This guy is a prime example of obnoxious 5v5 tank hero design. It’s like he was designed so an ape could play him and get value.
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He’s just easy mode version of doomfist.
Can’t quite cut it playing doom? Eh, just pick hazard.
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Truth. I will always be a hater of this atrocious mutant freak of a hero, quite literally just a better, easier, and safer Doomfist. I do not believe we should ever and I mean EVER find Overwatch in a state where this bonobo proof reject is viable.
Lets stop giving Tanks that can insta kill you 5 second leap cooldowns, lets not give them the most broken tank ability in the game in power block, lets not let him deal damage while being basically immortal in said power block, and lets CERTAINLY not give him a perk that lets him life steal while doing it.
I will always say it, anyone who thinks this hero takes talent or hands is delusional. No Hazard player has actually deserved a kill theyve gotten.
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His entire kit is braindead, he has mobility, burst dmg, displacement and blocking with his rock, massive cc with his ult, and a block that makes him basically impossible to kill all whilst damaging you. He is the epitome of 5v5 braindead tank hero design. Genuinely might be a worse hero design than mauga.
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The main issue with him imo is he does too much burst dmg for his tankiness.
Reduce one of the two in some ways and he’ll feel much fairer.
And the wall does not need to have ‘aim punch’ on it if you touch it.
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Technically, he was. You can’t evolve out of a clade.
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Yep very lowskill, up there with Winston and Sigma. Gross
I thought that was Mauga.
Mauga and Hazard are both horribly designed tanks for playing against. As the 2 newest tanks it’s pretty indicative that the hero design team don’t understand what makes heroes fun. Freja is another good example and so, in fact, is sojourn.
Tanks that can just face-tank damage forever and heroes that can just do constant, seemingly never ending, damage are seriously unfun.
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I get the idea behind raid boss tanks, because it’s 5v5. But man, tanks that are just DPS with a bigger health pool are really annoying. It’s not that they’re hard to elim, but the fact they have a bazillion abilities on short cooldowns.
At least Hazard can dive the enemy supports if he’s good enough. But Mauga is just brrrrrrrrrrr, overdrive, brrrrrrrrr, overrun, brrrrrrr, overdrive rinse and repeat. One Zen and Ana makes him near useless.
People only switch to Mauga if they’re losing, and he’s obnoxious on some maps.
I think Mauga is more fair in that you can just shoot him to solve your problems. And if he’s pocketed by a support, you can just shoot the support. Hazard’s just going to fly away or use one of this two mitigation abilities to buy time so the support can get clear and go back to helping him, or he can easily fly back to peel. Whatever Mauga does, he has to hard commit.
I don’t disagree. It’s just that Hazard is pretty much just a DPS with more HP. His only redeeming point is that he can dive. Other than that, he has a lot of everything and anything along with perks, just like Mauga. Mauga is just obnoxious when he’s used as a clutch in tiny spaces like last point Eichenwalde.
Queen was the last good tank added to the game. Change my mind.
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Queen barely makes an appearance because it’s either Zarya, Ram, or Orisa. Like, you really have to be good to contribute as a tank with JQ. Especially on Shambali attack where there’s always a defender Widow aiming down at you.
Or Ashe.
call me delusional then, i think hazard takes way more skill than most other tanks
if youre upset that he has a mitigation ability, then you might as well say that you dont want tanks to be in the game at all
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him and rammatra are probably his favorite disaster characters
I’m guessing some players (maybe a group of friends since Hazard is a rare sighting and a group all jumped on here to rant about him) grinding the Drive got bodied by one of the few Hazard mains to create this thread.
Easier Doomfist is still harder than 95% of the roster. He’s easy? Then play him on the regular and let me know how well that goes. Why was his pick rate low in metal ranks even before his nerfs? Cause he ain’t easy to play. I know nobody will ever agree but for tanks he’s easily 3-5th place in difficulty with Ball and DF securing 1-2.
He might get damage reduction on his ability, but that’s still taking more damage than DVA DM, Rein shield, Sigma shield/blackhole, etc. Far from “immortal” when he’s taking more damage than many other tanks using their defensive ability. Anyone complaining about spike damage prob also stands in front of Rein’s hammer and eats the swings for free. Hell tho, Rein is faster than Hazard using that. Lol.
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Hazard is such a… interesting character on paper. I wish they did more with him, but yeah, he does feel really really 5v5 format.
We need more characters that are based off of Reinhardt, Zarya, and D.Va.
Grounded. Fun. And Semi-Balanced, with decently scaleable kits that grow with each rank.
Let’s be real, spike damage is a joke, to the point it could be removed and nobody would notice. You need to actively stand in that tiny cone for the entire duration to get a normal hero low.
Also, he suffers from the same thing most shieldless tanks do, CC. Specifically Ana and Zen, either CCs a Hazard, the rest of the team will burst him down in no time.
The wall is…very situational. I don’t think I’ve seen spikes kill anyone in a very long time, maybe a bump off the map.
Block they had to overcompensate on, he doesn’t have much else in protection department. Even that is interruptible with CC, unlike shields and mitigation abilities.
Leap is fun, rest of the kit not so much.
Ult is…I don’t know. I still prefer a shatter, you still can follow up easier.
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He’s fun to play and not even that good now, he was nerfed pretty hard after release when everyone was crying about him and overreacting
nobody wants to play tank already and you guys want to ruin the only fun ones, just gross
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