One of the not so hidden gems left from the first pass through Overwatch Contenders scene,

Tuomo "Davin" Leppänen has been the DPS ace for Team Gigantti since August of 2017. Breaking out on team Cyclone’s run through 2017, Davin has been amongst the top performers in Europe for nearly a year, even catching the eye of the 2018 Finnish Overwatch World Cup team. Esports Heaven spoke with Davin shortly after their nail-biting victory over Overwatch Contenders 2018 Season 1 champions, the British Hurricane. Not only did the Hurricane throw catch them off guard, but Davin touches on how the team quickly was able to innovate, their match against the British Hurricane in the quarterfinals, and how confident they are going into their semifinal match against One.PoinT.

It definitely did. We tried ignoring the Doomfist and focusing on frontline trades on that map and it clearly did not work. We changed this to hard focus the Doomfist on Numbani.

I think we were still quite confident, we had a similar experience with Winstrike Team earlier this season with Mei. We knew that we can learn stuff during the series and hopefully find an answer and we already had some plans people agreed on for the following map.

The team with D.Va will have way more shield damage as well as better ultimate plays so the only way for the Doomfist team to win is for the Doomfist to get massive solo value, so I think the best way is for the Lucio to keep an eye on the Doomfist and once we expect him to come in we hard commit on him and try to kill or make him leave the fight. As they also use bubble on the Doomfist we can use bubble defensively. The big danger here is that they can potentially abuse our Reinhardt who has to play really passive.

Towards the end of well it really looked like we were going to lose so being able to pull it back was definitely something to remember. It was definitely the closest game I’ve had in Overwatch.

I don’t think so. I think the reason why they are able to do it so well is because they have the best Doomfist main in Europe and he is the main reason why they can execute these anti-tank compositions so successfully.

Really hard to say without some serious experimenting but initially, it does look like there will be more room for anti-tank comps. I personally don’t mind whatever the metagame will be we have a really flexible roster and I’m sure can pull off whatever is needed.

We were definitely confident going into it. We obviously scrim against all of our competition a lot and therefore knew that we have good chances of winning.

Angry titans have been one, if not the only team that has been giving us some trouble in scrims but I do feel like we are slightly better. That being said it could go either way but I agree with Zappis. We have definitely prepared for them as we practice versus each other a lot.

To me personally, ELLIVOTE has been standout from the enemy D.Va players when it comes to graviton eats. Luddee boops are also a thing that people might not notice but are very impactful at times.

I personally don’t mind facing anyone, to be honest. Would be nice to beat Samsung I guess as they took a series from us earlier this season.

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