The two heroes’ unmatched popularity resulted in nerfing of Nano Boost and Amp It Up, but pros found their way around this nerf by Nano Boosting Soldier: 76 instead. Biotic Grenade prevents enemies from healing themselves, and Speed Boost allows the entire team to dive in quickly. The two allow other heroes to maintain their pressure and firepower with solid support.

The two heroes were the most picked heroes not just among healers but also in the entire hero pool, being selected 136 times and 134 times respectively.Īna and Lucio form a solid duo, with Ana being the primary healer with her high heals per second and Lucio being the secondary healer with his Healing Aura and Speed Boost. Most picked: Reinhardt-D.Va-Roadhog’s triple tank meta followed by Ana and LucioĮven major tweaks to hero balances could not break Ana and Lucio’s partnership. With regards to the heroes that the players switched to during the game, we included those that they picked to keep Overtime running, but not those they picked that could not reach the objective in time. We arranged them from most picked to least picked, represented by S rank to D rank respectively. Failure to adjust to the new meta resulted in a loss for certain teams, some of those being major ones that many people believed would be possible winners.Ĭompetitive Season 3 is now live, and we have decided to go through the most picked heroes in APEX as we thought it could possibly give some insight into effective team compositions in the current season.

These changes produced new team compositions and ult combos, and adjusting to this new meta was the biggest challenge for all participating teams. The tournament attracted much attention from fans, being the first major league to invite top-tier domestic pros and match them against renowned Western players.Īs a major tournament, it lasted for quite a long time while APEX was still going on, Season 2 Competitive was coming to an end, which brought with it massive changes to hero balances.

Overwatch APEX Tournament finished its first season with the grand finals that took place on the third of December.

Current league meta 2016