Team shows how to become a champion in the USA – buy Korean, retrain your top killer to support

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In the USA, the team “Cloud9” won the League of Legends championship for the second year in a row. You only have one American in the LoL team. Two strong purchases from South Korea are bearing the brunt. After much testing, Cloud9 has now apparently found its identity as a branch of South Korea.

This is the story of Cloud9: Cloud9 has had a strange evolution:

  • For years, “Cloud9” was a US team that was progressive and alternative. A rarity in the macho world of League of Legends, their top player was an ADC named Sneaky, a fan of cross-dressing. Sneaky was on the team from 2013 to 2020, relying largely on North Americans.
  • Suddenly, starting in 2019, they got ambitious, threw Sneaky out and got the best players in Europe for a lot of money, such as the Dane Zven (ADC, a pentakill master) or the Croatian Perkz (midlaner and absolute leader)
  • When that didn’t work out, they started a daring experiment and turned Cloud9 into a South Korean branch office from 2021. It worked now on the second attempt.

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    First expensive stars from Europe, then Cloud9 relied fully on South Korea

    How about South Korea? However, the first experiment to fully rely on South Korea failed in 2021. The analyst “LS” was brought in, who wanted to build a 10-man squad and bet on the top laner Summit from South Korea – the previous top laner, the Australian Fudge, was put in the mid lane.

    The previous star player Zven, an ADC, was even relegated to the lower leagues because a new South Korean, Berserker, has now joined the team. In addition, Zven is said to have insulted the jungler Blaber so much after a mistake that there was no longer any room for him in the first team.

    However, this experiment failed after just a few weeks for reasons that are still unclear: Coach LS was surprisingly dismissed, and Summit also left the team a short time later.

    Strong Koreans and an experienced ADC as support are the formula for success

    That was the formula for success: Cloud9 then switched again in 2022:

  • Australia’s Fudge (20, cover picture) went back into the top lane
  • For the midlane they got EMENES (22), a new man from South Korea
  • The super killer Zven (25), who had actually already been sorted out, was remodeled into a supporter and let him play alongside Berserker (19, title picture) in the botlane
  • Ironically, the much scolded, only American in the team, Blaber (23), has remained stable in his post in the jungle since 2018

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    That was the reward for the hard work: title number 2.

    3 players from Cloud9 are ranked 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the KDA in the playoffs

    And are they successful with that? Yes, in this combination they have now actually won the last 2 championships in the USA:

  • Cloud9 won the 2023 spring split in regulation time, 14-4
  • In the playoffs they only gave up 2 matches and won title number 2 with ease

    • The strongest team parts of Cloud9 are mid lane and the bot lane:

  • Berserker is probably one of the strongest players in the US overall. He ranks #1 in the stats with a KDA of 6.9 over 11 playoff games.
  • Zven is experiencing his second spring as a supporter. He is second in the playoffs with a KDA of 6.5
  • EMENES is in 3rd place with 4.9.

    • Now at the weekend Cloud9 confidently eliminated the surprise team Golden Guardians in the final, who had previously ended Bjergsen’s career;

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