I can’t even with this character anymore. Again and again it’s pointed out how overpowered this hero is, and now there’re no changes for him, much less nerfs.
This is about much more than just his hook one-shot combo. I’ll break this down point by point.
Here are the pros of playing Roadhog:
The most obvious thing, his hook.
Massive hitbox, stupidly easy to hit.
Travels very fast.
Stuns the target.
Pulls the target badly out of position, perhaps even dumping them off the map.
Practically guarantees an almost instantaneous kill on anything with 250HP or less.
Instant kill on an 8 second cooldown.
His gun. This is where most of his damage comes from. Even without the hook, he can deal massive damage and easily instant kill 250HP heroes. He can two-shot Zarya, or even ANOTHER 600HP ROADHOG. AT TWO DIFFERENT RANGES. Five shots without reloading is more than generous for such a powerful weapon.
600 HP.
Wait, no. He can heal 300 HP with two seconds of downtime. So he has 900 EHP.
But wait, there’s more! He only takes half damage while healing. So he has over 900 EHP, up to 1,200 if he’s taking damage the entire time. A ridiculous amount of health for something with the amount of damage he can do.
Let’s talk about his ultimate. Obscene amounts of damage that will melt almost any shield in seconds.
If he’s not dumping damage into a shield, he’s pushing people off the map with the insane amount of knockback. Or he’s pushing them into a corner leaving them more helpless than a Doomfist uppercut.
All of this is stupidly easy to do.
Now let’s look at the cons of playing Roadhog.
He’s fat. Seriously, people actually think this justifies everything above.
He feeds ult charge. OH WAIT, no he doesn’t! They removed this aspect of this character. The one real downside of playing him, gone. Well done!
But no, let’s give him nothing but buffs for OVER A YEAR. He’s not stupidly overpowered at all!
He was hot garbage in pretty much all ranks for multiple years, barring Giga Hog (where they buffed him with nerfs, then reverted the buffs, leaving just the nerfs behind, making him even worse.)
Hog is fine atm. His ONLY buffs are less ult charge (needed) and slightly more damage on hit (which pretty much just compensates for his giga-hog nerfs.)
Yeah we NEEDED to charge up our ults to use on him if we actually want to do damage to him thanks to his ridiculous damage reduction buff. Not that it matters considering he can either instantly kill you if you attempt it or babymode his way out of something like a Dva nuke or Junkrat tire without a scratch on him. Letting him walk and heal would have been more than enough, but Blizzard with their infinite wisdom decided to permanently ruin modes like CTF and Deathmatch by adding that 50% while not adding any new drawbacks in return. The game balance has never recovered from that change or his damage buffs.
I’d say it’s very rare you’d see a hook flying every 8 seconds, even less so actually hitting something, you just got caught out of position. I’d say about every 25-30 seconds you see him trying
He’s easy to face, especially if you have an Ana on your team, he’s going to regret picking Hog really fast.
this whole post just reeks of you getting outplayed by a Roadhog in a recent game, seriously, complaining about his ultimate? oh lord.
The community is blinded by the most abused tank for now a long time, it almost seems like they either are hog users or don’t play the game, or are clouded by being so high in their ranks, I seriously don’t care. But I’m with you on this one, he is almost in every match. You cannot say the same advantages for any other tank besides DVa or sigma, but I’d say hog takes the cake. Ez as hell to use (not fun at all), punishes any hero in the game, has the better survivability tool, has the best gun and also a long hook. Only downside as you mentioned is his size and you forgot his movement speed, but that’s for half of the roster as well.
Bumping this thread, now so many people have jumped on board. I’ve been saying this crap for years, and suddenly, magically, other people now agree.
Except now Hog has seen even more buffs since this thread was written, with the launch of OW2. And now even streamers, content creators, and OWL talent have jumped on board.
I totally revived this thread just to say, I told you so.
I agree… hitting with the hook is no-skill garbage… the biggest hitbox ever… atleast they should make it somewhat semi hard to hit with… right now the hitbox is huge