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Welcome back to Team Fight Tuesday here at BSE. What a weekend for the Uprising huh? Sure they got smacked by San Francisco, but who really had the Uprising winning that match anyway?
Yeah, you’d have to be really brave or really dumb to have the Uprising upset the shock.
The real story here is the amazing match against the Paris Eternal on Sunday. Starting the match 0-2, it looked like just another moment in rock bottom for Boston. Except the map that Paris had to win was none other than Boston’s home court – Eichenwalde.
Boston’s Second Eichenwalde Attack
Even though Boston is 2-2 on Eichenwalde, it has been the map where Boston likes to start their reverse sweeps. Against both Toronto and Atlanta, Boston was able to turn the matches around on this map. It’s only fitting that after a rough skid Boston would find their groove where they play best. And in true Boston form, the Uprising decided to wait till the very last moment to win the map.
The first attack was dominated by Colourhex and his amazing display of Pharah play. His 4 kills alone won them the point and left Paris reeling. However, it seemed as though Paris was ready for Chex the second time around. They opted for a Dva over the Sombra for their defensive setup. Though Sombra is quite the pain for Pharah, Dva brings much more utility and sustain in a high-pressure situation like this defense.
With an early sleep onto Colourhex Paris immediately halts the Boston assault. Shortly after both AimGod and blasé are killed. The attack appeared to have failed, and Boston would have to settle for another match loss.
That is, until Kellex revives blasé, who proceeds to put the team on his back. Time to track how hard blasé carries this fight.
blasé Punches His Way Through Paris
As blasé comes back, Paris makes the mistake of using a sleep dart to try and sleep Fusions rather than blasé. Sleep dart has an 12 second cooldown, giving blasé a large window of opportunity for aggressive play. Now the only hard crowd control Paris has left is Brigitte’s shield bash. Naturally, blasé is aware of this as well, and focuses NiCOgdh first.
| Doomfist Hard Carry Meter | Low |
The second mistake was trying to fight a Doomfist inside close quarters. As blasé escapes to wait on his cooldowns, Kruise and Finnsi attempt to finish off Boston’s low health Doomfist. What Paris did not expect, was for blasé to punch away Finnsi and one-shot Kruise.
| Doomfist Hard Carry Meter | Medium |
Meanwhile on point, BenBest uses shatter to stun Fusions and rCk in hopes to gain a player advantage over the Uprising. Altough rCk does die, Fusions manages to live and continue contesting the point. NiCOgdh swaps to Tracer to race back to point, leaving Paris no hope for a Brig rally.
Now that two of the supports are down, it only makes sense to focus down the last one. blasé catches Greyy off to the side of point, split away from the Paris tanks. A quick auto attack and an uppercut sends the Paris Ana back to spawn. 3/3 on healers for blasé.
| Doomfist Hard Carry Meter | High |
With the help of Kellex to keep him healthy, blasé then turns back towards point to pick his next victim. A half health Danye sits on the point, and blasé slams him into house behind point. blasé 4, Eternal 0.
| Doomfist Hard Carry Meter | Gonna need a Chiropractor |
Hackfist Demonstrating its Strength against GOATs
Keep in mind, this entire skirmish happens in just under a minute. It isn’t until blasé is hard focused by the two remaining tanks that his killing spree ends. Although they kill the Doomfist, the rest of Boston is back from spawn to clean up the mess blasé left.
This fight is a prime example of how Boston’s use of the Hackfist comp will propel them to the next level. As teams lean on GOATs to be their crutch, the chaos that Doomfist and Sombra create causes the GOATs composition to play sub-optimally. Spreading apart healers and tanks allows other DPS characters like Pharah to focus down isolated targets.
For example, as blasé punches Greyy away from the fight, he removes a healer so that Danye can’t keep pressure on Fusions. This forces Finnsi and BenBest to fall back onto point to defend the Zarya, but this rotation is too slow. Without a shield or defense matrix, Colourhex is free to deal damage to a defenseless Danye. By the time the Paris tanks reach Danye, he is already below half-health and is one-punched by blasé.
He Does it Again on Dorado
Just to prove it wasn’t a fluke on Eichenwalde, Boston runs back the triple DPS composition for point C of Dorado. After an ineffective barrage from Colourhex, blasé ults onto point in hopes to find a pick. Because rCk is actually able to hack Danye (who is also on Sombra), blasé is given a free shot to kill Danye.
Again, look how split apart the Eternal are in this fight. NiCOgdh is miles away because he was punched over a wall. BenBest panics and ults in hopes to hit blasé, but instead only hits Fusions. Finnsi is de-meched from the barrage earlier, and is running around trying to get his mech back. On the other hand, Boston is grouped around the cart getting heals from Kellex’s ultimate. The high mobility of Boston’s entire comp allows them to quickly flank and then group up again. Paris does not have that luxury, and severely pay for it.
blasé continues to hard carry Boston, as he goes to roll over Finnsi, BenBest, and NiCOgdh. Another fight, another four kills for blasé on his signature hero. Let’s check in on that carry meter once more.
| Doomfist Hard Carry Meter | Please don’t sell blasé |
Welcome Back DPS
While I may be highlighting blasé this time around, I can’t stress enough how well each member of Boston played. Even though the first half of the match was a wash, the second half had heroic plays from each Uprising player. Chex was insane the entire time on Pharah. Kellex and AimGod got an incredible amount of picks on the enemy support line. rCk hit some amazing EMPs on Dorado and Nepal. And of course, Fusions’ shatter on Eichenwalde was the reason he received player of the match from the OWL desk.
I love this team on DPS characters because it shows the rest of the world what Huk saw in these guys. With that said, that’s going to be it for Team Fight Tuesday! This week we have our last match up of the stage against Philly, so hopefully the momentum from this match carries into the next.
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