Don’t talk shit on that cat. The cat is what FINALLY got Mei banned. It was weeks of the casters of OWL randomly drawing and missing Mei, who was the oppressive core of the dominant comps at the time. We Stan that cat
Which makes it a bit suspicious in that they can have influenced the cat's pick by adding some type of scent to the paper or something to finally ban Mei and still say it was random. But, hey, ACTUALLY CHOOSING the hero ban would still be better than banning completely random heroes.
We can't talk about hero pools without mentioning the week where they banned widow, cassidy, sombra, soldier, dva, and baptiste. That week was pharah week and it was hell
Yeah dive and goats are similar in op level, but at least with dive some of the opponents were killable, three big ass tanks getting infinite healed with AOE healing was next to impossible to beat
As a Sym player since OW beta, i think we are forgetting one of the few metas when Sym was considered viable. The Pantheon meta! Stacking og Torb's Armor, Og Brig Armor, AND Shield health from Sym 2.0's shield gen. Squishys suddenly werent as squishy as they were walking around with 500 health😭😭
@@TheFootlocker99 yes but everybody always hide the tp in same spot so wasnt that bad at all, the thing is dive heroes didnt like to do the skirmish they wanted to do rampage dead
You missed a meta. There was a short period (maybe a week or two long) that Bastion got buffed so much that he was practically unkillable. If he was Nanoed, he could survive D VA ultimate. I played a game on Dorado during this meta that went 12 rounds or so and lasted over an hour. Every round had a nearly invincible Bastion sitting on the payload for the entire match. I'm sure there is some footage of this time kicking around.
Truuuue. I even remember the exact month it was viable for a week or two - January. Whether in 2018 or 2019 I can't exactly remember but I DO remember we've stopped playing game because of pirate ship meta😂
OW1 was wild wasteland with no roll lock, but it did lead to some actual interesting and fun strategies. My most memorable match from it was when it first came out and all of our team picked Mei. Once all of the other team respawned then they all came out as Mei. It was a giant CC fest but it was still fun asf
That sounds hilarious. Too bad this can't happen anymore. If you want something like this try playing tf2 for a while. You might get lucky and get a game where everyone does something stupid like heavy with a shotgun or all demoman or gunspy or something like that.
@@calcitegem6204omgggg thank you, all these old heads saying they miss ow 1 and as a ow 2 player you go and find out what they missed and my jaw always drops, still finding out new broken things that happened in ow 1 and I get more and more confused when anyone says they miss ow 1
@@kayanono it actually got game of the year in 2016 remember so people actually enjoy it unlike now where it just constant complaints like when they stop releasing content in 2019 things didn't feel the same
There was a meta in Beta that had 2 zen’s, 2 Winston’s, and 2 tracers. Zens orb never disappeared off of a target out of LOS, friendly or enemy. So it was “chase the purple balloon”
While not the most broken, the 5-man rez meta is probably the one I hate the most. It was so cheesy to waste enemy CDs and Ults then essentially pull up a phase-2 of the boss fight where the enemy team who "won" the team fight is now punished.
A mercy would have on 2-3 resses per game and Blizzard could have made resses ca only be done with line of sight - But they didnt so mercys ressed behind walls and its really equal to mcrees ult and soldiers aimbot .
I think hog meta would've been a good addition, it lasted a couple months and was just hog being able to one shot anyone, he could kill a full health zarya in one shot
dude, fucking thank you. youre the only person ive seen who manages to break down *why* brig was so broken to enable goats. everyone else just said "brigette came out, and suddenly the meta was ruined"
Quad tank was also a thing before goats. I think goats and quad tank were signs that stacking tank utility, especially damage mitigation was just too strong. Also shoutout to orisa hog and Winston zarya.
Never heard of hero pools before, that's wild lol. I feel like they must have just given up for them to decide that banning heros at random was the way to go
Brigitte: the hero that cost Blizzard a minimum of 38 million dollars. That's not considering the fact that they were in talks to be acquired by Disney.
My all time favourite meta was when players discovered you could use Hanzo's shatter arrow to insta kill any hero in the game by shooting just below their feet. Basically hitting someone with several Hanzo arrows at once. Now we got storm arrow and it just doesn't feel the same, it's a better ability of course, just doesn't have the same pizzazz
I remember attacking on hanamura, climbing the left wall, and immediately one shotting an orisa. While that’s ridiculous, it’s a reminder how tanks used to actually be killable by dps
OW2 broken “metas” -JOATS (queen brig lucio) -Soj one shot -Kiriko release (Winston + Soj + Reaper + Kiriko + Lucio) -Season 1 Zarya -Season 2 Hog one shot -That 2 week phase where doomfist is super op, 3 sec punch, 80 block dmg for charged punch -Poke meta with Illari on release (Sig Bap Illari) -The Unkillable Ana Brig combo before season 9 changes (Typically played with Winston and Tracer) -Christmas 2023 Mauga (Mauga E -> Nade -> Suzu -> Repeat) -Hog rework where his breather dmg resist makes him unkillable -Season 11 Pharah
Unkillable horse meta. Where Orisa just walked everyone down and was easily the best tank in the game. It wasn't really a meta though, just a thing that miffed the community for months.
Honestly GOATS was not really the problem. The problem was how long it took for them to patch that meta. Originally it was legit fun, I personally know Rein players were having a field day. But then it got dull having to play the same characters over and over again, because the only way to counter GOATS was to play GOATS. There was actually a somewhat functioning anti-GOATS comp developed just before 2-2-2, but it didnt exist for long. I believe it was 1-4-1? I can't remember what was in it, though. I only played it a few times.
yeah, it was quad dps, developed by a chinese team. it was ball, mercy, sombra, and the other 3 dps were pretty flexible, usually a widow, sometimes a hanzo as well, a doomfist, and a soldier were the most common. it was just about being able to focus damage in fast enough to get the picks to get a good opening.
Tbh it always took 10x longer than acceptable for them to patch... Anything in ow 1 at all Balance patches are nowhere near perfect now in ow2, but at the very least they do it fast
@@temmlygaming5509 it was kinda difficult to pull off successfully yeah, but at least possible unlike anything else at that point. I actually ran that comp a few times (successfully) before 2-2-2.
@@Zonyax true But goats was just soooo much easier then anything else was to get the same amount of strength from a comp Only comp id argue is actually easier and worse to face then goats for now little options you got was Either double shield or the ana Kiri mauga meta we had
I would maybe add the triple tank comp that dominated for a while, the Sombra EMP farm as well as the diverse dive comps (triple DPS Rogue style and the dive that was played during season 1 of OWL). Also maybe minor comps ? Like the flex support playing Roadhog during season 1 playoffs or the season 2 stage 4 meta with hogs going fishing and Meis trying to prevent them.
As someone to played in Masters when Brig was released, she was oppressive before even GOATS. If I remember correctly, she had a 60% WR across all ranks all the way to GM. Her ability to, as a support, shut down most flankers and be able to hold up against most DPS made DPS' just worse than her in most comps. She was more of a bruiser or drain character than a support, who could heal everyone around her and instantly disengage any enemy with her stun + flail hit.
And double shield was the last time we seen Reinhardt being a good hero. For those who don't know, double shield had 2 version: poke or brawl. Poke will run Sigma and Orisa, while brawl will run Reinhardt and Orisa. DPS was hanzo bastion or reaper mei respectively.
I’m surprised you didn’t go over the McCree meta in season 1 where he could out snipe Widows and basically had two of him on every team. And I disappointed I didn’t get to hear about the stun meta again with Orisa, Roadhog, Brig, Cassidy, Ana and I think Junkrat or Pharah, I can’t remember
The least fun of ow was everyone had a cc at one point. Nothing like getting flashbang’d and if you survived that you would get shield bashed and if you survived that you would get punched in to a wall and if you survived that then you got slept and then it would start all over again. The poor reins getting dunked on during that.
I was there when the cat chose mei. It was one of the best times when Mei got chosen. Good time! I miss OWL. I enjoyed hero bans, but it did make different teams dominate different weeks. Goo dtimes.
The pool thing gets bad when you see how the devs actually KNEW about hated heroes like Mei and celebrated when the cat chose it, showing how they actually know what to do they just dont want to
Blizzards team would rather cut a limb than cauterize the wound. Goats meta is a problem? Well, let's put role lock. Certain heroes are too powerful? Well, if you are lucky maybe they'll get banned this week. They don't fix the problem, they just cut pieces of the game away until the problem is gone. Seriously, the weekly bans, to this day I still don't understand how they thought it was a good idea to have heroes randomly banned instead of doing what every other game does and letting the players choose.
Damn thats crazy I never heard of overwatch until they announced the second one. I really enjoy the game rn but like alot of players I wouldn’t have been able to sick around during all of this.
Ngl, I was distracted sometimes with how smooth your Lucio movement was lmao. Either way tho, dope video. I didn’t get into ow1 back then, kinda glad I didn’t but also kinda sad I never got to experience it lol.
I'm glad I missed most of this stuff and only played toward the end of ow 1 life even with double shield being a thing (I was bronze / silver at the time so double shield wasn't nearly as picked) but good times even then, I still miss dps doomfist though
Ana's ult giving you a speed boost is awesome. I wish that was still a thing. I didn't start playing OW1 towards the end though. I'm a Mercy main but the mass rez + Mercy hiding sounds tilting 😅
A lot of people forgot this about hero pools but you summoned my PTSD. THEY BANNED ASHE AND SOLDIER WHEN ECHO WAS NEW AND MORE PEOPLE PLAYED PHARA. DOUBLE FLYERS WAS TERRIBLE
Goats was by far the best and most fun meta post brig shield bash nerf.i5 was the most team skill expressive and made you feel like you won based on a team diff. When triple dps was a viable counter on some maps was the best state the game had ever been in throughout its entire history. 222 lock was a sign of lazy devs. They could have killed goats naturally through mercy buffs, but instwad they tapped out and made it 222.
Nice Video! Though I thought when you were showing the double Shield Meta, it's the Pirate Ship Comb, but that might be a competitor for another video :3
Great video! I feel like you forgot the first triple tanks meta including Hog back when Ana's nade was broken in late 2016/early 2017 but otherwise this vid is very complete. Great takes regarding the supports and Blizzard being awful at balancing the game 👍
I still think the top two worst meta still haunts me ranks like this #1 GOATS: because it killed dive. Any possibility of playing mobile dps flank heroes were killed. Which was major part of the game that made it different from any other fps games. 2nd was Mercy: I actually never hated 2 CP until you had to defend 2nd point with Mercy absolutely doing what seems like infinite Rez and making a lost fight a won game.
GOATS was definitely the worst meta, but 222 was an effective solution. Double shields and hero pools sucked, but IIRC this was already around the time the ow1 team was falling apart and they were focusing everything on turning the game into a battle pass skin shop, and since then everything they’ve done has been confusing or just bad.
random bans would still make it more entertaining, if a player picks you're going to get the problem siege has right now. if this was implemented further it could be a good idea to mix up the meta
Just a note, GOATs wasn't the first team to find out the triple support, triple tank meta but they popularized it. Also, you'll notice a pretty common theme here of broken supports enabling these metas. GOATs would not be possible without key supports, beyblade was only strong because of Ana and beyblade itself wasn't the problem as Ana was the real problem. The mercy one is obvious. Supports are the pillars of any team, you can't swap them out in the puzzle of your team as easily as tanks and DPS.
another annoying part about Mercy's res as her ultimate was that the POTG system favored big ults, so if Mercy got a big res (3+ teammates) it was likely to be play of the game
Moth meta? Dive? El Presidente? (35% dmg reduction Bastion, even if it was just 2 weeks) 3 Tank meta? D.va, Rein and Hog Brigitte? (Goats doesn't count as it was barely used outside of very high GM games) Jungle meta? (6 winstons before role queue)
How did you not mention orisa hog meta. Orisa would just pull above the shield and hog would just hook the pull and whoever got caught in it would be dead. Also if they had a Ana she would made the pull so you would be anti
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Gosh I miss overwatch 1 despite random things things popping up and being overpowered for a while man it was so fun. Scatter arrow was the best 😢 busted hog hook, old genji blade being so nice, the community just popping off, ahh those were the days. R.I.P Jeff Kaplan memes. Everything changed after Moira was released imo.
u forgot about pre one-hero-per-team 5 winstons 1 lucio meta, also sombra goats variation and the only semi counter to goats of pharah/mercy/widow/ball (but only if ameng is the one playing ball)
I atill think hero bans are a great idea if they let the players pick. Bronze-gold, Plat-masters and gm up get their own polls and get to vote to ban would be actually amazing
Don’t talk shit on that cat. The cat is what FINALLY got Mei banned. It was weeks of the casters of OWL randomly drawing and missing Mei, who was the oppressive core of the dominant comps at the time. We Stan that cat
IN NORI WE TRUST 🙏🙏🙏
Which makes it a bit suspicious in that they can have influenced the cat's pick by adding some type of scent to the paper or something to finally ban Mei and still say it was random. But, hey, ACTUALLY CHOOSING the hero ban would still be better than banning completely random heroes.
Still dude, don’t be ignorant and act like this is actually reputable😅
The way a cat knew better than the developers 💀
Fuck that cat, fuck 98% of cats to be honest
We can't talk about hero pools without mentioning the week where they banned widow, cassidy, sombra, soldier, dva, and baptiste. That week was pharah week and it was hell
Someone in blizz was tired of getting anti-air'd in comp lmao
Oh my god how did I forget about this, pinning this comment xD. Also my irl name is Kieran too so that’s kinda cool lol :p
@@Skufzy
What language is Kieran from? Sounds oddly unique lol
Dat was a thing???? I been playin dis game on n off since launch ow1 pretty much I must’ve missed dat(thank fuck cuz I main widow n Cree)😂
I remember some characters being turned off due to a glitch. But... All of them at one time?! For what reason!?
You forgot to mention that Double Shield only worked because of Bap's lamp picking up the slack while the barriers were down.
Ooh yeah I did forget to mention that!
Yea damn i forgot about double shield. With a Mercy always rezing the bastion 🙆🙆
Many people forget that double shield's entire reason for existing was thanks to supports like Baptiste being so good, not even because of the tanks.
@@AzureRoxe Seriously, GOATS and quad tank only happen when a healer gets too powerful with multi healing.
Was about to comment this, they literally die a bunch of times over without the bap lamp
But we can't nerf immoralities I guess
the muselk mercy clip is iconic bro 😭
FOR REAL
>"this video focuses on overwatch 1 metas"
>puts mauga in the thumbnail
I mean overwatch 2 is basically overwatch 1
LMAOOO OKAY OKAY SO AT FIRST IT WAS FOR OVERWATCH 1 AND 2 Buttt had to cut out 2 because there was only really like one broken meta
@@SkufzyUnkillable horse meta? Illari meta?
@@qwibbl_csasojourn server admin meta
@@qwibbl_csaMaui release week meta
You forgot Dive. That’s the whole reason they introduced Briggette
Yeah dive and goats are similar in op level, but at least with dive some of the opponents were killable, three big ass tanks getting infinite healed with AOE healing was next to impossible to beat
As a Sym player since OW beta, i think we are forgetting one of the few metas when Sym was considered viable. The Pantheon meta! Stacking og Torb's Armor, Og Brig Armor, AND Shield health from Sym 2.0's shield gen. Squishys suddenly werent as squishy as they were walking around with 500 health😭😭
Sym was like mercy hiding the tp so if your whole team died they could instantly get back on point after respawn lmao😂😂😂. The good ole days
@@TheFootlocker99 yes but everybody always hide the tp in same spot so wasnt that bad at all, the thing is dive heroes didnt like to do the skirmish they wanted to do rampage dead
I have a feeling they have a shieeeeeeeld generator
425hp Jjonak, I will NEVER forget that
Plus doomfist! I remember that! Holy!
Honorable mention: Sombra "support" meta. Back when she was released and gained ult charge from teammates who used her hacked healthpacks
Sombra wasnt played out side the OWL becouse she needs a team around her or she is trash
I swear, new OW players will never know how frustrating the “Sombra is a DPS” vs “Sombra is a support” conversations were.
she was usually to get rid genji, doomfist or dva with 4 fucking second of silence!!
This was exactly when I got her cute and pixel sprays in one game on lijiang lol
Nobody was using Sombra. It's the reason why she got another rework
I am glad we plastic 5 people get recognized from time to time. Bronze is already too high elo for us to climb up there.
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You missed a meta. There was a short period (maybe a week or two long) that Bastion got buffed so much that he was practically unkillable. If he was Nanoed, he could survive D VA ultimate. I played a game on Dorado during this meta that went 12 rounds or so and lasted over an hour. Every round had a nearly invincible Bastion sitting on the payload for the entire match. I'm sure there is some footage of this time kicking around.
Yeah. The pirate ship meta was also missed in this video.
yes, even mccree WITH NANO couldnt full charge highnoon to kill him
@@KiraMahManbut pirate ship was only (very) good on junkertown
Truuuue. I even remember the exact month it was viable for a week or two - January. Whether in 2018 or 2019 I can't exactly remember but I DO remember we've stopped playing game because of pirate ship meta😂
Oh god yeah the 90% dmg reduction
OW1 was wild wasteland with no roll lock, but it did lead to some actual interesting and fun strategies. My most memorable match from it was when it first came out and all of our team picked Mei. Once all of the other team respawned then they all came out as Mei. It was a giant CC fest but it was still fun asf
LMAOOO that sounds hella fun and memorable haha
Thats why I will never understand the hate it gets now when it comes to balance because Overwatch has never been balanced 😭
That sounds hilarious. Too bad this can't happen anymore. If you want something like this try playing tf2 for a while. You might get lucky and get a game where everyone does something stupid like heavy with a shotgun or all demoman or gunspy or something like that.
@@calcitegem6204omgggg thank you, all these old heads saying they miss ow 1 and as a ow 2 player you go and find out what they missed and my jaw always drops, still finding out new broken things that happened in ow 1 and I get more and more confused when anyone says they miss ow 1
@mariustan9275 Oh yeah I've put my fair share of time into TF2, absolutely fun game with a huge bot problem :(
Overwatch 1 was so depressing from 2019 to 2022 like it was just tragic
i thought it was dead back then cuz they never released anything after echo
dont act like 2016-2018 was balanced better lmao you saw these clips
@@kayanono it actually got game of the year in 2016 remember so people actually enjoy it unlike now where it just constant complaints like when they stop releasing content in 2019 things didn't feel the same
@@ajrich1726 lmao
@@kayanono at least it was fun chaos, later it just became stale as hell
There was a meta in Beta that had 2 zen’s, 2 Winston’s, and 2 tracers. Zens orb never disappeared off of a target out of LOS, friendly or enemy.
So it was “chase the purple balloon”
While not the most broken, the 5-man rez meta is probably the one I hate the most. It was so cheesy to waste enemy CDs and Ults then essentially pull up a phase-2 of the boss fight where the enemy team who "won" the team fight is now punished.
A mercy would have on 2-3 resses per game and Blizzard could have made resses ca only be done with line of sight - But they didnt so mercys ressed behind walls and its really equal to mcrees ult and soldiers aimbot .
Yes but it did add a completely different element the the game which I appreciated
I think hog meta would've been a good addition, it lasted a couple months and was just hog being able to one shot anyone, he could kill a full health zarya in one shot
I remember , it was probably the last major meta before OW2, they used to call it hog n ball torture
9:00 tbf, the cat choose mai, so it clearly knew what it was doing
Lmao
Dive meta not being mentioned is wild
Exactly!!!
A lot of people liked dive meta, thats why.
dude, fucking thank you. youre the only person ive seen who manages to break down *why* brig was so broken to enable goats. everyone else just said "brigette came out, and suddenly the meta was ruined"
Thanks man:) had to really go research a lot for it to make sure i had all the reason haha
Quad tank was also a thing before goats. I think goats and quad tank were signs that stacking tank utility, especially damage mitigation was just too strong. Also shoutout to orisa hog and Winston zarya.
Never heard of hero pools before, that's wild lol. I feel like they must have just given up for them to decide that banning heros at random was the way to go
Wait, the cat story is actually wild wtf ☠
Also the editing on this was sooo good
A CATTTTTT. And thanks homie:)
Brigitte: the hero that cost Blizzard a minimum of 38 million dollars. That's not considering the fact that they were in talks to be acquired by Disney.
1:20 the magical blue ballerina 🔥
Haha
she was a fairy
Echo has left the chat
My all time favourite meta was when players discovered you could use Hanzo's shatter arrow to insta kill any hero in the game by shooting just below their feet. Basically hitting someone with several Hanzo arrows at once. Now we got storm arrow and it just doesn't feel the same, it's a better ability of course, just doesn't have the same pizzazz
I remember attacking on hanamura, climbing the left wall, and immediately one shotting an orisa. While that’s ridiculous, it’s a reminder how tanks used to actually be killable by dps
OW2 broken “metas”
-JOATS (queen brig lucio)
-Soj one shot
-Kiriko release (Winston + Soj + Reaper + Kiriko + Lucio)
-Season 1 Zarya
-Season 2 Hog one shot
-That 2 week phase where doomfist is super op, 3 sec punch, 80 block dmg for charged punch
-Poke meta with Illari on release (Sig Bap Illari)
-The Unkillable Ana Brig combo before season 9 changes (Typically played with Winston and Tracer)
-Christmas 2023 Mauga (Mauga E -> Nade -> Suzu -> Repeat)
-Hog rework where his breather dmg resist makes him unkillable
-Season 11 Pharah
WHEN I MAKE THE PART 2 TO THIS VIDEO YOU'RE GETTING A SHOUTOUT.. ABSOLUTE GOAT WRITING THESE OUT!!!!!! THANK YOU:)
Unkillable horse meta. Where Orisa just walked everyone down and was easily the best tank in the game. It wasn't really a meta though, just a thing that miffed the community for months.
Honestly GOATS was not really the problem. The problem was how long it took for them to patch that meta. Originally it was legit fun, I personally know Rein players were having a field day. But then it got dull having to play the same characters over and over again, because the only way to counter GOATS was to play GOATS. There was actually a somewhat functioning anti-GOATS comp developed just before 2-2-2, but it didnt exist for long. I believe it was 1-4-1? I can't remember what was in it, though. I only played it a few times.
yeah, it was quad dps, developed by a chinese team. it was ball, mercy, sombra, and the other 3 dps were pretty flexible, usually a widow, sometimes a hanzo as well, a doomfist, and a soldier were the most common. it was just about being able to focus damage in fast enough to get the picks to get a good opening.
Tbh it always took 10x longer than acceptable for them to patch... Anything in ow 1 at all
Balance patches are nowhere near perfect now in ow2, but at the very least they do it fast
The comp that was meant to counter goats but it wasn't universally able to actually deal with a good goats team
@@temmlygaming5509 it was kinda difficult to pull off successfully yeah, but at least possible unlike anything else at that point. I actually ran that comp a few times (successfully) before 2-2-2.
@@Zonyax true
But goats was just soooo much easier then anything else was to get the same amount of strength from a comp
Only comp id argue is actually easier and worse to face then goats for now little options you got was
Either double shield or the ana Kiri mauga meta we had
I would maybe add the triple tank comp that dominated for a while, the Sombra EMP farm as well as the diverse dive comps (triple DPS Rogue style and the dive that was played during season 1 of OWL).
Also maybe minor comps ? Like the flex support playing Roadhog during season 1 playoffs or the season 2 stage 4 meta with hogs going fishing and Meis trying to prevent them.
As someone to played in Masters when Brig was released, she was oppressive before even GOATS. If I remember correctly, she had a 60% WR across all ranks all the way to GM. Her ability to, as a support, shut down most flankers and be able to hold up against most DPS made DPS' just worse than her in most comps. She was more of a bruiser or drain character than a support, who could heal everyone around her and instantly disengage any enemy with her stun + flail hit.
the writing and editing for this was top tier, holy moly
Thanks Koop:)))
the only thing top tier here is your glaze
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The dive meta was pretty iconic too. Also the first triple tank meta when they release Ana before her first nerf.
And double shield was the last time we seen Reinhardt being a good hero. For those who don't know, double shield had 2 version: poke or brawl. Poke will run Sigma and Orisa, while brawl will run Reinhardt and Orisa. DPS was hanzo bastion or reaper mei respectively.
The Monkey's paw curled after you wrote this comment and Reinhardt's the best tank in the OW2 now.
Bro doomfist was such a fun hero in ow1
Lol I remember Meiblade where Mei would free the whole enemy team and Reaper would ult in the middle of them
Never forget the “No hero limits” speed meta from early launch OW1 double Winston, double tracer, double Lucio.
I’m surprised you didn’t go over the McCree meta in season 1 where he could out snipe Widows and basically had two of him on every team.
And I disappointed I didn’t get to hear about the stun meta again with Orisa, Roadhog, Brig, Cassidy, Ana and I think Junkrat or Pharah, I can’t remember
The least fun of ow was everyone had a cc at one point. Nothing like getting flashbang’d and if you survived that you would get shield bashed and if you survived that you would get punched in to a wall and if you survived that then you got slept and then it would start all over again. The poor reins getting dunked on during that.
9:13 I'm defo pulling that Lucio move when my team is not up to the task.
Oh my god that multiple mercy rez brought back so many memories of arguments and frustration of "wheres the mercy?"
I was there when the cat chose mei. It was one of the best times when Mei got chosen. Good time! I miss OWL. I enjoyed hero bans, but it did make different teams dominate different weeks. Goo dtimes.
GOATS wasnt "go all tanks and supports". It was actually named after a group of players who started this called "Greatest of All Time (s)" in 2018.
thank you. This video is full of mistakes it's making me rip my hair out
2:09 you followed the simple rule: you either kill Mercy first or eleventh.
The pool thing gets bad when you see how the devs actually KNEW about hated heroes like Mei and celebrated when the cat chose it, showing how they actually know what to do they just dont want to
Blizzards team would rather cut a limb than cauterize the wound. Goats meta is a problem? Well, let's put role lock. Certain heroes are too powerful? Well, if you are lucky maybe they'll get banned this week. They don't fix the problem, they just cut pieces of the game away until the problem is gone. Seriously, the weekly bans, to this day I still don't understand how they thought it was a good idea to have heroes randomly banned instead of doing what every other game does and letting the players choose.
Damn thats crazy I never heard of overwatch until they announced the second one. I really enjoy the game rn but like alot of players I wouldn’t have been able to sick around during all of this.
I can only imagine the community reaction to the cat being allowed to select hero bans over them 💀
Really nice video, and remembered me how crazy some of habilities like full ress of mercy was
Oh the joy of popping 3 4man resurrects in a single game. Glorious days indeed.
Ngl, I was distracted sometimes with how smooth your Lucio movement was lmao. Either way tho, dope video. I didn’t get into ow1 back then, kinda glad I didn’t but also kinda sad I never got to experience it lol.
That footage is from eskay but it’s super nice yeah
i wish my lucio movement was taht good haha, i tried to do lucio surf myself and it looked awful so i just took it from eskays channel
i actually loved playing goats, it was so much better than double shield. it was either roll or get rolled so games were more exciting
I'm glad I missed most of this stuff and only played toward the end of ow 1 life even with double shield being a thing (I was bronze / silver at the time so double shield wasn't nearly as picked) but good times even then, I still miss dps doomfist though
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Ana's ult giving you a speed boost is awesome. I wish that was still a thing. I didn't start playing OW1 towards the end though. I'm a Mercy main but the mass rez + Mercy hiding sounds tilting 😅
Awesome video buddy, really well put together! I've been playing since the release on console and that mercy res was crazy..
Yeah I still can’t believe it was a thing haha
A lot of people forgot this about hero pools but you summoned my PTSD. THEY BANNED ASHE AND SOLDIER WHEN ECHO WAS NEW AND MORE PEOPLE PLAYED PHARA. DOUBLE FLYERS WAS TERRIBLE
Goats was by far the best and most fun meta post brig shield bash nerf.i5 was the most team skill expressive and made you feel like you won based on a team diff. When triple dps was a viable counter on some maps was the best state the game had ever been in throughout its entire history. 222 lock was a sign of lazy devs. They could have killed goats naturally through mercy buffs, but instwad they tapped out and made it 222.
Nice Video!
Though I thought when you were showing the double Shield Meta, it's the Pirate Ship Comb, but that might be a competitor for another video :3
Great video! I feel like you forgot the first triple tanks meta including Hog back when Ana's nade was broken in late 2016/early 2017 but otherwise this vid is very complete. Great takes regarding the supports and Blizzard being awful at balancing the game 👍
Yeahh and there was also quad tank back then but they werent oppressive for very long from the research that i did
I still think the top two worst meta still haunts me ranks like this
#1 GOATS: because it killed dive. Any possibility of playing mobile dps flank heroes were killed. Which was major part of the game that made it different from any other fps games.
2nd was Mercy: I actually never hated 2 CP until you had to defend 2nd point with Mercy absolutely doing what seems like infinite Rez and making a lost fight a won game.
Dude, the 6 monke dive was peek. Good times. For Harambe
Rip the goat harambe
GOTTA include RPS meta: Rock, Paper, Scissors. If your enemy tank counters yours, switch it. Stand in spawn switching the whole game if you have to.
I remember the boos during that GOATs switch
GOATS was definitely the worst meta, but 222 was an effective solution. Double shields and hero pools sucked, but IIRC this was already around the time the ow1 team was falling apart and they were focusing everything on turning the game into a battle pass skin shop, and since then everything they’ve done has been confusing or just bad.
random bans would still make it more entertaining, if a player picks you're going to get the problem siege has right now. if this was implemented further it could be a good idea to mix up the meta
Really enjoyed this. Great video
Aweee thanks man:)) this video took me way too long to make so I’m really glad people are enjoying it
Jeez, Muselk is a name I haven’t heard in a while
Amazing video! You deserve much more recognition! Good luck wishing you a lot of success!
Thank you so much
I miss the Genji meta when matches in OW1 where based on who had the better genji this was like wjen had 8 second blade and couldledge dash
Just a note, GOATs wasn't the first team to find out the triple support, triple tank meta but they popularized it. Also, you'll notice a pretty common theme here of broken supports enabling these metas. GOATs would not be possible without key supports, beyblade was only strong because of Ana and beyblade itself wasn't the problem as Ana was the real problem. The mercy one is obvious. Supports are the pillars of any team, you can't swap them out in the puzzle of your team as easily as tanks and DPS.
The Mercy quintuple rez meta was simeltaneously the most fun and most infuriating era in early Overwatch
Speaking about shields you forgot about PIRATE SHIPS here we goooo baby!
I was hoping for a mention of the cheese meta from 7 years ago. Those were the golden days for me
Honorable mention to grav dragon meta in s10, they had to literally change how damage boost interacts with characters lol
I was there when it started.. The magic of 6 wintons after a coin flip put you on attack for a guaranteed win..
It was beautiful 😪
Makes me feel old remembering all these old metas.😅😌
another annoying part about Mercy's res as her ultimate was that the POTG system favored big ults, so if Mercy got a big res (3+ teammates) it was likely to be play of the game
there was slambulance (rein, dva, zarya, hog, moira, lucio) before goats, played mostly on lunar colony map mo
Moth meta?
Dive?
El Presidente? (35% dmg reduction Bastion, even if it was just 2 weeks)
3 Tank meta? D.va, Rein and Hog
Brigitte? (Goats doesn't count as it was barely used outside of very high GM games)
Jungle meta? (6 winstons before role queue)
Grav dragon meta, dragon halt meta, oink and yoink meta, any sym meta. I was hoping one of these would appear
Absolute Perfection! Keep it up!👍
Appreciate it Sean you the goat
How did you not mention orisa hog meta. Orisa would just pull above the shield and hog would just hook the pull and whoever got caught in it would be dead. Also if they had a Ana she would made the pull so you would be anti
You know, this is actually a very well put together video. Came here for a couple of secs in mind but ended up enjoying the entire video. Subbed!
More content please! And good luck on your YT journey!
#Bring6v6Back
Aweee thanks man:) Definitely will keep the content coming out for you all!
Damn your vids are top tier you gonna blow up soon
thanks dood:)))
Gosh I miss overwatch 1 despite random things things popping up and being overpowered for a while man it was so fun. Scatter arrow was the best 😢 busted hog hook, old genji blade being so nice, the community just popping off, ahh those were the days. R.I.P Jeff Kaplan memes. Everything changed after Moira was released imo.
I never knew the double shield meta was a thing but I remember shields being my least favorite part of the game
Double shield was only in GM+ tho
Nah it was in metal ranks also. Plat and up was infected by 2 shield.
As someone who was hardstuck diamond in OW1 the majority of my games were double
Shield unless we had a ball otp or something like that
Tbh the cat probably knows the game more then the Overwatch players
The current Pharah-Mercy pocket is right up there too.
3:55 I love this 😂
You pronounce Brigette correctly! Amazing
My preferred pronoun is toon is briggitoni 😂
Brig was such a nightmare of OW1. No other character ever made me just want to quit the game all together as her
u forgot about pre one-hero-per-team 5 winstons 1 lucio meta, also sombra goats variation and the only semi counter to goats of pharah/mercy/widow/ball (but only if ameng is the one playing ball)
Forgot to mention how brig could shield bash/whip and kill tracer and 1v1 almost every hero
That lucio parkour b roll is sick
I know they didn’t compare, but ramattra and Mauga metas were really funny, especially when they could fight for eternity
I atill think hero bans are a great idea if they let the players pick. Bronze-gold, Plat-masters and gm up get their own polls and get to vote to ban would be actually amazing
Brig launch was a horror of Lovecraftian scope
im so glad you had the time for this video to help me sum up why i hate this game so much
amazing vid man
I’m not gonna lie, I thought the thumbnail said Meth at first glance.
The hero ban was funny cuz it shows who were the one tricks LMAO