The fourth season of the Overwatch League kicked off this weekend with new players, a couple of fantastic upsets and a perfect, game-winning Reinhardt Earthshatter from Houston Outlaws player Myung-heum “Jjanggu” Cho.
Two-time Overwatch League champions, the San Francisco Shock played Sunday the history of the Overwatch League, which had nothing. Traditionally, it is a unilateral party. The last two times these teams met, San Francisco beat Houston 3-0. But 2021 is a new year, and the new roster, new coaches and a returning veteran have made the Outlaws one of the most exciting teams of the new season. Yes, I am serious.
The Outlaws and Shock drew 2-2 in Havana, the sixth and final map of the match (a first draw forced teams to play beyond the required five maps). Havana is an escort map that requires teams to load the payload as much as possible within the time limit. Before starting the map, it looked like the Shock was on its way to completing one of its famous setbacks. After going down 0-2 at the start of the game, they retreated to the scoreboard and, after Houston’s attack on Havana, it looked like the Shock had that game closed. To win, all they had to do was push the payload a little further than the outlaws, an easy task as their defense stopped Houston’s payload about 85 yards, or just before the first point of the game. ‘Havana. It’s a short distance: if the Shock won one or two decisive team fights, it would have finished Houston and would be very close to ending Houston.
Then came God’s most perfect Earth Destroyer.
The lands of Jjangguhatter is the definition of perfection in terms of hiding, number of players caught and overall impact. Watch as Jjanggu sneaked into his position, sneaking in to flank the Shock while his attention focused solely on the rest of the outlaws. His timing was impeccable, as Outlaws’ rookie teammate and tank mate Min-jun “Piggy” Shin unleashed his D.Va self-destruction at the same time as Jjanggu’s Earthshatter lands. Together, Earthshatter and Auto-Destruction combined at the perfect time to incapacitate and then kill, ruining the Shock’s chance of victory. In an instant, everyone in the Shock was dead. The overtime wick was extinguished, and so the Houston Outlaws planted their flag as a team to watch in 2021.
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This is the kind of Earthshatter that gives me goosebumps. Of all the great plays to see in competition Overwatch, there is nothing more satisfying than a good Earthshatter. Long ago, when the Overwatch League was still the Apex Tournament and everything was fine and nothing hurt, Sang-hoon “Kaiser” Ryu, the main tank of the historic RunAway team, made his reputation in these groundbreaking breakers. .
Later, the Vancouver Titan’s Sang-beom “Bumper” park (and former Kaiser RunAway teammate) brought his “flank side” signature to the League in all its devastating glory.
Now Jjanngu can take his place among such established colleagues and add his “Hammer Down!” to the most prominent roller of the gods.