After the release on the prt of the new Horizon rework, a lot of people have been wondering about what the new Hammond’s room should mean. It’s quite clear that Hammond escaped and how he did it, so a lot of people are thinking that that’s an hint of hero 28. But if it’s so, what would Hammond be? (I’m speaking of his role)
Since we got healers for the last two heroes, I think that we can exclude that category. Also it would be strange if he was a tank, because we know he’s quite little and, even if he had some sort of mecha-suit, we already have an animal in the tank category (and usually Blizzard puts characters with some sort of relation in different categories. Think of Junkrat and Roadhog, Ana and Phara, Reinhart Brigitte and Torbjorn). So he would be a damage. But we already have something like 15 damage heroes (adding Symmetra to them), and the community doesn’t want another one.
So what do you think about it? Maybe we just got it wrong? Maybe hero 28 isn’t Hammond, and the new details in the map are made just to contribute to the lore, or maybe they want to make a cinematic trailer about it…
It would kinda be cool if he was a tank like winston
Yes, but it is not likely. As I said, we already have a Tank animal.
Honestly, I know that it does not fit into Blizzard’s pattern, but I would like to see hammond play a support hero. I play a lot of supports in my current comp season but like tanks, there just isn’t enough of them. I think that we have too many dps currently and that we should try to implement Hammond into a support or tank role regardless of Blizzard’s patterns
I think that it is more likely for Hammond to be either a tank or a dps, and that’s because it looks like he’s not a good hero. That’s because in his room, you can see that he has a cage, while winston didn’t. So maybe this means that he was kind of “unstable” and dangerous. Maybe he came to the earth an then joined talon. So we may think that that ‘armor’/mecha-suit we see in Moira’s origin story (in the background of that scene of the Talon council) was built from him and he uses it. But of course that’s all speculations.
(I mean this armor here, in the background on the screen:
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I really think the next hero will be a tank, but I don’t know why they would put the only two monkeys in the same role. I honestly don’t think Hammond is Hero 28.
If he’s going to be a small chimp or such, it doesn’t seem too far-fetched that he’ll be using the grappling hook doodled on the pages in his room, the one that has been mocked up with the connected ball and rocket toys on the floor.
The ability to zip around and hang from walls and ceilings would suit the concept of that type of character, and would be something we haven’t seen yet in a hero (except perhaps as a hint in the form of the Retribution assassin, which would also mean that Blizzard gets to re-purpose an ability they’ve already technically added to the game).
To me the room shows that it is either teasing Hammond’s release OR the new short is going to feature what happened on Horizon.
I want more apes heroes!