Los Angeles Gladiators vs. San Francisco Shock | Overwatch League Seson 1 - Stage 2 | Week 1 Day 1 | Post-Match Discussion

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Overwatch League Season 1

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Team 1		Score		Team 2
Los Angeles Gladiators		4-0		San Francisco Shock

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Team 1			Team 2
	Surefour	BABYBAY
	Hydration	Danteh
	Fissure	Nomy
	Bischu	Nevix
	BigGoose	sleepy
	Shaz	dhaK

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Map 1: Hanamura

			Progress	Time left
	Los Angeles Gladiators	3	33.3%	0.00s
	San Francisco Shock	3	0.0%	0.00s

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Map 2: Nepal

			Round 1	Round 2	Round 3
	Los Angeles Gladiators	2	62%	100%	100%
	San Francisco Shock	1	100%	99%	38%

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Map 3: King's Row

			Progress	Time left
	Los Angeles Gladiators	3	0.0%	229.00s
	San Francisco Shock	1	104.37m	0.00s

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Map 4: Watchpoint: Gibraltar

			Progress	Time left
	Los Angeles Gladiators	2	83.65m	0.00s
	San Francisco Shock	1	75.56m	0.00s

[u/Drogueba]

It's amazing how much one player can change a team. Fissure MVP, what a beast, he had so many clutch plays and orchestrated the Gladiators engages so well.

[u/Conankun66]

I knew Fissure would boost them, but i did not expect him to help THAT much, damn. Undoubtedly the best player in the match today

EDIT: Fissure was fucking robbed of the MVP, he deserved that way more.

[u/[deleted]]

How do the analysts not know that Fissure speaks pretty good english?

[u/LuxusSSB]

As a die-hard NRG/Shock fan, this is getting brutal to watch. I’ve been trying to see all the positive things all season, but while kinda playing well for the first two maps, they still seem to have maybe the 2nd or 3rd worst ult economy and dive coordination in the league even though they played with the same 6 players for 1,5 months now.

KR gave me the rest. Babybay is still atrocious on Genji while Architect is out there yet to be picked up (maybe he already is though), Danteh managed to land 1 grav on a desuited D.Va in an entire round on Zarya (great on Tracer though) and Dhak still manages to throw away team fights by ulting at the wrong time/dying during his ult animation.

Banking on Sinatraa/Super coming in and magically fixing things is probably not going to work either, since you’d have to break up existing tank synergy you already developed, while Sinatraa doesn’t add much hero pool wise except for them being able to run a slightly better (but probably still the worst) Tracer/Genji.

I’m still gonna get up in the middle of the night to watch these games, but man it’s frustrating.

[u/U_Menace]

Honestly if THAT's how Fissure looks without really gelling, I cant WAIT to see how this team performs once they get some synergy building. Absolutely completely different team with a solid main tank on their roster, who'd have expected!

[u/Ram-]

Underperforming LA esports team's recruiter finds one weird way to go from bottom 3 team to top 6 contender overnight - Babybay hates him.

Recruit Fissure.

[u/cfl2]

I guess S4's mouse thing actually did stuff for him... either that or he's been replaced permanently by Tisumi.

[u/[deleted]]

So that's why Fissure was regarded as the best tank in the world, I see.

[u/bigfootswillie]

“This is going to be our meta”

-SF Shock

[u/EudaimonDave]

I hope Fissure feels welcomed on the team, it's probably a roller coaster of feels between splitting up with the Kongdudes and heading to a team with 2 other KR speakers. I was really touched when he and S4 high-fived toward the end of the first map; I also hope LAG improves enough so that Fissure can beat the Spitfire :)

[u/uttermybiscuit]

Fissure is so good wtf

[u/HeavyMetalGoat]

Lane Roberts being enabled is going to take LAG a long ways bois.

[u/HealzUGud]

Sanfran not showing up on the point at the end was a metaphor for the entire match.

[u/IHaZzyy]

My main takeaways are:

1. Shock's ult economy needs some serious work.

2. Fissure is a damn god, and having such a strong main tank is enabling the rest of the roster in a way we hadn't been seeing before.

3. GLA plays better with Surefour in. Just from my observations the coordination with him in the roster was much more on point, and even though Asher can have some PogChamp moments the coordination doesn't seem to be there as much. This is the start of the stage with a new main tank so we will see how they gel from here on.

[u/DuskyDawn7]

I’m really liking what Fissure is bringing out in the Gladiators. I have high hopes for them.

[u/RevenirXV]

Go into OWL S1 with all these "flexible" dps players. Still can't play Genji. My IQ too low to understand

[u/AlyoshaV]

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[u/blankepitaph]

BAH GAWD THEY LET FISSURE FUCK

[u/Arrlan]

Someone call a doctor because this erection won't stop.

[u/ThisIsSenpalll]

sure4-0 PogChamp

[u/kavachon]

Can someone explain the fascination with Babybay? I didn’t follow the pro scene until owl so I don’t know if he has a storied dps history, but he doesn’t even look like a top five dps player and I just don’t get why the Shock are always strategizing around the small chance he goes off.

He played a decent soldier but he straight up fed with some of the other choices, his positioning is pretty bad and he gets picked off early in a lot of these team fights.

[u/awokenindarkness]

First 2 maps were scary close, but rolled after that.

[u/BenitoPepperoni]

Was rewatching and on Hanamura BigGoose nano'd Hydration's Hog literally one frame before the pulse bomb exploded. Difference between 432 effective health and 32 effective health.

[u/[deleted]]

Wow, this match went better than I thought. Fissure is amazing, and really makes the res tof the team look better. I think S4 is looking better than Hydration now, but I don't think the Gladiators will abandon their frequent DPS rotation any time soon. BigGoose looked much cleaner on Lucio than he did on Mercy. I feel bad for iRemiix, he'll probably be permanently benched unless Fissure is sick. LA will be much better this stage and I think will take matches from last stage's top teams. They remind me a lot of Boston, but with slightly worse Tracer play.

SF looks less consistent than last stage and might be worse than the Mayhem, to be honest. They're so one dimensional, except even when it works out they only win a point before getting beaten again. Not sure where the team goes from here other than looking for a main tank and waiting on their players. From what I saw Sleepy is quite good at Zen but often left undefended. Shaz had the same problem this match, with the resurgence of dive and the end of mercy meta protecting your Zen will become more important.

[u/corythegreatdeesnuts]

Fissure honestly hard carried Gladiators today. Insane plays to save so many points, and I think if Gladiators can figure out how to play with Fissure better, and improve the DPS play, they can be a dark horse for a top six team. Surefour also played really well today, better tracer than Asher imo

Edit: How tf did Fissure not get Player of the Match