Rematch already monkaS
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cuz nicholson'll tell ya you will never find a way to handle the truth,
and the truth is that gc busan will 3-2 Lunatic Hai with their lucio BOOPS
Envy were slumping way before that. When they lost their 56 (57?) win streak. And you could make the ongoing meta a case for every team that's succeeding/not succeeding.
Point being, people are too quick to draw conclusions. LH and EnVy have been at the top for multiple months and across different metas, that's what it means to be a great team. Can't expect teams, no matter how good they are, to dominate forever.
I think coach of GC Busan deserves as much praise as the players. I think the main reason GC Busan was able to play so well against LH both games was because they knew exactly how to take advantage of LH's weakness.
We all know LH's DPS isn't the best, and that has been the problem LH suffered with. But in the match against X6, LH showed that they can somewhat overcome it by letting the DPS to play what they are best at (Whoru on Genji and Gido on Tracer). However, GC Busan was well-prepared to counter that by playing Soldier/Tracer. When LH rushed in, Hooreg placed biotic field, and GC Busan just fought on it. When Whoru changed to Junkrat, GC Busan played Pharah to counter that.
But because of this exact reason, I do not see GC Busan defeating C9-Kongdoo. Birdring/Rascal have giant hero pool and good at pretty much any DPS heroes. Because of this flexibility, it's very difficult to find any obvious weakness of them. I think this is similar reason why GC Busan had harder time with RunAway. RunAway is way more flexible team than LH.
LH needs to get top level hit scan player if they don't want to face the same difficulty again in the OWL.
Which is exactly why I hoped LH to pick up Libero. But it seems like NY is the one who got him. I don't know what NY will do once Flow3r joins in March. They have four top DPS (SBB, Flow3r, Libero, and Pine). Libero can flex tank, but MekO is quite good, so I doubt they would use Libero for that. Pine can flex heal as well, but then again, JJonak is really good.
both of LH dps played well. whoru just had more room to move on the first map, and was played around really well on the second.
it's mindblowing to me that in this stage of the game, people who have been watching this game competitively since release, still try to single out individual players who were "underperforming" rather than looking at the team play and team compositions. at the highest level team play is what separates teams, not which player is slightly better at a certain hero.