Overwatch Esports Korea Stage 1 Power Rankings

[@parkerdude5682]

For Poker Face, you gotta look at the coaches. These are the same guys that made such innovative decisions as bringing back Ball Zen and locking Widow on Flashpoint. These coaches are what will elevate these players and let them reach their potential.

[@sergentmaso]

With the return of the China scene, MCD has a passive racism buff effective. He's gonna do well.

[@迪士尼在逃唐老鸭]

MCD is actually one of the worst support among owcs players, if you watch his replay of comp, he always has some outrageous move or ult management, he is still in league only because he has some close relationship with the team manage😂

[@PetorGriffen7815]

​@@迪士尼在逃唐老鸭unfortunately he played really well on twisted minds tho...

[@mag1ckyle799]

Words cannot describe how bad I want his team to make it the first LAN event in China

[@leejenu]

@@迪士尼在逃唐老鸭 cope

[@aSuperPi.]

As a Falcons fan, I am not looking forward to this first stage, with the behind the scenes drama and Hanbin solo tank, I could see this going very poorly.

[@leomorifuji1755]

What’s the drama? The only thing I heard of was abt the shu fielder trade but that was baseless ig

[@AgentLando]

@@leomorifuji1755 Chiyo's gf (ex now) spread malicious rumors about all team Falcons players (except majed ig)

[@fastfang1229]

@@leomorifuji1755 Apparently, Chiyo and Stalk3r had some beef with each other and had a falling out allegedly. Stalk3r, Fielder, and Hanbin was rumored to have left Falcons. But now since the rosters have been announced, the rumors didn't amount to much.

[@totallynotgay553]

Stalk3r, Fielder and Hanbin being replaced by Someone, Mer1t and Shu would've absolutely broken my heart. I'm not even a Falcons fan, but that would've actually made me a little sad.

[@leomorifuji1755]

@@fastfang1229 is it just me or hasn’t Chiyo always been controversial?

[@VioletCookieCat]

I immediately came to find T1 is back into Overwatch!!! First League of Legends, now Valorant, and now it’s Overwatch just wow

[@blee1997]

@@VioletCookieCat but the thing is can T1 overwatch be in the level of LOL t1?!? Not convinced yet.

[@jezraelflancia2460]

My favorite guy. Major Chinese Discriminator

[@CrazeeAdam]

Super happy to see you covering this all again! I do think Falcons do take a step back this year, especially with map picks/hero bans etc. Like you said, Hanbin just can't cover everything as well as other teams may, especially Crazy Racoons. Maybe like, their DPS and supports can just carry them past those deficiencies.. but it's going to be fairly hard I think. I could see them losing a few matches though yeah.

[@nowun6043]

Those arguments all apply to Zeta too and to a greater degree with how they have to rotate their DPS line. I’m shocked he put them 2nd when they seem like one of the more susceptible top teams when it comes to hero bans

[@ASMRFEMBABE]

The main issue with zeta is viol2t. During the most recent Korea tournament he was feeding his brains out on Lucio the entire tournament and if he still has to play Lucio this season, he’s going to be a big issue.

[@LinuxPenguin10]

Viol2t is actually their best player alongside Bernar. imo their real weakness is Finn, who can't match Shu and Fielder.

[@calnithm]

Viol2t consistently has been one of if not the best players on zeta, arguably their best right now outside of hazard meta (in which it's Bernar). He is the best lucio itw when it comes to beat charge and his impact falls under the radar especially recently.

[@himzers]

This has already aged questionably lol. Let's see if that changes

[@duskydooo]

I wouldn't sleep on Opener, he is part of the HaeJeokDan squad that 4:0'd Once Again and his backline combo w/skewed on that team was a level above Mew & Mmonk on those finals, especially his brig gameplay in particular, I feel like he's improved a lot over the year and it seems like he may have finally found a partner that could work with him. He honestly has just been improving constantly in general over owcs it feels like

[@arthurdunn07]

Am I right in remembering that he was part of that Marve1 Attack O2 roster that broke through to OWL APAC from contenders?

[@bjunnn2534]

ngl doubting hanbin more than bernar is crazy. not saying bernar isnt nasty cus he is but we really questioning HANBIN more than him??

[@gifflargod]

I've heard Someone and mer1t are currently signed to falcons but the team jump was under the rule that they won't play in stage 1, they will be back stage 2

[@calnithm]

there was a rumor that someone, merit, and shu were replacing hanbin, stalk3r and fielder but they ended up being false. Shu isn't going to falcons and the rosters have already been announced

[@joeyishere9498]

How about all 9 partnership team ranking? i think 1.Crazy Racoon 2.Falcons 3.Zeta 4. T1 5. Ssg 6. Liquid 7 Twisted Minds 8. Geng 9 Vitus Pro

[@Jayon_son]

With tracer buffs we might see zeta come out with alphayi and peli with a genji tracer. But this would have to be against a team they know they can beat in a double flex mirror since bans could be targeted. Would have to be for like a sojourn ban you could see it (after they lost a map). Wish band were before rooster because allows teams to be flexible more easily and not needing people who can do it all

[@SynchroFPS]

Idk it felt like pelican was playing more than alphayi

[@atlaspx]

Yeah most of the time Alphayi gets control and flashpoint, Pelican gets the rest

[@Fent_lover66]

no way ftg is that low they have a very solid squad

[@darksplash873]

They have a solid squad, tons of potential, but as ATP said, they’re inconsistent and partially unproven. You can argue them over PF, but his placement is fair as well.

[@迪士尼在逃唐老鸭]

Poker face let’s go, former dreamers

[@WillToledo2]

Falcons really need to drop majed for a main tank

[@Junkrat-2020]

They most likely will not because it’s a Saudi Arabian team

[@Mathield]

After a Quick google search i found out that falcons new head coach is guy named thugnasty (Chris Chung)

[@darksplash873]

That’s their general manager 💀

[@Mathield]

@ my bad i miss read the liquipedia

[@qnn130]

15:23 I see what you did there haha

[@kane_howe138]

Thank god, hero bans are back. It punishes teams for being less flexible which I like.

[@boomingbob1579]

If SKT aka T1 end up being better than 4 it shouldn’t be that surprising first it’s T1 second the coaches and players they have

[@ATPOverwatch]

I like T1 a lot. Very high upside.

[@boomingbob1579]

@ T1 is v good could v well be better than what everyone expects from the roster plus T1 is T1 so it would be v expecting

[@VioletCookieCat]

They have Faker so it’s fine

[@boomingbob1579]

@ tru Man is gonna his 6th championship in a different game altogether

[@eeblue1946]

great vid as always

[@darkphantom341]

Haven’t watched the vid yet, but T1 better be 1 or we riot

[@raydenxl1554]

Watch t1 get 2nd

[@MateuxHenriquee]

Does anyone know if Decay retired or something?

[@lehocool7449]

T1 has no chance against the top 3 unfortunatly

[@michaelt8680]

Tsk. No repsect to the Falcons.