The Fuel have a style, or as Aaron “Aero” likes to call it, flavor of gameplay this year.

They’ve hammered home the point that they have a different style of play, and that’s what could make them a tough opponent for anyone. They don’t have a clear weakness when it comes to specific heroes.

Even Justin “Jayne” Conroy, a Team Envy content creator and former Fuel coach, agreed.

“I don’t want to spoil anything,” Jayne said before the third season of the Overwatch League started in late January. “But the play style is very different compared to last season and I think that’s based on how the coaching structure changed.”

The changes are evident at this point. A lot of the roster was revamped with talented new faces, and the state of league play was flipped upside down with hero pools. But the “style” and “flavor” have yet to be seen much, not to the Fuel’s own fault.

The Fuel have the opportunity to play matches in the coming weeks, whether it be a match scheduled for this weekend or some later down the line. The Fuel will play soon, and their flavor, Aero said, could be the difference in confusing the best teams in the league and taking advantage of those that struggle.

“The dynamic does feel pretty different just knowing we play the same teams. We basically want to make sure we have our own style that we can adapt,” Aero said. “When we play the same team over and over there are a lot of little things with how they play or what they do, that in the previous schedules you didn’t always get that but once or twice a year.”

The best spot to look for this style in the only matches the Fuel have played would be the Horizon Lunar Colony defense against the defending champion San Francisco Shock on Feb. 9. The Fuel decided to run a Junkrat, a hero rarely seen in OWL play, and it caught their opponent off guard. That was enough for the Fuel to take the map after a spicier attack that almost resulted in a draw.

But for the Fuel to draw up a plan and put their opponent in a cumbersome position was exactly the style Aero talked about.

“Part of why we wanted to have a more flexible style was because if there were a team for some reason that we just struggle with for whatever reason, that we have the ability to mix things up and throw them off,” Aero said.

The Fuel have a roster that fills the gaps. While Zachary “ZachaREEE” Lombardo did say there are specific hero bans that put the game in a frustrating spot, he didn’t feel there was a ban that specifically hurt the Fuel.

The team is comfortable with what it has, but there are still some unknowns.

“We haven’t had a sit-down, ‘playing people for x-match’ meeting yet because our matches kept getting pushed back and we haven’t gotten to play,” ZachaREEE said. “We’ve just been scrimming while everybody plays. We have matches coming up soon, so we should know soon. But every time the hero pool changed the mini meta that went on for the week was super different.”

Hero bans -- Soldier 76, Sombra, Winston and Lucio are banned this weekend -- are harder for tank and support players to work around because there are less options, but that hasn’t impacted the Fuel, tank player Ash “Trill” Powell said.

“I’m pretty confident from my pool of heroes. I don’t think it’s anything too crazy and the hardest one to learn might be Wrecking Ball,” Trill said. “People know how to play the other tanks at this point.”

Who the Fuel would play in the future, even though a brief schedule was released on March 18 with 12 matches over five weeks, could change. The Vancouver Titans are headed to South Korea along with the London Spitfire, and that could shake up the divisions. While Vancouver and London would likely play the teams in Asia, it would leave the Fuel without an opponent.

Dallas was scheduled to play Vancouver three times over those five weeks, so they may need a new opponent, which could mean a schedule change.

But the focus for the Fuel remains on themselves. Aero wants to be able to compete with anyone, no matter the opponent, hero pool or schedule.

The Fuel will play those matches with style.

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