Just confirmed here on the Valiant twitter account
I think we all knew this was coming, but damn. I think that's a really great pickup for LAG though! Loved what I got to see in the brief moments that Silk got some playing time, and going to a team as creative as LAG will help him flourish.
Um I'm not too sure what silk brings to table for LAG. He's like a slightly worse surefour but can't play widow. I don't know what situation he will ever be played in. The only thing I can think of is if he grinds out tracer (which I already know he's good at), and gets better than surefour's tracer so he can be played with Asher when Asher plays hitscan. Or have him focus on main projectle heroes like genji and pharah and have hydration play more niche projectile heroes like doomfist and Mei. But, I think the thing that could work best for them is to have silk be a tracer specialist, Asher on hitscan specialist, surefour on every DPS, hydration on projectile. I'm not sure how impactful this will be in terms of other pickups they've gotten (obviously fissure made a huge impact and I'm sure void will as well), but I'm still excited to see how things will go.
I would say silk has the better Genji, but Surefour probably is better on most other heroes. Doesn't take away from silk's flexibility tho and I hope to see a Surefour/silk duo at some point. They won't have Asher's Tracer or Hydration's Genji/Pharah but both can still play those 3 heroes at OWL level, with the added benefit of Surefour flexing onto 76/McCree/Widow
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