110 - Omnic Lab: Going Deep Mercy with Vale

07/02/18 • 80 min

Omnic Lab: A Strategic Overwatch Podcast

In the Lab today we have a special guest, VALE to help us out on our Going Deep show on Mercy! He is a top 500 and GM regular Mercy player and support main! We also want to cover a few adjustments we saw right after last week’s show to the PTR! You can follow & subscribe to Vale at https://www.twitch.tv/vale

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Game Night June 29th!
SPONSOR: Top Score Solutions
Ben aka “INeedPeeling” is offering free business consulting in the eSports field. If you are aspiring to coach, starting a team, developing an app or service, trying to boost your subscriber base, or just want to work in eSports, you can visit his website at topscoresolutions.com, get him on Twitter @topscoreEsports, or join his Discord server. Ben has a Masters in Sport Management, Finance and Data Analytics as well as experience in sales, marketing, and company development. His services are free, and they will stay that way as long as demand allows it.
SPONSOR: Red Steak Sauce Podcast
Red Steak Sauce is the only podcast that was conceived as a comedy variety show and turned into an entertainment news show the moment Matt pressed the record button on Audacity. Join Matt & Ryan as they navigate the briny, oversaturated depths of gaming, movies, and other miscellaneous entertainment news while occasionally messing around with Lego stuff Matt leaves lying around. Check them out on iTunes, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, SoundCloud, and at www.redsteaksauce.net
Omnic Meta: (Homepage)
May 31 - Ana/Hanzo/Brigitte Changes Analysis
OWL Recap now up on it’s own feed!

Going Deep Mercy Discussion

What role does Mercy fill or what is his job in a game?
Basically, what is the core to the hero for Bronze to Gold (players of all SR are struggling with this, not just sub plat) to grasp for improvement
Can we chat about positioning and how to use your position/presence and movement to maximize damage and pressure?
Utilizing Cover, Who to prioritize keeping up, how can you survive flankers?
Let’s talk about using Guardian Angel & Resurrect effective use.
Verticality, Escaping, Dodging, Floating, Cancelling
When to Rez, where to Rez, how to shot-call to Rez more safely
How to do we get the most out of weaving primary and secondary beam usage?
Caduceus Blaster, how the devil do I know when it’s okay to go Battle Mercy?
Proper timing for Valkyrie breakdown
When to use, where to be, who to prioritize
Building Ult tips
General Use
Comboing with teammates
How Map Dependent is Mercy?
Now let’s work on proper engagement and disengages.
Now let’s talk synergies and match-ups. What heroes do you need to be careful of for being countered and others that you really think are great/necessary for your comp.

Blue Posts & News:

HAMMOND ANNOUNCED - PTR discussion NEXT week

Special Thanks to Diamond Sponsors & New Patrons:

Aiden C, Ben K, Britmus, Chrisdaplaya, DurandaL, GingerSasquash, GoldenSoldierA, GreatRootBear, JanJinkle, Jeff D., Lisome, Neverclutch, Raegh, Roger B., RickyTicky, Shazear, Terry F, Top Score Solutions, TragicZac.

Omnic Lab Links:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Game Night June 29th!
SPONSOR: Top Score Solutions
Ben aka “INeedPeeling” is offering free business consulting in the eSports field. If you are aspiring to coach, starting a team, developing an app or service, trying to boost your subscriber base, or just want to work in eSports, you can visit his website at topscoresolutions.com, get him on Twitter @topscoreEsports, or join his Discord server. Ben has a Masters in Sport Management, Finance and Data Analytics as well as experience in sales, marketing, and company development. His services are free, and they will stay that way as long as demand allows it.
SPONSOR: Red Steak Sauce Podcast
Red Steak Sauce is the only podcast that was conceived as a comedy variety show and turned into an entertainment news show the moment Matt pressed the record button on Audacity. Join Matt & Ryan as they navigate the briny, oversaturated depths of gaming, movies, and other miscellaneous entertainment news while occasionally messing around with Lego stuff Matt leaves lying around. Check them out on iTunes, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, SoundCloud, and at www.redsteaksauce.net
Omnic Meta: (Homepage)
May 31 - Ana/Hanzo/Brigitte Changes Analysis
OWL Recap now up on it’s own feed!

Going Deep Mercy Discussion

What role does Mercy fill or what is his job in a game?
Basically, what is the core to the hero for Bronze to Gold (players of all SR are struggling with this, not just sub plat) to grasp for improvement
Can we chat about positioning and how to use your position/presence and movement to maximize damage and pressure?
Utilizing Cover, Who to prioritize keeping up, how can you survive flankers?
Let’s talk about using Guardian Angel & Resurrect effective use.
Verticality, Escaping, Dodging, Floating, Cancelling
When to Rez, where to Rez, how to shot-call to Rez more safely
How to do we get the most out of weaving primary and secondary beam usage?
Caduceus Blaster, how the devil do I know when it’s okay to go Battle Mercy?
Proper timing for Valkyrie breakdown
When to use, where to be, who to prioritize
Building Ult tips
General Use
Comboing with teammates
How Map Dependent is Mercy?
Now let’s work on proper engagement and disengages.
Now let’s talk synergies and match-ups. What heroes do you need to be careful of for being countered and others that you really think are great/necessary for your comp.

Blue Posts & News:

HAMMOND ANNOUNCED - PTR discussion NEXT week

Special Thanks to Diamond Sponsors & New Patrons:

Omnic Lab Links:

Previous Episode

109 - Omnic Lab: How Skill Rating Works

In the Lab this week Andres and Rob want to cover all the blue post extravaganza from Scott Mercer Outlining Skill Ratings and how they work. In addition we have some more social features coming to discuss and a teaser that hit twitter we can speculate about!

Heads Update:

Game Night -- June 29th
Teaser for Friday June 29th @ 930am EDT, VALE is joining us for a Mercy Show!
SPONSORS: Top Score Solutions
Ben aka “INeedPeeling” is offering free business consulting in the eSports field. If you are aspiring to coach, starting a team, developing an app or service, trying to boost your subscriber base, or just want to work in eSports, you can visit his website at topscoresolutions.com, get him on Twitter @topscoreEsports, or join his Discord server. Ben has a Masters in Sport Management, Finance and Data Analytics as well as experience in sales, marketing, and company development. His services are free, and they will stay that way as long as demand allows it.
Omnic Meta: (Homepage)
May 31 - Ana/Hanzo/Brigitte Changes Analysis
OWL Recap now up on it’s own feed!

Season 10 & 11 News

Season 10 Ending Post
Wed, June 27th 5pm PDT (UTC 00:000 June 28, Thurs)
Rewards:
Bronze: 65 CP
Silver: 125 CP
Gold: 250 CP
Plat: 500 CP
Diamond: 750 CP
Masters: 1200 CP
Grand Masters: 1750 CP
Starting in Season 11 players must have Blizzard SMS Protect enabled on their account to be eligible for the Top 500 (PC only).
Season 11 is currently scheduled to launch on Sat, June 30 at 5:00 p.m. PDT (Sun, July 1 at 00:00 UTC)

Skill Rating: From Scott Mercer

Matchmaking, Groups, & Skill Rating Post about Patch 1.25
“Calm before the storm.” Teaser Tweet

Special Thanks to Diamond Sponsors & New Patrons:

Omnic Lab Links:

Omnic Lab is now a Twitch Affiliate! Sub now with Twitch/Amazon Prime! Twitter, Facebook, Patreon Twitch, Youtube, MERCH Discord: discord.me/omniclab Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.omniclab.com iTunes, Google Play Music, RSS -->Full Extended Show Notes<-- Rob: Twitter, Twitch, Velen's Chosen Podcast, Andres: Twitter, audioblender.studio, soundcloud

Next Episode

111 - Omnic Lab: Hammond: First Thoughts & Endorsements Meta

In todays episode we have a returning guest, Switch from OmnicMeta.com, to chat about the new Endorsement system, private profiles and our first impressions on the new high octane, mech driving Hammster coming to Overwatch, Hammond.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

SPONSOR: Top Score Solutions
Ben aka “INeedPeeling” is offering free business consulting in the eSports field. If you are aspiring to coach, starting a team, developing an app or service, trying to boost your subscriber base, or just want to work in eSports, you can visit his website at topscoresolutions.com, get him on Twitter @topscoreEsports, or join his Discord server. Ben has a Masters in Sport Management, Finance and Data Analytics as well as experience in sales, marketing, and company development. His services are free, and they will stay that way as long as demand allows it.
SPONSOR: Red Steak Sauce Podcast
Red Steak Sauce is the only podcast that was conceived as a comedy variety show and turned into an entertainment news show the moment Matt pressed the record button on Audacity. Join Matt & Ryan as they navigate the briny, oversaturated depths of gaming, movies, and other miscellaneous entertainment news while occasionally messing around with Lego stuff Matt leaves lying around. Check them out on iTunes, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, SoundCloud, and at www.redsteaksauce.net
Omnic Meta: (Homepage)

First Look at Private Profiles and Player Endorsements:

Private Career Profiles
Player Endorsements

Hammond: First Thoughts:

First impressions?
Ability thoughts?
Composition ideas?

Contingency plan: Sombra. PTR Notes:

EMP -Now disables Wrecking Ball’s Minefield proximity mines for 10 seconds
Hack - Can now cancel her reload to use Hack
Stealth - Detect radius reduced to 2 meters from 4 meters

Blue Posts & News:

Symmetra now playable on competitive ladder!

Special Thanks to Diamond Sponsors & New Patrons:

Aiden C, Ben K, Britmus, Chrisdaplaya, DurandaL, GingerSasquash, GoldenSoldierA, JanJinkle, Jeff D., Lisome, Neverclutch, Raegh, Roger B., RickyTicky, Shazear, Terry F, Top Score Solutions, TragicZac.

Omnic Lab Links: