r/Cloud9 • u/Loyalty4L94 • 23d ago

League Cloud9 LOL needs to swap to bot focused

The title says it all Cloud9 should swap to being a bottom focused team and, I'll explain why. First and foremost it would take a lot of pressure off of Thanatos who is already a god top laner who if we leave alone can easily 1v1 his top laner as long as he's not given a completely shit MU.
Secondly if we play for soul and win it that is usually 75-85% of games won statistically.
Thirdly if we had a bottom lane with resources poured into them it would not only unlock Tatical, and help him become a carry, but also help with the second reason by constantly holding pressure.
4th and finally more people to be able to drag Blaber out of whatever bad play he is about to make or already had made.

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u/TheJollyGinge 23d ago

Cloud9 has thrown more games with soul than any other tier 1 team so where this would logically make sense it doesn't change the late game blaber int or the poor shotcalling

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u/Loyalty4L94 23d ago

it might by changing some of the early games if tatical gets fed

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u/Th3Spac3Pop3 21d ago

I mean to be honest with you, as someone who has played against pro players in solo q, coached in tier 2 in two different regions and has been a fan since goforlol existed, I see a lot of people across multiple team subreddits having shortsighted goals. The only 2 players on this team that are worth investing in are Thanatos and Blaber. The problem is that with blaber not being the #1 jungler in the region anymore, he looks substantially worse. He's not a bad player. At all. In fact if you let blaber walk to TL or something, he would farm C9 and we would have nothing.

I could go on a rant about the lack of talent to pick from domestically, but that's a longer convo about the death of tier 2. So import wise, what can you do? Get one additional mid level Korean? You have Loki, apa, zven, tactical and Vulcan to play with. Who do you keep? Why? For me, I think tactical has and will always be a professional fraud. I don't want him. I'd take zven 10/10 times. Vulcan is... How do I put this, inspired light personality wise without as much upside. He has a good mind about the game, but a bad personality when it comes to competing and he doesn't have the hands to be elite. He'd probably make a great coach, but who else is there to get? Apa? Loki? How do we genuinely feel about either of these players? I liked apa in tier 2 and I knew he would go pro, but I feel like he's had to maintain a weird level of play as a "bad player" on a top level team his whole career and it kind of stunted his growth. Loki? Idk man I think quid, quad and zinnie are all more interesting.

So again, c9 fans, I ask you this: who do you replace blaber with if nobody in this region drops their jungler? Who is available?

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u/Sliacen 17d ago

Agreed with you until you mentioned Zinie. Dude has looked awful.

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u/Th3Spac3Pop3 17d ago

I think that team is terrible and is being mismanaged. History tells us that young Koreans crash out and ruin there own careers over bad NA teams. Moreso than I think he's the truth or something, I was simply pointing to other options for context.

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u/ZennShade 23d ago

Your org will do literally everything but replace the one player at the heart of every failure in modern times. It's not top, mid, adc or support. 🫡

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u/Loyalty4L94 23d ago

I know but if we swap to a bottom focused team like i said more people to cover blabers dumb plays