With OW esports growing as much as it is many people have slept on players across all tiers, a few that come to mind are:
Dids
Ripa
Innovation
Pookz
Climax
List your own below
Invision
Decod
Nesh
Emil
Tseini
Order
Mono
Nagga
Zaprey
Hidan
Onigod
Unfixed
Forsak3n
Fischer
Spoxez
Shax(kinda,he's starting to get more recognition in contendies for his stellar tracer play) is all i can think of right now but i'm paging my boy poi98 to name some hidden gems in EU since he's more knowledgable
Really? I feel like people sleep on Libero all the time due to fan/analyst's obsession with SBB and Pine. Libero seems to silently perform and when he does well (or dominates) people seem surprised. Not to mention people seem to consider Libero as trade bait now that Fl0w3R is on XL2 and expected to take his role when he becomes eligible.
I don't know I agree with you that at the start of the league, and for quite some time that was the case.
I also remember Monte pointing him out as one of the possible weak points of the team in one of his early OWL days, but anyone underrating Libero now simply has to be blind, the guy is a flex beast.
Just the ones that come to mind for me:
Ube
Hqrdest
Boink
Libero (pre OWL)
Bischu
Zza
Emongg
Spirit
Elk
Bumper
Space (like 3-4 weeks ago)
Nevix
Zaprey
Leaf
Decod
Invision
ONIGOD
Luddee
Mistakes
Joemeister
Changsik (this is a big one for me)
Hoon
Recry (seeing as he’s still teamless)
There are probably more but these are the big ones to me.
Absolutely, Shadder without question. The most underrated by far. If he was in OWL and had been having all that great practice like everyone else, he'd be a top 5 dps probably. He's insane and his impact is unreal. He's not the best Genji in the world but his Genji is definitely the deadliest and he plays like 5+ other heroes at OWL level. His DF, Junkrat, Pharah, Soldier, Sombra, and Zarya are all OWL level.
People forget too that he pretty much singlehandedly took Liquid from struggling to taking Rogue to 7 maps.
AZK was on the team the whole time but they were seeing success before Fury and Hulk had joined on. ie getting second in the pit championship in April two months before they joined and only losing to Rogue. And they were losing like crazy in the carbon series and shadder came in half way through and then they won out.
Carbon starts on the feb 20th. Shadder joins in game 2 week 2 and up to that point they had lost every match. After that they lost 1 to RNG and 1 to IMT. They beat, LG Loyal, Complexity, and 3-0d LG Evil who went on to win the tournament so he basically flipped the switch over night.
He was 17 at the time too and I think all those games were from Europe. Didn't get to NA til Pit and Contenders.
My underrated free agents that need to get picked up.
DPS:
Caspere - Sweden
cRNKz - Germany
Henzu - Sweden
Invision - Norway
Kayuun - USA
MATTH - Poland
Mwumbwahti - Sweden
Narwak - France
poks - Finland
Poro - Korea
Recry - Korea
Zonda - Taiwan
Flex:
Danii - Denmark
DoHyeon - Korea
Jasper - Japan
NexX - Germany
Realzx - UK
Sev - UK
train - Canada
Support:
evokje - Lithuania
Grafix - Australia
iPN - Norway
realment - Taiwan
Rubikon - Russia
Veinless - Germany
Tank:
Jongie - Taiwan
Kolsti - France
Kresnik - USA
ryb - Sweden
ThornCut - Korea
Wat7 - Austria
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