‘Chiu on This’ is a short and regular opinion blast

With the Overwatch League ended and the MVP awards given out for both the regular season and the playoff season, I thought it was time to bring up this idea. I think JJoNak (regular season MVP) and Profit (playoff MVP) should be given special recognition in the game itself. In Dota 2 for example, the hero Anti-Mage was given the name BurNIng after BurNIng became the best Dota2 player in the world and it became his signature hero. So when everyone else plays Anti-mage, they understand that on some level, they are playing his hero and that his legacy was so great even the game developer wanted to acknowledge it.

For lore reasons I don’t think this is possible as somehow I don’t think Blizzard would be willing to rename Zenyatta to JJoNak for instance (though that’s what I call it in my head now). However they could make a customized skin that is different from the regular team colors of the NYXL. We’ve seen this happen before in other esports like Street Fighter V where Capcom made a customized skin for MenaRD after he won Capcom Cup in 2017. I’d love to see a customized skin for both JJoNak and Profit celebrating their achievements as MVPs.

The other thing that’s possible is a graffiti. CS:GO does this with their Majors where there is sometimes a play that defines the entire tournament (Coldzera’s jumping AWP or s1mple’s falling AWP). In the case of Overwatch League, I think you could do one of for the regular season and one for the playoffs. The two I’d pick is Fissure raging his way through and killing a Mercy and Pharah with his ult. For the Overwatch Playoffs, I’d pick Profit’s 5k.

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