PHL vs. HOU – Overwatch League Season 1 Stage 1 W1

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My favorite team vs. my second favorite team... I'm gonna enjoy watching this so much holy shit. Can't wait.

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I TOLD YOU THIS WAS GOING TO BE AN AWESOME MATCH

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based on the Outlaws preseason they looks very strong , will the fusion will be at this level ? i guess we will see next month :)

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Based on the preseason Houston will easily win this 6v0.

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But philly didnt even play?

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6v0

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unlucky

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thatsthejoke.jpg

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Contrary to many people I believe that fragi and Poko are better than coolmatt and Muma and boombox is a better Zen than Rawkus (slight uk bias) Philly win in a close match

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agreed

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if this was later in the season i would agree with you hardcore.

but for now philly is a team without significant scrim time together compared to the rest of the league and with likely very few players in town for long enough to get used to a timezone shift.

Fusion might have better players on paper but Outlaws will be better prepared for week 1

PHL 1-3 HOU

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Muma and Coolmatt just have so much more synergy then Frago and Poko, from what i know, at least right now. All of the other teams had time to experience the 0 ping and high tick rate etc., which the members of Fusion may not be used to, also considering the scrims they might have done must have had some ping issues that may be another disadvantage. The other teams also had time to get used to the stage and all the equiptment, that, along with the fact that philly is mostly a mitch-matched team that don't have much synergy, and that they had less scrim time, it would be hard to not give it to Houston. While the players individual may be just as good or better, Houston just have more synergy and experience as a team, maybe in the future it will be closer, but I'm going to go with a 3-1 for Houston. Who knows though, i may be wrong, we'll just have to wait and see.

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Real problem for PHL will be lack of training at lan....probably they are gonna go with an european comp since they scrimmed almost all day in EU...maybe with the add of Carpe...Houston have a big advantage dor that but i believe in the europeans

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Always believe in our EU mates!! But then you have Linkzr and Mendo.... oh well more EU better than less! :D

That said, I agree Huston has for sure the advantage, I'd say that skillwise, individually, they are more or less on the same level, but Huston should have better synergy and more practice/scrimming time.

I don't think lan experience/choking should be a huge difference I mean all the guys on Phillie have it, SDB, Boombox, Carpe, Fragi, etc...

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We haven't had some spicy NA vs EU debates in a while, it will probably reignite after the season gets underway :)

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PHI 1-3 HOU

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The Houston Outlaws took both the Fuel and the Dynasty right down to the wire, and those two teams are supposed to be among the best. Philly didn't even play, so besides looking at the individual people, there's no way to know how good they might be. They have a good DPS pair (although secretly I never really liked SDB that much), but I feel like LiNKzer and Jake match up easily. Plus Coolmatt is a cool guy! HOU 3-1 PHL.

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houston 3-1 lets go boys

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I actually met Fragi in the Mei event this holiday because he was stuck in EU, and when i checked his stream around new years time he was still stuck in EU due to VISA issues. If you look at ONIGOD's recent montage, you can also see that Philadelphia has been scrimming on EU with high ping. I wonder how the team is gonna perform with the short amount of time theyve been able to practice together in the same environment as the others. Could definitely see Philly have the roughest start of them all because of it.

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4-0 HOU but closer than the score says. lack of scrims from philly will simply make it hard to take a map. wont be like the first two matches of the season in any sense.

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this will start way earlier i think
spitfire will probably slaughter mayhem within an hour

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LETS GO PHUSION SwiftRage

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That's how we do it in Philly

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wadu heck outlaws

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Jake's dragonblade was actually plat level

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Hopefully Linkzr can step it up after the first round

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He most certainly does, Linkzr is pretty special on Widowmaker and Mcree when compared to his genji/tracer

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Generation1

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Why do you take Linkz out for Clockwork? Clockwork is looking like a bot.

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yeah Linkzr's tracer is good enough vs carpes better than clockworks imo thought jake would have givin sdb more trouble on pharah also

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Generation1

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SDB came to play today. His Pharah has NEVER looked that good so he must've put in some work.

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I think Outlaws felt a bit too comfortable after win on Horizon.

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Raisin

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Clockwork should go back to tf2. I don't think he's gotten a single kill with his ult during his entire time in the league, including the preseason.

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Mr X keeps asking for Joemeister, but he ain't flat out better than Neptuno (for sure not with lack of team practice), is just that some of these NA casters don't know a thing about EU players.

Huston meanwhile thinking they had this in the bag and brought in the subs, sorry but Clockwork ain't at this level (yet?).

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poi98

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Neptuno is the best west mechanical lucio..plus flex god and mercy fragger :D

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This team won Kongdoo Panthera? ahahahah

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I know I'm biased, being a Rei main for most of the seasons until the last two, but damn if I love watching Fragi play Rei.

GG Phillies!

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Jake is so bad and overrated. Get him off the starring line up, let him bring some drinks for the starting lineup, while he thinks about maining junkrat.

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Spree and Rawkus were the problem, not Jake. Spree was consistently outplayed by Poko and SBD, and Rawkus died with ult way too often. In this meta, D.Va and Zen are the most important damage dealers on a team, and the Outlaws didn't have a good player at either of those roles.

Also, I'd like to remind everyone that at the end of the day, a close loss is still a loss, and none of the players on Houston except for Linkzr have ever won anything.

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Atlos

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Dying with ult too often was one of the main criticisms against Rawkus in the World Cup too.

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Carpe had 125 elims and only 31 deaths... he played OUT OF HIS MIND.

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poi98

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That was awesome! Philly is sooo goood!

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wentaway

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If they keep playing like that and improve, also including the guys who didnt' play yesterday, I guess I've found my fav team.

Sorry even if they play very well I can't find myself rooting for the Korean teams.

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poi98

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Europe is the way ahahaha

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-Neptuno looked better than most lucio players transitioning from lucio to mercy
-Poko is a beast and always has been now he just have a spotlight on him
-Carpe and Sdburn,still a deadly af dps duo
-Fragi rein god
-Boombox showing why he is one of the best zens in the league
-Overall,good game and good showing from both teams

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poi98

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Also Fragi on monkey was diving perfectly with Poko

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CamRa

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The best part about neptuNo’s battle mercy is that they were actually key frags that won them the fight.

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Hisoka

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Summary of the press conference the Fusion had afterwards if anybody's interested.
https://www.winstonslab.com/news/2018/01/13/philadelphia-fusion-press-conference-owl-day-2/