Discussion about Hanbinston

Spoilers for the recent match.

I decided to actually watch the whole of the Gibraltar map between CR and Falcons from Hanbins perspective because I was curious what his gameplay looked like in its entirety. I dont play too much OW anymore but I peaked GM5 support on console and around Masters on the other roles. So I would say I have decent understanding of the game but im not a professional or anything. I dont play Winston but Ive watched enough OWCS and Spilo breakdowns to have somewhat of an understanding of what good Winston play looks like.

Even though they won this map (incredible comeback btw) and despite the memes, I think most people would agree Hanbin is still not a fantastic Winston.

I noticed two glaring mistakes he makes. The first thing I noticed while watching is he likes to stand in the open and poke with his right click a lot. All Winston players do poke when they can but he seems to take excessive return poke consistently while doing this. You could argue he does this so Fielder can build Nano but sometimes he just wastes his bubble randomly so he can poke for longer which would be counter productive for building Nano. It also means often times he dives at less than full hp which is just not ideal. It also means Fielder has to spend more time healing him instead of setting up nades and supporting Proper and Stalker.

The second big mistake he consistently makes is he seems too focused on peeling Junbin off his backline than committing to his own dives. Sometimes peeling for your supports and killing an overextended enemy tank is the correct play but he does it too much imo and it lets CRs backline do whatever they want. This worked out for Falcons one time and that was their overtime offense on first point and it only really worked because Junbin went for the mega instead of jumping away. (He might've been cooked either way because Shu was on low ground helping Heesang mark cart.) Anyway I think this was a major reason Falcons got rolled so hard on CRs first offense. In the overtime rounds Hanbin was playing a lot more proactively and was having a lot more success.

I went and watched Junbins POV afterwards and you can see the difference in the two points I talked about. Obviously he didnt play perfectly and Falcons pulled off some incredible stuff to get the W. But in terms of fundamental Winston gameplay Junbin looked a lot stronger which is to be expected.

Now having said all that im definitely not a coach or a Winston mastermind so maybe theres reason for this stuff that I dont understand. But if I had to point to two things Hanbin could improve on its those.

I was rooting for Falcons and I was stoked they won. What an incredible map of Overwatch that Gibraltar was.