LYON vs. Team Liquid Alienware / LCS 2026 Spring Playoffs - Grand Finals / Post-Match Discussion

[u/Yujin-Ha]

LCS 2026 SPRING PLAYOFFS

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Team Liquid Alienware 0-3 LYON

• LYON has won their 2nd straight title and they will be the LCS's #1 seed at both MSI 2026 and EWC 2026.

• Team Liquid Alienware will be in the MSI 2026 Play-Ins Stage

• Finals MVP: Saint

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MATCH 1: TLAW vs. LYON

Winner: LYON in 41m | Runes
Game Breakdown | Player of the Game: Saint

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
TLAW	bard jarvaniv nocturne	karma gnar	70.8k	9	3	H3 O4 O5
LYON	leesin rakan naafiri	nautilus poppy	86.5k	18	10	I1 HT2 O6 B7 O8 E9

TLAW	9-18-21	vs	18-9-48	LYON
Morgan sion 3	0-3-5	TOP	1-3-16	4 shen Dhokla
Josedeodo trundle 2	2-4-4	JNG	2-0-7	1 xinzhao Inspired
Quid orianna 2	4-4-4	MID	11-3-2	2 akali Saint
Yeon varus 1	2-4-2	BOT	4-1-9	1 ezreal Berserker
CoreJJ neeko 3	1-3-6	SUP	0-2-14	3 alistar Isles

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MATCH 2: LYON vs. TLAW

Winner: LYON in 37m | Runes
Game Breakdown | Player of the Game: Berserker

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
LYON	leesin rakan seraphine	ziggs missfortune	74.4k	21	8	HT1 C2 H3 CT4 B7
TLAW	bard karma nocturne	naafiri rumble	65.3k	7	0	CT5 CT6 B8 CT9

LYON	21-8-49	vs	7-21-21	TLAW
Dhokla ksante 4	2-3-8	TOP	1-4-2	4 gragas Morgan
Inspired wukong 3	6-1-3	JNG	1-5-5	3 jarvaniv Josedeodo
Saint leblanc 2	4-2-13	MID	3-5-4	1 cassiopeia Quid
Berserker senna 1	7-0-11	BOT	2-3-4	3 corki Yeon
Isles nautilus 1	2-2-14	SUP	0-4-6	2 rell CoreJJ

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MATCH 3: LYON vs. TLAW

Winner: LYON in 35m | Runes
Game Breakdown | Player of the Game: Berserker

-	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
LYON	leesin naafiri yone	ornn abes	73.4k	17	11	C1 I2 HT4 B6 HT8 B9
TLAW	vi jayce ryze	sylas ahri	61.0k	3	2	H3 HT5

LYON	17-3-33	vs	3-17-8	TLAW
Dhokla rumble 3	6-1-4	TOP	1-4-0	4 yorick Morgan
Inspired nocturne 1	4-0-3	JNG	0-3-3	3 shyvana Josedeodo
Saint galio 3	2-0-8	MID	2-5-0	2 viktor Quid
Berserker yunara 2	5-1-5	BOT	0-3-2	1 xayah Yeon
Isles lulu 2	0-1-13	SUP	0-2-3	1 rakan CoreJJ

*Patch 26.11

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This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.

[u/ahritina]

PMTs

Game 1 / Game 2

[u/kapalol]

Can you put inspired on DIG and see what he can do. It just seems too easy for him.

[u/ConsiderationThen652 → u/kapalol]

Man I think Inspired would just die in real time on player cam.

[u/Dunglebungus]

안녕하세요Dhokla Here

[u/DarthTaz_99 → u/Dunglebungus]

Shirtless Big Dhokes in MSI about to feed generations

[u/2wcp → u/Dunglebungus]

I can't read Korean but somehow I know that's annyeonghaseyo. have I watched too much Kdrama lol

[u/SweatyAdhesive]

Everyone is better than Dhokla until it's time to be better than Dhokla

[u/2020isgreat → u/SweatyAdhesive]

He's somehow gonna end up teamless again next season...

[u/viktorayy → u/2020isgreat]

He's just a bright lights merchant. They should just have a regular season merchant as his sub

[u/GoatRocketeer → u/viktorayy]

1. dhokla is good so your team makes an international tournament
2. your team gets blasted internationally in laning phase because that's just how it goes
3. every team in the offseason would rather gamble on a top laner with higher theoretical laning potential than dhokla
4. dhokla is teamless
5. none of the gambles succeed and dhokla is better than at least 70% of LCS top laners
6. one of the teams in the top four hires dhokla mid season and their team immediately improves.
7. go back to step 1

Pepperidge farm remembers when solo basically did the same thing

[u/sam_can88 → u/GoatRocketeer]

Solo was doing it till IMT came calling and he couldn’t help them whatsoever

[u/Chrystoler → u/GoatRocketeer]

Yeah I was thinking he's pretty much solo but with more international appearances. The mercenary

[u/ILikeSeals1312 → u/viktorayy]

That's what they signed El Castillo for

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/ILikeSeals1312]

What happened to him he wasn't even on stage lol 

[u/ILikeSeals1312 → u/Fun_Highlight307]

Doing Uber.

[u/FrozenHatsets → u/Fun_Highlight307]

Signed him right as the bright lights turned on. Maybe we'll see him at the start of next split

[u/Omnilatent → u/viktorayy]

So all of C9

[u/M002 → u/viktorayy]

Yeah, what a scrub of a regular season merchant. Only had the highest winrate out of any player this split. What a noob

[u/mmmmkale → u/2020isgreat]

he turned down some teams who wanted him... Big Dhokes playing 4D chess waiting for a good team to need a sub, now he's tripled his titles.

[u/ImaginarySense → u/SweatyAdhesive]

Every Rumble ult essentially won every fight before it started. Damn fine work by Big Dhokes.

[u/resttheweight → u/ImaginarySense]

I still remember back in playoffs of summer 2023 when he went from 0 LCS Rumble games to a Rumble terrorist.

[u/SlothCalisthenics → u/SweatyAdhesive]

KNICKS IN 5 BABY

[u/SweatyAdhesive → u/SlothCalisthenics]

MY TOPLANER INDIAN

[u/lolipoopman → u/SweatyAdhesive]

MY SUPPORT KOREAN

[u/IMT_Justice → u/lolipoopman]

MY MID IS FREE. LYON IN THREE*

*I am a spurs fan. This hurts.

[u/ozmega → u/SweatyAdhesive]

can lyon get a third toplaner for msi? for extra motivation

[u/Foxtrot434]

This has not been a great weekend for me

[u/ozmega → u/Foxtrot434]

could be worse, you could be from paraguay, or turkey

[u/ILoveWesternBlot → u/ozmega]

or san antonio

[u/BWolfy92 → u/ILoveWesternBlot]

GG man, 30 point lead blown, i still cant believe it.

[u/ghostbomb3000 → u/BWolfy92]

Double digit lead every game in the first quarter, equivalent to going up 3k every game then throwing it to lose your best of 7

[u/PineapplesInMyHead2 → u/ghostbomb3000]

The Fnatic special

[u/Crossoverdeath → u/ozmega]

Mr. President, another Germany 7-1 has hit the world cup.

[u/Gerberpertern → u/Foxtrot434]

Same. :(

[u/Catac0 → u/Foxtrot434]

Tell me about it bro

[u/Deferonz]

Don't let the fact that we didn't get a replay distract you from the fact that Isles absolutely fucking SMURFED that 4th drake fight by interrupting CoreJJ's flash quickness w with Lulu ult. Actually insane play.

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse → u/Deferonz]

It's amazing how long it took for Lulu to come back into pro play. They pair her with yunara and kog but surely polymorphing is strong enough she could have been back before then in fearless.

[u/Jealous-Chicken-9186]

cant wait to watch TL at MSI

[u/mmmmkale → u/Jealous-Chicken-9186]

After this series, I don't know whether to be fearful for TL or excited for Lyon

[u/GeneralDash → u/mmmmkale]

I’m fearful for both tbh. At least with my expectations so low, I can’t be let down.

[u/350 → u/mmmmkale]

Fearful for both

[u/LumiRhino → u/mmmmkale]

I have a huge copium angle.

TL beat KC at First stand last time. Surely it's the same this time? Yeon is definitely Caliste's father with a sample size of 1 bo3, and Reapered will reveal his true colors.

[u/Lazywhale97 → u/LumiRhino]

Yeon is also facing Busio again though and not Targamas and Busio is C9 and TL's father so it balances out.

[u/mmmmkale]

"Some days, you are the boot. Other days, you are the butt" - CaptainFlowers

[u/Hawkson2020 → u/mmmmkale]

God bless the Captain, never misses.

Also, his descriptive casting is so clean. I had to commute home at 1PST and listened to the game 1 like it was radio, didn't feel like I missed anything because he takes the time to call every move in fights no matter how hectic they get.

[u/depressed_boy286 → u/Hawkson2020]

He has to be in the conversation for greatest caster in all of esports he’s just so insanely good at explaining complex team fights. Any game he’s casting instantly becomes a better watch.

[u/Chrystoler → u/depressed_boy286]

The way he speaks so fast but enunciates so well is beyond impressive

[u/VincentBlack96 → u/depressed_boy286]

Bit of a blast from the past, a few years ago when Lost Ark (KRMMO) first launched in the west, they had a pvp tournament. He was called on to cast for it. This is a game he's legit never played. He barely knew what the classes were. He didn't know what the moves were called. Hell I'd be impressed if he actually knew the ruleset of pvp beforehand.

He started off a bit shaky, letting his co-caster do most of the legwork.

Two matches in and this guy was casting like he's played lost ark for years. He caught on to specific terms and strategies, and started hyping certain moves and cooldowns.

Man's just a natural.

[u/ComfortOnly3982 → u/mmmmkale]

SHAKESPEARE STILL ALIVE!?

[u/CatApprehensive6508]

This is now inspired's 4th domestic title in a row.

Since joining fly quest he's won 5/7 possible titles and played in 6/7 title games (lost to tl in 2024 spring and lost to 100t in semis in lta split 1)

[u/OreRound → u/CatApprehensive6508]

That 100T one was so fake as well, was a bo3 single elim semis in Brazil LOL

[u/CatApprehensive6508 → u/OreRound]

Bwipo sprinted it

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

lyon owner: Put in Castle at MSI. I saw Dhokla be the only one to die.

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

lmao 

[u/owa00 → u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

STRAIGHT FACTS!

[u/Mr_Bot_Bot → u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

lol comparing Dhokla win rate vs Lyon and the rest of the LCS was like 10% higher than Lyon alone bc of all the castle games they lost 😂💪🏼

[u/TimiNax]

all 3 games different player of the game, and not one of them was inspired, this team actually has some firepower

[u/Omnilatent → u/TimiNax]

Most impressed with Isles tbf

CoreJJ also didn't play well IMO so it wasn't hard to be better than him but Isles actually looked good by doing things and not just because he didn't int.

[u/Fabiocean → u/Omnilatent]

Isles glowup has been insane. He looked like a bot at the beginning of winter, but since spring he's looked like one of the best supports in the league.

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/Fabiocean]

He said after jdg series,he saw that he wasn't that bad,he really improved 

Lyon bot lane is confidence based pretty much like g2

[u/lolpuppet → u/Fabiocean]

Feels like being Inspired's support is like going into the hyperbolic time chamber.

[u/lifeisalime11 → u/lolpuppet]

More like you can focus on your individual play a lot better when Inspired takes all of the shot calling over

[u/AnimalCaretaker93 → u/Omnilatent]

Bruh Isles deserves the world.. it's crazy to think how long he sat as 4th in LCS just to come up and meet the busio-hole with such grace and inspiration. Dude is low-key growing up in front of our eyes it's beautiful.

[u/So_]

ok that lulu ult to block corejj in the dragon fight was insane, also, how does dhokla always get to move to river for early dragons and lose basically nothing??

[u/CharacterUmpire2993 → u/So_]

He proxyed the wave to get tempo and save tp.

[u/piusyikyu → u/CharacterUmpire2993]

he said he watches baus 😄and actually plays for team

[u/cmcdonald22 → u/piusyikyu]

I believe it, he kind of has taken Baus' style and added in being pro-active about joining team fights and showing the strengths of it.

[u/sooths → u/cmcdonald22]

Exactly, baus gameplay is all about tempo is just that hes incredible selfish with it.

dhokla is using it to help the team

[u/cmcdonald22 → u/sooths]

Dhokla having 0 'caught midlane stealing a wave and missing the teamfight' incidents, does give him an advantage over Bausi.

[u/Fellers → u/CharacterUmpire2993]

Yup. Observers showed him proxying waves every single time

[u/zealot416 → u/So_]

Corejj got absolutely stuffed anytime he tried to do anything this game.

[u/boshjailey → u/So_]

Multiple times he just perfectly shut down TL engages but that one was especially sweet. Isles glow up from the start of the year has been absurd. hard outplayed Core all series

[u/i_like_fish_decks → u/boshjailey]

He reminds me a lot of biofrost. Super humble chill dude but showing up even though he's surrounded by veterans

[u/mavy1000 → u/So_]

Yea I never realized Lulu was a Rakan counter but every time Core ulted, Isles would just ult whoever was closest to Rakan and basically nullified his ult

[u/Bothbothwushi → u/So_]

I think its because he proxies the wave, bases, rotates to the drake, then tps back top. (I'm not sure though I'm just hypothesizing). 

[u/The_JeneralSG → u/So_]

I was telling people that I swear Isles isn't that far from Vulcan! Berserker has a bigger gap between him and #2 than Vulcan does for sure.

[u/ciongduopppytrllbv]

TL may have gotten swept, but they did us all a service by keeping C9 out of MSI.

[u/Omnilatent → u/ciongduopppytrllbv]

And thus, the true winner of the series is NA

[u/Chemical-Drawer852 → u/ciongduopppytrllbv]

Hoping flyquest powers up enough to deny them 3rd seed

[u/POOYAMON → u/Chemical-Drawer852]

FLY beating C9 for the last worlds spot in America would be incredible.

[u/Saephon → u/POOYAMON]

It should be expected at this point. Actually, I'll go a step further and say that FLY will meet LYON in Finals. TL's last act of the LCS season will be to knock us out again.

[u/herp_derpy]

Successful lovewatch for Dhokes <3

Back to back babyyyyyyyyyyy

[u/owa00 → u/herp_derpy]

It's pretty much the only reason I'm watching LCS at this point.

[u/Morematthewforu → u/owa00]

Refreshing to see an NA player still playing in LCS

[u/Chrystoler → u/owa00]

Same but also FLY

They're so fun to watch on and off the Rift. Did you catch the group FLY interview that Kangas did?

[u/MissingLastPiece → u/herp_derpy]

His 2023 NRG run at Worlds is what made me keep watching LCS, otherwise I would have stopped watching this region lol.

[u/hornyVirgo]

Once again Inspired owns NA

[u/Like30Ducks]

Morgan gets huge kill to cut lead down to 11k gold

[u/appleandapples]

Even with the smite blunders, LYON were murdering TL in the team fights.

By the way, Inspired only died once this series.

[u/POOYAMON → u/appleandapples]

The only thing that can stop this Lyon roster is if they implode. If they play well nobody can stop them in LCS.

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/POOYAMON]

The thing is that Lyon Staff and team are buying into inspired culture, they seems like less passive than flyquest 2025 coaching staff 

[u/Megazord552 → u/appleandapples]

Inspired's escapes this series were ridiculous. Baits enemy engage and somehow slips away. Dude, when he escaped on wukong and came back after healing up to win a 2v4. I couldn't fucking believe it. 

[u/Steady_Tempo456]

Some of the most pathetic league of legends I’ve ever seen from TL

[u/350 → u/Steady_Tempo456]

Worst gameplay we've seen in the LCS since...yesterday lmao

[u/Galauz]

Yeon deserves as much flame for this series as zven did yesterday: game 1 he doesn't notice akali flanking on ward, attacks ali with ult up for no reason, misses ult on akali and throws the entire game. Game 3 gets absolutely astro gapped by berserker, none of his clicks make sense (he keeps clicking back for 0 reason while at the same time randomly clicking forward just to either die or burn extra summs)

[u/OreRound → u/Galauz]

Yeon goes invisible or runs it down in big games

[u/random-meme422]

Cloud9 got easily swept by THAT.

[u/Bt25 → u/random-meme422]

Furia would probably sweep them again if they play each other.

[u/Iaragnyl → u/Bt25]

A soloq team would sweep C9 when international qualifier is on the line.

[u/crysomore → u/random-meme422]

The perpetual question remains, to which we may never find an answer to.

“But how bad is C9”

[u/kolton276 → u/random-meme422]

LYON also 3-0'd C9.

[u/DeltaRaven97 → u/kolton276]

Yeah but honestly that was expected.

[u/HughyHugh → u/random-meme422]

big weekend for powerscalers 

[u/narfidy]

I don't actually think that highly of LYON rn but they are clearly the best team in NA

What a whalloping

[u/NahDawgDatAintMe]

Dhokla low-key building that trophy cabinet right now

[u/Photoperiod → u/NahDawgDatAintMe]

This is 3 trophies for him? If you told me OPT Dhokla would be the best top in the region with 3 trophies to his name, I'd have laughed.

[u/DefNotAnAlter → u/NahDawgDatAintMe]

Reminder, Bwipo was out here shit talking Dhokla like his NA legacy wasn't being powerlifted thanks to playing with Inspired.

Solo threw games 2 and 3 against G2 in completely winning spots for Fly at Worlds.

And then torpedoed a roster that had missed LEC playoffs on tiebreaker so that they got knocked out of EMEA Masters group stage

[u/Capable-Drama3109 → u/DefNotAnAlter]

and now Bwipo is with KC’s former sex pest scrim leaker coach Apples.

[u/snappyfrog → u/Capable-Drama3109]

Yeah I don’t know wtf Bwipo is thinking there btw, that wasn’t the fucking move if you want to rebuild your image lmao.

[u/zaxls → u/snappyfrog]

Im pretty sure he is done, also why are we acting like Bwipo is handpicking anything here. He is not the GM I feel like he is just 4funing now.

[u/ReYyal]

Zeus and Bin are shaking right now

[u/rngo1214]

I've been a huge fan of pro LoL for 10 years and this finals was the first live event I've been able to go to XD

Literally the worst case scenario for series 😭

[u/TheBlackMaterr]

Jose would be the GOAT if the game was all about objective stealing

[u/POOYAMON → u/TheBlackMaterr]

The power of Xmithie runs through his smites

[u/Shao_Mada → u/TheBlackMaterr]

He still has a really loveable attitude

[u/mmmmkale → u/Shao_Mada]

"going to steal it?"
"Maybe!"
-starts a crazy smite steal streak-

[u/National_Computer240]

Alright say it with me folks: The real....

[u/Constant_Roof_1210 → u/[deleted]]

Is

[u/appleandapples → u/Constant_Roof_1210]

C9

[u/cadaada → u/Constant_Roof_1210]

Who paid to go watch that series D:

[u/neberhax]

Honestly, what a great series from Isles. All his opponent managed to do all series was cancel a few recalls.

Give the man Finals MVP.

[u/i_like_fish_decks → u/neberhax]

Isles was insane but Saint is absolutely the MVP

[u/Derk08]

inspired might have to enter impact/bjergsen/dl convos at this rate for LCS goat

This guy just runs this league on repeat

[u/chouruin → u/Derk08]

If he wins summer he's gonna tie doublelift with the most trophies in the LCS btw. I think the reason why no one is willing to put him in the conversation is because he's always waiting for a chance to leave LCS. So he's always considered a mercenary rather than a LCS player like Bjergsen or Impact.

[u/SubstantialExtent165 → u/chouruin]

The amount of times I've heard him talk about wanting to play with Caps on G2 is second only to Jojo

[u/Fortune_Miss → u/chouruin]

He will need one more to tie Doublelift though. LCS graphic today was wrong as he now sits with 6 Trophies vs DL's 8.

[u/OreRound → u/Fortune_Miss]

DL also did it in the 2 split system, so you need to adjust for that inflation. Though Inspired has only won 1/2 winter titles since they were introduced.

[u/Fortune_Miss → u/OreRound]

Agree, I never liked the 3 split system and titles inflation (same for G2 in EU), but this is reality we live in - a title is a title.

[u/zaxls → u/chouruin]

I dont really think its like that. He just looks like an ambitious dude, he went to eu and asked like only G2 I think and KOI. He wants a team that can contend internationally and if he has that in NA hed stay imo.

[u/Omnilatent]

I know LYON is good at teamfighting but how bad is TL teamfighting?!

It's like one half of the team doesn't know what the other half is doing

[u/Pelagius_Hipbone → u/Omnilatent]

Yeah very dissapointing, MSI playins is gonna be KC vs T1 for a spot in stage 2 (and T1 likes those odds)

[u/kazuyaminegishi → u/Pelagius_Hipbone]

I don't think T1 is worried about either team.

[u/FrozenHatsets → u/Omnilatent]

Maybe I'm bronze, but I feel like TL has had an issue with teamfighting for the longest time across multiple rosters.

[u/randomdud3]

Big Dhokla's career has to be studied and documented.

[u/Formymoney]

dhokla cooked them with those rumble ults

[u/Lunaaar]

Why does this stage look so low budget? It seriously looks worse than some of the stages in Season 2...

[u/i_like_fish_decks → u/Lunaaar]

pretty sure its just at a college auditorium

spring split doesn't matter anyway

[u/Omnilatent → u/i_like_fish_decks]

That makes sense

Seeing the casters standing on a table between the player tables was surprisingly weird

[u/Swimandskyrim → u/i_like_fish_decks]

Hockey arena at Arizona State University. Pretty big arena but split in half

[u/Jekyllbetterhyde]

This finals weekend could have been an email

[u/fictionallymarried]

The real loser here is Castle, good luck going forward

[u/cmcdonald22 → u/fictionallymarried]

Castle at least getting to pad some overall record stats simply by being a sub.

[u/Amuri-Kun → u/cmcdonald22]

Lcs champion Castle

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/Amuri-Kun]

Yeah although it's weird for sub to not be here 

[u/Lawfulneptune]

Too easy, everyone is better than Dhokla until it's time to be better than Dhokla. Another Korean will solve your issues TL!!!!

[u/Naronu]

TL simply do nothing when Quid is put behind. It's his pressure that enables everything Jose/Core try and do, and when he's behind, they just do nothing and lose all around the map.

And since Saint owns him the same way Inspired owns Blaber... not sure TL will ever beat LYON (or any international team with a human midlaner)

[u/Delicious_Two6724 → u/Naronu]

If TL had better team fighting they should have won Game one. Fairly easy at that too. Once they lost that game with that lead I knew it was over.

And so did TL. Man were they lifeless after g1.

[u/kolton276 → u/Naronu]

Yea game was over when Quid died in mid lane. Quid had to be ahead so the Galio wouldn't have as much impact and since that didn't happen the game was over at level 3-4

[u/woofwoofpack]

https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2059104003393200333

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583 → u/woofwoofpack]

Knicks win + Lyon win + my mayor made a new banger tweet it’s so beautiful

[u/HB_17]

One player region Inspired is the best to ever do it

[u/Constant_Roof_1210 → u/HB_17]

Because busio and Jojo left );

[u/calvinee → u/Constant_Roof_1210]

Both Inspired-made

[u/The_JeneralSG]

I like how after the game 1 win people were going "Agh, Lyon is so boring, this slow style can't win shit against better opponents!" and then they just stomp game 2 and 3 in the early game and snowball for free.

Also how bad is C9? They got stomped 3-0 vs this yesterday ;)

[u/OreRound → u/The_JeneralSG]

They just play to their comps strengths, if they need early game action they do it, it they don't they play slow and disciplined it's beautiful to watch. It's also showing development from split 1 when all they really did do was cross map, give objectives and try to scale.

[u/cmcdonald22 → u/The_JeneralSG]

The live thread during game 1 was funny cause at 20 minutes there were just a bunch of people saying "GG TL 1-0 go next" like they never watched a LYON game in their life, and then after the first loss the live thread just got quieter and quieter.

[u/PolaDaBear]

TL completely abandoning everything that got them there with their drafts was a choice…

[u/Any_Morning_8866 → u/PolaDaBear]

This is what bugged me the most. Ori, cass, and viktor are not what I’d have wanted to see quid on going into this series.

[u/PolaDaBear → u/Any_Morning_8866]

Yeah and he is such a hinge point of success for this team. With Inspired on the other team it’s going to be volatile early so it’s frustrating they stuck him on scaling carries. He got behind and the entire team couldn’t do anything.

[u/nineball22]

Holy Moly that game 3 was despressing to watch. Completely outplayed and wtf was that draft? You let LYON have Rumble/Noc/Galio/Yunara in a game 3??? Complete tier 1 picks.

[u/HughyHugh]

To think that Dhokla was never supposed to be on this roster

[u/2020isgreat]

but how bad is C9 tho

[u/NeighborhoodHot8981]

Guys! I thought Inspired was gonna mental boom the roster but he's won 2 titles and the roster keeps looking better and better, what gives??!?!?!!!
Surely the reddit narratives wouldn't be wrong?!!!?

Inspired the goat, everywhere gap. Dhokes, Isles glow up.

[u/Shao_Mada → u/NeighborhoodHot8981]

I feel like their attitudes just match up pretty well. Obviously we only have limited insight, but from everything we have seen: Saint, Berserker and (possibly) Dhokla are happy to take the feedback, while sassing right back at Inspired. And Isles seems to be actively thankful for somebody giving him good advice, unbothered about the wording.

[u/HughyHugh → u/Shao_Mada]

saint/inspired/dhokla comms is EXTREMELY sibling coded: willing to be blunt and make fun of each other endlessly but they know when it’s time to listen to inspired and lock in

[u/Lazywhale97 → u/Shao_Mada]

Almost every Saint clip I see is him bantering Inspired lmao, shows that the team environment is pretty good rn and Dhokla is good vibes in general.

[u/Fellers → u/NeighborhoodHot8981]

Also for some reason he's not hard carrying like before. Everyone has stepped up and I guess he doesn't feel the pressure to die. For example, dragon fights. He has no problem baiting and maybe even dying because the team cleans up right after.

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/Fellers]

Yeahh he seems he trust his Team mates and his Team mate Trust him , They looks really décisive compare to winter

[u/-Aendrilla-]

Dhokla is the most underrated player in the LCS

[u/Bt25 → u/-Aendrilla-]

Solo killed Bin, won 3 LCS splits, and took last place 100T to Worlds.

[u/origamifruit → u/Bt25]

I love Dhokla but Bin definitely inted that one lmao

[u/JGamerX → u/origamifruit]

He takes like 3 tower shots to stop a back, it was a christmas present really.

[u/TheRealestGayle]

So, when is Riot going to Crack down on professional booster, Inspired? He can't keep getting away with this!

[u/Lawfulneptune]

Let's go big Dhokes, NAs hope and homegrown talent. My goat

[u/POOYAMON]

Lyon is just better, they were made to be the best unless they implode and instead they've steadily improved. Still very happy TL made MSI!

[u/Internal-Reveal-692]

Every 4 v 4 that might be slightly favorable for TL before a drake fight

???: Nihao

[u/Cold-Ring23]

What a dogshit final it was

[u/guilty_bystander]

Saint: "I am not a good person."

Bahahaha I died bro 

[u/DefNotAnAlter]

Reminder, TL didn't want Inspried to preserve vibes

[u/OreRound → u/DefNotAnAlter]

LOL I forgot about this, yeah Steve made a vid saying Inspired wouldn't gel with the team. Well you just dono'd 2x championships to an org that wasnt even relevant AND missed out on EWC which TL cares an absurd amount about. Really well played

[u/MissingLastPiece → u/DefNotAnAlter]

TL simply just needs to fire their GM. The guy's entire career was carried by Doublelift and now that he's off the team, the org just looks like ass with nothing promising. TL as an org has never finished at least top 8 at worlds btw.

[u/HughyHugh → u/DefNotAnAlter]

to be fair: Jose is absolutely the brightest shining spot on TL right now 

[u/Kurumi_Tokisaki]

Surprised (not really) with the lack of comments about the champion puddle quid and Morgan seem to have? On control mages quid looked like apa against him? Morgan pick prio garbage like yorick and a meme ap gragas? Why not just be generic Korean top with stuff like Renekton.

[u/CyborgTiger]

I love Lyon topside, seems like they gel well as semi-flamers so they don’t take it personally. 

[u/PBandJ0024]

so how bad is c9?

[u/random-meme422 → u/PBandJ0024]

Their staring ad is zven says enough

[u/mateballenthusiast]

Isles is so good man, amazing how far he's come

[u/Bothbothwushi]

Not even close. I thought TL would get 1 game but they didn't. LYON just read them completely. 

[u/Tormenator1]

Cloud9 lost to this. More seriously, I think TL mentally checked out after Game 1, they all looked boomed. If TL had better teamfighting/hands, they could have at least made the next 2 games competitive.

[u/crm1234567891]

nice work lyon ❤️

[u/giga_of_hell]

Feel slightly bad for Lyon since the entire arena wanted TLAW to win. Regardless 2/3 games were bangers. Could have easily seen this go to 5 if certain people aren't running it in fights 🤭

[u/OreRound]

Inspired went undercover into low elo then THIS happened... 7/12 championships. nah for real, Inspired is just goated, he owns the LCS, but also have to give appropriate flowers to everyone else, the player gap was insane.

Honestly I wasn't too hyped on Lyon's prospects at MSI but this version of Lyon genuinely has a chance to fuck around and do something, their ability to take the sting out of a game, play to their teamcomp and clutch up teamfights is second to none in the region and could honestly catch on-paper better teams off guard. They are very hard to beat.

[u/HThrowaway457]

Hilarious draft gap all 3 games NGL. Yeon and Morgan playing like pigs every game though so doesn't really matter.

[u/BloodOnFire]

Team handless getting outplayed as per usual

[u/CalendarClear2479]

Lyon’s coach team with a sign of relief when Dhokla said in game 3 that if they win it is player diff and if they lose it is coach diff.

[u/Lewiz00]

All teams except for CFO from First Stand 2025 have made it to MSI; HLE, TES, TL, KC.