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The contribution of Overwatch League to the average Ovewatch player

  Overwatch League has begun. The greatest endeavour of Blizzard in the eSports scene has started and the first day was a success, resulting with huge viewership and blessed with good matches.   But Overwatch League is more than the celebration of a great game where people watch the best players. It's greatest contribution to the playerbase it the knowledge that the matches provide. There are already very informative streamers that play in the highest skill level but it's not every day that we can enjoy well coordinated teams that play the game as it's supposed to be played.   So, some of the things that we learnt from the first day of the Overwatch League might already be known to the audience that already follows the competitive scene. But for a new viewers pov there are some key points I want to highlight.   Not all the heroes are efficient to be played at all times but almost all of them have a place in the game. Mercy is still the queen of the meta, there wa

Heroes of Overstorm: The Nexus doesn't need all the heroes

Like it or not, Overwatch was the main event for Heroes of the Storm in 2017. They were 6 heroes from Overwatch that were added on Heroes of the Storm during 2017, plus 2 maps from the same universe. Some people think that Blizzard is overlooking more iconic heroes like Mephisto or Deathwing for the new and flashy Overwatch heroes and to be honest they are not entirely wrong. Overwatch keeps rising in popularity among the rest of the company's games. To be precise, Heroes of the Storm got a lot of attention just because the developers lured Overwatch players for cosmetics. That doesn't mean that HotS is not a good game. It's just that it's not as popular as Overwatch. And that's a fact. Does that mean that Heroes of the Storm should swarm its roster with Overwatch heroes? I truly believe that not all of them can make it and I will explain my reasoning.   The first thing that bothers me is that the majority of the heroes added from Overwatch were also some of t