dude, mauga got two little nerfs and look at what he’s become… just absolute garbage now. And I can’t wait for them to just buff him even more now. Like dude the tank is just poorly designed. Can you please just remove him? Make a new tank, make a tank that is a flanker like ball. Or is all you do is watch Disney movies and that’s how you get your ideas? Like the only reason he needed ANY buffs was because of ana, and then he was too powerful so he got the smallest nerfs I’ve ever seen and now he’s just so bad… Like devs just remove him and start over. This time come up with an original idea. Not a Samoan from Moana.
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Yeah, unfortunately a character designed like Maui will never be balanced. There is no in between or middle ground with him. He’s entirely feast or famine. If he’s not running people down, he’s doing absolutely nothing.
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Actually Mauga came before Maui.
Fun fact. Both display common Samoan tropes as displayed by many other media.
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Hate the hero design or not; how can people call a 20% nerf to his dmg, to his healing, and to his overhealth a small nerf? Also taking 50% longer to set someone on fire to start getting the overhealth.
He got massive nerfs. And look at that, became too weak so he is getting buffs again.
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Agreed. Just rework him already. And this time hire professional developers instead of amateurs.
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did he? even as a trope they could still have made him way different.
those nerfs were very small and look at him now, just trash. It was only a 5 bullet increase to setting people on fire, and decreased his bullet damage by 1 like dude those are so small.
Maui as a character appeared in the movie Moana, a movie from 2016, a good 3 years before Mauga was even a thing.
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Ahhh. So I was wrong.
So Maui’s evil twin?
Got it. Thanks for the correction.
how many other hero’s are from Disney movies do you think?
And then he’ll get buffs again, and become broken again. And then get nerfs again, and become garbage again.
Hell even right now in his garbage state, he’s STILL boring and a chore to play against.
This hero is a fundamentally garbage character design. It’s like the design for him just happen to coincidentally get conceived on “Bring your child to work” day at blizzard.
“Hehe big guy never die and melts people hehe!!” like…??? it’s so bad lmfao
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I don’t think it’s great either, and hope at some point he can get some changes where just shooting the tank isn’t always the best thing to do. Maybe if all his survivability wasn’t tied to hitting more shots.
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That’s the thing, I don’t WANT him to have more survivability. More survivability, means the more he can sit there and melt people. Which is why he’s a garbage design.
You have a hero who at the blink of an eye and one patch later can become the biggest menace to the game, being some unkillable tank who will also just walk into your team and melt everyone because he chose to do so. And can melt other tanks, because most tanks in this game are close range… you cannot play close range against mauga because you will explode.
Making close range feast or famine tank heroes is god awful. They can’t get close, because they’ll blow up. But they HAVE to get close or else their damage is negligible. But then you buff them to actually be able to live those encounters, but now he’s just microwaving people and never dying in the process.
Actually, making feast or famine tank heroes… in ANY form, is idiotic. The biggest job for a tank is to survive and tank things. The best thing a tank can do in games is live and be that big body on the field. Why the hell would you make a tank who at any moment can just cease to exist on said field.
It’s bad. He’s boring to play against when he’s weak and when he’s strong.
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He can only be trash or broken. The problem with Mauga is that he has not a clear identity and role into the game.
Rein is the shield, ball/doom the disruptors (the first giving more assist, the second being more assassin), D.va and Winston are the divers, Zarya is the big beam damage and enable/save some other heroes with her bubble, Sigma is a mid range mitigator etc…
But Mauga? What is the purpose of Mauga? The only reason to pick a hero like him is if he’s broken, otherwise I can’t find any.
Mauga is the…heavy hitter of the team?
The tank that just evaporates you if you get close to him.
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we already have a tank for that purpose, junkerqueen and roadhog
They didn’t lean hard enough into the Polynesian angle.
Can the devs just re-add 6v6?
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The problem is that it makes it too OP as we’ve seen. The tank shouldn’t be heavy hitter, unless he does something to reach that level of damage (zarya bubbles, roadhog hitting hook)
Exactly, and JQ has a tunable design: you can buff or nerf her a bit without making her trash or invincible.
Utopia
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Actually 
If they removed the AoE healing + self healing from Cardiac Overdrive and shifted the power to a very high damage negation for 5 seconds for Mauga only… he becomes a better brawler without being overbearing or relying on heals too often.
Orisa 2.0 pretty much, just with a faster rate of fire and bigger hit box.
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