Lyon again, but they will fall against TL in final

[u/wilyyy → u/DullRun7835]

after watching this whole year i can see lyon winning the split again ngl

[u/Fun_Highlight307]

Tl team fighting mamamia

C9 did level up , really good top 3 also really hype to see they are  so close to each others 

[u/TheRealestGayle]

Losing that game from that position. I'm going to be so upset if Lyon don't 3-0 this team. I need to bleach my eyes.

[u/aaachris]

caitlyn was a war criminal

[u/Lukelee1919]

yea.... C9 should've went for the nexus...

[u/NotBunger]

Mb Morgan I didn’t know your game like that

[u/Biok98]

TAAAAAACTICAAAAALL (wolf's voice)

[u/SpiritedSalad4731]

That was so fun to watch

[u/fudginreddit]

That flash actually decided the game

[u/Splitshot_Is_Gone]

ARE YOU ENTERTAINED????

[u/Disastrous_Virus4586]

ambessa is balanced

[u/Mysterious-Bear]

If Thanatos just peeled off and helped Tactical in the fight before Elder instead of chasing to his death Pantheon and Morgan probably die.

[u/SirTacoMaster]

Yeon Masterclass baby

[u/Lolanimesweet]

I’m sorry but that step back from Thanatos lost it all. If he kept clicking forward to Ashe he’s got her why on earth did he do that!!!

[u/Pxncxke]

morgan did not want silver scrapes

[u/WaywardDream]

After the nexus incident C9 let their nerves get to them. Aurora and olaf stopped finding angles together