History of the Most Broken Metas in Overwatch

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

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

You forgot to mention that Double Shield only worked because of Bap's lamp picking up the slack while the barriers were down.

>"this video focuses on overwatch 1 metas" >puts mauga in the thumbnail

the muselk mercy clip is iconic bro 😭

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😭😭

Honorable mention: Sombra "support" meta. Back when she was released and gained ult charge from teammates who used her hacked healthpacks

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.

Wait, the cat story is actually wild wtf ☠ Also the editing on this was sooo good

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

1:20 the magical blue ballerina 🔥

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

Bro doomfist was such a fun hero in ow1

9:00 tbf, the cat choose mai, so it clearly knew what it was doing

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 am glad we plastic 5 people get recognized from time to time. Bronze is already too high elo for us to climb up there.

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.

Overwatch 1 was so depressing from 2019 to 2022 like it was just tragic

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.

the writing and editing for this was top tier, holy moly