đ OWCS Fantasy Korea Week 2 preview
Welcome back to the OWTV Fantasy preview! We hope you scored well in your first week. If not, we hope this preview helps you get back on track!
If you havenât read our Week 1 preview, hereâs a quick reminder of our goal with these weekly previews: to offer thought-provoking options for your team, while keeping you up to date with any major developments that might impact OWCS Fantasy. We do this by breaking down the fixtures, highlighting players we think offer strong value, and sharing any other strategies we come up with. Weâll also play along each week with our own team, Fantasy Watchpoint, and explain the reasoning behind the roster we lock in.
A new statistic
This week, weâre introducing a new statistic we will refer to often in this and future articles: PCM.
PCM stands for âPoints/Cost/Matchesâ; this lets us quantify how much value a player provides relative to their cost. It comes up quite often in our suggestions, so we wanted to make it easier to reference.
Fixture review
If youâre looking to review the fixtures yourself, weâve included a full Fixture Difficulty Rating (FDR) to help you visualise them and make your own decisions. Weâve pre-colored them according to our own opinions:
- Green indicates what we think should be a favoured match
- Yellow indicates a matchup that could go either way
- Red indicates little upset potential
ZETA DIVISION have two very easy fixtures this week and are likely to win both cleanly. This makes them safe picks, but potentially caps their fantasy ceiling with likely 3-0 results.
Crazy Raccoon also have two easy fixtures this week, making them not ideal for fantasy scoring. Weeks 3 and 4 are much better windows to sign their players, so they can be avoided for now unless you already have them.
Team Falcons are another forward-looking play. Week 4 is the best time to invest in their assets, but you can hold them if you already own them or take a calculated risk this week with their current fixtures.
T1 are one of the more interesting teams to target this week. Despite losing to RĂDE ONSIDE GAMING, they showed strong form in a close series, and could bounce back with high-scoring matches if they manage to compete with Team Falcons.
RĂDE ONSIDE GAMING remain one of the most reliable teams to invest in. Any week is a good time to own their players, and ZAN Esports in particular has exceeded expectations so far. With a strong schedule and consistent performances, their assets look like solid set-and-forget options.
Poker Face have a poor run of fixtures in both Week 2 and Week 3. Holding assets is fine, but thereâs little reason to buy into them right now.
Cheeseburger and New Era face a difficult schedule again and are likely to produce similar results to last week.
Fantasy metawatch
The meta in Korea is already taking shape, and, more importantly, we now have a clearer idea of which roles and players are actually delivering Fantasy value.
The tank meta mostly revolves around D.Va and Zarya. Players like Hanbin, who had the highest PCM at 1.9 and MAX at 1.58, benefit from higher damage and survivability, which translates directly into better scoring. Orisa is seeing play through Bernar (1.17 PCM) and SeungAn (0.04 PCM). Main tanks such as Junbin (-0.04 PCM), Donghak, and Someone (who didnât play a single map this week) are barely seeing play at all in this meta, so theyâre safer options to avoid for fantasy.
DPS compositions in Korea are more varied than expected, but a few trends are clear. Weâre seeing a mix of:
- Symmetra/Vendetta (hitscan players playing the Symmetra)
- Symmetra hitscan (Proper (1.27 PCM) and Stalk3r (1.14 PCM) take on the hitscan role)
- Classic hitscan + flex DPS
- Occasional double flex setups (on Symmetra ban)
One key takeaway is that Emre has not taken over the meta in Korea the way it has in NA/EMEA. Instead, Vendetta players are proving to be stronger fantasy points earners.
Supports are quietly one of the most reliable sources of fantasy points right now. Even in losses, both flex supports and main supports are putting up consistent numbers, making them a safe role to invest in. This gives managers two clear approaches: go cheap for a stable baseline, such as KIVIS (1.80 PCM), CARU (1.06 PCM), or Irony (1.51 PCM), or invest more heavily for consistent returns, such as Viol2t (1.50 PCM), Shu (1.37 PCM), Chiyo (1.46 PCM). One important nuance is that Lucio players can outperform flex supports on control maps. If a team is expected to lose 3-0, a main support may actually be the better pick, as they can score well on the opening map and still hold value despite fewer total maps played.
Cost-effective players
Part of balancing your fantasy roster is finding strong budget options to free up resources elsewhere. This week, ZAN Esports emerge as the team with the most valuable cheap options, with a player from each role offering strong value at their price point.
Tank: HEISER, ZAN Esports (cost: 19, PCM: 1.36)
While Attack still stands out as the must-have option, HEISER is a less expensive Attack and a more expensive Gur3um, offering strong value with better fixtures. If youâre looking for upside or a differential in the tank slot, heâs a solid consideration.
DPS: A1IEN, ZAN Esports (cost: 20, PCM: 1.34)
With Poker Face effectively off the table due to their difficult schedule this week, A1IEN emerges as the non-premium DPS option available. He offers strong value at his price point and stands out as a reliable pick among DPS players.
Support: KIVIS, ZAN Esports(cost: 20, PCM: 1.80)
KIVIS is a must-have. Even after his price increase to 20, he offers exceptional value and should be prioritised over alternatives like Irony and Bliss.
Honourable mention: CARU, Poker Face (cost: 16, PCM: 1.06)
Unlike the other roles, none of the supports ended Week 1 with negative points, even after already facing teams like Cheeseburger and New Era. At just 16 cost, CARU stands out as one of the better budget support options available. Any points he scores from here are essentially a bonus, and his low price frees up budget that can be invested elsewhere in your roster.
OWTV Fantasy staff team
- Attack - Tank (cost:20, PCM: 1.64)
- knife - DPS (cost: 22, PCM: 1.61)
- M1nut2 - DPS (cost:17, PCM: 1.09)
- Shu - Support (cost: 23, PCM: 1.37)
- KIVIS - Support (cost: 20, PCM: 1.80)
Attack remains our set-and-forget tank option after a strong Week 1, and we donât expect to move off him unless we decide to make an aggressive pivot later in the stage.
As predicted, ZETA DIVISION assets performed well last week, so weâre sticking with a ZETA double-up again, this time bringing in knife instead of Proper. Even in hindsight, we still believe Week 1 was the correct time to own Proper, and the plan was always to move to knife in Week 2 due to his more appealing price.
We will also keep Shu on the team, as transferring him out would require reinvesting the budget elsewhere and likely forcing a costly points hit after already upgrading Faith into KIVIS.
KIVIS looks like a must-have going forward, and we were able to make both transfers before price changes, increasing Fantasy Watchpointâs total team value by 3. While Fantasy isnât about chasing price rises, building team value when it aligns with your plan can be very beneficial heading into the playoffs.
Finally, weâre hoping M1nut2 can simply hold steady and avoid a negative week given his tougher fixtures.
Last week, we challenged you to beat us, and plenty of you did. We finished Week 1 in 597th place with 232 points on the Korea leaderboard, so congratulations to everyone who finished above us. Weâll keep competing alongside you under the name Fantasy Watchpoint, and weâll see who comes out on top in Week 2.