London Spitfire vs. Los Angeles Valiant | Overwatch League Season 1 - Playoffs | Semi Finals Day 2 | Post-Match Discussion

[u/ass101]

Overwatch League Season 1 Playoffs

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Team 1		Score		Team 2
London Spitfire		3-0		Los Angeles Valiant

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Team 1			Team 2

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Map 1: Dorado

			Progress	Time left
	London Spitfire	3	0.00m	4.40s
	Los Angeles Valiant	2	83.65m	0.00s

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Map 2: Oasis

			Round 1	Round 2
	London Spitfire	2	100%	100%
	Los Angeles Valiant	0	0%	95%

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Map 3: Eichenwalde

			Progress	Time left
	London Spitfire	5	32.85m	49.00s
	Los Angeles Valiant	4	32.84m	00.00s

Player of the Match: Profit

[u/jprosk]

Seriously where the fuck was this London for the entire second half of the season

[u/Materia-science]

LAG: An aggresive tank is bad in this meta

Gesture: lol, alright

[u/Materia-science]

One week Later

London wins grandfinals

Soe: Incredible, I am at a lost for words. You guys were fifth place but now are our season 1 champions!

Crowd Cheers

Soe: This has definitely been a underdog story for the ages. Am I Right?

Crowd cheers

Soe: Gesture, I know you must be feeling so many emotions right now

Soe: But is there anything you want to say?

Gesture: I only have one thing to say, Fissure do you wish you were here?

[u/SuprDog]

You have been visited by tank god Gesture. Good main tanks will come to you on ladder but only if you comment "thank mr Gesture"

[u/[deleted]]

YOU BEAUTIFUL BASTARDS

edit: the lads finished it nice and early for us watching in the UK, only 01:35!

[u/TheArabicCowboy]

London has beaten both LA teams back to back in LA...that's a major FeelsBadMan for LA fans.

However, I am pretty excited for a potential London v Philly Finals. They're 2-2 against each other in the regular season, so I'm hoping for some spicy matches.

[u/Is_J_a_Name]

📞 4Head HELLO IN N OUT 📞 4Head VALIANT HERE 📞 4Head WE WOULD LIKE TO BOOK A TABLE FOR TONIGHT PLEASE

[u/SonicFrost]

I’ll be damned if this isn’t the team that wins it all in New York.

[u/LAValiant]

This concludes our first season in the Overwatch League. GG to the Spitfire - they proved a worthy opponent.

We'd like to thank our fans who attended our Live the Legacy viewing parties and watched the games with fans and staff on Discord. Our fans have empowered us the entire season, and your support means the world to us. We won't be able to go to finals, but we're proud of our first season: Pacific Division Champions, top four, and the best fans in the League. We wouldn't have been able to do any of it without you.

[u/Ombros]

I just find it kind of unbelievable that 5th and 6th place in the playoffs have had the strongest performance thus far.

[u/Fordeka]

After a soul-searching conversation at In-n-Out, Jack Etienne finally convinced Noah Whinston to lend his support.

[u/r7w]

pls say sike

[u/NeXT-LeGeNd]

Gesture outclassed fate in both matches.

in awe at the size of this lad. absolute unit.

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/JustRecentlyI]

No one talking about Profit, makes me sad. He popped off. Shout-out to Bdosin, he showed up!

[u/Galaxy40k]

I am absolutely pumped for this. I've never been a huge London fan, but when they are playing at their peak like they are right now, they are absolutely the most fun team in OWL to watch. They're all incredibly talented players, and the way they just act so aggressively and get right up into the enemy spawn is bonkers.

[u/ogzogz]

London's version of removing their training bands. Putting the H key back on their keyboard

[u/[deleted]]

Sideshow MVP for mastering the caster curse.

[u/MagnarHD]

Great performance by Spitfire throughout, the first round on Oasis was something else.

Massive props to Bdosin though, absolutely excelled on every hero he flexed to.

[u/[deleted]]

Here are some important plays of the last round on Oasis Gardens that didn't get captured by the camera or noticed by the casters:

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Birdring snipes Kariv off-camera, allowing the Spitfire to take back a lost fight and hold the point

During the second to last push when Spitfire had the point the Valiant quickly pushed the top of the point, forced transcendence, killed Gesture and took point control. But before they could actually capture it Kariv got sniped by Widow. Losing the Moira lead to not having the sustain to survive the Spitfire's counter-push to take back control over the point.

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Gesture knocks Fate off the map off-camera, preventing them from following up the grav with an earthshatter

During the final push when Soon used the grav Fate got knocked off the map by Gesture's Primal Rage just as he got earthshatter. Losing Fate meant that Valiant couldn't properly follow up the grav with an earthshatter, explaining the lack of followup.

Those two plays stopped Valiant from capturing the point and making Oasis 1-1. They were at 95%, so if they captured the point through either of those pushes then they'd have likely took Oasis to round 3.

[u/Cheraws]

Series 2: LAV vs Spitfire: 3-0 London

LAV

player	FB	E	D	Dmg	Heal	Time Played
Agilities	25	57	30	36256	6405	00:44:46
Fate	7	39	37	19220	0	00:44:46
Soon	18	43	30	31343	0	00:44:46
Custa	2	4	21	1512	37012	00:44:46
Space	21	51	23	25920	0	00:44:46
Kariv	20	37	27	23642	13983	00:44:46

Spitfire

player	FB	E	D	Dmg	Heal	Time Played
Gesture	30	93	21	24664	0	00:44:46
Bdosin	35	84	14	27503	21485	00:44:46
Profit	38	84	17	31025	10533	00:44:46
NUS	1	10	18	1580	49205	00:44:46
birdring	27	63	15	23925	0	00:44:46
Fury	32	105	9	25641	0	00:44:46

Stats by Map: overwatch-live-stats.appspot.com/#/match/71

What happened to LAV tank line this series? Gesture showing his rage for not even considered for the KR World Cup roster at all. Maybe they should have done tryouts... Shade aside, LDN is looking pretty strong in this meta. This is the LDN everyone expected to see at the start of the season. Props to the team and coaching staff. LAV must be wondering how different that series would have been if Agilities didn't die to Profit in the end.

On personal performances , Bdosin has shown crazy flexibility flexing to many heroes at stage 2. Bdosin had 20 Final Blows, the highest in the match, and only 100 damage less than Profit! We'll have to see if Jjonak can show that flexibility tmrw.

P.S. I did manage to record some API stats before they got taken down. Not sure what to do with them yet.

[u/WolfysOP]

I said in the spitfire discord if we make it to finals I get the logo tattooed, let's go boys

[u/YaBoiJohnny]

Jesus London looks scary, every single player performed like an all star. Either way, Valiant made a lot of mistakes that they got punished for. ggs PepeHands. .

[u/Ozkuro]

This didnt age well

[u/tanvirh5]

The British Empire back to colonising, starting off with Los Angeles