C9 Vulcan: “For now, Ziggs is our new Voldemort champ that we don’t talk about in the house.”

Cloud9’s 3-1 loss to Staff Liquid within the first spherical of the 2021 League Championship Collection Championship got here as a shock, however C9 got here into its first decrease bracket match in opposition to Golden Guardians because the overwhelming favourite.

C9 eradicated GG in a 3-0 sweep, and after the win, C9 assist and participant of the collection  Philippe “Vulcan” Laflamme joined Gabriella “LeTigress” Devia-Allen for a post-match broadcast interview on the LCS stage.

C9 made just a few changes since its loss to Staff Liquid, most notably the banning of Ziggs all three video games, a champion that was essential in TL’s technique used to defeat C9. When requested by LeTigress in regards to the changes made after dropping to TL, Vulcan didn’t maintain again in his response. 

“Properly, it looks like…For now, Ziggs is our new Voldemort champ that we do not discuss in the home,” Vulcan admitted. “We will maintain it banned for now and see what occurs as a result of we’re undecided the best way to win in opposition to it proper now.”  Vulcan paused earlier than including, “Perhaps I am leaking a bit proper now; hopefully my coaches are usually not too mad at me.”

It was clear that Cloud9 did not have a solution to the Ziggs bot lane of TL AD carry Edward “Tactical” Ra, notably due to the compositions Staff Liquid was allowed to play across the choose. TL’s solo laners have been allowed to profile totally into bodily injury, melee solo laners, which went nice with the Sejuani of jungler Lucas “Santorin” Larsen.

The Ziggs-Sejuani composition additionally allowed TL assist Jo “CoreJJ” Yong-in, who was already essentially the most frequent roaming assist within the LCS, to roam greater than ever earlier than.

Within the second time taking part in the sort of composition, which was sport 4, CoreJJ spent completely zero seconds within the bot lane after three minutes and set an LCS report for lowest Duo Proximity at 0.4%, which interprets to three.6 seconds spent inside 1500 items of Tactical all through minute 3 to minute 15, which occurred in grouping on the dragon pit.

For now, Cloud9 seems to not have a solution to Ziggs, however happily for C9, its subsequent opponent will both be 100 Thieves or Evil Geniuses, two groups who solely have one sport every on Ziggs within the LCS Summer season Break up. Nevertheless, it goes with out saying that discovering an answer outdoors of permabanning the Hexplosives Professional can be one of many Cloud9’s priorities in making ready for its subsequent match within the decrease bracket of the 2021 LCS Championship.