Marvel Rivals has introduced again the thrill of Overwatch in its heyday: goofy hero interactions, legendary performs, and, in fact, vital errors that value your complete match. Overwatch’s notorious “C9” meme has made a comeback and one of many former esports gamers chargeable 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 group in 2017 and was partially chargeable for popularizing a time period thrown round locally to at the present time. The C9 meme was born in a match throughout Overwatch Apex Season 2 the place Håkansson’s group 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 instances, prompting folks to spam “C9 LUL” in Twitch chat. Håkansson occurred to be the plain offender within the third spherical when he ignored the purpose to tug off an final on Soldier: 76, however the meme was a group effort.
C9 is the very first thing you see in chat at any time when 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 shifting primarily based on the group that touched them final, which makes C9s surprisingly widespread. It’s the curse of team-based video games, the place a lot else is occurring that it’s straightforward to imagine another person will deal with the target for you. It’s simply ten instances extra embarrassing while you’re on a professional group and no one takes accountability.
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 might be a C9.