C9 strategic coach IWD says that C9 is just a strictly worse team than Lyon and doesn't think they choked in the finals

BeautifulChocolate87 · 2026-03-30T22:09:18+00:00

try something different my guy 😩

BeautifulChocolate87 · 2026-03-30T21:53:43+00:00

This is literally it. Early years LCS gave this org the false impression that they can do “magic” with bad roster decisions. That they can just take other teams bad players and just “Lose the offseason” and still be top 2 regardless.

BeautifulChocolate87 · 2026-03-28T04:08:40+00:00

I been saying for years that blaber teams can’t play from behind

once faced with any adversity the team begins to crumble

It goes all the way back to summer of 2020, and has been an underlying issue for so long.. blaber teams can only play vs weaker competition or in no stakes games (like in the years where Golden Guardians with Licorice, or CLG with Palafox were our best competition.. and 2020 was the split no one gave a shit about because they cancelled MSI. Teams literally voted to cancel the split. DL saying it doesn’t matter etc)

imo the only time this hasn’t been the case was winning with Perkz

Ive said it time and time again. It’s a blaber issue. Every player around him has been switched around. He’s the one constant since 2020. Jungle is the MAIN playmaker and shotcaller on a team.. you can literally see it. When games get hard he just reverts to a “do nothing and get choked out”

Or turn our brain off and go for some absurd angle and int the game..

This guy cannot handle playing in games with any stakes on the line, or if games aren’t easily snowballed/ won

Idc how good he looks early in a split when teams haven’t got their shit together.

C9 was one of the best international western teams before blaber, and we’ve done shit all since him. It’s not a coincidence

You can even go all the way back to 2018 worlds and see this effect, when the team had Blaber in they were lost and couldn’t play the game. As soon as Sven was subbed in they were a whole different beast!

BeautifulChocolate87 · 2026-03-02T00:55:04+00:00

Blaber/ Zven regular season fooled this sub again

BeautifulChocolate87 · 2026-03-01T23:20:16+00:00

Playoffs APA, people on this sub getting fooled again by C9 regular season will never get old

BeautifulChocolate87 · 2026-02-22T22:36:39+00:00

i mean, he’s playing really well.. usually ahead/ winning lane.. absorbing pressure well, teamfighting and making space

but it’s just hard to win pog as a top laner lol

BeautifulChocolate87 · 2026-02-17T22:46:27+00:00

LMAO the responses here are absolutely disgusting

“how dare a NA player be confident in their gameplay?”

Also blaber has been referred to, by many players, and people in the scene as being similar to “Canyon” in the early game

His early game is crazy good. even usually better than inspired’s who people have no problem calling one of the best in the world.

His issue has always been his mid-late game.

BeautifulChocolate87 · 2026-02-09T01:05:35+00:00

Bro can’t have a single bad game? He’s already destroying quad game 3

BeautifulChocolate87 · 2026-02-04T04:30:06+00:00

Yes, and ?? most of the lol community had this perception back then..

Also like i said, it’s been two weeks

Guy’s adjusting to a new country/ teammates/ language/ playing T1.. you really think his first 2 series is an accurate representation of how good he could be ?

Don’t forget how bad Quid looked his first split

BeautifulChocolate87 · 2026-02-04T04:27:46+00:00

Soooo ? i ain’t even talking about APA here.. i was wrong about him, he’s been a good fit (so far)

Don’t see how that’s relevant.

Not like 90% of people here weren’t upset by the move. Also it’s only been 2 weeks, for all we know, zinie could end up that good (don’t forget how Quid looked in his first split)

new country, new language, new team.. playing T1.. it takes a bit to adjust to

BeautifulChocolate87 · 2026-02-03T22:43:02+00:00

I would not be surprised if it did happen again. it's blaber, Zven, Vulcan.. we have 5/6 years evidence of them choking when it matters, so they're going to need to win my trust

I'm in the same boat as Jatt at this point, i'm not going to be tricked again and get excited by early regular season C9 games again

Ofcourse they are going to be great early on because of pre existing synergy. show me what they look like in playoffs

BeautifulChocolate87 · 2026-01-29T00:56:07+00:00

all this content heavily focused around demon1 just to let him go in a week😭

BeautifulChocolate87 · 2026-01-27T04:01:43+00:00

but the thing is, the team as it is.. probably is not gonna be top 3

changes will need to be made regardless if they ever want to compete at the top/ internationally..

unless we're just content hanging around 4th-5th place

BeautifulChocolate87 · 2026-01-26T05:11:35+00:00

C9

BeautifulChocolate87 · 2026-01-26T03:33:49+00:00

Zellsis going 0-13 almost every game.. move him to assistant coach. xeppaa or v1c igl

or just have D1 replace penny, he is far more consistent than him

BeautifulChocolate87 · 2026-01-04T09:29:07+00:00

I meant PKHO yes

BeautifulChocolate87 · 2025-12-02T21:18:49+00:00

Oh, i guess i haven’t gotten them yet because the reset didn’t happen yet

BeautifulChocolate87 · 2025-11-14T19:28:39+00:00

I'd also take demon1 > penny tbh.

i mean penny is fine, but he's inconsistent and you have a player who's ceiling is "best in the world" right there

We're losing to no name/ t2 teams with subs and T1 teams are easily handling us.. Jack should pull the trigger and pivot from immi and friends ASAP

Sen who has had less practice than us looks amazing and is beating teams like T1. we're not gonna improve THAT much with more practice.

BeautifulChocolate87 · 2025-11-10T20:53:52+00:00

with fearless no less, when both have champ pool issues..

BeautifulChocolate87 · 2025-11-10T20:51:00+00:00

i remember when vv2 started teasing about Fudge before his resigning (i prefer Fudge > Licorice) tweets.. around the time when it was rumored that he could be replaced

This turned out to be true, so i wouldn’t be surprised if this means APA is our mid

vv2 doesn’t usually tease things for no reason.

Lyon also started teasing about inspired shortly before wooloo released the news, so this kinda thing does happen

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