NRG announce San Francisco roster for Overwatch League

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I think their approach with the roster was to buy out all good free agents so nobody else would have a good team.

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Only 6 of the 8 man roster will be able to play when the league launches though what I'm curious about is who Super and Sinatraa will be putting on the bench, for rotation I assume.

Looking at their current roles they seem to be missing a proper off tank and a projectile DPS, so I'm looking forward to seeing who plays what initially and later on.

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In the announcement video, Babybay was shown playing Genji, even though he is mostly known for his soldier, if that's any indication, i don't know, Sinnatra has played Genji in the past, as for the offtank spot i can see Sinnatra playing Zarya, if they keep Nomy on the active line up after Sinnatra and Super can play, then Super's roadhog had a good showing when he subbed for Kungarna, but i truly don't know, i don't believe the signing period is over yet, they could still pick up like Hydration and Bishcu or something. Even if they don't, EnvyUs were successful for a while and they didn't have a projectile DPS player, but however teams without good offtanks have a history of struggling, Rouge, EUnited, RNG, even IMT to an extent. They could always put Babybay on the Zarya, he had a pretty good one back in the 3 tank meta.

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Yeah, hopefully they don't suffer from the Rogue and eUnited syndromes. Will be interesting, specially considering what xQc had to say about the roster choices.

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What did XQC say?

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not sure, however i assume this is it: https://clips.twitch.tv/RichCarelessShrimpCopyThis

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iddqd actually plays a pretty good pharah :)

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no california flag to give to san francisco overwatch league team FeelsBadMan

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Winter

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From Overwatch's sweetheart team of Numlocked, Harbleu and Seagull to Overwatch's bad boy team of Babybay, Danteh and Sinatraa.

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Nomy PogChamp, also they don't really have an outstanding D.Va player

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MATTHEW DELISI

Having two Andre’s could lead to confusion I feel

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4 DPS players with no projectile specialist?

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3 Tracer players and 1 76 player, they should at least sign Hydration (genji/pharah).

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The investment is such wutface. NRG must have an amazing sales pitch!

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Bunch of badboys

I love it

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babybay finally on a team he doesnt need to carry on his own lul

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I'm incredibly surprised that they took sleepy over Custa, thought for sure he was a lock for NRG.

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This team will not win games unless Sinatraa just happens to play out of his mind all the time. The whole team hinges on Sinatraa just killing everyone.

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He won't be playing for about half the Season so i'm assuming they've taken that into consideration.

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And they will lose every game they play for that half of the season. They will get absolutely crushed in every single one. Until Sinatraa and Super can play, they have no roadhog or Zarya player. After those two join, they will still have no D.va, pharah, standout genji, or Junkrat and they have two extremely average Winston players. Teams like LH, KDP, Misfits, and Envyus will destroy them and considering the other free agents left, the other teams have a good chance of doing this as well.

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Zombs lol

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@18

D.va

D A N T E H

standout Genji

Sinatraa, Danteh, Babybay

Zarya

Babybay

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Generation1

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Literally none of those players have ever proven to be competent outside of ranked on any of those heroes.

Space played D.Va and Zza played Genji so Danteh has never played either in professional play.

Babybay's Genji is EXTREMELY average. He wouldn't even make a top 50 in the world list.

Sinatraa has also never proven to be STANDOUT on genji. He's passable and it has worked when Selfless needed it but it was never game changing like the Genji's he will be playing against. You're forgetting who he will be playing against.

I have never seen BabyBay play Zarya. Bischu did it for Kungarna.

so unless they just magically get really good at all these heroes in professional play overnight. None of them have ever proven it before.

GIVE ME THE DOWN FRAGS BOYS. YOU'LL SEE THAT I'M RIGHT SOMEDAY.

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CamRa

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Danteh played D.Va in Jolson Days.

They literally all have played genji in a pro setting.

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Dude Danteh was the designated Dva/Zarya for Yikes before Space joined (was still the designated Zarya then). His Genji is nutty too tf you saying ? Zza played Genji like once or twice total...
Babybay is putting time into Genji and Dva lately, you don't improve magically, happens by practice, and they still have 3+ months before the league starts.

This team will not win games unless Sinatraa just happens to play out of his mind all the time. The whole team hinges on Sinatraa just killing everyone.

I literally can't figure out what to answer to this lmao.

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I cant wait for this nrg lineup to prove wrong all the doubters.
It's literally been said by multiple NA players that this lineup is better than most NA teams. Kyky said on Ultimate Advantage that NRG is one of the top 4 NA teams.

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Top4 NA does not mean top4 OWL.

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The roster was not the same according to xQc. Strong looking roster though, but legitimate concern as not having an offtank player has proven to be a delicate situation for many teams.
They have the best in game leader and solid players so it should be fun. Redistributes the cards for the teams that haven't been announced yet, the FA market is very promising. I also wonder if they'll still add players to the squad or if this is the final form of SFOW.

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Can sleepy tweet "keep sleeping on us" pls?

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I'm soo happy to see Nomy playing again! :D I can finally start using: "Go Nomy!" again in tournaments! Yay!

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Involv3r

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Same here my man, one of the nicest guys in the scene. Really happy for him.

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sleepy is a monster, cant wait to watch him show his stuff

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all of the dps players other than sinatraa are kind of questionable but the tanks and support are solid.

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They have signed one of the worlds best Lucios! So happy to see dhaK on that team. Will support them in the Overwatch League for sure. Such a nice guy that spanish dude! Also expected on what IDDQD will do, now he was getting a little behind other players on the scene, but he is still a really talentful player.

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damn 4 toxic dps meta must be the new thing.

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I think IDDQD is still a fair bit behind the other 3 in terms of toxicity. I haven't seen him tbag and then type ''You okay'' in chat after killing someone yet.

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will be interesting to see how they handle their roster in OWL.
all of the 4 dps players have a pretty big ego so lets see who warms the bench first.
also super happy for sleepy and dhak pretty dope suppot combo in the makin.

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paolodicanio

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in before Jennifer Lopez hooks up with either dhak or babybay
mark my words

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Honestly, I think this roster is quite underwhelming.

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honestly if one of them can play a decent D.va(mostlikely danteh) this could be a scary DPS core, we've seen what babybay can do carrying mykl on his back. Imagine giving him a tracer like Sinatraa harassing the backline. Sure thats not until Sinatraa is 18 but putting Babybay on D.Va (apparently hes been playing it alot lately) or even zarya with Danteh on tracer and IDDQD on mcree/76 could still be effective

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in babybay's twitter description (https://twitter.com/KING_BABYBAY) he writes "DPS/Off Tank" so could that be it? i've never heard or seen babybay play tank for a team. has anyone else? lol

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I think he recently played Zarya when they ran triple tank (maybe against faze idk) but I remember the casters complaining Kungarna took Babybay off dps and MYKL was the only one, however it was very short, he also ran it way in the past, the 4 tank meta, when ConnerJ Ajax, and B1am were on the roster, they were known for MYKL (on d.va) combining his ult with Babybay's grav.

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he played zarya during the 4 tank day so i expect him to be able to flex onto dva also now that she is more dps/bully heavy

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Sayabi

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IDDQD isn't the roster anymore PogChamp

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Babybay was pretty good on Zarya (charged grav really quickly) back in the 3/4 tank meta (Jan-Feb). Their Grav + D.Va bomb set play was lethal (as stated by #44) with iReMiix charging the opposing Rein so there's nothing to block the self-destruct. I miss watching that Kungarna team. :(

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having 2 DPS who can play incredible zaryas is good but still need the D.Va player... how was danteh at D.Va before denial brought on space?

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the days of the must pick dva are over tough when owl starts so an amazing dva player is not a must have.

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That doesn't mean she won't come back in a few months.

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If she remains as-is she won't come back to being an absolute must pick, but great D.Va players can still make good use of her, just a bit more niche like she used to be.

I think they might be able to make due with a strong Zarya player (Babybay until Super/Sinatraa come in) or mayb they just go triple DPS? Lots of possibilities so I'm looking forward to seeing what they do and how they measure up to the rest of the field with this interesting roster.

That being said, I'm now an EnvyUs/Seoul fanboy until Canada gets their own team <3

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Danteh was fine on Dva, nothing too shiny, but I doubt he enjoyed it. I'm guessing you're relating this to the new SF roster, I'm pretty sure that Babybay will take the Dva role, as noted by Bane #41, his twitter bio says he's the DPS/Offtank player in the team.

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Brad hints at a possible 9th player on reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/73wcy9/gm_of_rogue_claims_some_owl_teams_are_run_like/dntnd6x/

LET THE SPECULATION BEGIN!

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I'm guessing it'll be safe to assume the new addition will be an offtank player. Space ? PogChamp

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Dafran returns

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Don't even joke lmaooo

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one can only dream