The Overwatch League's 2022 season "Countdown Cup" kicked off at the same time as last weekend. The new stage also ushered in the version update, the hero combination and tactical combination returned to the game environment of a hundred flowers, and the scene of ten different heroes competing on the same stage from both sides once again appeared in the game. The first week of the "Countdown Cup" was unexpected, staging a number of unpopular matches with weak victories, which added a little suspense to the road to playoff promotion.
Chengdu Hunters defeated the Hangzhou Lightning and Guangzhou Stormtroopers in the first week of the "Countdown Cup", and the two-game winning streak helped the team lock up the playoff play-off quota in advance. After this stage has been updated with a version of the game, the hero combination is in full bloom, which is the best opportunity for the Hunters team with frequent moves to subvert the balance of strength. Black Shadow, controlled by JinMu, and Anna, operated by Mmonk, enter the starting lineup, and the performance-enhancing Black Shadow is also a specialized tactical style that the teams are trying first. JinMu gives full play to his advantages in map running and finding opportunities, longer hacking effect time, and combined with the team's excellent fire collection ability, which greatly improves the overall offensive efficiency of the Hunters.
In the afternoon of the 24th, in the match with the stormtroopers, encountering an opponent with an extremely fierce attack, Mmonk stepped forward to become a trader who controlled the rhythm of the game, operated Anna's continuous hit anesthesia dart to stop the opponent's offensive route, created an offensive space for the output group to counter-attack the front pressure, and helped the team to laugh to the end in the five-set decisive decision.
The Los Angeles Braves and Guangzhou Stormtroopers each won last weekend, beating two formidable rivals, the Philadelphia Fusion and the Shanghai Dragons, respectively. The common feature of both teams is that the heavy players in the team are the key points that determine the outcome of the game. The Valians, who had previously watched a stage of the game, returned to the starting seat, and the exquisite Sigma and the adaptability of the version as an all-round tank helped the team withstand the continuous attack of the fusion team, and Ezhan played a burst of output at a critical moment to end the game.
The SA's introduction of new signings in the offseason Piggy is also the core of the activation team. In the face of the strong opponent Shanghai Dragon, the output combination of the SA Choi Sehwan and Jimmy even played a slightly superior performance, consolidating the defense line to maintain the offensive advantage became particularly important, Piggy in Charlia and Winston two points of attack and defense balance better, especially for the Shanghai Dragon's rear position to play an effect, to help the SA reverse victory over the Shanghai Dragon in the five-set bitter battle. Piggy put out harsh words in post-game interviews that the Eastern Conference is easier to deal with than the Western Division, and it is expected that his addition will help the SA go further this season. According to the results of this week's game, the stormtroopers have a clear advantage in the battle for six in the Eastern Conference, and the Braves, who are currently in seventh place, need to redouble their efforts to make it to the playoffs qualification play-offs.
The Western Division began to break out from the first matchday of the "Countdown Cup", with the Boston Rising team beating the Houston Sharpshooters 3:1 and the New York Nine Sky Lift team beating the Toronto Defenders in the early morning of the next morning. The biggest surprise of last weekend was undoubtedly the San Francisco Shocks' two-game losing streak, losing to Washington Justice and the Sharpshooters on the next two matchdays. Like the Shanghai Dragons, who also suffered consecutive defeats in the Eastern Conference, the Shock team's intention to try a new lineup in these two games was obvious, and at the same time, it was relatively sloppy in organizing the attack, relying on the individual strength of the players. Of course, for the Shock team, there is no playoff promotion pressure, and how to use the last stage of the game to adjust the competitive state is more important.
The Los Angeles gladiators lost two major players on the eve of the "Countdown Cup", ANS decided to leave the team after consulting with the team, and Thai talented teenager Patiphan had no choice but to retire due to hand injuries. Fortunately, the soul of the team's output, Kevster, and Happy, who has successfully passed the run-in period, performed strongly, and the reloaded Reiner swept away the haze of the previous stage to recreate the heroic posture of the god of war, helping the team to harvest two consecutive victories and return.
OWL 2022 "Countdown Cup" officially started, last weekend in addition to the unexpected surprises of the unpopular, the hero choice especially the reloading position is full of flowers, the silence of nearly a season of Olysa on the stage of the Western Division, almost all the reloaded heroes have a place on different occasions. Please lock in the OWL 2022 update and official live broadcast room, the exciting event continues.
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