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Overwatch vod reviews and opinion articles

[acidhanny]

“average team reverse sweeps 3 times a year” factoid just statistical error. average team reverse sweeps 0 times a year. Revers Sweep Seoul, who lives in a cave & reverse sweeps over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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[bunny-blaster]

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personal life issues. may do a final summer showdown rundown for Toronto this stage. Or do 2 games at once later this week or next week. not sure I'll be able to put out any decent content for the time being.

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now that gladiators have taken down the shock, things finally seem to be settling down in the power r—-what’s this?! BY GOD, IT’S EU OVERWATCH WITH A STEEL CHAIR

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Today is a sad day for rain. But please continue supporting teams like O2 Blast that do there best to follow in the footsteps of Runaway.

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thank you for everything 💙

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Toronto vs Houston (super belated)

This took forever because I wanted to try and grab so ult stats to write this. Ended up helping family and procrastinating.

I forgot to title this shitty picture. Ultimates used per map. I have it in detail of time to built, time to use, and by round. But didn't quite feel like breaking that down into a chart just yet. I started using this kind of stat tracking when I coached a low elo team to get a snapshot of team fights and see which players were holding back and delaying team fights. Most people at low elos don't built ults at the same rate so it disjoints team fights.

I wanted to do a goofy little MS Paint mock up of the stats I gathered. I think at one point on Numbani (Map 4) it took the tanks over 4 minutes to build 1 tank ult. Aspire never built an ult on Volskaya (map 3). But Lastro was extremely consistent all match. Na1st and Aspire did really well first map. Sado and Michelle even looked good first map.

Map 1 on Lijiang Tower showed a lot of hope. This was Aspire's best map of the match he built ults extremely fast. While Na1st played a role of low engagement but still found value and never hesitated. Michelle was strong this map playing strong in his neutral game and never needing his ult. Sado even looked good on Orisa. The supports never wavered all match even when everything went downhill.

At this point Toronto looks like they mite be able to compete with Houston after taking map 1. It did not go well after this map.

The 2nd map was Rialto. Houston is starting to strong hand the frontline. The Toronto DPS have almost no space to work with and can't do anything. At one point on attack Toronto uses 5 ults in a team fight, doesn't kill a single person, and loses the team fight. This is really the beginning of the issues. Sado and Michelle struggle to built ults. Nothing is combo'd correctly. Synergy is zero. It becomes very obvious that Toronto didn't understand the meta for this month.

Map 3 is just sad. Extremely sad. At one point Toronto beats itself in a team fight by accidentally falling off the map and staggering there Widow and Mercy behind enemy lines for another 40 seconds after this happened. Toronto barely attempted to play the game of overwatch.

Map 4 they tried to fight but the glaring difference in meta understanding showed thru. Sado and Michelle struggled again on the front line. Lastro played consistent the whole match and tried his best to hold it together. The tanks couldn't find there footing and the DPS struggled because of it.

Its honestly mildly upsetting thinking about how poorly Toronto played this stage considering how talented its coaching staff is. The meta has been torn between Rush and Double Shield but they did a shit job at both. I like to think they would of played better without Covid issues but they didn't look good in these kind of situations even with Heesu available. A great DPS like Heesu can only carry a team so far if they can't play the meta correctly.

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Still finishing my watch thru of Tor vs Hou and grabbing my personal stats. Its time consuming but Ive also been watching my nieces and nephews last few days. This is what i get for putting it off till later in the week.

Also been playing smite with friends and demanding them teach me a build that breaks tanks so i can teach tanks fear 1 game at a time. I also play hanzo in smite. I think he's called Hou Yi.

I also need to catch up on the Hangzhou Homestand. I caught some of the Dallas vs Florida game while watching kids and that first map was insane. Fielder built 3 Moira ults before a team even capped the point.

P.S Blizzard dumb af. Anyone with a brain knew this was going to happen with Moira when that patch hit. Hero is broken and IMMORTAL. Reaper on current patch mite be really broken for majority of player base on current patch. Not sure how reaper will look in pro play once hero bans come off.

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Toronto vs Covid

Due to health issues with Logix and other players Toronto had to sign Aspire to a 30 day contract to compete this weekend. So in today's match against the San Francisco Shock the Defiant were a little short handed.

Not much to say. I'll try to go a little in depth but the Shock have been struggling with playing the meta this season. Sado has been the main tank struggling the most this season (he did step up this match). And Toronto was forced to play with an NA Contenders player who overperformed and did a great job showcasing the talent from NA Contenders. I heard a lot of shouting to sign him for the year but they only won 1 map. Admittingly he was one of the few players to look good on Junkertown while playing Widow so far this season.

Most maps weren't very competitive with Toronto really only standing tall when Aspire overperformed on Widow on Junkertown. Na1st tried to shoulder a lot of the weight this match and Sado did his best to improve and become a pillar of strength for the team. But the Shock cleaned up and Glister finally started showing signs of life which is great new if your a Shock fan.

It was honestly hard for me to focus on the match knowing at how big of a disadvantage Toronto was at. And will how positive the community was about a Tier 2 Contenders player playing well even if his team was losing pretty badly. I think Aspire should keep on the 30 day contract but if anything like this happens again he should get the first phone call and brought in again this season.

Tomorrow Toronto plays against Houston and it will probably be worse. But hopefully Sado shows even more improvement and team plays with better synergy. Toronto mite finish this stage 1-3 and hurt its overall standings for later in the season. Hopefully the players can get healthy, vaccinated, and return to form before its too late.

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Fusion Uni playing right now in contenders trials https://youtu.be/Jdcz1LvnV3M

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Was talking with an overwatch friend of many years. I brought up more of my issues with Overwatch 2 going 5v5. A solution I wanted to say was giving DPS more neutral game utility. An extra junkrat trap, maybe a faster CD on Sym tele, even extra sonics for Hanzo and extra mines for widow. Just to alleviate some of the pressure from the tanks. Creating scenarios for the solo tank to play around. Putting more skilled decisions in the DPS hands, not just a few, but all of them. Would make it feel more like the rest of the team is playing with the tank and not that the tank is playing alone.

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THE RAT RETURNS

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APAC Thoughts

Was going to make a million posts just now but this isn't twitter.

-Isn't Shy also the Ashe player for the Spark why this man popping off on Echo too.

-Choisehwan was known as a monster on Echo but dear god this man ethered the entirety of NYXL that match.

-Echo players if you read this im free on Thursday night and would like to hang out. Please respond to this and then hang out with me on Thursday night when I’m free.

-Eileen put on an absolute fucking clinic on Doomfist on Nepal.

-I believe at one point I saw the Charge running Orisa Winston and winning. Ok.

-Dragons, like many good teams, seem to be struggling when the hitscan carry and the main tank carry aren't able to carry as hard. LIP and Fate are probably the two best performing players on Shanghai this season. Winston is a struggle bus most the time. I believe its because there's not pressure from Tracer and no ability to swap to Reinhardt and a playable meta. If Winson isn't good on a certain section of a map or situation you still have to play Winston. Even worse if your main tank can't swap and play another main tank as well. At least with the Dragons I feel like its a coaching decision or team not feeling comfortable with Orisa. Fate is really really really good on Wrecking Ball and serviceable on Orisa.

-Reaper. Honestly no Tracer no Sombra. Genji sucks. You just want a DPS with sustain in the backline taking some focus away from the Front line. Reaper can alleviate some pressure from a Winston. But no where near as well as a Tracer or Sombra.

Rant Below Please Ignore

-Last thing. To touch on my hatred of 5v5 and the devs. They know absolutely nothing. Right now were seeing Winston Zarya and Rein Dva (instead of normal Winston Dva and Rein Zarya). Reaper being used to help Winston. Brig as a healer for flying heroes. Brig still. If you asked them to explain this or even begin to patch around this to change the game and bring refreshing change... Oh wait they buffed Moira and gave her a constant immortality lamp. She's even hard to kill at the pro level let alone the casual player base. Care about Casuals yet put fucking Moira god of not dying to live.

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Woke up saw two of the APAC scores and started ranting about how no one knows the good teams because they don't have good records. Went off about how good the Charge are and that they'll soon start beating "better" teams.

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Than I saw that the Charge won lol.

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Toronto Vs Boston

Welp, this match happened. Sado's struggles at main tank with hero bans were amplified against a team that could easily run Orisa and Sigma. Valentine abused Na1st with his inability to fight back without proper space from his frontline. IM37 was allowed to play Ashe freely. It felt like the entire match Toronto was playing at a disadvantage without being able to play the meta properly.

Sado

Sado is hard struggling right now with Winston being weak this meta. He's not strong at Orisa and its hard to fit Wrecking Ball in even if you want to play a Wrecking Ball/Zarya or Wrecking Ball/Dva. Makes you wonder if they should even consider Beast right now. Beast probably wouldn't fair much better but after this Boston game and with 2 easily harder opponents left to play this month maybe looking at the bench isn't such a bad idea.

Michelle and Na1st

They still look good even during a bad match. Michelle is a monster on Dva even with a weak main tank next to him. Honestly it felt like Valentine just had more space on Echo and IM37 was able to play uncontested and threaten Na1st far too often. These are still the strength of Toronto this meta but they need to figure out the partners next to them so they can fight properly.

Heesugod

Heesu needs a hero besides Hanzo right now. Its not Reaper. Heesu can play hitscan but he seems to be lacking confidence right now for some reason. Struggling some on Dorado. As if he's out of practice.

Conclusion

Hopefully Toronto puts in the work to strengthen the weaknesses they have this meta. Improve its Orisa and Ashe gameplay. Diversify its team comps mid map. Even consider off meta Wrecking Ball comps and heroes people haven't played that much yet. Toronto is 1-1 this Stage but hopefully they don't end 1-3.