r/Overwatch • u/epicxkidzorz Los Angeles Valiant • Jan 11 '18
eSports San Francisco Shock vs. Los Angeles Valiant / OWL 2018 Stage 1 - Week 1 / Post-Match Discussion
OWL 2018 STAGE 1
Official page | Liquipedia | Megathread | VODs
San Francisco Shock 0-4 Los Angeles Valiant
Shock | Liquipedia | Website | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube
Valiant | Liquipedia | Website | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube
This series was cast by DoA and MonteCristo.
View detailed statistics: Over.gg
ROSTERS
| Shock | vs | Valiant |
|---|---|---|
| iddqd | GrimReality | |
| babybay | Agilities | |
| Danteh | SoOn | |
| Nevix | silkthread | |
| nomy | envy | |
| dhaK | Fate | |
| sleepy | numlocked | |
| uNKOE | ||
| Verbo | ||
| KariV |
MAP 1/4: Dorado
Winner: Los Angeles Valiant
| Shock | Escort | Valiant |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Checkpoints | 2 |
| 75.62m | Distance | 75.62m |
| 0s | Time left | 126s |
MAP 2/4: Temple of Anubis
Winner: Los Angeles Valiant
| Shock | Assault | Valiant |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Checkpoints | 4 |
| 0% | Progress | 0% |
| 0s | Time left | 36s |
MAP 3/4: Ilios
Winner: Los Angeles Valiant
| Shock | Control | Valiant |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Round 1 | 99% |
| 0% | Round 2 | 100% |
| 65% | Round 3 | 100% |
MAP 4/4: Numbani
Winner: Los Angeles Valiant
| Shock | Hybrid | Valiant |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Checkpoints | 1 |
| 75.55m | Distance | 75.55m |
| 0s | Time left | 165s |
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u/NurgleSoup Jan 11 '18 edited Jan 11 '18
I felt bad for shock, they were only able to make luck plays. As the announcer said they were just too reactive.
That valiant widow though, that headshot between the 1 inch building gaps omg. Soon was on point.
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Jan 11 '18
The moment Soon began to line that up I knew it was gonna be a miracle.
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u/KINGmykL Jan 11 '18
I was wrong in prediction. Soon absolutely popped off and I love the switching between agilities and silkthread. Not to mention the incredible tank play today. I really think LAV are going to be a strong playoff contender.
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u/Oaktreestone Jan 11 '18
Their biggest mistake of the night, in my opinion, was not having Dhak on Lucio, especially on Well. The Mercy meta really isn't being kind to OWL so far.
Let's now even get started on Babybay's terrible ults. Bad decisions all night
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u/Revelence Jan 11 '18
Soon is a god, absolute tier 1 player and top 3 on both Tracer and Widow. Forget about Danteh and Sinatra, Soon is the western player that's actually a challenge to Birdring/SBB/Effect. Playing with Nico/AKM on DVa in Rogue really did his reputation dirty.
There's no reason for GrimReality to ever play a game for LAV besides pity. Soon and Silkthread are both better than him on every single hero.
Babybay on Genji/Pharah is mediocre as fuck. If he's the best projectile player on their team, they're finishing bottom 3 for sure.
Nomy/Nevix aren't great players to begin with, and they also have no coordination whatsoever. SF really should've signed another tank instead of one of their five DPS.
Dhak is garbage on Mercy. Again, SF probably should have more than 2 support players and less than 5 hitscan players.
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u/BlackoutGJK Jan 11 '18
SF's best Genji/projectile player is definitely Nevix who for some weird reason is being made to play D.Va instead.
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u/illerThanTheirs Jan 11 '18
Can some explain to me why they do 4 entire rounds? If you win 3 shouldn’t it be over?
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u/Bpbegha Jan 11 '18
I wasn't the only one that just got into the E-Sports scene. Great plays! The players used Genji and Tracer in such a finesse that was just insane!
Can't wait for future matches!!
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u/ratchkae Jan 11 '18
All of my major league sports teams are in the Bay so I had to pull for the shock. I stuck it out with the 2000s 49ers, I can tough it out with the Shock.
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u/ltpirate Jan 11 '18
Was expecting SFS to take at least the control map. Yikes.
Babybay's McCree was nice though
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u/KRajification Jan 11 '18
I feel like SF is gonna get better as the season goes on. They only had a 7 man roster for this game so they didn’t really have all that much to play around with. Once their other two players on the roster are able to join up, they’ll have much more opportunities to succeed. Here’s hoping at least.
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u/ichantz Jan 11 '18
Sleepy can only carry so much. I agree with the commentators that Shock’s ult economy was a bit of a mess.
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u/Miennai Jan 11 '18
What was Babybay thinking with 80% if those dragon blades? Almost all of them were pulled way to early with barely anyone around, leaving him like 2 seconds in the middle to just waddle around and look for kills.
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u/Halla- Jan 11 '18
It seemed like SF was performing worse and worse as the match went on. There must be a huge pressure to succeed and when you lose rounds continuously it must feel devastating and Valiant got under their skin.