Esports are a battle of wits. A grueling, mentally exhausting, emotionally taxing endeavor, where the difference between success and failure is often decided by your ability to outsmart your opponent.
But sometimes the battle can be won before it is even fought, and that can be seen in the pick-ban systems employed in many of today’s biggest competitive games.
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26 comments
It also provides design space for the designer, as they wont have to be so cautious about the power level of a new character, it can always be banned.
3:56 Fuck you too then
hasagi
Any game that uses systems like this, I won't even play. Buncha cry baby scrubs and meta slaves need to get guud
recruit op
2007 Dota: 3 Bans
2009 Dota 2: 5 bans
2018 Dota 2: 6 bans
2019: BANS EVERYTHING!!!
No no no Anthony Bennett is the worst draft pick
"Mentally taxing & emotionally exhausting" No thx lol
Is that a total pwnage shirt??
Overwatch can't implement a pick ban system because of how their class design works. Heroes in OW are so restrictive in what they can do that banning one means there is suddenly no counter to another. That's what happens with the make the game so shallow that the only reason you pick X hero is because they have Y
Recruit Mains knows why he is the best here a tip M870
6:30 just 6:30 xD
M870 recruit only
4:30 wait was that riot kobe on Dota?
FYCK BLITZ
IceFrog basically is a god.
That TI4 meepo pick always gets me emotional
I really need that "Basically" meme. Gimme it!
Recruit rushing is the stupidest tactic yet it works almost every fucking time how
Awesome video. Glad you guys covered OW in this video. Definitely a smart choice, and I hope we see it some day soon.
Only thing I wish you guys had mentioned in this video is the "Protect system", since it goes hand-in-hand with this pick/ban system.
3:38 your so mean to us
Can i get the link for that "why i hate yasuo mains" vid?
Actually recruit used to be a thing in pro league cuz you can pick a shield and a pistol with 21 bullets capacity and grenades, he was mostly used to push dirt tunnel in club house, that was over a year ago now they took his nades and buffed the living shit out of blitz so no one picks him"
Pick and bans is none sense. This is competition, when a team loses means they didn't try to work harder. Challenge yourself less is equals to failure in the end.
You realize you cant play recruit when using ban and pick
Considering Overwatch is old af is the gaming is slowly dying from early development mistakes they are fixing only now. I say they to add a pick ban system.
Spice it up, make it more competitive (which it is intended to be) and bring your game of year back to show em how its done.