Sneaky on OP picks: "Zac is pretty much uncounterable. The dumbest thing is you don’t even have to hit your E anymore."
By Sharon Coone
Jun 15, 2017
Interview with C9 Sneaky, Week 2 NA LCS.
Q: Let’s talk about the dildo packaging in this tweet.
Well okay a fan gave me to me a while ago at LCS. But then... I think I told the story before Jensen and Bunny like put the dildo in the jacuzzi and just let it stay there because they were trying to surprise someone going in there, and then it like shed because no one was in there. It ruined the water in the jacuzzi. So I just... I don't know I had the package around for some reason.
Q: Are you surprised when teams let Zac, Xayah, and Rakan through banning phase?
I'm not surprised as much about the Xayah, Rakan leaving open. I don't really deem them as OP yet personally. I think they're good. But I don't know if it's just they win no matter what. It's a really good team fight because Rakan's engage range is just insane. And I don't think there's literally anything you can do. Like if you buy QSS I don't think it really helps you because I think you may be able to cleanse the charm and then flash to get out of the knock up. But if they have any other sort of follow up during the timing of the charm then you probably just die anyways. But yeah is this really long annoying engage but they're not that strong. You know like levels three up till six. So I think there's moments you can abuse them together. But Zac I think is pretty much perma-ban. I think he's pretty much uncounterable. The dumbest thing about the rework is you don't even have to hit your E anymore.
Like before Zac completely relied on his jump hitting. But now it's like the jump still the exact same and like the insanely long range. But you just hit your Q now. If you hit your Q, they get slowed until you can hit the second part of it and then they get pulled backwards and like stunned. So they're just dead. And then if that happens, you can like kidnap them with your ulti. He has so many annoyances about his kit now that weren't there as much before.
Q: How do you guys bounce back after C9’s losses?
Our games are really weird. Like I think we're out of sync a lot just with what we're doing. It didn't seem like we were just on the same page at all. So we had a lot of issues that just came from the game like that because even though we're winning some of the games. There was like sudden moments in the game where we couldn't decide what the best thing to do was because we just weren't on the same page. Like it wasn't super obvious to any of us. So we talked about it in a team meeting basically and just sorted out our feelings. I think we didn't really look at the games, we just kind of talked like what our emotions were during the games. So, I think it was a mixture of just talking about it and figuring what went wrong. And Impact coming back into practice because Impact's just super talkative in the game. He's really loud.
I mean Smoothie talks a lot too. But like all of us try to contribute, and it's just those two guys usually have like the loudest voices. So when we don't have Impact there, we have Ray instead. He's talkative, but his English isn't as good. So sometimes he won't have the right words to say on like what's going on in the game. So I think Impact kind of reinstated that back in the team. So. Bringing back the good communication.