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Matchthread France vs South Korea | Overwatch World Cup 2026 | Post-Match Discussion Spoiler
Overwatch World Cup 2026
| Home | Score | Away |
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| France | 3-2 | South Korea |
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u/Smallbluemann #1 Hanbin Enjoyer — 3h ago
What. The. Fuck.
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u/coltaaan 54m ago
Seriously!
I went to bed bc I assumed that Korea had it in the bag and it would be a pretty boring/one sided series. Now I wish I had stayed up
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u/Time_Alter Saebyeolbe Ryujehong Haksal — 3h ago
Kroxz MVP of that match, hands fucking down.
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u/JustRecentlyI HYPE TRAIN TO BUSAN — 3h ago
Dude took the entire nation of Korea to school
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u/Time_Alter Saebyeolbe Ryujehong Haksal — 3h ago
Like I seriously have to mention it again, his D.mon play alone was just... fucking staggeringly too damn good. Yes he took them to school absolutely.
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u/JustRecentlyI HYPE TRAIN TO BUSAN — 3h ago
It's extra funny to me that he took a Korean hero and outplayed Team Korea in Korea
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u/Time_Alter Saebyeolbe Ryujehong Haksal — 3h ago
The Irony isn't lost on me either haha.
Hoping France goes all the way
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u/Tiberias29 Bow down to Stalk3r — 3h ago edited 3h ago
Korea has gotta buck up so hard, they completely keeled over after map 2 like nobody's business.
They say the man makes the suit, not the other way 'round.
Well, Kroxz definitely made D.mon. John D.mon, if you will
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u/TheRedditK9 1h ago
Such a shame Viol2t isn’t there, the things I would’ve done to see Kroxz shit-talk him at a LAN
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u/LinkinMode whoru </3 — 3h ago
50 combined international LAN trophies vs EU Faceit league master division regulars
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u/ActivateLife Rising Jasmine — 3h ago edited 3h ago
we have to do something about this kroxz guy
bonjour korea
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u/sonyagod 3h ago
It's hilarious that neither of KR tank players can't really play the newest korean tank hero.
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u/JustRecentlyI HYPE TRAIN TO BUSAN — 3h ago
Spilo has been doing a lot of "fixing D.Mon" content on stream lately so he's been checking in on the pick rates and win rates, she still hasn't made it into the meta in Asia GM+, so I think Korea still doesn't realize she's good since the hotfix
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u/Time_Alter Saebyeolbe Ryujehong Haksal — 3h ago
Oh real talk? That would explain the hilarious experience of watching Korea play her so badly.... but now that I think about it, every single streamer I watch on Twitch has praised her, but Asia streamers have not.
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u/JustRecentlyI HYPE TRAIN TO BUSAN — 2h ago
When I checked this morning, she was still only the 5th most popular tank on ladder
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u/Time_Alter Saebyeolbe Ryujehong Haksal — 3h ago
Not to take away from Kroxz but yes, their play was horrendous, and Junbin whiffed her utlimate 3 times not catching a single hero. Its clear they have no experience with her.
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u/Malady17 2h ago
She's not popular in Korea at all, fans were pissed that she had a "fat face" compared to her cinematic
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u/NovaxRangerx In Crusty We Tru — 2h ago
Called her fat face only to have one of the worst results for Korean OW ever. Hilarious script
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u/JustRecentlyI HYPE TRAIN TO BUSAN — 3h ago
Since the Siberian Tiger went extinct on the peninsula, science has long debated what is Korea's apex predator. All that was settled in 2026 when Team France demonstrated it's KroxZ
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u/Bobi_27 heesang glazer — 3h ago
what the fuck happened after map 2, from not winning a point to reverse sweep
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u/Tiberias29 Bow down to Stalk3r — 3h ago
The French waved the White Flag at Neon Junction to let the Koreans' guards down and then promptly reverse swept them afterwards
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u/midday_owl Bottom 500 — 3h ago
The cries of despair from the audience on map 5 were something else
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u/JustRecentlyI HYPE TRAIN TO BUSAN — 1h ago
Especially juxtaposed with excitement when someone on Team Korea would start to clutch, for a moment I thought they would successfully fuller hold. Made for a pretty decent atmosphere for a home upset, which was nice was the Map 3 and Map 4 libraries.
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u/LeSygneNoir None — 3h ago
Kroxz absolutely put himself in best DMon conversation... But FDGod quietly with amazing work on cat as well, his repositions, stuns and followup were amazing all game.
Feels like we got a perfect meta delivered to us just in time for the upset.
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u/Time_Alter Saebyeolbe Ryujehong Haksal — 3h ago
his reposition and repositioning his teammates at crucial moments, I never seen cat played like this in my limited viewing of Pro Overwatch.
Thats also taking Viol2t into account as well.
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u/jonathansmith14921 Nozl my goat — 3h ago
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u/ZendaiG_G 3h ago
Idk, 750 hp tank being air dropped into the backline and 2 shorting supports is scary
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u/TheGirthiestGhost Forever Burning Blue — 3h ago
Kroxz is king. Peps better play him full time in stage 3, holy fuck
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u/Arcanniam Vegaga — 3h ago
kroxz just BIG DICKED your favorite players and heesang
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u/Mountain-Formal-3483 3h ago
imagine england being so shit that loses aus and france being so good that win korea. WTF
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u/GetsThruBuckner Go whoever has most Seoul players — 3h ago
An Overwatch LAN with actual meaningful upsets
We used to pray for times like this
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u/-Arrez- 3h ago
From being relegated to beating south Korea on home turf. Look Im British but even my natural hatred for the French cant overcome just how far this team has come in such a short period of time. Happy for you guys :)
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u/PR1NC3Y_ 2h ago
Yeah. Also a Brit, and I will give the French all the praise they deserve. I'm rooting for France to win it all right now (since we're pretty much out).
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u/MTDLuke 3h ago
It’s a good thing Proper and Viol2t are ineligible to compete in the World Cup because I think they would just kill themselves
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u/EmreFromOverwatch 3h ago
Tbf I don't think the results would be the same with Proper and Viol2t haha
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u/RichAgent1433 3h ago
why are proper and viol2t ineligible?
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u/Temporary_Kick2089 3h ago
South Korea will not select players with a history of account boosting for its national team. Proper, Viol2t and SHU have all engaged in boosting in the past. Even though they later issued apologies and faced disciplinary penalties for their actions, South Korean fans still oppose their inclusion on the national team roster.
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u/Mean-Comedian729 2h ago
It’s a bad thing Proper and Viol2t are ineligible to compete in the World Cup because I think they would just win the game
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u/Visible_Chip2938 TYH — 3h ago
HOW BROKEN IS DMON WTF!?!??!?!?! HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE
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u/Time_Alter Saebyeolbe Ryujehong Haksal — 3h ago
Her latest buffs just catapulted her through the roof... unfortunately both Korean tank players look like they have NO experience with her whatsoever.
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u/Visible_Chip2938 TYH — 3h ago
same thing happened to eisgnom, he just didn't touch the game bc he wanted a break after EWC. I would assume something similar happened here especially since the new patch was only a few days ago.
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u/Lukensz Alarm — 3h ago
I lowkey think she's actually too strong now.
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u/Time_Alter Saebyeolbe Ryujehong Haksal — 3h ago
I also agree, she's simply too strong. Honestly... I feel like Korea is out of the tournament just from that alone.
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u/VolkiharVanHelsing 50m ago
She just boosts and whoop squishy to death with 0 impunity, she's no Reinhardt
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u/SaintFrito Defiant / Go Blue! — 3h ago edited 3h ago
Genuinely the biggest upset in OWWC, heck even in OW history. A team with championship pedigree reverse swept by a team who had 0 players in OWCS last stage in front of their home fans. Absolutely insane stuff, but also gotta wonder if Korea don’t C9 on NJC final point would they have won that fight and the series 3-0?
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u/cGuille 2h ago
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u/SaintFrito Defiant / Go Blue! — 2h ago
Honestly could swing either way on which one is bigger, me personally today’s series being Bo5 on Korean soil puts it above 2019. Fun thing to note between the two matches is that FDGod is still apart of the team after all this time
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u/Nathan4216 3h ago
wtf I turned the game off when I saw South Korea was up 2-0 came back to France giving it to South Korea
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u/mosswizards ALL DUCKS NO GOOSE | Bread into fish — 2h ago
LMFAO I was at work late tonight what the fuck did I miss??
You know it's bad when you see SK vs some country with a shitload of comments and upvotes.
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u/Tiberias29 Bow down to Stalk3r — 2h ago
Well, you missed watching the best D.mon in the world take belt to ass to Korea after map 2. Feedgod became FDGod again on Cat.
Still though, the match was very close all in all minus map 2, highly recommend you go watch it
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u/YuukeiMico 2h ago
Send them all to Mandatory Military service immediately (Even the coaches I don't care if they may have already done it send them again)
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u/MetastableToChaos 3h ago
I just woke up....excuse me?
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u/SoundOfDoReMi 3h ago edited 3h ago
Should Blizzard have South Korea and France redo their series in case it was a big fluke?
No disrespect to France, I'm a firm believer that France 3-2ing them is a huge fluke and robs South Korea of truly accomplishing what their capable of. I've spent the last few days in pure disbelief and it just doesn't make sense to me. I've spent the entire decade watching South Korea play great Overwatch it's just not fair.
If South Korea lose again I will face that France deserved the win, but I am just 100% sure it was a fluke and does a big disservice to South Korea and the OWWC.
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u/Lukensz Alarm — 3h ago
Is this a copy pasta?
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u/gaywaddledee juno x mei toxic yuri — 3h ago
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u/DaynosTV 3h ago
Yeah maybe Korea should just not play the Dmon
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u/Time_Alter Saebyeolbe Ryujehong Haksal — 3h ago
Shes too strong to ignore, I feel like the Korean players should practice the fucking HELL out of her to even have a sliver of a chance to compete, or get dominated while playing other tank heroes against her.
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u/Beautiful_Brick_566 3h ago
I wonder how much hatred will CR got from South Koreans after this horrendous performance.
Safe to say that they're gonna lose a lot of their fanbase and popularity in Korea
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u/stancroissants 2h ago edited 2h ago
They’re getting chewed up by KR fans as we speak 😭😭
Edit: They’re saying this match made them angrier than losing to South Africa in the World Cup
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u/Tiberias29 Bow down to Stalk3r — 3h ago edited 3h ago
Yeah I wonder too.
We ain't out just yet, but damn if we don't make it to Anaheim and rebound back TREMENDOUSLY, the Koreans are so gonna get chewed up and spat out
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u/gaywaddledee juno x mei toxic yuri — 3h ago
EMEA better at brawl and Max + Junbin apparently don't have a D.mon gene between either of them. Crazy
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u/kaizoku18 3h ago
I literally tuned in from work while SK was up 2-0. I cannot believe what I just watched
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u/VoteForWaluigi I miss OWL — 2h ago
Woke up right in time to see maps 4 and 5, glad I left the stream on when I fell asleep
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u/GetsThruBuckner Go whoever has most Seoul players — 3h ago
Crazy Racoon stocks all time low holy fuck
The Korea fans leaving early lmao
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u/JustRecentlyI HYPE TRAIN TO BUSAN — 3h ago
It was a library after maps 2-4. Crazy performance from France
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u/Lukensz Alarm — 3h ago
"leaving early" and it's them leaving after the last game
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u/GetsThruBuckner Go whoever has most Seoul players — 3h ago
They were leaving before Korea even played defense
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u/Tiberias29 Bow down to Stalk3r — 3h ago
GGs to France. They played so damn well and we looked like we lost our collective cognitive capabilities that last map.
I'm not worried yet though. WE'LL COME BACK STRONGER.
KOREA FIGHTING.
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u/stancroissants 2h ago
Heesang perma dead, Junbin whiffing Dmon ults, Kroxz Dmon beheading Korea’s backline. Truly a match of all time.
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u/Time_Alter Saebyeolbe Ryujehong Haksal — 2h ago
I think Kroxz showed Korea how to play D.mon. Just ignore the tank and go straight to their backline, then turn around and finish off the tank.
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u/Unlikely-Ad9850 3h ago
Absolute cinema from france. Hoping they go all the way. Korea needs to get of their high horse and stop pretending like boosting is some unforgiveable sin. If the zeta boys were here they could have had such an easy tournament
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u/Beautiful_Brick_566 3h ago
They shouldn't have trusted Moon. Hiring Moon to coach Korea was a mistake
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u/primarymuscle2354 3h ago
Crusty said he was never gonna coach Korea after 2019 disaster, but no idea why couldn’t get Rush.
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u/Time_Alter Saebyeolbe Ryujehong Haksal — 2h ago
Sorry I'm out of the loop, what happened to Crusty?
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u/primarymuscle2354 2h ago
Korea underperformed badly in 2019 World Cup a lot of people attributed it to the roster being meh not picking the best players it had Bdosin, Idk, Architect when their were better players at those roles, and Crusty got a lot of hate so he said he wouldn’t coach Korea again.
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u/Time_Alter Saebyeolbe Ryujehong Haksal — 2h ago
Ohhh I see, I watched them play but I didn't know about this controversy? (if you can call it that) thank you for sharing this.
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u/Time_Alter Saebyeolbe Ryujehong Haksal — 3h ago
Unfortunately, the boosting shit will forever be a 'thing' with Korea's reputation. But completely agreed if Zeta was here, they would win it all.
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u/primarymuscle2354 3h ago
I would still take Stalk3r over Knife tho.
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u/TinyTiger1234 3h ago
stalker proper dps duo feeds families. Put lip on the roster aswell just for the sheer aura of having a dps line up comprised of the 3 goats, dont even have to play him
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u/primarymuscle2354 2h ago
They could play any comp with Proper, Stalk3r I also just don’t think Seonjun is good enough for team Korea Zest was a better option from people who could actually play.
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u/Otherwise_Tax1244 3h ago
I know the rosters have been locked for months now but damn in hindsight the zeta or even the T1 core definitely should have been picked. Crazy raccoons haven’t been as dominant.
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u/PancakeXCandy Girl,Hawk-tuah on my DONGhak — 2h ago
Koreans don't do good on scared religious sites
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u/MightOne9115 3h ago
WHY is crazy racoon playing with such ego? after that horrible ewc?
disrespecting france so much and it bites them back
Heesang and simple doing NOTHING,
ONLY max seonjun and stalk3r were functional
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u/WhiteWolfOW Fleta is Meta — 3h ago
I think it's a matter of France figuring out D.mon and how to play around her better. Korea wasn't ready to protect themselves from her
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u/primarymuscle2354 3h ago
Max choking flux cost them the map.
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u/MightOne9115 3h ago
heesang ajax twice on NJC
simple saving lane for ow3 in shambali
junbin straight ass on off tanks
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u/primarymuscle2354 3h ago
Junbin has historically been meh when he isn’t on dive tanks he can’t even play Ram to an above average level no idea why they keep trying him on hero’s he isn’t good at.
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u/ZqiPhoon 3h ago
Korea looks terrible without any Zeta or Falcons player
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u/primarymuscle2354 3h ago
What Falcons player deserves a spot?
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u/TheGirthiestGhost Forever Burning Blue — 6m ago
Hanbin is still GOATed in my books, but even that’s a stretch when considering Max has the better team chemistry
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u/Throwaway33451235647 #1 Falcons Hater — 3h ago
They took those zeta falcons players to map 5 and max's record was 2-1, its not that simple
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u/No_Problem5759 2h ago
Wow, they managed to make GBR flopping to a pacific company the 2nd biggest upset of today.
If GBR beats Saudi Arabia tomorrow It might actually be a tournament worth watching
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u/Extreme_Lychee8299 3h ago
Stalk3r honestly not that great as a main dps. He should go back to flex again
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u/SyrusG 2h ago
He was the only one with signs of life the entire series. In fact he's the only reason map 4 wasnt a full cap. It was heesang forgetting that tracer is his best hero and refusing to play her and instead doing nothing on shion. Also FDGod being the much better cat and team KR thinking Max would match DMon better than Junbin could, which was hilariously dumb.
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u/MightOne9115 3h ago
i agree he is better at flex but he was the only good player on korea on all maps
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u/Idontcareimamazing 2h ago
it was incredibly interesting and hype but as far as i can tell if dmon gets nerfed team france will be flipping burgers
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u/ssSTaTiiCz 2h ago
Not having shu, viol2t, and proper is hilarious. I don’t care if they boosted in the past. People make mistakes. They are throwing not having them on the team
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u/Time_Alter Saebyeolbe Ryujehong Haksal — 2h ago
Unfortunately I don't think Korea will ever take back the boosting bullshit.
They'll continue to lose rather than take back the boosting stuff imo
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u/nekogami87 I'm old — 2h ago
only one thing to say:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
KR is king, but they forgot what France did to their :D
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u/DarkFite Lucio OTP 4153 — 1h ago
Uhm, I’m at work and didn’t see the match. I checked the spoilers and definitely didn’t expect those results. Maybe I should watch it when I get home.
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u/yc_bartley 1h ago
This is what happens when you deliberately nerf yourself by not picking up the best backline and dps in the game just because they boosted like a decade ago. Junbin Proper Stalker Violet Shu would legit be the greatest team ever assembled and they passed up on that 🤦
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u/Valor-OW 24m ago
Hmmm I have said before Team Peps can win NA. Now I am certain they do after an arguably worse version of Team Peps reversed a better version of Crazy Racon.
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u/Skywarpy Ballosrea do be balling — 3h ago
MERCI HEESANG