The Most Bizarre Careers In Overwatch History.. 

Crusty gotta be the #1 roster fumbler with what he did with 2021 and 2023 SF Shock

ITS ABOUT TIME YOU BROUGHT SOME RECOGNITION TO THE ALL TIME GLORIOUS GOAT AND DPS GOD CHIPSA

During a livestream Poko said that during scrims Chipsa was a really good leader for the team. They would just give him all the resources and he was actually doing very good

jayne getting pissed at a meme signing that lasted one map is crazy. it would've been more disrespectful for them to sign a tier 2 player, let them play 1 map on doom, then they never play again

I remember watching Taiyo in contenders at the time. He was going toe to toe with Kevster and Onigod for the best dps in tier 2- at least in the West. Its such a shame he never got to play

In regards to Chipsa, some Philly staff did come forward after the season explaining their reasoning. I forget if it was Christfer or Roston or someone else, but basically pre-season Doom was VERY broken and neither EQO/Ivy were performing well on it. They scrimmed a bit with Chipsa & they dominated, hence the signing. Ironically Doom was nerfed out of the meta before the season had started so he was perma-benched, but even players on other teams like Super alluded to the fact that Philly would've been terrifying if that meta had stuck around. At least according to scrimbux at the time.

Today Christfer said on stream they used to put ChipSa in on doomfist for scrims and they were taking maps off of shock because he knew the hero so well and got full pocket but eventually the lights got too bright and he couldn't handle the pressure

For glister, it's crusty doing crusty things, it's nothing new

IDDQD is even better than Chipsa; 100% winrate *and* 0 deaths 🗿

I fully expected him to mention Dafran.

for glister i did hear theories that twilight was the better ana but they still wanted to keep viol2t in the match for shot calling, i have no idea why they didnt play striker on tracer tho

Wasnt viol2t playin cass because in 2020-2021 him and super were the only two shot callers? So when super was riding the bench and twilight was in because his Ana was better they had no shotcaller

1) junbin baptiste and max lucio make sense, he wanted both of them to be in the match at the same time + they didn't even have a dedicated main support, also bap on CR is a healbot so junbin could play him 2) moon signing fleta wasn't nepotism, due to netease issues with blizzard, SHD had basically no money and had to sign whatever they could, there wasn't much tank talent in APAC at that time so they went with fleta

You're quite right, I like the arguments about the fact that's more about internal conflicts than the pure level of these players. As randoms, we don't imagine this could have that much of a consequence. But when you think about SFS, you can even add Viol2t playing Lucio instead of FDgod, who's at that point in time basically one of the best Lucio in the world. I'll really like to have another video like this one, good job!

Now we're talking. Some coverage on the ACTUAL goat, this is why i subbed

Just a bit of clarification. Ta1yo wasn't the only Japanese player to play for an OWL team. The 2nd (and only over from what I can tell) was FiNN. Who was born and lived in Japan. I got no idea if he has citizenship or what not. But yeah fun fact

At that time, with Jayne talking shit, Chipsa said something along the lines (I'm paraphrasing here): Guys I had a chance and took it, can't blame me for that. Not a big fan of him, but he was totally right

It’s because striker was extremely hard to work with apparently they wanted to play striker every game but if he wasn’t getting what he wanted from the other dps he would flame them even if he was in the wrong which was why he got cut in the end

Havent kept up with Ow for a few years i forgot the Jayne inventing esprorts clip lmao

For Glister.... I understand why he is playing Tracer, since the maps he played Widow Swap is a legit strategy. but Violet playing Cassidy is the more weird part. Although... I could argue Violet's Cass is better than Striker's. In a way it makes perfect sense with their roster/hero pool, but seems like a bad signing by the org.

I think chips was really underrated, rip dps doom

It's crazy how hard OWL fell from the SF Shock heyday.

I kinda feel bad for Chipsa, bro is ass at his one trick hero and everyone makes fun of him lol

Whenever shock doesn’t have a super great season it’s always a train wreck

Tbh I feel like they all could just be overwhelmed with the situation. Idk if anyone here experienced that but when a game is a big part of your life and you spend a lot of time on it it's super easy to get frustrated when you suddenly do a bit worse you feel like you wasted tone of time. Idk about glister but tayio could just get upset with the first map and blamed himself for it. It takes more time to develop a "pro" mentality then to learn how to play on a pro level especially when it comes to game like overwatch. There is a lot of things going on in the game and sometimes if you can't focus and follow enemies movement you aren't able to hit any shot. Maybe he needed time to gain focus but then he started blaming himself for the loss and played even worse. When it comes to chipsa I think it's obvious. He isn't dumb and he isn't a bad player. He gained so much popularity by being a "funny, unlucky, mad guy" so ofc some people didn't get it and hated on him. It's really difficult to be able to focus on pemforming when you know people are going to use your every mistake to blame you. Also overwatch league wasn't a good place to build your esports career. Meta was changing quickly and teams didn't hesitate with hiring new players so someone like chipsa or tayio didn't have time to adapt. But the video is really interesting and I am waiting for the next part!

Crazy that dude just opened a mall

what makes me wonder is who was signing those players, like what meta do you need 4dps on team? if it's coaches, i think it is their fault that they couldn't handle their players and not able to give the players opportunity. but who knows.

jayne inventing esports was one if the funniest OWL moments

this video made me miss OWL so much again. OWCS has not hit, hoping the major will change that

I feel like the other player that needs mentioning because a lot of the newer viewers forgot the sheer amount of memes is XEPHER The original scrim god needs his recognition!

Sounds like the coaches and the original shock players were holding back any new players who joined the team with potential to become stars. It’s almost like they didn’t want glister and taiyo to over shadow Violet and striker

I don’t really know the story behind the player but does anyone remember the dps player flow3r on nyxl, I seem to remember him coming in to play pharah on hanamure for them and he did quite well if irc but don’t recall him ever coming back into the line up to play again in the 2021 season

15:59 forgive me if im wrong but the whole "ta1yo not being in scrims" situation has been reiterated by super as well as the reddit post. I cant exactly remember what video it was but I specifically remember him talking abt it while defending first point numbani sitting on high ground left side

I remember doom getting a nerf right when they signed him. Figured that's why they never used him

Chipsa is the true goat of OWL

Pretty sure glister and taiyo were victims of the crusty crack pipe

4:40 so true tho hes goated

Interesting game

Shock definitely could’ve made it to semi or grand finals(lot less likely) if crusty used his players correctly.

Viol3t is just the most toxic player to ever enter the OW league.

not necessarily in the same vein as the players in this video but STRIKERs career is always a bit baffling to look at being passed around between uprising and shock

i really thought ta1yo was a flex dps that specialized in genji, had no clue he was a hitscan player. For as good as crusty is he has made some of the most baffling choices i've evers seen, peaking with fumbling such a talented roster in 2023, and currently refusing to play proper the guy won who every award on flex dps as a flex dps, his hitscan is pretty solid, but idk why they didnt just sign a world class hitscan to compliment him and let him focus on flex dps

I wish i didnt just get reminded of Jayne...

Really the only other player I feel fits this video is maybe Wub, considering he was not a super great flex DPS option and also preferred to hitscan.

Crusty just doesn't know what he's doing someyimes

i miss ov1 so much

a bronze DPS could've come into that Philly team and beat Dalton and Shredlock

This could be a fun video series. Idk if there's a lot to say about all the players, but I think maka on mayhem or guriyo on dallas could fit the bill well

Tracer is Hitscan.

Soooooo the conclusion of this video is the SF Shock have no fucking idea what a hitscan player is and just sees that every other team had one so they thought they also needed one.

i love chipsa but where his chin go

Guriyo is so forgotten for good reason😂

17:40 what’s the striker Nero drama? I must have not caught that. Was it just striker being toxic as usual?

The comment is so real I was so tired of the fake Shock fans that everytime they played I turned the chat off or went to thr Korean stream

12:23 how do you even come up with this shit LMAO

to be fair a lot of this is just shock shenanigans

Isn’t Voldemort(Sinatraa) the best player ever?

coach crusty and fumbling up and coming talent....

Did you edit that Chipsa photo?! It's so ugly 😭😭

I mean I would say a doomfist player at any level is a bad player, not hard to press 3 to 4 buttons in the right order. Rub two braincells together and you should be fine on the character, if even it even takes that much.

18 minute video about 3 players

Do boink lmao

God I fucking hated chipsa

wow

RAHHH

i feel like crusty just buys players so that other teams cant pick them up and use them properly, crusty a pos tbh

Chipsa pic will forever be goated

I have decided, I WILL live 100 more years for glisters keyboard

Honestly with all these things there can both be a "crusty goat" and "crusty thrower" argument made and both are completely valid

As a shock fan the bandwagoners always just killed my vibe dude glister was fine

I agree with almost everything but Ta1yo definitely was a genji player lol. His top 3 heroes were genji, tracer, and cass so it makes sense that he was picked up as a genji player

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Overall with whatever happened with Ta1yo....you can't say that Crusty did manage to get the Shock to the finals 3 times and winning twice. With a 4th place finish thrown in for good measure. To question it is kind of weird as to why Ta1yo didn't get the appropriate amount of playtime. It's cause he wasn't that good lol. You don't see the scrims and that's where the trust is earned to play live. Flexibility has always been the most important thing for any player. The ideal situation....no? But being on the shock means winning championships not being a good player on a bad team which his alternative reality would of been had he been on the Chengdu Hunters or something...

esper your videos are always so fun to watch !! could you make a video on the worst signings in owl?

Tayio came in to play genji after super genji

See? Im here because your entertaining and not because of the content you make, Good video 👍

Can you make a video about the funniest matches like vancover vs chengdu goats match up and chad ameng or super genji

after watching this video i’ve come to a simple conclusion: crusty terrorism

Gosh what happened to chipsa, my unlooky boy 😢

from what i remember, during the countdown cup in 2020, Genji was hard meta. Shock had Striker, Ans and Rascal as dps players. None of them are great genji players. Rascal could play him, but not at a level of profit, fleta or sp9rkle. They needed a Genji player and Ta1yo was introduced as just that. I can remember that his announcement video, consisted of mostly genji clips. After realising that Ta1yo on shock wont work, they kept struggeling to play a genji comp. They tried super on genji or running of meta comps.

Chipsa with the mapt iconic render in esports

Bro, i got to ig glister Acc, and there is nothing about the mall. In fact, he didn't post since 2022😢

I cannot believe we used to shoot two shields

I remember something about Ta1yo being brought in as a replacement for Ans bc he was struggling mentally during the season and i think they were expecting him to quit before the season ended. I cant remember at all where that was said but considering how hard he pushed himself and how burnt out he was at the end of that season it makes sense. Edit, I found it, it wasnt to replace Ans though i do remember something about him having issues during the season. It was an interview from Dogman talking with Moth, they scrimmed 3rd impact during season 3 and saw Taiyo as a flexible leadership player to replace Sinatraa. Doesnt really explain why Crusty would want to pick up a hitscan player to replace a flex dps though. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yzUCynMKSy8.html

what happened with striker and nero? I picked up OW when OW2 came out.

Jayne ha blast from the past

Another bizarre case is Snillo

I love your videos, all well paced and edited. Storytelling is great too

I miss Jayne

Krillin is a good one too

I've been a shock fan since 2021 and I didn't realize that ta1yo played hitscan until this video, I thought he was just a genji one trick