@@jasonnash4452 when the shitter of the team who gets treated like the golden boy is the reason your team flopped in the end, it would leave a bad taste in your mouth.
Honestly if piglet dropped his ego and had a real coach then he woulda easily been an actual top 5 adc in pro play. He had potential to be amazing even after he left SKT but he just thought he was better than everyone and wouldn't listen to anyone.
@fiorane How do you even hype yourself for that? If it was a friendly match I would show him what's up, but in a situation where you know what's went behind the scenes would you be up to take away his chance to qualify for world's?
Plot twist: Hai orchestrated the entire situation of him "getting kicked from the team" so that he could become Dom's roommate and scout intel so they could reverse sweep them in gauntlet.
@@MrAirZone25 generally, Piglet was known to have a super huge ego and would also just run it down constantly There's also a doc that liquid did years ago and there were massive issues between piglet and dardoch too
Yo Dom not going to lie i rather watch this type of content of you chilling to old League era, especially since you experienced it first hand rather than watching u lose ur mind watching LEC.
Hahahaha Love how at the beginning dom was like... "Nah bro, C9 benched Hai and then we took him in and he was my roommate and we were homies..." *A few minutes later* "FUCK YOU HAI"
"The gragas e flash, you guys remember that" one of the reasons iwd was my favorite player ever. Im actually tearing up writing this comment. Thanks dom for so many great memories and always being one of the realist in league.
I always thought Dom was actually his biggest doubter. Like people don’t realize how good he was but like that Riot ban genuinely ruined his entire career, seriously belive he could have been in the LCS this entire time just recently retiring if things went differently
Dom watching the game at the end is real re watching high school football tapes from 15 years ago energy lmao I love it, I need more of stuff like that
@richie1496 Nah watching him eat three towers shots for no reason on Corki would make me get up and personally German suplex Piglet on stage, if he plays to his range once Xpecial do the allistar combo on Jensen if he had full hp he would have cleared that fight. Dom was so triggered he didn't see thats why he kept yelling "Why is Piglet 1 HP !!!".
Season 5 was the year I started really playing and getting into league, and C9 was the first team that caught my eye due to their hype in 2014, and me rewatching their worlds performance on that year. Then that dreaded summer pslit happened, and that miracle run started. Honestly that is still to this day my most enjoyable time watching pro league, I really hope a time where you really felt like a competing team was YOUR team and that you always backed them up comes back again someday, but we can look back at these moments and cherish them for what the league was and why we fell in love with it
I ain't gonna lie after the C9 benching the whole roster n kicking Sneaky n shit I'm not ultimately surprised to hear that C9 booted Hai and it wasn't a retirement, probably the same with Meteos choosing to step down too, kinda rough.
@wanderintaco The fact that he had to play like he wanted to retire too, in the end it was all lack of cohesion for the players, Meteos was a farm heavy jungler that would take the role of the 3rd carry so having Hai roam alot and feeding his resources into him made sense, but as soon as the meta shifted they could have easily find even champs for him to play and still be the leader, if Crown can win worlds playing Malzahar you can't tell me Hai couldn't play things like karma or Morgana mid and go even in lane.
Dom: "isn't it funny that none of the top 3 junglers made worlds?" Jungle was so shit that Hai shot calling was worth more than the whole role. Absolutely awful role.
It was more fun. The level may have been way lower, but being able to follow personalities like you, scarra, xpeke, dyrus, qt, the entire M5 roster etc. made the scene way more entertaining. There's not that many established personalities to follow anymore, and many of the people i grew cheering for especially in korea are long since retired. At this point i watch the shoulder content more than i do the actual matches.
What world were we living in where Gravity was 9-3 and C9 was 3-9 and Meteos-less. It was a sad day when Meteos stepped down only mollified by Hai returning (albeit as a Jungler). But that Gauntlet run was absolute fire (and not just the heartburn it caused from all the close calls). I remember going into Worlds, EU slimebag TomatoCannon said that C9 was a terrible team that wouldn't win a single game. And I think it was Jatt who pointed out that Balls was stuck in Diamond 2 in Korean SQ. Then right away C9 go out and beat Europe's undefeated champion Fnatic and Balls gets a PentaKill on Darius! NA's 7th place Gauntlet team beat a team than ran through all of EU undefeated. LOL
Love the props for HAI! People forget that HAI was both a great Zed and a great Gragas when Grags Mid was a meta pick (not only for Scarra). hai not only beat Bjergsen while playing Teemo, but got a Penta on Orianna against TSM near the end of his career while playing for Golden Guardians. They then stupidly replaced him for Korean Mid Mickey the next split, and that worked out so well that Mickey just packed up and flew back to Korea in the middle of the split and never came back.
I was just a youngster watching LCS with my big brother and man was I glad I got to watch some of my favorite LCS players all time duke it out. Dom has the right sentiment about it, watching these guys make something from basically nothing was so much more enjoyable as a fan. Even knowing we werent getting out of groups with death groups at worlds was so much fun back then.
2014 spring was when i started watching league, My favorite team was dig and qt was my favorite player. i went back and watched all of the archived matches from 2013 and the challengers scene and relegation. summoning insight was my shit. good times man.
The malding in the last 10 minutes had me fucking dying, my condolences IWD. I was a big Cloud9 fan back in the day, never saw the other side of it. Tragic, rip.
I think it'd be really cool for Dom to do some kind of video essay like this himself, both since he has the perspective of a pro player, and also because he himself experienced a large portion of LCS history firsthand. As a sliiiight nitpick pertaining to this video, though, it kinda bothers me a tad when he goes off about fact checking. I AGREE that these types of videos should be fact checked rigorously. But at the same time, if something small is missed (like how long it had been since TL played a match, towards the end of the video) I really don't think it's that huge of a deal. It's not even THAT important in telling the story of this C9 run. Mistakes happen for everyone. Things slip through the cracks sometimes. Idk, I also give Dom the same benefit of the doubt when he mispeaks or whatever. It just happens.
Bro everyone kept giving balls rumble, I couldnt believe it at the time. At these worlds he was like d2 in soloq and teams just gave him the only champs he was actually good at
Sad to see dom talking about old lcs bc is how we feel about cblol. Changes are scary, as someone who works a lot watching cblol in baiano is one of the way i can relax and laugh, shit has been so many years, hope things workout i don't want to find a new thing to watch
Man I miss that era of LCS. That era is what made esports and Riot did everything in their power to destroy what actually made the League pro scene popular and exciting.
25:48 death times were insane back in the day, you had time to walk your dog, eat, take a shower, take a shit and you would still come back and wait hahaha
The last 10 minutes just being Dom reliving all of his trauma nonstop from that last series against C9 was quite entertaining (sorry Dom). I agree that more content from when you were playing pro like this is fun to watch to hear your perspective as someone that lived it.
This was when C9 made me a fan, it was my first time watching eSports, C9 on that gauntlet was magical, I was watching the series live for the first time. I just went for my gut and thought "Cloud9" was a cool team name and supported them. Good ol dayssss.
He says championship points from regular season are gone (in a confusing way but okay) "for good reason", even though an incentive like that in hindsight probably helped a lot in making the regular season games more meaningful and thus competitive and enjoyable.
Dom with c9 would have actually been nuts. Meteos was insane but looked so much better because hai was his mid laner and understood jungle really well. Dom knew what midlaners needed a lot but his mids never knew what dom needed. Hai and dom would have perfectly matched each other
You deserved better, I remember watching back then and even though I was a fan of a different team, I always had respect for you, felt like you were always popping off.
The split before the bracket stage at 37 minutes was my introduction to the lcs and Gravity was my favorite team cause Keane went 7/0/3 on Urgot mid and i thought it was the coolest thing ever. Oh, to be young and naive again.
Move also had a useful a repeateable jungling method of getting sightstone on nunu and just eating the other jungler camps and warding their whole jungle. A pro strat that actually worked in silver
Mister Dominic, we've talked about this... I know it's hard but It's been 9 years, you have to let go or our therapy session wont work. No, I already told you piglet isn't hiding under your bed.
THOSE TYPES OF VIDEO ARE LIKE THERAPY FOR DOM ICANT reliving traumas all over the place kafjbwqekjfbekqwj Edit: Dom is the original meme of JUST ONE BAAAAD GAAAAME (or series)🤡
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Love how this went from Dom being hyped about the old days talking about old stories and friends to him depressed about piglet again.
Facts 🤣
its the circle of things. no matter what it always goes back to piglet lol
@@jasonnash4452 when the shitter of the team who gets treated like the golden boy is the reason your team flopped in the end, it would leave a bad taste in your mouth.
the piglet hate in this one was legendary
Honestly if piglet dropped his ego and had a real coach then he woulda easily been an actual top 5 adc in pro play.
He had potential to be amazing even after he left SKT but he just thought he was better than everyone and wouldn't listen to anyone.
He was trash like JKL, the 2 carried by faker and rookie
I never liked him, he always gave me the impression that he is weak minded, a mechanical prodigy but lack the mental fortitude, a shame indeed.
@@luispuicon4895 JKL, Jackeylove??
12:30 Being roomies with the very person that would reverse sweep you in gauntlet is one hell of a Hollywood movie plot that actually happened.
@fiorane How do you even hype yourself for that? If it was a friendly match I would show him what's up, but in a situation where you know what's went behind the scenes would you be up to take away his chance to qualify for world's?
It didn't reverse weep him, it ended 3-1
Plot twist: Hai orchestrated the entire situation of him "getting kicked from the team" so that he could become Dom's roommate and scout intel so they could reverse sweep them in gauntlet.
52:20 is Dom reliving his trauma, poor guy didn't deserve Piglet happening to him man
can you explain what happen between them? like what's the drama?
@@MrAirZone25 generally, Piglet was known to have a super huge ego and would also just run it down constantly
There's also a doc that liquid did years ago and there were massive issues between piglet and dardoch too
@@LeTomski1998 ah ok, thank you
That TL vs C9 got Dom PTSD hard.
the fucking scream and breaking of mental at 52:23 was so fucking funny
Watching Dom slip into insanity watching the TL series is peak. Im pumped that he turned to content creation though.
Yo Dom not going to lie i rather watch this type of content of you chilling to old League era, especially since you experienced it first hand rather than watching u lose ur mind watching LEC.
I agree, but watching him rage does make me happy too... 50 50?
define chilling
define chilling
craziest part of the whole doc is how sneaky looks like a real human
@@oneeyedguy99 It was before the gooning consumed him
Calling a remake on an 11 year old game is peak iwd
Dom conftronts his trauma
Time may heal wounds, but wont delete dom's hatred for piglet
LMFAOOOO Dom going psychoschizo in the last 8 minute of this video, skipping around the vod of c9 tl game like a mad man, shit is wild bro
I was fucking dieing for 8 min straight him malding at 10 year old trauma.
The best part about this video is Dom watching it while sitting in his C9 chair.
Watch this YT chat. You can actually pinpoint the second when IWDominate heart rips in half, annnndddddddddd now 57:45
He looks the exact same in the video and in the reaction lmaooooo
Hahahaha
Love how at the beginning dom was like... "Nah bro, C9 benched Hai and then we took him in and he was my roommate and we were homies..."
*A few minutes later*
"FUCK YOU HAI"
"The gragas e flash, you guys remember that" one of the reasons iwd was my favorite player ever. Im actually tearing up writing this comment. Thanks dom for so many great memories and always being one of the realist in league.
The Madison Square garden remix. lol actual goosebumps thinkin back to that. The reason I became a gragas otp
Ur a gem, don’t change g
I always thought Dom was actually his biggest doubter. Like people don’t realize how good he was but like that Riot ban genuinely ruined his entire career, seriously belive he could have been in the LCS this entire time just recently retiring if things went differently
You have no idea what you are talking about
xddddd I feel so bad for Dom in the end, I can feel his pain reliving this 😭
Dom watching the game at the end is real re watching high school football tapes from 15 years ago energy lmao I love it, I need more of stuff like that
Piglet actually ended dom's career lol
@richie1496 Nah watching him eat three towers shots for no reason on Corki would make me get up and personally German suplex Piglet on stage, if he plays to his range once Xpecial do the allistar combo on Jensen if he had full hp he would have cleared that fight.
Dom was so triggered he didn't see thats why he kept yelling "Why is Piglet 1 HP !!!".
clicked for nostalgia, stayed for the Piglet rants
58:30 ! Cant man 😂😂😂 " i'm happy you're happy" lmao
47:00 is what we're all here for! The Piglet portion of this video!
This is legit one of the best Dom reacts. I remember you were a beast.
Oh my god, they were roommates 🥴
Great vid as always, love hearing the classic tales of early LCS
1:00:08 ... this is why i love dom lol
And of course it was just a joke 😂
Season 5 was the year I started really playing and getting into league, and C9 was the first team that caught my eye due to their hype in 2014, and me rewatching their worlds performance on that year. Then that dreaded summer pslit happened, and that miracle run started. Honestly that is still to this day my most enjoyable time watching pro league, I really hope a time where you really felt like a competing team was YOUR team and that you always backed them up comes back again someday, but we can look back at these moments and cherish them for what the league was and why we fell in love with it
Only reason C9 beat TiP was because it was when XiaoWeiXiao got his ban for eloboosting so Gate had to play
Turns out he was eloboosting Jack who immediatly reported him to riot
@@onetakehoovie5955 are you serious lol
@@user-ux3jp9oo7r nah hes capping
@@user-ux3jp9oo7r is just a joke lol
52:12 Do's career really was a tragedy
I ain't gonna lie after the C9 benching the whole roster n kicking Sneaky n shit I'm not ultimately surprised to hear that C9 booted Hai and it wasn't a retirement, probably the same with Meteos choosing to step down too, kinda rough.
@wanderintaco The fact that he had to play like he wanted to retire too, in the end it was all lack of cohesion for the players, Meteos was a farm heavy jungler that would take the role of the 3rd carry so having Hai roam alot and feeding his resources into him made sense, but as soon as the meta shifted they could have easily find even champs for him to play and still be the leader, if Crown can win worlds playing Malzahar you can't tell me Hai couldn't play things like karma or Morgana mid and go even in lane.
Dom: "isn't it funny that none of the top 3 junglers made worlds?"
Jungle was so shit that Hai shot calling was worth more than the whole role. Absolutely awful role.
It was more fun. The level may have been way lower, but being able to follow personalities like you, scarra, xpeke, dyrus, qt, the entire M5 roster etc. made the scene way more entertaining. There's not that many established personalities to follow anymore, and many of the people i grew cheering for especially in korea are long since retired. At this point i watch the shoulder content more than i do the actual matches.
"look how triggered WE were"
>Its only Dom malding
What world were we living in where Gravity was 9-3 and C9 was 3-9 and Meteos-less. It was a sad day when Meteos stepped down only mollified by Hai returning (albeit as a Jungler). But that Gauntlet run was absolute fire (and not just the heartburn it caused from all the close calls). I remember going into Worlds, EU slimebag TomatoCannon said that C9 was a terrible team that wouldn't win a single game. And I think it was Jatt who pointed out that Balls was stuck in Diamond 2 in Korean SQ. Then right away C9 go out and beat Europe's undefeated champion Fnatic and Balls gets a PentaKill on Darius! NA's 7th place Gauntlet team beat a team than ran through all of EU undefeated. LOL
Love the props for HAI! People forget that HAI was both a great Zed and a great Gragas when Grags Mid was a meta pick (not only for Scarra). hai not only beat Bjergsen while playing Teemo, but got a Penta on Orianna against TSM near the end of his career while playing for Golden Guardians. They then stupidly replaced him for Korean Mid Mickey the next split, and that worked out so well that Mickey just packed up and flew back to Korea in the middle of the split and never came back.
I was just a youngster watching LCS with my big brother and man was I glad I got to watch some of my favorite LCS players all time duke it out. Dom has the right sentiment about it, watching these guys make something from basically nothing was so much more enjoyable as a fan. Even knowing we werent getting out of groups with death groups at worlds was so much fun back then.
This was awesome, Dom. Could definitely do with some more of these
2014 spring was when i started watching league, My favorite team was dig and qt was my favorite player. i went back and watched all of the archived matches from 2013 and the challengers scene and relegation. summoning insight was my shit. good times man.
early LCS was so much fun, man. The players had personality, the rivalries, the story lines, pro players trash talking each other on social media.
crazy ptsd lol, piglet did my guy dirty as fuck with that one trick vayne
Never thought I'd enjoy watching Dom have a PTSD flashback about Piglet and Xpecial ruining his entire career but here we are.
Piglet was the bigger issue. Dude had an ego and was omega toxic.
The malding in the last 10 minutes had me fucking dying, my condolences IWD. I was a big Cloud9 fan back in the day, never saw the other side of it. Tragic, rip.
I had no idea about the passion the man had for the game. After almost 10 years he is still so emotional about this
Petition to get all these guys back together to play this series out again so dom can relive the golden days
Hai was the GOAT Of LCS not just C9 , aint nobody remotely close to his understanding of the game and timing at that time.
I’ve played since season 1 and This is seriously the golden era. Rip❤
I think it'd be really cool for Dom to do some kind of video essay like this himself, both since he has the perspective of a pro player, and also because he himself experienced a large portion of LCS history firsthand.
As a sliiiight nitpick pertaining to this video, though, it kinda bothers me a tad when he goes off about fact checking. I AGREE that these types of videos should be fact checked rigorously. But at the same time, if something small is missed (like how long it had been since TL played a match, towards the end of the video) I really don't think it's that huge of a deal. It's not even THAT important in telling the story of this C9 run. Mistakes happen for everyone. Things slip through the cracks sometimes. Idk, I also give Dom the same benefit of the doubt when he mispeaks or whatever. It just happens.
This Cloud 9 team was so fun to watch , even their streams. Sneaky and Meteos were THE duo, still are!
Bro everyone kept giving balls rumble, I couldnt believe it at the time. At these worlds he was like d2 in soloq and teams just gave him the only champs he was actually good at
Funny that dom was just talking about how someone like Xperial would help fnc and xpecial just runs it down under turret 🤣
Sad to see dom talking about old lcs bc is how we feel about cblol. Changes are scary, as someone who works a lot watching cblol in baiano is one of the way i can relax and laugh, shit has been so many years, hope things workout i don't want to find a new thing to watch
Man I miss that era of LCS. That era is what made esports and Riot did everything in their power to destroy what actually made the League pro scene popular and exciting.
Slumped in the chair towards the end of the video. Youre still a legend
25:48 death times were insane back in the day, you had time to walk your dog, eat, take a shower, take a shit and you would still come back and wait hahaha
The last 10 minutes just being Dom reliving all of his trauma nonstop from that last series against C9 was quite entertaining (sorry Dom).
I agree that more content from when you were playing pro like this is fun to watch to hear your perspective as someone that lived it.
the lcs was way more hype back then
This was the funniest shit ever. Dom's pain is so real. It's funny and sad to watch him relive it.
Bro seeing TDK Smoothie, Seraph, and Emperor and T8 Goldenglue…
Man I straight up forgot they were around at that time
Banger reaction video
never knew watching someone reminisce about when they lost would be so enjoyable haha
I have not watched LCS in a good ~ 8 years and man esports was peak around this time
Haven't heard a piglet rant in a while, oh how beautiful they are
32:00 the piglet PTSD kicks in.
This was when C9 made me a fan, it was my first time watching eSports, C9 on that gauntlet was magical, I was watching the series live for the first time. I just went for my gut and thought "Cloud9" was a cool team name and supported them. Good ol dayssss.
This is great content, from the greatest era of esports!
I haven’t watched Lcs for years but I’m always happy to watch whatever’s on your channel ❤
Truly the greatest run in LCS, gauntlet runs were so hype back then holy
15:05 As a viewer from that time I can confidently back Dom up on this. Competitive League was so much more fun to watch back then.
Hearing rivington again is a throooow back.
It was wild he denied hai's injuries being a factor for the retirement stuff.
He says championship points from regular season are gone (in a confusing way but okay) "for good reason", even though an incentive like that in hindsight probably helped a lot in making the regular season games more meaningful and thus competitive and enjoyable.
The actual best miracle run was Clutch Gaming in 2019 going from 9th place to Worlds through the gauntlet
I would empty the bank account rn in exchange to go back to this time
Dom with c9 would have actually been nuts. Meteos was insane but looked so much better because hai was his mid laner and understood jungle really well. Dom knew what midlaners needed a lot but his mids never knew what dom needed. Hai and dom would have perfectly matched each other
You deserved better, I remember watching back then and even though I was a fan of a different team, I always had respect for you, felt like you were always popping off.
Hai is a goat for getting kicked from the team for another mid laner and still coming back and trying his best with his replacement
one of the best reaction video ever, ahahahaha i love you dom
Even this video turned into another Piglet flame angle lmfao
as a viewer it was 10000 times more fun
People who don't know how good Dom was in the League just didn't watch the League back then. Full stop.
Dom makes point about Hai almost in response to the Meteos MVP comment, only for Pastrytime to immediately say the exact same things after.
The split before the bracket stage at 37 minutes was my introduction to the lcs and Gravity was my favorite team cause Keane went 7/0/3 on Urgot mid and i thought it was the coolest thing ever. Oh, to be young and naive again.
we get to see your best friend piglet
lmfao the last 10 minutes were so good with his commentary ahahahahaha
IWasBanned back at it again
tsm and c9 both had some of the greatest gauntlet runs of League history
these kind of players made me like lcs way more then the europe version wich i diddnt watch.
but with these hype people gone the hype also is:)
Poor dom xD all the emotions here. Remember to feed your editor in the basement after this one LOL xD
Move also had a useful a repeateable jungling method of getting sightstone on nunu and just eating the other jungler camps and warding their whole jungle. A pro strat that actually worked in silver
They really refined out the best parts of the game since this time(gimme that ap yi and ap sion).
Piglet changed Dom's whole career to become a professional hater.
Mister Dominic, we've talked about this... I know it's hard but It's been 9 years, you have to let go or our therapy session wont work. No, I already told you piglet isn't hiding under your bed.
Rip Complexity
We need a fanfic regression about dom going back to fix this roster
THOSE TYPES OF VIDEO ARE LIKE THERAPY FOR DOM ICANT reliving traumas all over the place kafjbwqekjfbekqwj
Edit: Dom is the original meme of JUST ONE BAAAAD GAAAAME (or series)🤡
Gotta go back like 10 years to say good things about LCS
Damn, the nostalgia
You guys gave Balls Rumble smh
Watched league from s4 on and yeah old lcs was peak gaming man 🥲
Dom being the single dislike is poetic.