The 2nd place Titans are taking on the 8th place San Francisco Shock today at 4:30 PM, in their first match against an established team. The Shock are sitting at 1-1 with a 4-0 sweep of the Dallas Fuel and a 2-3 loss to the Los Angeles Gladiators.
The Shock roster is absolutely stacked with quality players. They have elite players like Sinatraa on DPS, Nevix on Tank, and Moth and Sleepy on Support.
Match notes:
- Shock are a strong team on control maps, they were able to take the game 1 King of the Hill map in both of their matches this season, however they lost the extra 5th game against Los Angeles, the map they lost was Busan, which happens to be the control map for tomorrow's game. The Titans also took a 2-1 win on Busan in their season opener vs the Shanghai Dragons, we've seen that the Titans play worse on control maps but this stage could favour Vancouver.
- The second stage tomorrow will be the hybrid map King's Row, a map that the Shock took from the Dallas Fuel, however parts of the map are very good for the 3/3 type of game that the Titans excel at.
- Tomorrow's dual control point map is Volskaya, we saw the Titans play there yesterday and defeat the Charge in convincing fashion and the Shock are 1-1 on this kind of 2CP map this season.
- There will be a return to Route 66 for the escort map, this map was a mixed showing for the Titans against Guangzhou yesterday. There was a lot of solid play to be excited about but there were some silly mistakes that will have to be addressed like Twilight accidentally using his nano-boost on Slime's Lucio.
- The Shock play a similar style of 3/3 as the Titans but instead of Zenyatta they opt to play another hero called Moira. If Twilight brings his A-Game on Zenyatta then he could be a difference maker in tomorrow's head to head.
- We've seen Stitch tag in for Seominsoo so he can play McCree to protect from flankers, but he's also a very good counter to Pharah, a hero that the Shock have played on control maps so far this season, for that reason Stitch could be in the opening 6 again tomorrow.