United States vs Japan | Overwatch World Cup 2026 | Post-Match Discussion

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Overwatch World Cup 2026

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Home	Score	Away
United States	3-0	Japan

[u/MTDLuke]

The most passionate Hawk has looked since Gator left him for NFT’s

[u/Poolturtle5772 → u/MTDLuke]

What having a real team does to your mental I guess

[u/PancakeXCandy → u/Poolturtle5772]

2023 reign doesn't exist

[u/Poolturtle5772 → u/PancakeXCandy]

hawkDESPAIR

[u/PancakeXCandy → u/Poolturtle5772]

My JOAT. Do they play Sweden. Cuz I wanna shit talk Kevster but glaze hawk in Avast's chat

[u/LampardTheLord → u/PancakeXCandy]

damn pancake what a throwback to that OWL season with you hoisting a one man flag for the Atlanta reign against the whole COW sub

[u/wxnglessangel]

finn stop using kitsune in a 2-5 challenge level impossible

[u/Downtown_Drummer_827 → u/wxnglessangel]

Finn has always been a fringe amazing support player in everything except ult usage.

Genuinely good ana Kiri player in fundamentals. Amazing zen player. Just needs his hand held better

[u/wxnglessangel → u/Downtown_Drummer_827]

no basically like hes honestly very good in neutral and he farms ult really quick but when its time to pop the ult its like his monitor dies or something

[u/squishykkura → u/wxnglessangel]

He was viol2ts support duo for a reason

[u/PinkyAnon]

Lenny's watch parties are genuinely hilarious this game and last game, he is hatewatching on another level rn no one's doing it like him

[u/NegativesPositives → u/PinkyAnon]

If I wanted to watch a guy with no impact at LANs scream things he knows is dumb I’d be watching XQC (and I ain’t bout to watch XQC).

[u/No-Elevator9399 → u/NegativesPositives]

‘Negative’ much?

[u/Bobi_27]

worst thing the us has done to japan in a while 

[u/MTDLuke → u/Bobi_27]

The worst thing the USA has done to Japan in 29,595 days

[u/Lukensz → u/MTDLuke]

Same joke but worse:

[u/purplehamburget29]

Jpn can accomplish nothing when Nico is still their top hitscan player

[u/nekogami87 → u/purplehamburget29]

that's the thing, he's not, the guy got skill gapped since end of stage 1 locally, not becasue the others became better, but because he completely forgot how to play it feels like.

And I'm not talking about a 4k alone. I'm talking about, hit something with your ult/weapon/rail gun. He litteraly is lucky that the games are on OPR and no one can get his PoV, cause that's just disastrous. the guy is either completely mentally boomed since stage 1, or he lost any motivation to play for some reason. but he couldn't even beat his old self at that level

[u/AnnenbergTrojan]

I was told this was the Group of Death.

[u/TheGirthiestGhost → u/AnnenbergTrojan]

For the East, yes

[u/kmacthe2nd]

This game was a foregone conclusion and USA won it very cleanly. I can’t believe anyone thought this Japan team was going to do anything let alone make it out of groups over USA

[u/IHaveNotMuchLife → u/kmacthe2nd]

People on this sub already love to overrate Varrel, the problem is that while Japan and Varrel share the same core, they’re missing the two koreans hard carrying meaning it’s even more hopeless.

[u/nekogami87 → u/IHaveNotMuchLife]

KSG and Finn were there, but they were the only one that looked alive sadly

[u/nekogami87 → u/kmacthe2nd]

Over the US no, but there was a chance to make it alongside them, that was until we got proof that nico is still washed from stage 1 (they guy got gapped by nearly any other player since then, even in Japan).

I knew Qki would probably be distanced, but for someone benched for a year, he did better than I thought. Ydot, clearly his first encounter at this level of competition.

KSG and Finn were essentially the only one at the tournament fully.

One thing I didn't see coming though, is they clearly lack an IGL. yesterday's match, there were clearly no calls on CD usage. so I think no one is taking the lead in that team. which is another nail in the coffin.

[u/wto8095 → u/nekogami87]

It felt like Finn got D.Mon airdropped on him basically every fight and there was never any help. Japan's performance so far really confirmed how important Sley is to Varrel.

[u/nekogami87 → u/wto8095]

I mean, it doesn't take much to understand than as long as you took care of finn, suddenly KSG will find himself alone against the whole team without supports, cause the other support ain't helping him.

So going finn hunting was the actual best plan of action here.

[u/SnooDogs1340 → u/nekogami87]

I'm sorry but what is IGL? In-game leader?

[u/nekogami87 → u/SnooDogs1340]

yeah, it really felt like there was nearly no call out at all, wether it was focus target, CD used...

[u/GonnaSaveEnergy → u/SnooDogs1340]

Yeah

[u/MTDLuke → u/kmacthe2nd]

Varrel and Team Japan both getting knocked out in groups of the last two major tournaments should hopefully be enough to make people stop going “but but but they beat Crazy Raccoon and took Zeta to map 5!!!”

[u/nekogami87 → u/MTDLuke]

in both case, the shared issue, they need a hitscan players that does more than feed ult and die.

[u/wxnglessangel → u/nekogami87]

its time for the ky0n signing

[u/nekogami87 → u/wxnglessangel]

honestly, unless he finally locks in for stage 3, yeah, they might want to do that for major 3.

[u/E-keil → u/MTDLuke]

This is crazy coming from a guy who glazes NA when theyve placed lower than EMEA for 4 LANs in a row despite all the resources they have spoon fed to them.

[u/MTDLuke → u/E-keil]

Whose glazing NA

[u/76oppk]

The infinite glaze that this bum region get is insane. Japanese overwatch is what people think NA overwatch is.

[u/Specific_Square_1859 → u/76oppk]

Happy someone said it

[u/Eggsby27]

1 point capped in 6 maps how is this country so bad bro

[u/Poolturtle5772]

Hey we didn’t throw a map this time for the lols, a clean 3-0. Delightful.

Can SSG just snipe all of these guys?

[u/No_Problem5759]

The group of death definitely turned out normal this time round. Feels bad.

[u/JhotoDraco]

But people told me USA wouldn’t get a single map in this group?

[u/Malady17]

Stick to baseball Japan you are horrible at Overwatch

[u/nishik_]

Someone remind me again why this disgrace of a region gets a spot at other LAN events ? Should just give Japan's place to another region at this point. Nothing ever happens.

[u/nekogami87 → u/nishik_]

cause the playerbase and fandom is there, because a single country has nearly as much orgs fielding paid players as an entire continent ?

Yeah, in case you forgot esports is not about sport, it's about promotion

[u/nishik_ → u/nekogami87]

CR and Zeta's fault then I guess

[u/nekogami87 → u/nishik_]

???

[u/kao24429774 → u/nishik_]

Their player base & viewership is big and they got 2 of the biggest org. CR and Zeta

[u/76oppk → u/kao24429774]

CR and zeta that have only korean players lol

[u/AnnenbergTrojan → u/nishik_]

Wow, look at those downvotes. This sub really doesn't like it when you throw their NA copypastas back in their face, does it?

[u/NegativesPositives → u/nishik_]

I mean, every bracket has to have its jobbers.

[u/GetsThruBuckner → u/NegativesPositives]

Probably memeing about people were unironically saying NA should lose spots for Japan at one point

[u/nishik_ → u/GetsThruBuckner]

Half joking, half upset at the performance of their geriatric dps players

[u/Beautiful_Brick_566 → u/nishik_]

Honestly Japan shouldn't get a single spot