San Francisco unboxes Nevix

tamagao

October 30, 2017

The San Francisco Shock have announced the pickup of DPS player Nevix over Twitter. He will presumably finalize the roster as the team's ninth player.

Proud to announce that @Nevix_OW is joining the San Francisco roster!

Are you shocked?! ⚡️ pic.twitter.com/B61ViHGt38
— San Francisco Shock (@SFShock) October 30, 2017

Nevix was the flex support in the early days of Misfits before transitioning into DPS shortly before the Overwatch Open. His broad set of skills and flexibility would soon become apparent as he excelled on heroes like Genji and McCree just as he did on Ana before. Nevix would swap between the roles of DPS and flex support after the three team trade that ended 2016. He was cut from Misfits after the team decided to move away from an all-Swedish lineup.

Nevix would find a new home shortly after when he was picked up by Cloud9. Nevix was one of the few players to consistently start for the team as the roster would undergo dramatic changes during Contenders Season One.

After the initial announcement of San Francisco's roster, it appeared the team was finalized. That sentiment would soon change, however, when San Francisco head coach Sephy mentioned on Reddit that the team would soon have nine players. Its unknown whether or not the team had settled on their ninth at the time, but sources say that Nevix beat out Mangachu and zZa for the spot.

The San Francisco Shock roster is now:

Jay "sinatraa" Won (DPS)
Andrej "BABYBAY" Francisty (DPS)
André "iddqd" Dahlström (DPS)
Dante "Danteh" Cruz (DPS)
Andreas "Nevix" Karlsson (DPS)
Matthew "super" DeLisi (Tank)
David "Nomy" Ramirez (Tank)
Nikola "sleepy" Andrews (Support)
Daniel "dhaK" Martinez Paz (Support)
Brad "Sephy" Rajani (Head Coach)

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CamRa

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No shock puns 0/10

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Mert

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Sometimes the best pun is the one that is not the most obvious

#20

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Are you shocked?!

#2

Generation1

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wtf why

#3

Xeon

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Because Nevix should be a better Projectile DPS than anyone else they have on their Roster so far + he could even Play Flex Support on OWL lvl if ist needed for some reason. Should be a really good pickup by them tbh and i think he will see the most playtime out of all the DPS^^

#8

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Did you want another hitscan specialist?

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CamRa

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Yes

#11

Generation1

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yeah, I think all 12 members of the team should be a hitscan player.

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Great save.

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I wouldnt be surprised if the reason Nevix beat Mangachu and zZa is his ability to play non pharah characters at a higher level than the other two

Still, Nevix and Sinatraa are an underrated DPS duo

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Agreed, and they crushed it the one game they played together in Contenders so I'm happy to see it come back. I think this is one of the best roster moves they could have made since the reveal.

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I mean... shadowburn woulda been great but Nevix is probably the next best projectile player (excluding linkzr since he's supposedly on optic and dafran)

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linkzr is on houston and dafran is a hitscan player...

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while yes dafran is a hitscan he's mechanically skilled enough to excel on projectile

He stomped on jakes pharmecy without a pocket of his own on pharah

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plus i'd value a high level Genji over a top tier Pharah. Plus nevix is mechanically skilled enough to pick up any off meta pick character if the team wants a mangachu (aka junkrat/torb etc).

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exactly and his support history is like the center of a tootsie/blowpop

#26

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underrated LMFAO

tell me one persen who underrates them.

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PogChamp

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SF shock planning to dominate quick play with their 6 DPS roster

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LGE ran a 5DPS comp once, they steamrolled the map with it

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There's a big difference between playing a comp once and most of your roster being DPS players. LGE players could all play any tank, SF can't.

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Really happy for my boy! He can play at high level projectile hitscan and flex support....he is really a god

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That's a PogChamp

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murasaki

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He excelled in the later stages of Contenders S1 and with the way C9 EU got left in the dirt a little bit due to the signing of KDP, i'm really happy for him because he's an excellent player who deserves an OWL spot.

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Nevix the monster. My favourite EU player since I first saw him on old Misfits, glad he made it in OWL, although I was kinda hoping he'd get on a better team.

#25

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Team seoul thinking they can compete with SF shock 3 andre's meta with their Kims LUL

#27

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I dont care if they have 9 dps players, they got some of the best ones :)

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fellah

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the dps on this team is insane

#29

Wombat

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Such a huge PogChamp right there! So happy that Nevix is going to be in OWL, he deserves it

#30

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I think a lot of people have kind of forgotten about Nevix since Logix has been doing so well on Misfits in his stead (except on LAN lul).

The dude is a beast and unlike the existing DPS on SF, he's flexible. I'm guessing whenever SF will need to counter/comfort pick against an opponent with a niche, Nevix will be filling in the gaps that the other DPS can not (Pharah, Genji, etc).

Best of luck to Nevix though, very deserved and I'm happy for him.

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Not enough Andre’s.

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