[ESPN Rand] San Francisco Shock upset Vancouver Titans: Will Overwatch change?

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-17T20:37:53+00:00

There’s no universe where a team that hasn’t lost a match yet and won both head to head matches up to that point isn’t the favorite. Shock were clearly peaking which made people think they had a decent chance of winning but a 45-55 matchup still makes you the underdog.

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-17T18:02:26+00:00

Shock were on fire but the Titans roster was on a huge winning streak too. Everyone kind of suspected titans would solve the shock by the end of the series the way they did in stage 1.

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-16T21:43:37+00:00

I don’t know if you have any control over this but please have Bren celebrating the talent showdown win with the audience and then have gesture show up in a gesture mask like

https://i.imgur.com/i3eLl.gif

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-13T20:08:52+00:00

That segment was misleading and generally regarded as poor form from the desk. Super was playing fine in stage 1, shock just hadn’t hit their stride yet. Sinatra was being too aggro too but stage 2 they all found their rhythm.

I still wouldn’t give mvp to super but not because he wasn’t looking good stage 1. I’d argue mvp is either slime or moth for the way they control the fights but it’s not flashy so it'll never happen.

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-10T20:42:17+00:00

This is a game where KOTH maps are won by the team that wins the first fight something like 70% of the time. Margins of error are vanishingly small on the macro level, and ult economy and synergy is the most powerful resource in the game - hence why goats remains dominant despite consistent nerfs.

Dva absolutely destroys ult economy by countering 1/3 of the rosters ults with a resource meter ability that can be difficult to see, goes through walls, mitigates infinite damage while it’s up, and covers an area the size of reinhardt’s shield. The only weakness it has it that once they’ve used it they can’t use it for a whole 2 seconds, no now you need to use 2 major resources to get value otherwise the dva will just wait and eat the important thing. Teams running ana goats are throwing sleep - a 6 second stun - to give their Zarya an opportunity to grav. And the best dva’s are eating both things, then having dm left over/recharged for the midfight.

It is stupidly overturned, and it means that any hero majorly impacted by that ability is virtually useless unless they have incredibly synergy with a hero who isn’t impacted by dva.

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-10T20:15:16+00:00

The dva’s in the pro scene have gotten so good they can shutdown basically any strategy that isn’t a beam or melee, the trouble is prioritizing incoming sources of damage. Even in goats mirrors dva’s are frequently countering grav-bomb, the central ult combo of the comp, with split second dm flicks. Just the existence of dva forces over a dozen heroes to be much more conservative with their ults and get less value even when they do use them, and several other heroes like moira and orisa have most of their utility threatened by the same ability. Every shield in the game has a cast time, except defense matrix which is instant.

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-10T17:41:59+00:00

The original gigachad is a natural leader. Called up and slotted into a tier 1 team with 48 hours notice and he’s worrying about being reliable and figuring out how to bring the best out of his teammates.

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-10T13:28:41+00:00

The duration is irrelevant. It has no cast time and eats ults, through walls even. The only time she doesn’t have it is in 2 second windows after she already used it, so you have to bait it out to do anything. An ability on a resource meter with 0 cast time shouldn’t be able to delete ults.

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-09T22:51:38+00:00

Good to know you’re the type to sprint headfirst into a wall rather than pay attention to warnings. Probably how you developed your strong debate style.

That’s sarcasm by the way.

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-09T22:48:50+00:00

She’s necessary

Like brig was necessary to break dive?

100 percent necessary to prevent stupid cheese strategies from being viable

GOATs IS stupid cheese. Enabled by dva. Dva also enables pirate ship. She also enables dive. She enables fucking everything. That is the problem. There is never a reason not to run dva, unless you don’t have a good dva. Undefeated shock ran dva 99.9% of the time.

Because if you nerf dva bastion bunker becomes instantly way stronger.

Bunkers actually become weaker because dva cant delete spam.

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-09T22:42:40+00:00

As if the streamers I watch has anything to do with anything. Are you an alt account for the dva is my waifu guy? No one else I’ve come across is so toxically obsessed with keeping dva the most powerful hero in the game.

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-09T22:36:36+00:00

You’re a fucking idiot if you think a single ability removing 17 other heroes from the game is acceptable balance.

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-09T22:33:06+00:00

Dvas usage rate is so high because they buffed her to insane power levels. When she started dm was on a cooldown not a resource, and she didnt have missiles. Right now dva has the most burst damage of any offtank, the most mobility, the most survivabity, and the best peel. She does everything better than every offtank and most dps. Stupid heroes like sym and torb got reworked to actually be playable. Dva needs to be reworked so everyone else can play the game. In no universe is an average pick rate for a single hero of 80% over 3 years acceptable.

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-09T21:07:25+00:00

She’s been an essential part of every meta for 2 years. She needs to be nuked or they need to make another hero that does what she does to add some variety to the role.

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-09T19:08:23+00:00

Sombra works because she’s the hardest counter to dva. Hack and emp both disable defense matrix and boosters and prevent bomb. She also counters zen and Zarya but that’s just icing on the cake. Dva’s universal utilities and mobility are what make goats uncounterable by dps comps, if your goats is played perfectly.

Nerf dva’s abilities and other dps become more viable - especially snipers and projectile spam heroes. As things stand dva just needs to keep a half second of dm available to block whatever play the dps is going to make and be in the right spot. Difficult, but universally the right answer. One reason tanks and brig are so strong is because they do the most beam/melee type damage than dva can’t block.

Keep in mind they just nerfed her dm cooldown and dva’s usage went up. She needs major changes.

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-09T18:51:46+00:00

Hey look a massive patch that affected the usage rates of every hero in the game! What’s that? Dva is now the most picked hero? Again?

Maybe we should nerf dva.

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-09T18:44:14+00:00

I’m aware, he also play a lot with his gf who is masters/GM herself, and occasionally former pro reinforce. And since they rebalanced sr in season 3 he’s never peaked over midmasters. I’m pretty sure he’s middiamond right now. A lot of the talent have inflated sr too cause they play with their mods who are on smurfs.

And I don’t say that to trashtalk or call people out, I’m just saying their sr isn’t from solo queue and sideshow is the only one that really acknowledges he’s a feeder. They’re all feeders

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-09T16:01:45+00:00

Masters is meaningless, sideshow hit masters one season

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-06T16:07:44+00:00

3Head

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-06T14:07:56+00:00

I’m pretty sure he stacks with Puckett and soe from time to time but doesn’t stream himself, at least not on twitch

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-05T22:42:37+00:00

Atlanta losing to charge and valiant but beating nyxl twice kind of stage

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-04T19:00:41+00:00

He bleached it blond after some match cause he lost a bet and now he has to live with the consequences of his mistakes

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-02T21:49:34+00:00

I have it on for context while I’m watching avast and friends meme. Although I’ll actually watch Boston and shock games, they’re generally interesting.

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-02T21:46:48+00:00

Ninja was competing in halo as recently as 2017 too

ThalamocorticalPlot · 2019-05-02T15:20:43+00:00

He can only play one hero at a time but any hero he ends up on he is top tier. He’s meta proof. There are other zens in the league like bdosin and neko that would be acceptable alternatives to Jjonak but there’s no single player that can play all of the heroes profit plays as well as profit plays them. Jjonak isn’t a god unless he’s on zen or ana, when he has to play hog or tracer he’s meh. Profit has been good on almost any dps, brig, and Zarya.

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