How Did The Atlanta Reign Take Down NYXL? (Again) | Behind The Akshon

Not one, but two is the number of times that the NYXL have been handed a Defeat come this season at the hands of the Atlanta Reign, but how did this expansion team manage to take down one of the titans of the Overwatch League?

Coming into their second encounter in Stage 2 of the Overwatch League 2019 season, now was the time for the ATL Reign to prove that their unexpected Week 2 victory was not a fluke and that they had the capability to topple a powerhouse team like the NYXL, but the former would not go down without putting up a fight.

While the series may have gone 3-2 in the Reigns' favor things definitely were not as clean as the players would have like as the series featured with questionable positional mistakes and mechanical mishaps in the form of low-value Graviton Surges, to name a few of the errors that swung a fight one what or another.

In today's video, we take a dive into this highly anticipated Stage 2 rematch and analyze the events the unfolded throughout each map to ultimate cumulate in a Reign victory at the end of the day and weaknesses in the NYXL that had been exposed for all to see.

ATL Reign starting lineup in this series

Babybay Dogman Erster Masaa Pokpo Daco

NYXL starting lineup in this series

Anamo Jjonak Nenne Mano Libero Meko

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Chapters

0:00 Match introduction

0:48 Oasis map analysis

3:11 Oasis rounds two and three

5:44 Hanamura assault map

7:12 Hanamura defense

8:08 Blizzard World map

10:18 Flexibility comparison

11:17 Junkertown analysis

13:36 Lijiang Tower finale

15:30 Match recap and conclusion