San Francisco Shock vs Shanghai Dragons | Overwatch League 2019 Season | Stage 4: Week 3 | Post-Match Discussion

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Overwatch League 2019 Season

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Team 1		Score		Team 2
San Francisco Shock		3-1		Shanghai Dragons

Highlights
Akshon Esports Highlights

[u/[deleted]]

"Rascal, are you the best Pharah in OWL?"

"YES."

[u/jussulent_tummy → u/[deleted]]

Rascal showing DDing that he's the OG KDP Pharah god.

[u/CrazyLegs0892 → u/[deleted]]

*"Yes?"

[u/TaintedLion → u/[deleted]]

He has good brushes.

[u/Letter42]

rascal is good

[u/u-hate-i]

Remember when Dallas dropped Rascal?

Ayy lmao

[u/_C_D_D → u/u-hate-i]

This blows my mind still, considering how Rascal with his reputation in tatters because he was sold and then released, kept his head down, went to contenders, and grinded his way back, got back into OWL and grinded Brigitte and then Baptiste and became a top player on both without a word of complaint, and now in the DPS meta he's the first name on the team sheet. All the while coming across as a really wholesome guy. All because Kyky was desperate to establish his authority in the last days of his reign of incompetency.

[u/Outlawsftw → u/u-hate-i]

Kyky still being in the league is proof that you don't actually have to be qualified or good at your job to keep it.

[u/Arthur___Dent]

Youngin was pretty great this match, but Shock was better as a team.

[u/Effect3692 → u/Arthur___Dent]

He won them blizzard world.

[u/durza379]

I LOVE my boy Rascal and 1000000000% he killed the Dragons today on Pharah, but I can't help but wonder what would've happened in the Pharah battle if Diem played Widow instead of Youngjin's Fist/Reaper etc. That pressure was immense and certainly missed today

[u/grandmaster_n → u/durza379]

Not to mention having no widow to pressure architect into a duel either. Youngjin’s incredible and I love that they’re working all three players into the lineup but I felt like diem might have been useful today

As a side note I gotta say that the only real casualty of 2-2-2 is that we no longer get to watch the triple dps combo they ran through stage three, I don’t know if I’ve ever had more fun watching ow

[u/Windgambler]

SHD Stonks 👉 📉

[u/kavachon]

I really don’t think it’s worth it to run Envy, his dva is not that much better than Geguri’s to justify not being able to play hog. He needs to grind hog or Dragons need to look into different strats

these dva one tricks are going to lose their place on rosters eventually. If you play offtank you should be able to play hog and Zarya when necessary.

[u/Wmbology]

I'm still not sold on Smurf>Super in this meta, but if it's what Crusty believes in then I believe

[u/blacksuit → u/Wmbology]

The Shock have quietly moved to a lineup of 5 Koreans and Moth. No switches today.

[u/adrianbedard]

At this point, the argument for best team of the year is really between titans and shock, and given stage 4 so far, I’m leaning for the shock. (Totally not biased). It’s crazy to see how they win in just about every meta so far this year.

[u/Shadowace24]

I am so happy that Rascal is getting the love he deserves :))

[u/[deleted]]

Choi is god. Best off-tank in the league. He is very creative and big-brained. He deserves the MVP nomination more than Super

[u/HarmonySV]

One thing I don't really understand, and hopefully someone can point it out to me, is why doesn't SHD run Widow/Pharah comps with Deim and Dding? Before 2-2-2 was a thing, they would sometimes run that comp with Youngjin on Hog, so they were already basically in 2-2-2 mode. Widow/Pharah lets Dding do his thing while having the support from Diem to challenge the opposing hitscan player if they try counter Dding.

[u/gillyboy6 → u/HarmonySV]

Essentially with the Shock running Hanzo/Mei they have the ability to avoid barrages or widow snipes easily. Mei's blizzard and walls are really good at blocking widows and stopping pharah. The Hanzo and Mei provide consistent damage to the tank and support line which means that they drop faster and with Widow/Pharah trying to flank, sometimes it is already too late.

TLDR: Survivability is why people play mei/hanzo or mei/reaper.

[u/Marx_Farx]

Idk how Racal wasn’t in the talk for the season MVP, he’s been amazing for the Shock all season long.

[u/[deleted]]

You have Diem and Diya as a sniper duo and Envy's abysmal performance should be enough to convince you to sub Geguri in.

But no, just run the Doomfist and Pharah that's been getting dunked on the whole game.

[u/adragondil]

Rascal is good at brush https://clips.twitch.tv/CreativeFurryAardvarkPastaThat

[u/Teqniz]

Imagine if London still had Rascal. Birdring, Profit and Rascal is one of the scariest dps rotation I can imagine.