Former Overwatch professional begs Marvel Rivals gamers to cease saying C9

Marvel Rivals has introduced again the thrill of Overwatch in its heyday: goofy hero interactions, legendary performs, and, in fact, important errors that value your entire match. Overwatch’s notorious “C9” meme has made a comeback and one of many former esports gamers accountable for it needs it didn’t.

“MARVEL RIVALS’ BOOMING POPULARITY MEANS A TON OF NEW PLAYERS ARE LEARNING WHAT A ‘C9’ [IS] AND THAT I CREATED IT. LET ME MOVE ON PLEASE,” Lucas “Mendo” Håkansson wrote on X (previously Twitter).

Håkansson performed on Cloud9’s Overwatch staff in 2017 and was partially accountable for popularizing a time period thrown round locally to this present day. The C9 meme was born in a match throughout Overwatch Apex Season 2 the place Håkansson’s staff failed to the touch the target and misplaced the spherical regardless of decisively profitable the battle. After which they made the identical mistake three extra occasions, prompting folks to spam “C9 LUL” in Twitch chat. Håkansson occurred to be the apparent perpetrator within the third spherical when he ignored the purpose to tug off an final on Soldier: 76, however the meme was a staff effort.

C9 is the very first thing you see in chat every time Overwatch gamers are too distracted with getting kills to the touch the target, and it’s beginning to seem in Marvel Rivals now, too. It doesn’t assist that payloads in Marvel Rivals maintain transferring based mostly on the staff that touched them final, which makes C9s surprisingly widespread. It’s the curse of team-based video games, the place a lot else is happening that it’s simple to imagine another person will deal with the target for you. It’s simply ten occasions extra embarrassing whenever you’re on a professional staff and no one takes duty.

Even when the precise definition remains to be debated in Reddit threads (does it depend if the purpose is just too harmful to step on?), Marvel Rivals proves that so long as there’s an goal to disregard, there can be a C9.