The Plat Player's Perspective

Hey everyone, how's it going? It's Proilios  again, and after a 2-week break from official League matches, we're all set to cheer on our favourite teams once again, but this time, in an online format. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has got each and every one of us troubled, and during such times, it's important to put your safety before everything else, so I hope you're staying at home as much as possible, and are practising good hygiene. All's not doom-and-gloom though, since i n just a few days, we'll be treated to an action-packed weekend, with 10 (updated) OWL matches taking place over just 2 days. Tension-filled team fights, dramatic duels, standout showings, dreadful debuts; I'm sure we'll see them all this week, and I'm really excited to share my predictions for Day 1 with all of you. As usual, this post will act as a thread for Week 8, meaning I will share my Day 1 predictions right now, comment on their actual outcomes after they&

Hey everyone, hope you and your loved ones are safe and sound. This is Proilios , and yes, it's been a crazy few weeks with the coronavirus situation getting more and more severe around the world, but I'm optimistic we'll get through it. We have to. At times like these we feel really disconnected with the outside world, but connected at the same time, especially if we're gamers. I think a lot of people underrate how much we can help, support and encourage each other by being connected via video games, which are safe spaces for many of us, and I hope we can use this medium to be there for each other during a time when there's so much pain and suffering throughout the world. I think now more than ever, we need to, in the words of Jeff Kaplan, "Be nice to each other", so let's try and do that, yeah? Over the past month or so, I've had a new blog post concept in the works, which shaped up to be a 4th section of The Plat Player's Perspective, call

The Overwatch League is heading back to Washington, D.C., for its fifth week in 2020, and I'm super excited, since Hero Pools will finally be debuting in the highest tier of competitive play. For those of you who don't know, starting on Saturday, 1  tank, 2 DPS, and 1  support will be banned from League play per week. The banned heroes for each week will be picked randomly from a pool of heroes that had a pickrate higher than 10% the week before. Because of this, no hero can be banned for two weeks in a row, and this will ensure diversity in the meta from week-to-week. Usually, we jump straight into the predictions in these articles, but since Hero Pools will be added this weekend, I want to speculate a little on what the meta will be based on the banned heroes for the Washington Homestand, which are Reinhardt, Widowmaker, McCree and Moira. From what I can tell, Dive with Hackfist  could be the flavour of the week. With Reinhardt out of the picture, it will be really hard f