Every time I use my ultimate, the mines just… don’t do anything. I think it might be my timing or something, but I’d love to get some info dropped on me about it.
EDIT: My problem is they just get destroyed even if they are armed. But thanks for all of the advice!
They dont activate instantly, the enemies get a warning to get out of area. Treat it as less of an instant damage ult and more like a zoning ‘off limits area’.
And dont put the minefield in the path of a payload, the payload will just destroy the mines
It was described in the developer video as a “zoning ultimate”. It’s not meant to secure kills but rather keep people from entering an area with the threat of kills. People aren’t going to die to it unless they stupidly walk backwards into it(certainly not something that’s ever happened to me >.<) or they get crowd controlled into it. Try putting it on the point to limit the space they can work with, forcing them out of the area for 20 seconds or to take the time to destroy the mines.
I don’t have much success with them outside of control maps. They take way too long to activate to be useful to combo into anything so a couple uses I found are:
Try to use it in combo with your abilities. Don’t just roll into the enemy team and use Minefield.
This combo has worked decently enough for me: Grapple into the air, Minefield, slam, shield, shoot.
The thing to keep in mind is his ultimate is only partly meant to actually kill things. Mostly it is a deterrent for opponents to not enter that area. It’s especially effective if the enemy team has more hitscan and less AoE style damage.
well so far i can tell you that most times the hammond ult is very good when there is kind of chaos at the point/payload… then ppl run into the mines very often.
using the ult when there is not much going on is kinda meh… even if you use it on payload and make the payload move a few sec forward…
Honestly, it’s really good at point blank range, especially if you want to kill a healer. If they are stuck in the middle, they die.
Is it cheesy? Probably. But if it works, why not?
Just wanted to underline this one. The mines falling from the air have more time to arm. Then the slam buys them more time.
In one game the enemy hammond played in combo with orisa. Hammond wrecked us quite often with his ultimate and in combination with orisas “mini graviton” abilitie.
the best thing that worked for me is to spin and push them inside right after u ult