https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/6vay2b/taimous_hints_the_new_nrg_roster/
What do you guys think?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/6vay2b/taimous_hints_the_new_nrg_roster/
What do you guys think?
The fact that one person hasn't competed in contenders S0/1 is really interesting. That leaves a handful of Western players for the last spot. Even though it will most likely be one of them, there is a lot of talent outside which has great potential and could make the cut for an OWL roster.
Possibly a South American player? Someone from Asia (outside of Korea) or a player from the Pacific tournament.
Kelvin didn't make it into groups and I highly believe that is what Taimou is referring to - people like Sinatraa/jake/Surefour who were part of season 0 but not 1. However Seagull is part of the old NRG, so it also depends on what Taimou was referring to - does he mean players like Gods and Pookz are also out or just iddqd?
Adam and dhaK are both supports that are excellent at what they do, so there's not exactly a "worse" choice between the two of them imo but that's merely my opinion.
If MESR isn't picked up as their tank I'm going to be very surprised. He's one of the best tank players out there and I can't really think of a free agent that would be considered a better pickup.
That at least leaves a wide variety of flex and DPS players open, and there's a really wide variety of players to pick from. Sinatraa, S4, shadder2k, Nesh, and others are all possibilities as well.
I'm gonna go on a limb and say the player that wasn't in Contenders is Sleepy, who's a very good flex support.
My prediction for the roster would be Dhak as main support, Mesr/xQc for main tank, CoolMatt/Bischu on Flex and Sinatraa on DPS.
I also wanna see Seagull back in this team to round it up, with his pool they literally can run anything at a top level. If not Seagull, then I hope it's Nesh (although very doubtful seeing some of the DPS names that are FA as of this moment).
Yes definitely one of the best in NA with Bischu, who's not talked about as much but equally as good, and both of them have nutty Zaryas as well. CoolMatt can 76 as well so that might be a plus.
And to reply to BillDozer, I actually am not sure about neither Sleepy's or Space's age, it was just a hunch.
And btw, Space would be a sick flex to pick up too. I guess flex is where the OWL spot locking competition gonna be at.
From what Taimou's saying it sounds like Seagull isn't part of the squad which would make me sad. Basically I think he'd be able to do good things with a solid Tracer by his side allowing him to flex to w/e is needed be it Genji, Pharah, Doomfist or even Hanzo or Mei.
As for iddqd him and his girlfriend argued against the idea that he was off the team. Taimou comment is vague enough that you could still interpret Andre as being part of the squad since he could have been the 1 player not in Contender S0 or S1, yet not being part of the "old NRG" before the rebuild.
It depends on how you'd interpret "old NRG", but personally I'd still want to see Seagull in there.
I think this Tracer specifically would need to be lvl'd up since right now the name of the game seems to be having a strong Tracer and a strong flex that can play a lot of things. The Tviq/Logix combo is the best example I can find since they look absolutely terrifying.
EFFECT and Taimou are an exception to this since Taimou can't Tracer and they go w/o for maps where they want Doomfist. No clue if he can play a top Pro lvl Doom though. I really just want to see what kind of team they've built and if they can shake the NRG curse.
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