EM defeat team SK 3-0 in show match

Well, it happened boys. I just saw Element Mystic dunk on Team South Korea 3-0 in their show match. Most of the maps were relatively close, but neither Jehong or Tobi really had the impact they needed to have while forced to be on Mercy.

This actually gives a huge advantage to Team USA who have a god Mercy on their team along with a very solid flex support since Lucio is likely to be the one to sit out. I'm not liking this Mercy patch, insane picks and mistakes are erased at the press of a button and if she ults she can even allow you to recover from two picks, a situation that happened quite a few times in this match.

All of this is on top of seeing Jehong and Tobi being forced onto a hero that's 1. Boring to watch and 2. requires much much more skill to counter play. This leads to situations where teams with the better Mercy just win by attrition, and victory is almost solely based on who kills the enemy Mercy first...if she hasn't ulted already.

With this match as another great example, I already know I'm not going to enjoy watching the OWC if this isa the iteration of Mercy we get to watch them play with.

This is weird

Talked about this in chat, but EM has been on a tear with the new Mercy meta. Undefeated in second stage of challengers and won against BSG in surge.

Are we sure OWC is being played on the current patch?

is there a vod for this?

tabfan [#4]

is there a vod for this?

Here's the vod link: https://go.twitch.tv/videos/184454495

Overall Team SK got dominated, mostly because EM were able to kill their MErcy relatively easily since neither Jehong or Tobi are skilled enough to be in positions of power long enough throughout fights.

Regardless of Team SK losing, this just wasn't fun to watch for me. I saw some awesome plays by both teams getting outright nullified by a rez and fight lasting forever. SBB/Fl0w3r where underwhelming when their picks often just got rezed and it was a race to try and kill the Mercy before she came in to rez. The main reason why she wasn't dying was good D.Va matrix use, since you only need to shield her for about 1 sec while she's coming in, and 1 sec while she's running and to GA away after the CD is down.

Utterly unfun for me.

darkcvc [#3]

Talked about this in chat, but EM has been on a tear with the new Mercy meta. Undefeated in second stage of challengers and won against BSG in surge.

Are we sure OWC is being played on the current patch?

I think it's not just EM being on a tear, the old blood SK teams like LH,KD,AFB are all having trouble with these new blood teams, maybe a new era of dominance is forming in SKOW

who would have thought an established team would beat a mix team in a game based around teamwork

I mean, South Korea could make changes, and they might employ the sub rules from Contenders and APAC

maybe Blizzard is doing this against so many criticisms just to give USA a slight advantage

penda [#7]

who would have thought an established team would beat a mix team in a game based around teamwork

EM have been playing on the new Mercy patch all throughout out Challengers, the LH guys didn't, half the team. On top of Mercy having such a huge impact on games and, to me at least, being absolutely shit to watch.

Who would have thought practice on a hero would yield an advantage eh?