The Plat Player's Perspective

Are we ready for some Week 15 predictions, folks? I know I am, so let's go! DAY 1 1. Seoul Dynasty vs. Chengdu Hunters- Dynasty wins 3-0 . The Dynasty made a truly powerful statement last week by beating the Dragons, which is arguably the best team in the League right now. If they could beat Shanghai, they can certainly beat the Hunters, who are way sloppier than them, and just less-scary overall. With Orisa, Mei (YES), Tracer and Moira out of the Hero Pool this week, I think Seoul will be encouraged to play Sombra-Echo Dive (with Winston-D.Va-Zen-Brig), pretty much the same as two weeks ago. Profit  has got a great opportunity to show off his Echo skills against a weaker opponent this time round, and backed up by a team that is amazing at Dive, it should be an easy win for them. I think Chengdu will also opt into Dive, but maybe a Pharmercy variant of it. Winston-D.Va-Sombra-Pharah-Mercy-Zen seems like something the Hunters would love running. They've run low-sustain Dive com...

Hey everyone, Proilios here, and I'm ready to share some Week 14 predictions with you all! Hope everyone here is staying indoors and being as socially-distant as possible. The past few weeks have been rough for the professional Overwatch scene. Sinatraa quit Overwatch, along with a few other OWL players; the Vancouver Titans imploded and 'parted ways' with all  their players and coaching staff, and Mei wasn't banned last weekend...for the bazillionth time in a row. Still though, we do have 12 matches scheduled for the upcoming weekend, so let's get predicting! I'm not going to do any meta speculation this time round either; I think although there is a rough meta in the League each week, every team sort of puts their own spin on it and sees if they can incorporate their strengths into it. For that reason, I'll be trying to guess what sort of comps each team will run, while predicting their match results. The heroes out-of-rotation for Week 14 are Reinhardt, A...

Sinatraa has quit Overwatch, the Vancouver Titans are falling apart, and Echo is finally available for League play. What was that statement supposed to achieve? Nothing, except making me sound professional, which, let's face it, is not an adjective you'd use to describe my posts. For real though, I'm stoked to have a new hero being thrown into the Overwatch League's Hero Pool; it always shakes up the meta and gets us all excited to see new playstyles and compositions being formed. Now, I usually speculate about the meta for the week before getting into my predictions, but this time, I don't have a proper guess for you. I'm not sure how Echo is going to fit into the game, and how big of an impact she will have on the meta (I would assume a huge one), so I don't want to share any firm thoughts. If she weren't  in the Pool though, I'd say Rushdown would be the way to go. With McCree out of the Pool, you could occupy his slot with Reaper instead, and ...

Hello everyone, and welcome (back) to The OverSeer, where you can find match predictions for the Overwatch League every single week. My name is Proilios , and I'm feeling pretty hot right now, since I got 7/9 winners right last week, including 3/9 perfect scores, so if you want to follow this series of predictions posts, do subscribe to my blog, I'm sure you won't regret it. As usual, let's try and guess the meta for the week before we get into our predictions. META SPECULATION With Orisa, Moira, Tracer, and Echo  being banned, we're headed into a week where the unofficially-termed  MeiCree  comp is likely to make a big return. For those of you who don't know, MeiCree  is a Deathbally comp which can control space like no other, primarily due to the presence of the Rein-D.Va tank duo. Reinhardt is the best main tank in the game right now, and can buy you all the space you need to re-position, and if you have to contest the high ground/the skies, D.Va can...

Week 11 of the League will be spread out over more than 2 days, which is something we're not used to seeing, but that unfortunately doesn't mean more matches. This week, we'll get to watch just 9 different series, but I'm ready with my predictions for Day 1 (for the U.S.), which will have two matches to start us off with. Before we do that, let's quickly go over my thoughts on the meta, as usual. META SPECULATION The last time Reinhardt, Widowmaker and McCree were banned, we saw a unique variation of Dive, which had Winston-D.Va-Tracer-Sombra/Soldier-Zen-Brig. This time though, Brig is banned too, which means if we see Dive at all, it'll be a different variation. I suspect this version will be Winston-D.Va-Tracer-Sombra-Ana-Lucio . One of the primary purposes of Brigitte in the previously-mentioned Dive variant was to protect Zenyatta, whose Discord Orbs are crucial at bursting down dove targets. With Brig out, Zen has no stun to protect him, which means...

It's that time of the week again, folks! My predictions for Week 10 of the Overwatch League are ready, and without any flowery intros, I'd like to jump right into it! META SPECULATION Based on what we've seen OWL teams run so far, I think two compositions will be prevalent this weekend. The first one is Rein-Zarya-Mei-McCree-Lucio-Moira . With D.Va and Ana out of the Hero Pool, you've got to have Zarya with your Reinhardt if you're running a Deathball comp. Sure, you don't have the same kind of defensive utility with Zarya, but combined with Moira's burst healing and damage capabilities, you can run a very aggressive Deathball comp and run over your opponents. We've already seen a few teams, especially in the Chinese region, run Rein-Zarya in Week 9, and I think with Mei and McCree back in the mix, these tanks will only get stronger. The second comp that I think can be very strong this week is Rein-Orisa-Mei-McCree-Lucio-Baptiste . We've see...