The OWL Pellets: A Fantasy Challenge

cant wait
gonna be interesting

F*****g love it!

Harsha and Pash for the win
edit: Sideshow will do it or not? Cause in case he is the lord.

Honestly a roster of Gods, Boombox, Buds, FCTFCTN, Dummy, and Flower could beat the uprising

You could sub dummy for Adam

I would go for Harbleu, Calvin, aKm, Reinforce, Roolf and Adam

Oh shit, it's on!

Well, here goes: Davin, Gods, Mangachu, AKM, Shadder2k, Zappis, FCTFCTN, Knoxxx, Roolf, Adam, and Greyy.

Davin is the best EU Tracer not in OWL, he kept up with Tracers like Logix and Snillo, even beating those 2 on LAN and proving he has what it takes, he's also been described as hardworking, which is always a plus.

Gods is one of the most experienced players in all of the OW scene, it would be tough to find someone as experienced as him who's not in OWL. He's one of the most flexible players, being able to play Main Tank, Flex Tank, and DPS, all to a extremely high level.

Mangachu is the best pharah player not in OWL period, excluding Fl0w3r, he's proven himself time and time again, in the World cup for team Canada, who placed second. His hero pool also works extremely well with Gods, who is so good at the Flex and DPS roles.

AKM, do i need to explain? He's an insane hitscan and pharah with mountains of LAN experience, he's been proven time and again to be able to play at the highest level of the game.

Shadder2k is a strong genji with lots of room to improve and grow as a player in the future, tons of talent and potential.

Zappis, great leader, insane offtank and flexibility, has been around for ever, similer to Gods and AKM

FCTFCTN is one of the greatest tank players in OW history, consistently played at a high level on a top teir team, and on all 3 main tanks, out Orisa-ing Mano on Nepal in the USA vs SK game, and he's also proven to be one of the best throughout all metas.

Knoxxx is big brain, one of the smartest players, tons of LAN experience, and his flexibility of Lucio and Winston allows for many comps to be played.

Adam is the best mercy NA, good in game leader from what i heard, 2 time USA world cup Lucio, insane overall

Roolf, solid flex support, proven to be able to play at a high level.

Greyy, good Zen, insane Sombra.

Overall, these 11 players form to make a team that has crazy amounts of LAN experience, insane flexibility, and tons of Synergy compared to other OWL teams, Knoxxx and AKM played together on Rouge and France, Gods Adam and Roolf played together on C9, Adam and FCTFCTN, and Roolf and Mangachu played together on their respective World cup teams, and Davin and Zappis were on Gigganti.

DPS - aKm, shadder2k, dafran
Tank - FCTFCTN, Knoxxx, Zappis
Support - Adam, Roolf, Grey

DPS - Dafran, Shadder2k
Flex - Harbleu
Tank - Decod
Support - Winz, Roolf

Ok, the team would have to be,

DPS: aKm, Shadder, Kruise and if you could get Dafran to play. If Dafran didn't play, this would be lacking a solid tracer. But great genji and pharah with tons of flex. aKm picks up the change with Mcree, Soldier Reaper and possibly pharah. Dafran plays second soldier or anything because he's insane at every hero.

Tanks/Flex: Gods, Knoxxx, Emongg. Huge brains, tons of flex. Gods and Emongg both have no problem with the flex tanks and I have no doubt that Gods would be an insane Reinhardt. Sort of lacking a strong Zarya but I think Emongg could learn this and obviously Gods could.

Supports: Adam, Fahzix, Winz, Grego. Adam plays mercy and possibly lucio. Fahzix and Grego pick up flex support roles. Winz is the brain of the whole team. Maybe not playing a ton but leading the team for sure. Maybe playing Lucio and shot calling or unconventionally pick up Zarya as he's shown to be nuts with it. Winz could be a huge hole filler for the team as he's capable of monster DPS plays.

Presonally I'd go with something like:

Dps
Buds
Zza

Flex
Emongg
Smex

Tank
Dcop

Sup.
Adam
Hidan

DPS
Nesh, aKm, Mangachu

Nesh with the Genji, Tracer, Sombra and Widow. aKm with Mccree, Soldier, Reaper and Widow and Mangachu with the projectiles.

Tank/Flex
ChrisTFer, Gods, Snizzlenose, Zappis

Chris for main tanker, and Gods for offtanks. Gods can fill main tanks and most DPS heroes as well. Snizzlenose is the best Hog this game has seen, but he got cucked by Dva being so prevalent, so it's a no brainer in case the meta shifts towards Hog. Zappis is an all around player and was a great team captain.

Support
KnOxXx, Roolf, Hidan, NUT!

KnOxXx on the main support, always been a great shotcaller. Roolf has a crazy good Zen, and Hidan was a great Ana. Can also spread the possibilities with a Roolf Hidan support combo. Finally, NUT! for them Symmetra first point holds, EZ wins.

Just a quick question/possible suggestion: Are you taking into account the other aspects of forming an OWL roster sans money? (i.e. cohesion, communication, possible burnout due to schedule, branding, fan outreach and interaction, memes, etc.)

DPS: Calvin, Nesh, Architect
Tanks: FCTFCTN, Harbleu, Smex, Hoon
Supports: Adam, Roolf, Dante

The limitation of not being able to recruit anyone from RunAway makes this much harder. If it wasn't for that, I would've probably chosen the core members from RunAway and filled the team with remaining stars in KR scene.

Since this is to make a realistic team taking into account of team synergy, I would probably pick key members from Miraculous Youngster and LGD as starters.

DPS:
YangX1aoLg
Leave

Tank:
guxue
LateYoung

Support:
Creed
Shy

Subs:
aKm
ArHaN
FCTFCTN
Void
Fuze
Undine

Explaining the starters first. I think the main weakness of MY is the main tank, so replacing Jiquiren with guxue would strengthen the team quite a bit. Also, I think Shy is the best flex support in Chinese scene (zhufanjun is almost as good, but I think Shy is slightly better at Zenyatta and Sombra).

As explained above, I chose the starters not based on pure individual talents, but chose them considering the team synergy. So clearly, there are better individual talents available. So I think picking this top individuals filling in some of the weaknesses of the starters would be a great way to wrap up the roster.

aKm is one of the best, if not the best, hit-scan available. As long as he can play well with the team, he would be a great addition to any team. Also, he has shown his skills on Pharah as well, which neither of the two DPS in the starting line-up clearly displayed.

Another weakness of the starter is that although leave plays Genji from time to time, his Genji is not comparable to the top Genjis in OWL. So including ArHaN would complement this team quite well.

FCTFCTN is probably the best option left for main tank. KnoxXx is also a viable option, but I think FCTFCTN's Rein is better.

I think Void is the best D.Va outside the OWL. Void's D.Va and LateYoung's Zarya is probably as good as, if not better than, top flex tanks in OWL.

Fuze is amazing on Lucio and is also decent on Mercy. Wakawaka is another option, but I think I would choose Fuze over him because I think Fuze would have better synergy with Undine as they have played together.

Undine is very good on Zenyatta and Ana, and he is one of the best on Mercy. Greyy and Roolf are also viable options, but I would choose Undine over them due to better synergy with Fuze.

Christfer,Finnsi,greyy,poks,davin,crusade,snizzlenose,chipsa,tonic,MikeyA,luddee,bock1

Here we go for me:

DPS: Akm, Shadder2k, Davin, Mangachu
Tanks: KnoxXx, Emongg, FCTFCTN, Kryw
Support: Hidan, Greyy, Morte

Akm: Easy pick, one of the best hitscan players in the world, crime that he isnt in OWL. Tons of lan experience plus established synergy with KnoxXx.

Shadder2k: absolute nutty Genji player and can flex to other characters like Junkrat if needed. Plus he just hit 18 so he’s good to go age wise.

Davin: the unacknowledged carry of Team Gigganti due to Linkzr having tons of flashy plays. Absolutely great Tracer player but if Tracer got nerfed or the meta shifted away from Tracer, i dont know what would happen to him.

Mangachu: Probably top three Pharah’s in the game right now with Flow3r and Talespin being the contenders, I picked Mangachu over Talespin due to his ability to flex to Dva or Junkrat should the situation arise.

KnoxXx: amazing Winston, lan experienced, and existing synergy with Akm. He could also pick up the coach or analyst role if he decides to retire or take a break from OW.

FCTFCTN: great showing at the world cup for USA and at Contenders for FaZe Clan, over great tank player on Winston, Reinhardt, and Orisa. I wouldnt be surprised if he gets picked up midseason.

Emongg: people though he was a hog one trick, but he has shown himself to be very competent on dva, Soldier, and Tracer as well as Hog. Generally a great flex player plus a PMA god who could rival Ark, Mickie, and Taimou.

Kryw: fills the weakness that this team has in a really good Zarya player, so if Triple tank becomes really viable again, his Zarya could be very valuable.

Hidan: absolute nutty Ana and Mercy. We havent seen him in a while but im sure he could be back in top shape really soon.

Greyy: also a great Zen and Ana player but he has a great Sombra that vould be very valuable on 2cp maps like Volskaya and Anubis.

Morte: lucio player who did pretty good for The Netherlands and did a pretty good hob on EUnited. It would be interesting to see what he would bring to the team.

NUT!, Muselk, Fuey500, TimTheTatMan, Kephrii, MoonMoon, PvpTwitch, Fitzyhere, Gale, EeveeA, Dellor, Wanted.

DPS: aKm, Architect, Buds, AKTM
Flex: Emongg, zappis
Tank: KnOxXx, FCTFCTN
Support: Hidan, Roolf, Adam, CLAIRE

Bring more love to the japanese World Cup underdogs, they deserve it! I don't know if they're proficient enough in english though, that's the only thing I'm concerned about.

Korean roster would probably look like this,
Runaway core with some other extras

Stich
Hascal
Kox
tizi
jjanu
Bumper

Recry
Idk
Void
Undine
Brek
Hoon

Then bring in Runner and Twinkl to coach

And if you were building a roster of westerners heres another idea

Davin
Zapis
Grey
Mowzassa
Morte
Kruise/Kyb

Roolf
AKM
Winz
Smex
ChrisTFer
Adam (NA)

Coaches:
Seita
Gunba
iuKeEe

I can come up 3 rosters in about 15/20 mins...

eng speaking:
-Tanks: ChrisTfer, sharyk
So many good tanks, could easily choose Fct or Tonic (even Kaiser). Went with chris and sharyk based on old synergy with team uk and eunited.
-Flex: Smex, Gods, uNFixed
-Supports: Adam, Roolf, Wins
Flex supports are the hardest to fill imo. Wins is as much a coach as a player. If i could think of another tier 1 Ana/zen I would put them in over one of the flex/dps players (probably smex). That way you could do in-house scrims.
-DPS: aKm, Davin, Kruise, Vallutaja
aKm, Gods and uNFixed can all flex on dps. Davin and Val for tracer and Kruise for Genji (Kruise over Kyb or any other genji Bc of synergy and potential lucio for in-house scrims)

chn speaking:
the MY roster (with extras but I haven't followed any team outside of MY in China enough to know who)

kr speaking:
Runaway (obv - Haksal due to age) with a few additions from Meta Athena, RX Foxes and LW red

Edit: Just read the rules again and Runaway are banned because they are too obvious (and op)!

This is one of the best threads to read. Kreygasm

My first choice would be to pick up the entire roster of Element Mystic as their current roster of ~
DPS / SP9RK1E
DPS / Guard
TANK / FEARLESS
FLEX / Daco
SUPPORT / Jecse
SUPPORT / rapel

But for fun, a great mixed roster could be made up of ~ (korean vs english would be difficult)
DPS / Sayaplayer
DPS / Erster
TANK / fctfctn
FLEX / GUARDIAN
SUPPORT / Adam
SUPPORT / Roolf
SUB / OneFact
SUB / Choihyobin
SUB / Hidan

Tanks: Trill, Gods, HooWoo,
DPS: ieatuup, oPuTo
Supports: rQt, Graceful

Subs: Hus

Analysts/Coaches: Gunba, kurjun

Instead of going the route of putting together a mishmash team of people that are considered good by the community. I started with the Blank Esports core, because they already have a year of synergy together, and they imo have proven that they can compete at an OWL level.

My additions/replacements to the roster:
Gods/HooWoo/Kiki - Gods is a very good offtank. In my opinion, he is a bit more flexible than HooWoo & Kiki, but I've kept HooWoo because his zarya is pretty damn good

oPuTo/Hus - I think oPuTo is the perfect fit for the team. Having already played on an Australian team and playing on the NA/Thai hybrid team Mega Thunder, I don't think language barriers would be an issue. He's also being put into a core of a team that is known for winning fights they should have lost, and anyone that has been following the Overwatch Pacific Championship, oPuTo is a god at doing this solo. Hus moved to the sub position because while he isn't super standout on DPS, he's consistently good at every hero in the game.

Graceful - A flex god. Playing support on the same team as oPuTo, I feel he would synergise nicely. He was also known for his genji play on Splyce/is pretty flexible.

tbh if someone with enough money to buy an OWL spot wants to pick me up as GM, hmu in my dms thanks

KR roster
Ardeont + IDK and Void
Could (and should) have been picked up for OWL and still come top 5

European roster
Dps: Davin AKM
Tank: ChrisTfer
Flex: Smex
Flex support: Grey
Main support: Winz
SUB: Kruise Kryw
Overall good synergy and talent and could play everything from 3 dps to 3 tank and find sucess

some1 put me in your roster pls so i feel good

DPS : Hafficool, Hafficool
Tank : Hafficool, Hafficool
Support : Hafficool, Hafficool

It's lacking a good diva and genji but at least they all speak icelandic so they should have a somewhat good synergy

Tank: FCTFCTN Kaiser

DPS: aKm Shadder davin Mangachu

Flex/Tank: Gods Zappis emongg

Support: Roolf Adam greyy

I was really going for ultimate flexibility, but I think it ended up pretty sick either way

e: i just looked through and realized i have almost the exact same roster as #9, great minds think alike my friend

Main Tank:
KnoxXx
ChrisTFer

Off tank:
Smex
LateYoung

DPS:
MikeyA
aKm
Architect

Supports:
Hidan
Wakawaka
Forsak3n
Adam

Should be able to cover any meta plus enough quality players to start with an English speaking lineup and integrate the Eastern players in once they are more comfortable with the language.

I’d pick up Runaway with Sayaplayer, ArHaN and IDK
Also Runaway has no buyout.

The first challenger has posted their roster! Volamel's Detroit Defiance, a full Korean roster drawing on the core of X6-Gaming and adding some flexible up-and-comers to the mix.

are all of the pellet teams going to be korean

So far the answer is yes! Elbion's team and RadoN's team have been revealed, respectively:

San Diego Surf

and

Gangnam Mapgpies

Korean teams ResidentSleeper

Come on now

Muselk
Tyrodin
Zylbrad
Bazza
Oasis
Cray/BlackBlues (pick someone else on the meme team)

Gonna steal Sideshow's thunder.

Barroi of Winston's Lab has revealed his roster: the Busan Beach Boys

I <3 the Magpies theme, but iirc Lucid is on the verboten RunAway. Is he an exception because he is/may be a trial?

So all that's left is Yiska and the over.gg peeps. From what I saw, the rosters are solid, but the team name/branding leaves a lot to be desired.

Another non-Korean roster, this time based around Miraculous Youngster and 1246, from Yiska. Meet the Beijing Imperials.

Korea Korea Korea for the Sejong Greats. Now we're just waiting for Harsha

Harsha's team is finally here. Introducing the Shock's Contender's Team Toronto Tyrants

Time for a necro: knowing what we know now, which of these teams would be the best (assuming they played during season 2)? I'd probably go with Volamel's team (Detroit), if only because he didn't specify which players would be starters, so he gets the benefit of the doubt over RadoN (Gangnam) who benched Twilight and Decay.

a true blast from the past