if he only gets kills when you’re out of position then you literally cannot play control or be on the payload or pushing the robot or be in the fight ever at any point
he’s in every game for a reason and it isn’t because people are all of a sudden playing wrong
the game was more fun when he was nerfed to the ground
I, ThiccBuddha, am apparently well known to hold the opinion that an ability that pulls someone out of position exclusively punishes bad positioning. This was not my opinion before, but since a few people who lack reading comprehension believe that is my entire premise, I am going to need argue that hook only punishes bad positioning. If the ability lands on you, clearly your positioning needed work.
In all seriousness, I preferred Sidewalk Piglet as well. But what can you do? If they want him easy enough for Sombra mains to play, they ain’t nothing we can do about it.
So what should i say about kiriko and bap when they are behind magically survive despite not being punished thanks to immortallity field or and suzu tp
1 more reason, when I gotta play a hog mirror the game kinda just leave both tanks’ hands and goes into the anas’. That’s absolutely lacking in both competitive integrity nor fun.
No hero should be nerfed to the ground and since you want Roadhog to be trash again after he already was that for 10 months now you deserve all the Hooks you receive.
Yeah, when I’m chilling during a lunch break or when I just want to check what’s going on.
I have a lot of fun playing this game again now, I always liked it until Roadhog got trashed.
During the 10 months break I learned a new hobby which is very fulfilling so I don’t mind what the Devs are doing next to him, I have other things to do.
What I find strange tho is people who wish certain Heroes to be trash, which basically means they want other people to not have fun and that kinda says a lot about their character.
I do not care if Sombra mains have fun (I say that as someone who plays her). Abusing that hero says more about their character than my desire for them to leave me alone.
Maybe it’s cause he was unplayable forever, or because every role needs an individualized carry hero when your team completely refuse to work with you.
This should never, ever be a reason to nerf a hero into the ground.
Also… he does punish bad positioning. He has zero team utility. He has limited range. He has no shield. He needs something, and his something is threat and lethality up close. They robbed him of that and for some reason decided to rework him without giving him any team utility, protection/shielding, or range.
If you want to be mad at anyone, be mad at the rework team. I suggested things like Breather AOE full team damage reduction or multi-hook/root on land, and they went and did this.
All tanks require lethality up close to force others to respect their space-making ability (or like Ball/Rein to physically move enemies out of the way to make space), and Hog’s lethality is like it is cause he has no mobility, nothing for the team, and has always had to play into Anti.
So like what if it’s your main or most played hero? You play another game or find another main? That’s not fair if you have hundreds or thousands of hours invested into them.
It’s the balance team’s job to ensure all heroes are fair and playable.
the ideal solution would be never to buff them to the extreme in the first place. roadhog’s rework was purely a buff since it just reinforces every part of his kit with very little compensation nerf, if any
its certainly not sudden, given the amount of positioonly n punishers in the game is
hanzo widow genji tracer sombra maybe ball
out of these only
shimmada bros are doing well along with nusombra.
Watch these vod reviews of spilo he does for every dps hero one low elo and one high elo, watch how many times people in masters are actually out of position and he mentions them.
Its pretty common.
I have rarely died to hog even when he had one shot cause i knew how to break them and playing tracer or hanzo also helped, but when i did die to him i never thought he cheesed, i knew i was the one who made a mistake.
The only thing i ever found frustrating of season 2 hog before nerfs was he had too much sustain to kill without grandma, so when he made a mistake it was tough to punish him.
instead of fixing that destroyed and rebuilt him in the same image.
Roadhog is the monster he is because they’ve refused to nerf Ana for nearly 7 years.
If they fixed Anti forever ago, Hog could’ve been something different. They don’t, so Hog is what he is.
Because he was trash and nearly unplayable due to them dumpstering him for most of OW2. He frankly had nowhere to go but up. A similar thing happened with Sombra but frankly the only difference is she’s not a tank and there are 2 DPS in 5v5.
You have more faith in Blizzard than I ever did. I genuinely believed he was going to be nerfed again because Hog players were still wrecking with his troll version. I thought they were going to completely eradicate the combo so that even skilled players were not able to one shot.
I am a Negative Nancy at heart, but I did not even feel this prediction was super out of line and in hindsight, it is more surprising to me that the rework was more like a revert with flavor.