Finally hit Top500 with one-tricking Roadhog :D

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Heyho party people,

It already happened 2 weeks ago and I didn’t really expect to climb that high, but I finally did it, I hit TOP500 with Roadhog :open_mouth:

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When I started this season, I tried to play another hero because a lot of negative people false reported me, I tried to play Zarya and it was ok but I did not so well I could climb in GM+.

I played more and more games with Roadhog and I struggled really hard, I was hovering between 3700-3900 most of the time, actually I just wanted to hit GM. When I was 1 win away from my goal I dropped more than 300SR back to 3600 with a 46% winrate, I had no idea what was going on.

I was asking myself “Did I suddenly become worse?” but I climbed back up again, the matchmaking is just garbage.

I climbed higher and higher, when I hit GM after ~35 hours of playtime, I was happy and I played more “relaxed”, I kept climbing and somehow hit Top500 with a 55% winrate.

I dropped down again, at the moment I have 52% winrate and I’m low GM but I don’t care, I’m quite happy with that. I mean it’s not bad for a 30 years old guy I think.

I’m really happy I could reach that dream, I mean it wasn’t really a dream because I was never like “I have to hit Top500! That’s my goal!” I was more like “How cool would it be to hit Top500 one day?”. My real goal was GM and I think that’s where I belong at the moment and I’m fine with that :smiley:

So yeah thanks for reading guys and girls and good luck on your journey and your goals, sometimes big things happen to you when you don’t really expect them.

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wonder when youll get banned again

id say give it a week or 2 at most

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Never, goats is over :wink:

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kudo’s sir Kudos. XD

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i still get banned for 1 tricking junkrat in gm on my alt, unlucky

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Congrats one-trick roadhog. I want to play roadhog i miss most of his hooks and i get confused when to primary fire and when to sec fire.

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Roadhog is such a frigging terror nowdays. When I see a roadhog with a gold gun I groan. They’re absolutely brutal in so many situations, the right click can potentially erase you from existence even from a distance and hook of course is a death sentence. Oh, and you always have to kill hog twice before he actually dies - first time he just backs out thanks to his honeypot.

I guess what I want to say is gratz, and you definitely chose a good hero.

(his ult is still poop tho)

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Imgur

Nice

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A Roadhog in T500? Time to nerf again.

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can u stream? so that noobs like me can learn to better play hog?

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I am genuinely impressed :stuck_out_tongue:

As somebody who has a ton of hog hours, and crusaded on the forums for Hog buffs, until I got almost exactly what I asked for :slight_smile:

So big question, how do you deal with the lack of ult blocking, and the ult charge feeding issue?

Also how to deal with Brig+Zarya blocking all of your hooks?

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Gasps in amazement

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Thank you for all your kind words :slight_smile:

I’m not planning to stream any time soon/at all, maybe I’ll upload some gameplay footage to my yt channel later.
I can give you some tips by replying to GreyFalcons question.

I don’t really deal with Zarya bubbles, there’s no way around. I usually try to pull her into my team, many Zaryas don’t play very careful and get hooked by me.

For example when the match starts, Zarya and Reinhardt often are very close to the attacking team to firestrike and to gain charge % - when I see the Zarya is in hook range I hook her right before her bubble is going down, we kill her and rush the point.

The ult feeding is a big problem, often there’s not much you can do - you are an ult battery, it’s a fact. I try to position myself good. When I can’t hook because CD and can’t deal important damage for example for a kill, I simply hide instead of running around on the open field and wait for a good opportunity.

I think I get the most value from important picks. I don’t just hook anyone, I try to hook important targets. There’s a Hammond in front of me, easy hook, but I wouldn’t be able to kill him. I simply ignore him let him shoot me, keep walking and try to get a hook on the Ana - kill her and their main heal is gone.

When the match starts, most of the time the first thing I do is to flank the enemy backline to get an early pick on a squishy, preferably a healer. Even if I die, their healer is gone and we can push.

When I can’t flank I stick with my team and try to get a nice pick and if that doesn’t work either, well that’s when we lose :slight_smile:

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Amazing and inspirational to stumble across. They always say how the older you get the worse your reaction times are getting and such, you’re working hard and reducing that decline, that’s pretty cool (I’m 32, and I’ve definitely noticed it for myself).

Just awesome to hear you stuck with a character and got there.

What are some of your thoughts about Hog though?

  • Do you think the term Ult Battery goes both ways? (Your healer and how much Breather recharges)
  • What way do you think he’s best suited to be played: an in your face bruiser or with the team enforcer?
  • What do you think the best use of his ult is?
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Nice! I always love having a good Hog on my team. They can be really oppressive if you work around them.

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Congratulations. Well deserved it seems :+1:

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:slight_smile: Well I’m playing FPS since I was a little child and according to online reaction tests I still have the reaction time of young people (~180-200ms if I remember right).

To a certain degree it goes both ways, but I usually try to heal myself first, except for when the fight is over and we have a few seconds to relax and our healer needs ult charge I let him heal me instead of breather - but my first priority is to NOT feed enemy ult, I will never let me shoot just for my or my healers ult charge.

It really depends on the map and situation, but mostly I play him as a Flanker and Team Enforcer. When you play too aggressive you can get melted in 1 second, not joking.

His ult is pretty bad and often a death sentence if you’re not careful. Usually I ult to secure 1-2 kills or to try to save my team while being in Graviton - sometimes I use my ult to push the enemies away to capture the point.

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Steam roll the rivals with yo big belly! Proud of ya, hog can be a hard one to hit top ranks with.

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Very impressive! You mentioned that you dropped 300SR at one point. That must have been brutal psychologically. How do you handle a string of losses? Eg, do you take a break after a few consecutive losses or do you keep playing? Thanks.

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Nice. Do you think I get to masters as Moira? Because I got to 3.4 then I dropped 300.