I’ve never had a problem with Hammond. Even just high DPS characters melt him easily due to his huge hitbox.
Maybe I’m not facing “pro” Hammonds, but Hanzo’s storm arrow melts him easily.
And don’t forget, Hammond doesn’t have anything to defend himself except those shields which he can use only once per encounter (unless you are for some reason prolonging an encounter) while D.va could eat any incoming damage.
Hammond also needs to have very good tracking and accuracy, control of his cooldowns, and know how to play around the vast amount of counters, most of which are very popular heroes.
Like. A Hammond diving the backline is so easily shut down by a sleep, or shredded with discord, these two being very popular picks across ladder and you have one or both almost every game
Wrecking Ball has a 6% pickrate in Plat and a 7% pickrate in GM among tanks.
If anything, he’s underpowered.
If you’re letting Ball consistently land 6-man slams something is very, very wrong.
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So instead of grouping up you stay apart and get picked apart by snipers/dive? Because that’s what happens. Ever get on point to hold? His AOE is 8m around in a circle. Lucio’s if you have one is 12m. Pretty sure Capture point in 2cp is close to 15m he drops on point you’re “lucky” to not get hit. That’s excluding payload’s tiny AOE. But please by all means tell me more.
Ball doesn’t delete ultimate abilities and various forms of CC that can be used to counter him, unlike Dva.
Numbers say you’re amazingly wrong.
You’ve had bad experiences with a few good Hammond players dunking on you and either you/your team were totally unable to handle or unwilling to swap to handle them.
Move on, the character is not over tuned at all.
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I feel like you overestimate his abilities just a smidge
Hammond isn’t bad or anything, but his gameplay is nowhere near as free as you make it out to be just because of how many characters can ruin him with the slightest touch
Actually just tap him with mei’s gun and he’ll die in seconds lol.