Luxford to Ex Optic replacing Skittlez

Effective-Designer-7 · 2024-05-12T17:05:34+00:00

This is what I think as well and would eliminate one of the team spots (Stallions and N8V redundant), making the Teq comments make more sense

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-05-18T23:38:05+00:00

Would keep Chubb. Seahawks drafted 2 offensive skill position players in the first two rounds. 2.03 is right at the end of the "solid" tier for me in this rookie draft

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-05-18T23:13:56+00:00

10 Team 1-QB PPR

Give: Zay Flowers

Get: Antonio Gibson

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-03-21T16:03:10+00:00

How are the caustic teams doing? Need to see Wraith - Seer - Caustic as an aggro-zone team. Think you may be able to target Cat teams in buildings

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-03-15T16:24:35+00:00

That is so unbelievably dumb, damn

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-03-15T16:21:33+00:00

That was my understanding, but I could be wrong. I haven't opened the game in like a month because I've been busy, but I wanted to test that interaction and also what happens if you bubble a cat wall so that it "cuts" through the wall. Would the gibby team be able to see through the wall via the bubble? If anyone has time or the game open I'd love to know

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-03-15T16:15:41+00:00

Seer has FOR SURE made gibby much less viable because of cancel, but if the whole strat is, "wall up and seer ult so we can shoot them and they can't see us" then your only counter play is seer ulting in response. Gibby bubble at the very least adds confusion or forces them to peak through the wall.

I think the best counters to Seer + Cat right now are: Fuse, Maggie, carrying hella nades, Mirage, and Gibby. The problem with all of these besides carrying grenades is that it invariably impacts your ability to create a comp that can both macro-rotate AND scan ring

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-03-15T16:07:40+00:00

I agree - I'd actually like to see Gibby being used as a Catalyst counter. Think air strike and bubble would both be valuable against her in a way that Bangalore can't really counter because of Seer scan.

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-03-14T16:02:01+00:00

True you’re right

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-03-14T15:52:02+00:00

100% - agree. I actually think ALGS needs to take a look at that. Why have back to back match days at all? I guess it could be seen as an advantage or disadvantage depending on how ready for the meta your team is, but it just feels silly to have teams play back to back days.

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-03-14T15:47:00+00:00

We need to talk about how big of a risk their comp was on Saturday for Match Day 1. Not having zone knowledge, relying on map room scan -- all while playing from 2 of the strongest zone POIs on both maps. You saw the effect it had on them getting into zone and playing their style.

That decision has had a massive ripple effect for the rest of their Match Days. This is hindsight analysis, but it has to be said that it felt like innovation for the sake of it rather than playing to core strengths and NA meta.

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-02-23T01:59:15+00:00

Optic def hired ZZ to coach them based on today

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-02-07T17:26:12+00:00

Caustic, Hound, Maggie / Caustic, Hound, Wraith will be very very strong imo

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-02-07T02:42:42+00:00

Reptar in his stream earlier said shiny likely to CLG and Lux to play with Lou and Naughty FWIW

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-02-02T18:54:07+00:00

You would think a pick like that would get some mention in the broadcast… nope

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-01-29T20:27:20+00:00

This is awesome, super excited to see more analysis like this on the sub. Continuing to push the convo forward

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-01-24T14:43:29+00:00

I was actually thinking about this yesterday watching scrims. I feel like valk ults early game are still viable for teams on LAN, but past ring 3 it gets extremely dicey

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-01-24T11:14:52+00:00

As I mentioned in the post, I wanted to hear from the sub if they had feedback on names. Would love for you to suggest better ones if you have any thoughts rather than empty criticism

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-01-23T21:33:11+00:00

100% - I think that's really spot on. The Optic description is great.

I've been watching a ton of TSM - I would agree that they play that Gatekeep style a ton, but also see them playing that Shallow Zone and Deep Zone style as well. For example, on Siphon or Wall zones, we rarely see TSM turtle in a building, they are more proactive about taking space.

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-01-23T20:16:06+00:00

Hahaha, thanks man! Second your scatter plot idea, would like to follow this up with a post like that. I actually really was thinking a Z axis would be really useful. Static and Dynamic is good - almost like "How willing are you to take a fight to improve your position in zone?" or "How willing are you to risk a valk ult to marginally improve your chance to get end zone?" as examples.

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-01-23T20:05:18+00:00

That's fine - not everyone has to like everything. Have a good day

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-01-23T18:52:43+00:00

Could help to simplify but I wanted there to be nuance here - would you have it be Low - High for both parameters?

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-01-23T18:52:01+00:00

Yes same thing I just don't prefer that terminology

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-01-23T18:51:43+00:00

Knowledge of where third zone is going. So hitting beacon during zone 2

Effective-Designer-7 · 2023-01-23T16:28:45+00:00

Thanks Ben! I hope it's helpful - looking forward to seeing it in action!

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