Death of OWL = Rise of KR Valorant

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How low can OW go until most players try to transfer over, I don't think Blizzard/Teams will let it happen like what happened to the H1Z1 Pro League

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next owl season is on ow2 so it will probably be good for 1-2 season more maybe

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OW2 looks pretty good ngl

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goatdavid

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eh not really it will die soon just like ow its the same shit but 5v5 lol

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Queue times will be better with 1 tank + they’re trying to stop barrier meta which will make the game more enjoyable in general

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IDK it rly depends. Rumor has it that playing support is rly hard bc there's one less tank to help protect from flankers. Many ppl think that no one will want to play support which will create the same problem from OW where no one played tank.

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You were always able to get flanked as support just now there won’t be a barrier to bail you a out. The plan is for tanks to rely less on barriers, be able to deal a more damage, more tanky in general and not be as big ult batteries anymore

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OW is a dead game but they pay x3 more than valorant
that's why patiphan went back to OW

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3 times more in Korea right? cz the NA Val people are paid a lot as much as I have heard and I think EMEA too

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queueK

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if you're a T1 player on a T1 org, which is maybe 50 players total, yes.

Otherwise, I'd imagine the 50K US starting salary in the OWL is at the very least comparable, if not larger.

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ow is a dead game but not their comp scene

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power of franchise league

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Plus if a KR team were to win a large event like masters I think you would see a lot transfer over too

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OWL will see growth this season because of OW2, it isn't going to die soon. I do agree that if OWL did happen to die, Korean OW pros would absolutely farm in Valorant like Saya is doing now.

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dead game already

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Nisham

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Just because Overwatch is dead in the West ≠ Dead in Asia. OW literally pays so much more.

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I don't know about paying "so much more", but the guarantee minimum with benefits is there

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Larry

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Overwatch is still pretty huge in Korea and Asian countries. In NA not so much as most of the players here are Korean nowadays. Cant say the same for Europe because I don’t know. But OW is more popular in Korea than Valorant is.

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its only korea and china, rest of asia dont play OW bcs too overpriced

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yeah feel like something that might happen is if Valorant takes too long or never takes off in kr even if ig alot of strong players exist through maybe ow transfers or just domestic players that the region itself will develop less than maybe some apac regions. The viewers and just teams/orgs are in apac rn and even japan. I guess you could say kr was stronger than apac for most of the time since Valorant launched just cuz of the teams that were compared but theres so much more competition in apac and even riot seems like they're starting to support apac even more with their decisions. Feeling the saving grace for kr may be if so many ow players join valorant that orgs are kinda forced to find interest and look at the possibilities for good rosters or if korea actually consistently does well internationally and the game starts to find domestic playrate because of Koreas success.

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Larry

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I don’t think the game will take off in Korea or it would have already. Koreans just never been interested in tactical shooters even though Valorant kind of outstretches the term tactical shooter. The reason why Korea was ahead of the rest of Korean teams and Asian teams is because the Two big Korean teams were just straight out CS. One of the teams being vision strikers were MVP PK in CS who were consistently in the top 20.

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too overpriced? It's what, $20, maybe $40? After that you have the full game and never have to put up another penny. In Valorant you need to buy agents or bother grinding points to unlock champions and have to pay for skins.

I GUARANTEE you that the average Valorant player has spent sooooooooooooooo much more money than the average Overwatch player, including initial game purchase cost

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The average valorant player has paid so much more lmfao wtf dude? Im still in school, have like 20 friends none of whom have skins. Valorant has a young playerbase, why do you think everyone has money to spend for skins in a freaking game lol.

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and I know of at least 20 people who have 1 or more accounts, skins for every single gun bought, and that includes their alternate accounts.

Find a single game where you don't pick up a weapon with a skin, it's impossible.

L + ratio

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Larry

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Not saying this is always the case but the stereotype of kids using their parent credit cards to buy skins/things is a real thing. Probably varies where you live though. Seems to happen a lot in NA and EU.

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guarantee failed, none of my friends or i have bought a single skin

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idkmate99

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and yet you haven't been in a single game where there aren't skins on basically every drop. Why lie? Maybe you're just broke region, but NA every single game 9/10 players have skins on a majority of their weapons

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wkeyspectre

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lie about what? i actually dont buy skins and sometimes my lobbies also dont have any skins

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Larry

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Valorant skins do be expensive. I know people who he buying every bundle.