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Goats Overwatch
Feb 12, 2019 12:08 pm 2019-02-12T17:03:06-05:00
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It’s more than just an animal. Find out about the popular triple-triple composition.
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GOATS. Casters talk about it during games. Players talk about perfecting it. Everyone talks about how to kill it. If you’re new to the Overwatch scene, here are some details about the composition on everyone’s minds.
GOATS is a form of team composition in Overwatch that is based around running three support heroes and three tank heroes. It’s commonly referred to as “3-3” or “triple-triple,” especially on official channels like the Overwatch League. No damage-dealing characters are included; the composition relies on keeping the extremely heavy tanks healed up and able to coordinate ultimates to wipe out the opposing team.
Many fans and players have appropriate questions about how a team composition acquired the name of a farm animal. A North American Overwatch Contenders Trials team named GOATS used the triple-triple composition in nearly every match. Their competitors quickly saw how indestructible the composition was, and it grew in popularity as professional players and teams picked it up. The name stuck, and now everyone plays GOATS.
The power of triple-triple comes from its sustainability in team fights. The original GOATS composition included Reinhardt, Zarya, and D.Va as tanks and Lúcio, Moira, and Brigitte as supports. While many variations have popped up as triple-triple is perfected, the basic idea of the composition has stayed the same.
GOATS revolves around a few select heroes, who can’t be swapped out without the composition failing in some way. Lúcio, Brigitte, and D.Va are often must-picks. Dot Esports’ analysis into GOATS gameplay explains why.
There’s a lot of hate out there for triple-triple despite it being such a solid composition. Many professional players, especially those who play damage-dealing roles, are upset that they have to flex onto support or tank heroes. Despite rumors that the recent PTR patch would “nerf” GOATS in time for the Overwatch League, some players have reported that not much has changed.
With the second season of Overwatch League merely days away, it’s a near-guarantee that fans will be seeing more of triple-triple this upcoming season.
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One word is likely at the top of every team, player, and spectator’s mind after the start of the second season of the Overwatch League. And that word is “GOATS.”
Competitive games like Overwatch are often defined by trends in play. The all-encompassing layer of strategy that dictates and guides anything from hero picks to positioning and rotations is called the “metagame,” or simply the “meta.”
Meta is often just the strategy with the most proven or consistent success in a given state of the game, or at least there’s the perception that a currently popular meta is dominant, which makes everyone try it. GOATS is simply the name of an approach that’s very popular, and effective, in competitive Overwatch right now.
Here’s what you need to know: GOATS refers to a strategy that includes three tanks and three healers, and some very vocal fans hate it because it leads to less immediately satisfying action during big matches. It’s safe, and safe is rarely entertaining.
This specific variation of the triple-tank strategy named for the North American team that popularized it during season two open division play. The GOATS blew through the season with 10 wins and no losses, and won a BEAT invitational as well , while consistently running a lineup of D.Va, Reinhardt, Zarya, Brigitte, Zenyatta, and Lúcio. This run of successful games cemented the name of the team to the name of the strategy, at least for the short term.
The strategy is a little more malleable now and often called triple-triple or three-three when described during a broadcast but, broadly speaking, it means that the team is fielding three tanks and three healers. That’s GOATS in a nutshell. While the term came from the name of the team, in general use it now usually refers to team composition based around this strategy. And it can often seem as if everyone is running GOATS at the higher levels of play.
Three tanks — usually Reinhardt, D.Va, and Zarya — form the beefy frontline in a GOATS lineup, using shields and big health bars to advance forward. Some map-specific permutations exist, usually swapping out Reinhardt for a Winston, but the D.Va-Zarya combo is crucial, as landing the one-two punch of Graviton Surge into Self-Destruct is often a win condition for big fights. The former pulls the enemy team together to one point, while the latter is the Earth-shattering kaboom taking them all out.
Three supports back up the tanks, and the composition of those supports can be a little more flexible, but many teams use healers who can negate the big combo ultimates of the other team, while also chipping away at the enemy’s health. Teams often pick Lúcio and Zenyatta, frequently alongside Brigitte, though sometimes they’ll pick an Ana or Moira. This aspect of GOATS play is much more open to creativity with the right team.
This clip gives you a good indication of how GOATS fights often look and, yes, it can get confusing but also kind of boring if you don’t know what to look for.
A GOATS strategy requires that players use different skills than the strategies that came before, which mostly focused on dealing an intense amount of damage per second. The damage-dealers have taken a backseat because, for right now, it’s difficult for them to whittle down health bars fast enough before targets get re-shielded and healed.
A GOATS-fight is a war of attrition rather than a sizzle reel of headshots or a Genji player popping off with a big dive into the other team’s backline. Skirmishes are protracted back-and-forths that build up, hopefully, to a situation in which one team can wipe out the other using a spectacular combination of ultimates.
There is still room for standout players and creative thinking in current competitive play. Sungwook “Ria” Park of the Hangzhou Spark showed off some incredible self-destructs as D.Va recently, including one where he “ate” — negated with his Defense Matrix — the Los Angeles Valiant’s Graviton Surge just before wiping out three players . It was an electric moment in the game.
There is hope for variation as well, as some teams showed their flexibility and adaptability with picks like Sombra, who can be devastating in the right hands as shown by the New York Excelsior . The character’s ability-blocking hacks can disrupt the combo plays that teams are looking for, leaving them vulnerable and without the use of their ultimates. This sort of strategy is looking like one of the most viable answers to the GOATS blueprint.
A few teams even found room to play other compositions. In the opening series of the season, a rematch of last season’s grand finals between the Philadelphia Fusion and London Spitfire, the latter ran a quad-DPS strategy on the first point of Volskaya , completely throwing Philly off its game.
It was an exciting moment, the eccentricity of which was highlighted by London reverting back to a three-three strategy after taking the first point, much to the displeasure of some in the live studio audience . You can hear the boos when the team comes back out using a GOATS strategy.
Other teams, like the Chengdu Hunters, seem absolutely determined to buck the trend. The Hunters, marred by visa issues, have found an identity in running staunchly anti-GOATS lineups, including Wrecking Ball-centric compositions and other oddities to throw comfort picks off-balance.
Still, it feels like the tone of competition has been largely defined by either the presence or absence of the triple-triple.
The current focus on GOATS isn’t good or bad, it’s just where the game is right now. Every sport goes through its own growing pains, and some fans may appreciate this level of play, while others are bored by the relative lack of big, exciting moves. But meta is never forever, and there are some good things about this strategy while it’s dominant.
GOATS highlights players who wouldn’t normally get attention; being the main tank or healer isn’t usually as flashy as being the sniper, and it’s always a nice change when the spotlight shifts a bit. While players like Seonghyun “JJoNak” Bang will always shine on Zenyatta, other healers and tanks get their moment in the sun in the GOATS meta.
But GOATS leads to less flashy games outside of the big Shatter-Grav-Bomb combos. Rapid-fire headshots are no longer the norm during play, as a constant flow of healing and shields un-does the work of a good DPS (damage per second) player.
And spectators may grow bored watching GOATS matches so often. The appeal of a good GOATS match is often found in its intricacies, such as the positioning and rotation of a team or interplay between different players.
A casual spectator — even if they’re familiar with the basic mechanics of Overwatch — might not enjoy that interplay as much. It’s not as immediately impressive, and it requires a deeper understanding of the game to appreciate. And most of the season’s best matches so far are defined by their absence or permutation of GOATS.
Blizzard already tried to curb GOATS before the season started by empowering the tank-shredding Reaper and reducing the effectiveness of armor, but these changes didn’t do enough to push teams away from GOATS.
Or perhaps, as teams get more comfortable, we will see more strategies like Sombra or Wrecking Ball combinations, or even lineups like quad-DPS, become popular ways to break the mold. Teams like the Chengdu Hunters and London Spitfire have already given me hope that changes to the meta can be forced outside of patch notes. I’m still seeing play evolve as competitive players try new things and adapt to strategies that have become so common.
But until either straw breaks its back, like it or not, the GOATS are here to stay.
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