Apex Legends Preseason Invitational shows why Legend bans could be great The Apex Legends Preseason Invitational has convinced people that maybe temporary character bans could be a worthwhile tactic to improve pro tourneys. Respawn Entertainment and EA put together one of the biggest competitions for Apex Legends so far with the $500,000 event, but there were more than a few complications throughout the 3-day invitational. While there were noticeable glitches highlighted by the official stream for the event, some of the more frustrating occurrences came at the hands of Wattson and her Perimeter Security as some players found clever ways to abuse the ability or glitches known to be in the game. But after the dust settled, esports commentator Richard \u2018TheSimms\u2019 Simms said that he hopes Respawn \u201cban Wattson for future Apex tournaments.\u201d After discussing Wattson\u2019s bigger flaws with Apex pro Lucas \u2018Mendo\u2019 H\u00e5kansson, TheSimms thinks that there could be a great way to evolve the meta by periodically removing troublesome Legends. \u201cI do like the idea that certain Legends could be banned during competitive play if they are OP or undergoing changes,\u201d TheSimms advised in order to \u201ckeep the meta evolving as opposed to just slapping in new Legends.\u201d i do like the idea that certain legends could be banned during competitive play if they are OP or undergoing changes, then brought back in at later dates once adjusted, keep the meta evolving as opposed to just slapping in new legends. \u2014 SIMMS (@TheSimms) September 16, 2019 Since the roster of Legends is the game\u2019s \u201cstrongest and core attribute,\u201d temporary bans would facilitate a systematic progression to the overall comps that pro teams would opt into. The Preseason Invitational saw a lot of Wattson picks with players using her fences to completely claim a room or nestle on an elevated platform. Moreover, Team Liquid\u2019s star Mendo says that the Wattson\u2019s \u201ccore problem is map design,\u201d since her abilities can severely punish players walking into the narrow corridors and rooms seen throughout Kings Canyon. Adds something unique to the game, will help diversity in hero-picks to prevent forced balancing to ensure people pick other things than what’s common (i.e wattson and caustic’s current state). Could be cool, bans by majority vote could be cool too \u2014 Liquid Someone (@Mendo) September 16, 2019 While the former Overwatch pro wants to see meaningful updates to address these problems, he also thinks that teams should get a heads up on where circles will land in every match. \u201cI think for viewership it could be a good idea to show the circle patterns ahead of the game start so people can draft their compositions ahead of the game based on that,\u201d Mendo said. \u201cOtherwise we\u2019ll always see one generalized comp be played.\u201d He thinks that simple change would add \u201csomething unique to the game (and) will help diversity in hero-picks.\u201d The Apex Legends Preseason Invitational made it clear that the esport still has a ton of room to grow, but it should start out with how they want to address Wattson\u2019s OP mechanics in games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends Preseason Invitational shows why Legend bans could be great The Apex Legends Preseason Invitational has convinced people that maybe temporary character bans could be a worthwhile tactic to improve pro tourneys. Respawn Entertainment and EA put together one of the biggest competitions for Apex Legends so far with the $500,000 event, but there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}