RIP

Is it confirmed that LH won't play with Whoru?

Maximus [#2]

Is it confirmed that LH won't play with Whoru?

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I think we might need a candle for MVP space, they gonna get rekt

I see no reason for this not being anything but a 3-0 for LH, may the KR Overwatch gods have mercy on these poor recovering MVP souls.

I think they are gonna play with their original comp in apex 2 before all the controversy, the first match against afreeca red, Miro Zunba tanks, Ryu tobi support and Leetajun Whoru dps. they scrimed against mirage's 6stack pro team with this team too(which you can find on first page of r/cow)

Chances are Leetaejun plays this game tbh

spiderlily [#7]

Chances are Leetaejun plays this game tbh

Would be a good way to test him out in a safe environment

Leetaejun and Gido share a headset PogChamp

spiderlily [#7]

Chances are Leetaejun plays this game tbh

He is in and playing an awesome Tracer.

Doomfist and Pharmercy were pretty nuts on Eichenwalde. LH just didn't have an answer for it.

Tomu [#11]

Doomfist and Pharmercy were pretty nuts on Eichenwalde. LH just didn't have an answer for it.

Yea I can't believe what I just saw. LH loses a map.

What a game!!! Holy Crap!!

Um... what's happening

I blame leetaejun

What's happening is that LH's bane is pharmercy

Yaki and undine are playing extremely well. Also LTJ is playing way too defensive and not aggressive enough, when he has been playing aggressive he's been getting the picks and the pulse bombs. Very confusing to me.

Omg

For the love of god Blizzard, nerf Doomfist's right click.

Holy shit!! They did it!! They did it!!!

I TAKE MY RIP BACK HOLY SHIT MVP SPACE

KuroiRyuu9625 [#5]

I see no reason for this not being anything but a 3-0 for LH, may the KR Overwatch gods have mercy on these poor recovering MVP souls.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

LUL

Winter [#18]

For the love of god Blizzard, nerf Doomfist's right click.

Scrap that, just nerf the hero period.

Welp, couldn't deal with the Pharcercy and Doomfist. Bit of hubris for the LH squad since their stubbornness seems to have cost them as well this time around.

Lunatic Hai thought they could stomp MVP Space, but they forgot one fact.

Yaki's tracer is pretty nutty and that doomfist is spicy af,MVP Space just dabbed on the doubters

Imagine if lunatic hai don't even make it out of groups now, especially possible with meta athena and runaway as the 2 other teams

Lunatic-Hai didn't want MVP Space to be their opponent at the draw. Now I see why they thought so.

I didn't watch the game because I thought LH will just dumpster MVP.

I really regret that.

Holy crap! MVP Space made a fan out of me

For all the prep they seem to make when expecting some comps it's still surprising, even after three seasons, to see them stick to strats that don't work.

They either looks like geniuses that knew all along or a really inflexible team that brute forces their way to victory, or in this case defeat.

I'm guessing that LTJ's not going to be in the starting lineup for the next matches...or will he...

Underestimating Korean teams in 2017? Cmon guys, we've been here before...

moon2C

I think lunatic-hais problem lies in the dps. Yaki consistently beat LTJ in tracer duels and esca was just mediocre at sombra. It seems like fight wins occurred for Lunatic-Hai when the tanks and supports popped off.

Here come the b4nny 3rd place memes of over.gg...

I hope I'm wrong but LH will make it out of groups. Same thing happened last season. It's when they're down that they start rolling.
I don't believe that Meta Athena will be able to compete against LH, so this makes their game v Runaway that much more hype. Season 2 grand finals rematch.

Apex is a phat PogChamp tbh.

what

what the heck...this group is gonna be insane now.....

It seems EscA lost his confidence in playing DPS heroes except Sombra. That might be why he continued to play Sombra in almost all situations even when it seemed quite evident Sombra would not work (for example, in Ilios against Pharmercy). Whoru was their main DPS for the season 2 while Gido played the role for the season 3, and Lunatic-Hai was the champion of those 2 seasons. So I don't understand why they put LTJ in the starting line-up instead of either Whoru or Gido. LTJ was away from professional matches too long.

Lunatic-Hai is still the strongest team in the world but personal relationships among EscA, ryujehong and LTJ that have continued for several years might lead to their decline, I guess (ryujehong said not so many days are left for him to play as a professional gamer and therefore he wanted to bring LTJ back to the team to play together once again to the end).

LH would have won if it wasn't for the doomfist one shots...

I don't get why LH doesn't bench Esca AND LTJ... Aren't Whoru and Gido signed to the team? Haven't both of those two players consistently shown better competency at DPS? A lot of comments say, "take off LTJ and put in Whoru/Gido" but I say take both Esca and LTJ off cause they both just don't make the cut...

for real？？

Well esca does most of the shot calling for the team, so it makes sense why they didn't bench him. I don't know why they didn't replace LTJ for gido after losing the first map. Gido just proved himself in season 3 finals to be a pretty solid tracer, and I bet they would've won the match with gido. However, lunatic hai will probably be fine, as long as they don't lose to reformed Runaway.

I think the main reason they did not replace LTJ was because they didn't want LTJ to be a scapegoat. Yeah, it is true that they might have won the game if WhoRU or Gido subbed in for him. But if they were able to win by replacing LTJ, people would have blamed him and it would've just started the case of Esca #2 again. I think LH wanted to believe in him and show that they can recover from early losses of the maps like they always do, which unfortunately, did not turn out to be the case this time.
This might sound like a stupid decision to most people, but this is how Lunatic Hai operates. They seem to value positive team atmosphere more than short-term good results. It would have been ideal if LH was able to take the match with LTJ since that would have allowed second chance for him to improve in the next match. But because of this loss, people will blame him for any failure of LH from now on. But being Lunatic Hai, I think they might try giving him another chance yet again. We will see whether that decision will cost them further or not.

LH with both EscA and LTJ playing simultaneously just doesn't feel like a strong team, let alone a versatile/reactive one like you need to do well in top tier competition.

Umm....?

LH experimenting with roster/roles in official matches should give you an idea of the importance they put into this game.

WHAT

HAPPENED

HERE

wait what happened? i was out this day and just noticed this :/.....

icymi: LH got fisted pretty hard by doom fist and it was gruesome.

Toks [#6]

I think they are gonna play with their original comp in apex 2 before all the controversy, the first match against afreeca red, Miro Zunba tanks, Ryu tobi support and Leetajun Whoru dps. they scrimed against mirage's 6stack pro team with this team too(which you can find on first page of r/cow)

i wish they could play this team if only esca was not their shotcaller

Toks [#6]

I think they are gonna play with their original comp in apex 2 before all the controversy, the first match against afreeca red, Miro Zunba tanks, Ryu tobi support and Leetajun Whoru dps. they scrimed against mirage's 6stack pro team with this team too(which you can find on first page of r/cow)

i wish they could play this team if only esca was not their shotcaller

Our friendly neighbourhood hero TISrobin311 translated a short explanation by Zunba of why he believes they had so much trouble against MVP Space, and that their coach told Miro not to chose them in the group selection.

Reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/6uphzr/zunba_briefly_explains_about_their_match_against/

Welp I've supported Runaway and Meta Athena since APEX S2 and I really think they can both progress if they take advantage of this... unless MVP Space was just a sleeping beast this whole time...