Overwatch Events: 2021 Anniversary Skin Rankings.

Overwatch Events: 2021 Anniversary Skin Rankings.

We got 8 new skins with the 2021 Anniversary Event(3 Epics, 5 Legendaries), and I will rank them! I will be ranking them in their category of Epic or Legendary, but I do think that all of them are cool. From top to bottom, I will go from my favorite to least favorite.

Epic Weekly Challenge Skins

Wrecking Ball - 8 Ball(Week 3): I love it so much! I think that it is such a good idea and that it was executed perfectly. I love how he has a little tuxedo and I love the wood grain and black plastic texture. I think that this could have been a legendary skin, I know that I would have bought it.

Echo - Bird of Paradise(Week 2): I think that it is super pretty and works really well with Echo's character. I love how colorful it is, but I wish that they incorporated a little more blue into the skin. I love the flower designs on her legs, chest, and arms.

Ana - Cybernetic(Week 1): I like this skin, no as much as the other skins. The color palette reminds me of Sombra's classic skin. I think the moving pixels inside her cape look awesome. The color palette and how they executed it were well done, but the visor is weird. I wish they just gave her a mask, like her Shrike skin.

Legendary Loot Box Skins

Sombra - Black Cat: She's a catgirl... that's it... that's my reason. But seriously, it's super cute! I love the fact that she has toe beans and cat ears. Fun Fact, the first gold gun I got was Sombra's and I think that it looks really good with the skin.

Junkrat - Junkfood: Yet another extremely colorful skin! It's so great! I think that this is the most detailed skin out of all of these ones. Some of my favorite details are the candy cane peg leg, moving cherry on his left boot, and the donut on his concussion mine.

Baptiste - Funky: I think that this skin looks great. I love how his gun has a texture that reminds me of 1970s cars and that he was a lava lamp in his backpack. I also think that his belt is cool, but I just don't think it is better than Junkfood or Black Cat.

Moira - Venus: I think that it is a cool skin with a good concept and pretty good execution with a lot of detail. With that said, similarly to the Baptiste skin, I just don't think it looks as good as the other skins.

Doomfist - Gladiator: I don't like it that much. I don't know whatever he is wearing on his face, I think it would look better if we could see his face. I just don't like it; Formal is a better skin by a lot.

Anyways, I hope you all are enjoying the event so far, I certainly am. I actually just won enough games to get the Ana skin! I will be posting on my side blog about my favorite book series soon, then about my one series in particular.

overwatch devs have some of the dumbest excuses.

“oh with only 10 players in a game, it will make it easier for the casual player to know what’s going on!!! tank abilities are just too distracting!!!!!!”

yeah as if dps and support don’t have obnoxious eye sore abilities/ults. put a casual player into the middle of a team fight with coalescence, dragon strike, immortality field, half their team purple from nade, the other half getting cooked with dynamite, all while echo shoots bombs in their face and tell me they know exactly what’s going on.

“overwatch being easy to pick up” ship sailed away a long time ago.

Overwatch Events: 2021 Anniversary Funky Baptiste

We got the name of the new Baptiste skin! It's Funky Baptiste and I love it! With that said, I am a little disappointed that his immortality field isn't a disco ball.

Overwatch Anniversary: New Legendary Moira Skin

Venus Moira

Overwatch League: Week 4 - May Melee

So... Washington Justice, San Francisco Shock, and Houston Outlaws lost... but Florida Mayhem won, so that's cool. Go off Mayhem and Dallas, I guess.

This week is the May Melee Tournament, the first tournament of OWL Season 4. Like last week, we don't know which teams will be playing during specific rounds, since there is a winner and loser bracket, so I'll go over the matches we know about and what I think will happen(teams that I think will win are highlighted). I also want to mention that this is all Eastern Standard Time(EST) in the US, think Virginia, New York, New Jersey, the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and a few more states. Just check the OWL website for what time the matches take place in your timezone or convert EST to your timezone.

Quick TLDR: Just go to the Overwatch League website to look at all of this information; the schedule, the info. about the MM-Mei skin, the info. about Rewards, also check out my MM-Mei skin post.

Thursday, May 6th

Shanghai Dragons vs. Florida Mayhem - 10:00 pm.

Friday, May 7th

Dallas Fuel vs. Chengdu Hunters - 11:30 pm.

Shanghai Dragons vs. Florida Mayhem - 12:30 pm(Encore).

Dallas Fuel vs. Chengdu Hunters - 2:00 pm(Encore).

To Be Determined - 9:00 pm.

To Be Determined - 10:30 pm.

Saturday, May 8th

To Be Determined - 12:00 am.

To Be Determined - 12:00 pm(Encore of Friday 9:00 pm).

To Be Determined - 2:00 pm(Encore of Friday 10:30 pm).

To Be Determined - 3:30 pm(Encore of Saturday 12:00 am).

Finale: To Be Determined - 9:00 pm.

Sunday, May 9th

Finale: To Be Determined - 12:30 pm(Encore of Saturday 9:00pm).

Rewards: Like normal, you get 5 Overwatch League tokens per hour of watching OWL. THIS IS IMPORTANT, you can get the White and Grey Overwatch League Ana skins if you watch 4 hours of the May Melee. You also get a fan-designed spray with the Ana skins.

The one thing preventing the Baptiste skin from being perfect is that his Immortality Field isn't a disco ball.

Well specifically it’s a funky Baptiste skin, not necessarily a disco Baptiste skin. Funk and Disco definitely have their overlaps, but Disco is like... more about like... sweeping, danceable clubby beats and tunes, while funk is more grounded in instrumentals, with “crunchy” basslines often being a major grounding feature of songs and songs also featuring more improvisation and variation on their tunes. One thing I’ve noticed is that Disco tends to be closer to Pop while Funk is closer to rock. 

So Baptiste’s skin is more this:

As opposed to this: