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Sadly Stage 3 was pretty awful for the Uprising. Games weren’t close at the start of the stage, and everything looked uncharacteristic of Boston. Thankfully this nightmare is over, and we can look back and use this experience as a learning opportunity. Just like any good math class, you need some numbers in order to learn! Let’s recap the past stage with some good, bad, and fun stats!
Overall Record: 1-6
Good enough for 16h in Stage 3. Unfortunately this rough stage also dropped Boston from 11th in overall season standings to 17th.
Map Record: 7-22-1 Map Diff: -15
At -15, Boston had the 4th worst map differential – just beating out Florida (-19), Toronto (-20), and Washington (-22).
Stage 3 Superlatives
Most Likely to Die First: blasé
It’s a tough life to be the Brig player in GOATs. When the enemy Graviton Surge comes in, you only have a small shield to help protect yourself. Sadly, most of the time it just can’t the job done. blasé was responsible for 22% of the first deaths in team fights this stage. Some of those were due to aggressive initiations as Doomfist, but a lot of those deaths were in Brig-Jail.
| Player | # of Times Player Died First in Team Fights |
| blasé | 63 |
| Fusions | 56 |
| Colourhex | 52 |
| rCk | 47 |
| AimGod | 22 |
| Kellex | 22 |
| Perisa | 19 |
| Alemao | 12 |
| Axxiom | 0 |
Most Likely to Get the First Pick: blasé
When blasé is out of Brig-Jail, he often finds a way to give Boston a man advantage. Doomfist and Bastion were blasé’s main tools of success in finding the first kill, notching 24% of Boston’s first eliminations.
| Player | Recorded First Elimination in a Team Fight |
| blasé | 58 |
| Colourhex | 52 |
| rCk | 44 |
| Fusions | 43 |
| AimGod | 17 |
| Kellex | 17 |
| Persia | 8 |
| Alemao | 5 |
| Axxiom | 0 |
Most Likely to Ult First: rCk
As the Sombra specialist on the team, rCk often has one and only job: get his EMP ASAP. This ult is vital to the success of the Sombra GOATs compositions, so it’s no surprise rCk would account for 24% of the team’s first ultimates used in a team fight.
| Player | Ultimates Used to Start a Team Fight |
| rCk | 56 |
| blasé | 45 |
| Colourhex | 39 |
| AimGod | 26 |
| Fusions | 23 |
| Persia | 18 |
| Kellex | 16 |
| Alemao | 13 |
| Axxiom | 0 |
Most Ultimates Used: rCk
Between Sombra and D.Va, rCk managed to lead the team in ultimates used. What is more interesting is how AimGod managed to gain 25 more ultimates than Persia, while playing one less match.
| Player | Ultimates Used |
| rCk | 119 |
| blasé | 113 |
| Colourhex | 105 |
| Fusions | 89 |
| AimGod | 78 |
| Kellex | 58 |
| Persia | 53 |
| Alemao | 36 |
| Axxiom | 0 |
Most Lethal: Colourhex
Most Deaths: blasé
Man I’m happy to see our DPS grabbing the most eliminations. Seeing our boys deal damage again as Widow, Pharah, Junkrat, and Doomfist was a pleasure for fans and I only hope we see more in Stage 4.
Playing aggressive DPS characters can be a double-edged sword at times. Clocking in at 205 deaths, blasé became quite familiar with the re-spawn timer. Not far behind, Fusions also hit the 200 deaths mark this stage, with exactly 200 deaths. Seems as though Brig shield and Rein shield aren’t doing a whole lot, as together they account for 37% of the deaths on the Uprising.
Most Healing: AimGod
Most Damage: rCk
With AimGod playing a whole bunch of Ana and Zenyatta, he takes the crown as top healer for Boston this stage. Strangely enough, rCk was able to edge out Colourhex on the total damage output. Maybe the stat is skewed from the burst damage of D.Va bombs, but damage dealt is still damage dealt.
Boston’s Stage 3 Team Stats
Total Ultimates Used as a Team: 651
Even though the average of ults per game would be 92, the majority of ultimates come from the matches against Paris. Between the two, Boston amassed 275 ultimate abilities – almost half (42%) of all ultimates used. The roughest match was against Houston, where Boston generated only 54 ultimates.
Winningest Team Comp: Bunker
At 52%, Boston found the most success using a Bunker composition. Whether it be the play making ablility of Kellex on Baptiste, or teams not ready for the blasé Bastion, there was just something magical about Boston’s bunker.
2-2-2 was Boston’s true highest win percentage team comp, but it came in 1 map on 1 push to win 3 out of 4 team fights. We also saw a little bit of Mei GOATs against the Fusion, with some moderate success winning 33% of those fights. Boston also ran a 3-2-1 composition just once – they lost that fight.
It is worth noting that the Hackfist comp took a nose dive in win percentage in the match against San Francisco. Boston won just 2 of 21 team fights against the Shock.
| Team Composition | Team Fight Win Percentage (10 Team Fight Min) |
| Bunker | 0.52 |
| Triple DPS | 0.46 |
| Reinhardt GOATs | 0.44 |
| Sombra GOATs | 0.37 |
| Winston GOATs | 0.30 |
| Hackfist | 0.26 |
Most Played Comp: Reinhardt GOATs
With a whopping 32% play rate, Rein GOATs was still the go-to method for Boston in Stage 3. The Uprising played traditional GOATs in 120 team fights out of a total of 363. In the matches against London and Paris (week 1), Boston played GOATs in 92 team fights, spending the entirety of the match against London on the same team composition. Note: that tiny little slice is the one time Boston played a more traditional 2-2-2 comp featuring Genji.
Team Stats vs Opponents in Stage 3
Below are the total eliminations and deaths for Boston against specific opponents. It is worth noting that our only map wins came against Philly and Paris, so naturally we would have more elims in winning scenarios. In the only win in the stage, Boston had 587 elims against Paris in week 3. This can be attributed to the Uprising playing a Triple DPS comp in 49% of the team fights, with a 50% win-rate in the match.
In case you were wondering why Fusions called the Houston match the “rock bottom” for the Uprising, it’s because they had the fewest amount of elims in the stage, and had the most deaths of all the 0-4 losses.
Here we have the total damage dealt along with the total amount of healing put out through the stage. Again, when Boston played Triple DPS, the damage numbers skyrocketed. Boston dealt more damage in the losing match against Paris oddly enough, rather than the winning match
Grab Bag Stats
Different Support Lineups: 4
Axxiom AFK?
Sadly, Axxiom was the only player not to have playing time this stage. Will we see him more moving into a 2-2-2 role lock? Only time will tell.
World Travelers
Boston was the only team to field a lineup from six different countries for the entire stage! While Dallas did have a lineup with six unique nationalities, it came in Week 3 against the Spark (Harryhook subbed in for uNkoe)
| Player | Country – Opponent |
| AimGod | South Korea – Paris(W1), Paris(W3), Philly(W4) |
| Alemao | Brazil – London, Paris(W1), San Fran |
| Axxiom | South Korea – 🙁 |
| blasé | United States – All-Season |
| Colourhex | New Zealand – All-Season |
| Fusions | United Kingdom – All-Season |
| Kellex | Denmark – Houston, Philly(W2), Paris(W3), Philly(W4) |
| Persia | South Korea – London, Houston, Philly(W2), San Fran |
| rCk | Finland – All-Season |
Whew! What a whole lot of learning! Stage 3 was certainly something special. As we get ready for Stage 4 and beyond, let’s hope Boston can take away some important lessons from their past to succeed now.
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