Overwatch needs a better meta – not even the pros like GOATS

If you follow the Overwatch pro scene, or play the game at a mid to high level, there’s a good chance you have opinions on GOATS. Not the animal, of course: it’s a strategy and composition that’s played pretty commonly, and one that was prominent at the recent Overwatch World Cup Paris group stage. The composition goes like this: rather than taking a damage-focused hero, you take three tanks and three supports. Traditionally, it’s Reinhardt, D.Va, Zarya, Brigitte, Lucio, and Moira - although, the Paris group stage saw a little flexibility on those supports as Moira has fallen out of fashion. It exists in stark contrast to the dive or Widowmaker strategies that dominated much of the Overwatch League earlier this year, where flashy plays and impressive flickshots created the greatest roars within the arena. Instead, fights are about teams charging up ultimates for one big moment, with extended fights where the tanks survive for far longer than you’d ever expect as supports desperately try to keep them alive. The transition from the OWL metagame to this is reminiscent of how the League of Legends metagame shifted in the past few years, from instakill assassins to stronger tanks and fights where the casters aren’t pushed to the point of voice cracks when trying to report everything going on at once as fast as it’s happening. Fights are a little slower, instead, building like a crescendo.

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