Overwatch League - Week 5 Hero Pool Draw - Reinhardt, McCree, Widowmaker & Moira Banned

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Week 5 • HERO POOL DRAW

The Week 4, Day 2 Watchpoint Postshow is now live and will be announcing Overwatch League’s first Hero Pool Draw. REMEMBER! This only counts for Overwatch League. The Competitive Season 21 Hero Pool for Week 1 will be revealed on Thursday.

Rules of the Hero Pool Draw:

  • All heroes with 10% playtime or more in the past two weeks of league play will be eligible for the draw.
  • The heroes removed from the pool will be randomly selected.
  • The heroes removed will return to play in the next week and will be immune from being removed in the next week’s draw.
  • 1 tank, 2 damage, and 1 support hero will be banned from play in Week 5 of Overwatch League.

Heroes banned from Week 5 in OWL


Reinhardt

McCree

Widowmaker

Moira

Week 5 Schedule - Washington Homestand #2

  • SAT - Defiant vs. Mayhem
  • SAT - Eternal vs. Outlaws
  • SAT - Uprising vs. Justice
  • SUN - Eternal vs. Fusion
  • SUN - Excelsior vs. Justice
  • SUN - Uprising vs. Reign

What are your reactions to these heroes being removed from pro play?

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Expectations high. :upside_down_face:
Rein, Mei, McCree and Lucio.

But this can pretty much mess with it.

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Whatever it ends up being, Dive will be meta next week imo.

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Probably, Orisa and Sigma too much underpowered in comparison with alternatives.
But who knows?..

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Send Mei, McCree, Rein, and Ana packing…

Then next week send Lucio and D’va packing…

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Rein, McCree, Mei and either one of Ana or Lucio.

I see Hackfist Dive or some sort of Double Shield coming in.

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Yeah. I think this will be the main variant. And some teams will run Tracer or Genji depending on the map/situation.

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thank you been looking everywhere thinking that the announcement was for the playerbase today…

so that rules of hero pool is just for league right?

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Correct. We won’t know about Competitive Play until the season goes live.

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Don’t care… OL is a non-entity to me

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ok so whatre you doing here?

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Winston has a 10.3% pickrate. It’d be funny if he got banned and the forum went into hysterics :rofl:

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I’m seeing cartoonish mobile game ads while French tech death metal plays on another tab and I’m so confused

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Imagine that… another week of Rein :tired_face:

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One more commercial break (no doubt with more Solgard nonsense) and the hero pool will be revealed!

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It’s random like… What lol.

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Thank God the Watchpoint stars are doing this for only 1 week…I don’t trust them with “random” crap…

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REINHARDT PEPEGA!!!

Lets go champ!

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Reinhardt is removed from week 5!

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no reinhardt next week!