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This player profile is for Lee ‘’BQB’’ Sungbeom, born on July 3, 1998, in Yongin, South-Korea. Before he joined the Mayhem as their DPS, BQB was a pro player with X6 Gaming in Overwatch APEX Season 4 and in Season 1 Overwatch Contenders Korea 2018. Most of BQB’s teammates joined the Hangzhou Spark while he…
Hype for the start of the 2020 OWL season is in full swing, with the start of the season just one day away. Several teams will be flying out to Dallas and New York with the hopes of starting their season off on the right foot. For players, the pressure is the same, only they’ll also…
The Overwatch League returns on Saturday, bringing the first high-level competitive play the esport has seen in over three months. The break since the World Cup naturally breeds uncertainty about what is to come. The rash of recent balance updates clouds that vision even further when it comes to what the product will look like. …
February marks the final month to experience Competitive Overwatch as it has been played thus far. With hero pools on the horizon and a plethora of patches having recently gone live, Overwatch feels like it is in a bit of a renaissance at the moment. A big part of the reason the game feels this…
From March 7, the hero ban consisting of banning one tank, one Support, two DPS each week will be active. On top of that, the 2-2-2 meta is still in play, making it harder for players to actually pick a hero from their hero pool. Meaning the players need to either pick up more heroes…
Part 13: A Short Respite from the Moth and Brigitte’s Arrival Mercy was heavily nerfed at the beginning of 2018. The instant speed resurrections were toned down, and Valkyrie was made to be much less…ridiculous. This led to her usage dropping quite a bit. Mercy was still seeing a ton of play, but she wasn’t…
Alongside Main Tank Matthew “Super” DeLisi, Jay “Sinatraa” Won has become one of the most recognizable faces in the Overwatch League. He helped bring the Shock to their Grand Finals victory and received MVP for the 2019 season. He even recently partnered with Indy “Space” Halpern to put out a line of streetwear, bridging the…
With a new year comes a new set of hopes that the Overwatch community has for its beloved game. At the top of the list, it seems that most are asking for heroes. Not only more of them in 2020, but also more unique types of heroes. In 2018, players were introduced to three new…
Overwatch’s 2020 Lunar New Year event is in full swing, offering players several new skins and cosmetics as well as a new live patch to play on. But, this year’s event also offers players the opportunity to play a new game mode called Capture the Flag: Blitz. This new Arcade mode is very similar to…
Overwatch Patch 1.44 hit live servers today, just one week after hitting the PTR. Typically patch notes have 2-3 weeks on the PTR to be adjusted, however, these notes are now live to coincide with Overwatch’s Lunar New Year Event that started today. As a reminder, these patch notes change the flight frequency of D.Va,…
Overwatch’s Lunar New Year event is live and in full swing. But, like most of Overwatch’s events, one of the most exciting parts of an event going live isn’t the Arcade modes or the map aesthetic changes, it’s the new skins and cosmetics that come along with them. And while the new skins may have…
Yesterday, Overwatch announced that it’s Lunar New Year event would be going live today and, unfortunately, all of the events skins were leaked. But, lucky for players, there is still more to do with this year’s Lunar event, here’s everything you need to know before you log in and download the update. When is it…
[Update: Overwatch’s 2020 Lunar New Year event is now live! Check out all of the new skins, emotes and other cosmetic items here!] On both the official Overwatch Twitter header image and via @OverwatchNaeri, it appears that some, if not all, of this year’s Lunar New Year skins have been leaked. Today it was confirmed…
It was announced today in a trailer on Twitter that Overwatch’s annual Lunar New Year event will begin tomorrow, January 16 and will end on February 5. The official teaser announcement, featuring Hanzo, can be seen below. Get ready to ring in the Year of the 🐀! Overwatch’s Lunar New Year festivities begin tomorrow! pic.twitter.com/bszNJheHDt…
Part 10: Dive’s Dominance, Sombra’s Appearance, and Doomfist’s Arrival There was a time where a huge slug of the roster was considered viable. For a few weeks well over half of the heroes could feasibly be brought to a high level game without handicapping ones team comp. This slowly but surely began to change, however.…
[1/16 Update: Overwatch’s Latest Patch Hits Live Servers Earlier Than Usual Alongside Lunar Event] Patch Notes 1.44 went live on Overwatch’s PTR a few days ago on January 9. These patch notes look to be somewhat impactful, bringing nerfs to several of the key meta heroes right now, including Baptiste and Mei. These changes, from…
Just one day after developers responded on Blizzard forums stating that changes to Baptiste and Mei were coming, Overwatch’s PTR Patch Notes were released. PTR Patch Notes 1.44 will tentatively address six heroes: Baptiste, Mei, D.Va, Orisa, Hanzo and Doomfist. The changes can be seen in their entirety in the image below, clipped from Blizztrack.com:…
On the Blizzard forums today, January 8, Overwatch Developer Josh Noh responded at length to the community backlash over his initial post on power creep. In this post, Noh claimed that he felt Overwatch wasn’t “anywhere close” to being at a point of significant power creep, citing several heroes win-rates in Grand Master rank. This…
[The February 2020 Tier List reflecting the latest hero rankings is here! Click on this link to check out the updated rankings for Season 20 and Patch 1.44.0.1.] New year, new Overwatch. 2020 Serves to be a massive year for the game, likely bringing with it the debut of Overwatch 2 and the release of…
Part 7: The Revenge of DPS and Experimentation The aforementioned nerfs to D.Va and Ana did shake up the meta, although it didn’t have quite as much effect as many had hoped. Ana may not have been as good at healing 4 tanks, but she could still handle three with relative ease, and she could…
