Kim “Yong” Yong-jin is helping the Dallas Fuel catch up to speed. He’s stumbled along the way, as have his players, but the Fuel’s interim coach has led his team to three wins since taking over on Aug. 3 -- that included a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Defiant Saturday afternoon.
Dallas’ win over Toronto was far from clean. The Fuel (9-11) scrapped on all of their map wins and were disjointed in losing on Numbani.
Kim chalked that up to experience. He told The Dallas Morning News via interpreter that his player may not have learned how to adapt mid-match in the same way he was taught.
“I feel like we are talking more about what the enemy play style is and identifying that a little better, the hard part is that this is probably the first time that they are being taught this direction, so it might be difficult to understand,” Kim said. “I personally was taught this way last year and was able to adjust. I feel like most good teams do lead their players this way.”
ggs @TorontoDefiant
— Fuel_Yong (@FuelYong) August 22, 2020
Personally not a very satisfactory game.
However, I appreciate my players who pulled through no matter how rough it was.
Tomorrow's game will be more challenging, but we won't give up. We'll do our best.#BurnBlue
The Fuel have to correct these things to have a chance against a team like the Paris Eternal (18-6) at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Kim felt all great teams do a couple things really well. Teams like Paris, San Francisco (24-3) and Philadelphia (24-2) have strong fundamentals and adapt to their opponents style.
That’s what he’s been implementing into Fuel practices, but he’s only had three weeks so far to help his players absorb information.
“Our team is getting exposed to this type of teaching late, but I can understand that it’s pretty impossible to adjust right away,” Kim said. “That’s also why tomorrow’s match will be harder. We are at a different level from Paris in terms of fundamentals.”
Dallas, while talented enough to topple a team like Toronto (8-14) through an inconsistent performance, still couldn’t adjust in situations like their attack on Numbani.
The Fuel started their offense furiously, capturing the first objective and banking ultimates for the oncoming fights. But their positioning and execution was poor the rest of the way, allowing Toronto to hold them to that one objective.
The issue, at least to damage player Stefan “Onigod” Fiskerstrand, was that the Fuel repeatedly committed the same blunder.
“Our backline kept splitting too much,” Fiskerstrand said. “We knew they were diving every fight but we still set up pretty poorly for it. We didn’t play good enough together as a backline. That was the biggest mistake.”
As if adapting wasn’t already tough for a team that parted ways with its head coach, an assistant coach and best player on Aug. 3, the Fuel have to prepare their strategies with caution.
Fiskerstand is playing from Norway, hindering his connection to the Overwatch League servers during matches. He said he can ping anywhere from 150 to 200 milliseconds depending on which coast the Fuel are playing on.
That makes it more difficult for Fiskerstrand to time his abilities or take one-on-one duels with the opponent’s damage players.
Kim has to take that into account when strategizing. OWL casters Andrew Rush and Jake Lyon discussed how the current meta -- focusing on Sombra and Ashe play -- was solid for the Fuel.
Kim didn’t think this was a comfort meta for Dallas, partially because of Onigod’s ping dilemma.
“I am very aware of that and that’s it’s difficult for Onigod at the moment, so I try to focus on other things,” Kim said. “Besides mechanics and aiming, I feel like positioning is irrelevant to ping, so I try to focus on positioning.”
Kim “DoHa” Dongha’s Sombra play for the Fuel could be some of the best in the world, as he as regarded as one of the strongest players on the hero. But the Fuel have struggled to follow up his EMPs.
That’s something they have to adapt to on the fly as well.
“We have to set up better for Doha’s calls,” Fiskerstrand said. “He has to give us a heads up and we have to move closer to him because right now we don’t have Lucio. We can’t set up as fast with the Lucio, so we just have to be ready for the EMP.”
Fiskerstrand added that there can’t be any mishaps like that against Paris in order to have a chance. That’s been the case all year for the Fuel. They’ve required flawless play to compete with the best.
Kim is doing what he can to get them closer to that objective, but even he has to adapt because of the cards he was dealt.
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