The San Francisco Shock and Vancouver Titans will face off Sunday at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia in a first-to-four map series. The winning team will take home $1.1 million and the Overwatch League championship trophy.

New meta, same top teams

The Vancouver Titans (25-3, plus-61 map differential) and San Francisco Shock (25-3, plus-66 map differential) finished with the two best records in the league this season, including winning two of the three stage championships.

Including stage playoffs, these teams have faced off four times this season. The Titans won the first two (including the Stage 1 championship), but the Shock have come back to win their past two meetings, most notably defeating the Titans 4-2 in the Stage 2 playoff finals. The Shock also won their only head-to-head match since the implementation of the 2-2-2 role lock at the start of Stage 4.

Shocking turnaround

The Shock entered the Overwatch League knowing they would have to deal with growing pains until some of their star players came of age (Jay "sinatraa" Won and Matthew "super" DeLisi specifically). As a result, the team struggled to find any type of consistent success in Season 1. However, after going 6-14 in the first two stages, they finished the season with a respectable 11-9 record in the final two stages. During this time, the Shock also signed coach Dae-hee "Crusty" Park after he departed from the Boston Uprising.

Because of their strong finish, new coach, and a few key additions (Namjoo "Striker" Kwon, Minki "Viol2t" Park and Dongjun "Rascal" Kim), the Shock were a heavy Season 2 preseason favorite and they did not disappoint.

During the regular season, the Shock had 16 sweeps, five more than any other team (The Titans were second with 11). In fact, the Shock's 16 sweeps are more than any other team last season (the New York Excelsior led Season 1 with 14 sweeps), despite teams playing only 28 regular-season games this season compared to 40 last year. San Francisco brought its broom to the playoffs as well: The Shock have seven 4-0 sweeps in first-to-4 matches this season and the rest of the league has combined for two (Titans and Spark).

Since losing in the opening round of the winners bracket against the Atlanta Reign, the Shock have won 16 straight maps en route to the grand finals.

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Titans of Overwatch

The Overwatch League added eight expansion teams in its second season, including the Titans. Five of those teams qualified for the playoffs (including the play-in tournament) and three finished among the top six teams (Titans, Spark and Reign).

The Titans made a name for themselves early in the year by winning their first 19 regular-season matches before losing to the Shock in the Stage 2 playoffs. That's the longest winning streak in OWL history. Since Stage 4 and the launch of 2-2-2 role lock, however, they have looked much more vulnerable.

During the regular season, Titans tank player Sang-beom "Bumper" Park played 31 hours, 33 minutes, the second-most behind Shock support player Grant "moth" Espy. However, he has yet to take the stage for Vancouver during the playoffs. The main reason for Bumper taking a seat is due to the team's recent signing of Jang-hyeon "TiZi" Hwang in the middle of Stage 4. That such a late signing is getting this kind of playing time in the postseason might indicate the Titans are not comfortable with Bumper playing Orisa -- who has the second-highest hero usage rate in OWL during the playoffs.