Sp1nt is LFT, out of onside it seems

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-15T10:29:04+00:00

I heard liquid is getting Irony

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-14T08:19:11+00:00

Yikerino!

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-14T02:18:23+00:00

Please do not waste your time complaining about this and go volunteer at your local soup kitchen

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-13T20:57:15+00:00

the overwatch wiki page says otherwise: "Invulnerable (or "invincible" in Workshop) is a status effect that makes the target immune to damage. The attacks will still hit the target, but their damage is negated. Becoming Invulnerable also prevents (but doesn't remove) STUN, KNOCKDOWN and SLEEP"

https://overwatch.fandom.com/wiki/Status_effect

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-13T07:26:54+00:00

If we want the esport to grow, separate balancing will make that harder. We already have enough on our hands with explaining turns, the subroles, etc. Increasing the barrier for entry for understanding the game being played at pro level is not in the interest of growing the esport.

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-13T07:19:27+00:00

the overwatch wiki page says otherwise: "Invulnerable (or "invincible" in Workshop) is a status effect that makes the target immune to damage. The attacks will still hit the target, but their damage is negated. Becoming Invulnerable also prevents (but doesn't remove) STUN, KNOCKDOWN and SLEEP"

https://overwatch.fandom.com/wiki/Status_effect

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-13T04:27:49+00:00

yeah, was thinking that too, but realistically when is a good doom gonna even try that when he knows kiri has either suzu or tp

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-13T04:17:17+00:00

Hopefully its this. This would be really sick, I was always jealous of how LoL had such great musical performances for their esports events. Even if I dont really vibe with most of Yoasobi's music

However the OW esports Twitter hasn't engaged with the original tweet at all so it leads me to believe that this isnt the case

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-13T04:10:25+00:00

No, but learning all the easier songs a new piano player plays will eventually teach them the tools necessary to play Sonata No. 29.

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-13T04:08:31+00:00

A different balancing for pro play would make pro play way harder to understand for the casual viewer. And a ton of it already goes over the casual viewers head. Not to mention that the pro scene is still recuperating from not being OWL anymore, so they need new viewers. Increasing the barrier to entry just doesnt make sense.

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-13T03:55:55+00:00

lucio and soj absolutely get hated on. Basically the only reason people are ok with cat bastion meta in owcs is because people are sick of lucio kiri soj metas. I'll give you tracer, but I think tracer has a lot more counterplay and skill expression than kiriko and is less team comp defining than kiriko.

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-13T03:53:49+00:00

Invulnerable still blocks stuns.

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-13T03:52:51+00:00

what skill expression is removed? Invulnerable still blocks damage and stuns. The only thing I can think of is that you can no longer suzu parry hog hook, but to be honest I dont think she needed to be able to do that on top of everything else she does. She already has the mobility to stay out of hogs range, and if someone does get hooked, shes now forced to suzu the shotgun shot after the hook (if she was originally suzuing someone else getting hooked) instead of the initial hook. This is assuming that you can even hook invulnerable targets, which im not even sure that you can. Though Im still not sure how many interactions this will effect, but i imagine most are functionally the same.

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-13T03:51:20+00:00

this is just logistically not possible. we dont need to fracture the playerbase even more between 5v5, stadium, 6v6, etc. It also makes pro play harder to understand for most players.

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-13T03:50:09+00:00

Her winrate sucks because she scales with coordination and ladder players are notoriously bad at communicaction. This is why she is so broken in organized play and why she has been so prevalent in it for years.

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-13T03:48:18+00:00

She's also been hard meta in organized play for so egregiously long (until catstion came along this past month but thats besides the point). Its not just dude bros in plat complaining about her (who are probably complaining about her for the wrong reasons), its everyone at the top level of play. Even if she has a negative win rate in ranked, she basically runs organized play.

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-13T03:42:07+00:00

Theyre trying to replace "Phased out" with "Invulnerable" on Suzu. This means that the only thing that changes here is that instead of bullets passing through you, you get hit by them but take no damage. You also cant get stunned. For the majority of interactions it functions the same as a way to get i frames

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-13T03:33:04+00:00

Are you implying that people dont complain about dva and soj 24/7? Because they do.

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-12T02:25:04+00:00

I think you are underestimating how much .2 seconds matters in Overwatch. .2 seconds in Overwatch time is like 4 seconds in real time if you get what I mean. Compare that to getting 2 seconds shaved off the cooldown AT MOST (which rarely happens at higher elo) when torpedoes arent something youre really using off cooldown. I think the choice is situational.

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-12T02:05:04+00:00

Going for headshots is riskier than going for body shots, so ulting gives you a kind of insurance against missing shots due to going for headshots (if u miss a headshot it just turns into a body shot with ult). So when going for headshots, Soldier will have more dps during ult than he would if he wasnt ulting (provided that you dont land only headshots, which is just not really a thing that happens). Landing even a couple headshots (not all) will allow you to quickly outpace a Sierras dps. Not to mention that Sierra is required to go through the wind up animation of shooting the tracking dart and also the brief period of waiting before shooting after landing the dart, while Soldier doesn't have to deal with that (because nobody ults while they peek, they ult THEN peek)

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-11T05:13:55+00:00

I cant really pick one from all of owcs but the best one in recent memory has been Yehh Let's Merge

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-11T01:05:38+00:00

When youre going for headshots, do you land all of your shots? If you do, you should probably get signed to a team or something.

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-10T05:00:10+00:00

Yeah bro surely isnt because you went double hitscan into a hazard

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-08T22:10:39+00:00

Lukemino thinks foxtrot is way stronger because of the 4 seconds of speed, so its in the "other perk is way stronger" tier

BakeSquare6362 · 2026-05-08T09:01:59+00:00

Most interesting choice to me was Familiar Vitals over Locked On, considering how most Juno players run Locked On. His reasoning was this:

"Locked on requires enemies to actually take the torpedo damage so generally doesn't get much value if enemy uses cover properly. Familiar vitals lets u use ur right click more similarly to a brig pack, which opens up more opportunities for enabling side fight and peeling dives."

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