I am chill with meta players, it is when they demand me to conform to their will that I rebel! I just have fun playing off meta. That is just me, mang. It ain’t personal, well it is, it is a personal problem I have.
thats an awesome gif
I get it, you’re rebellious. It’s still super frustrating when I load in and see we have Ball Hog and want to throw my mouse out the window. What in the hells am I supposed to do with that comp?
Positioning is key. Basically you use hard cover and help them confirm kills off slam and hook. Ranged heroes are typically better to play in Hog/Ball. Ana and Ashe are the main ones that can help enable them while staying alive. You sort of just play angles and wait for a pick to be honest. Ball pushes them past shields or slams them above barriers, high burst and voila. It is not as hard to run as some people make it out to be as long as you are self reliant. Soldier is a good choice if you are not comfortable surviving as Ashe/McCree. Even Tracer can help with a psuedo dive if you want to go that route.
I would avoid projectile heroes unless you guys set up a Pharmercy or something like that.
Honestly, I have pretty much a universally bad time playing with Ball Hog.
The problem is, you don’t stop their front line. They just keep rolling foward and I get wiped by their Rein/Zarya who I can’t possibly stop by myself. And then Ball and Hog get easily wiped because their whole team is dead.
I absolutely hate this comp. Even if we win, I’m going to finish with garbage damage and elims and like 2x+ as many deaths as usual.
Oh, yeah, on defense… it struggles quite a bit. Fair enough. I think it is super underrated on offense though. Strong as hell.
It is not ideal, I just think it is inevitable that you run into it with how many dps players are flexing to tank. And real talk? The Hammond I usually get are trash. They are not bopping people past barriers. It forces me to barrier war from corners myself. Obnoxious.
I am trying to be… not that guy. Hog/Ball is super reliant on them to make plays but yet I often see my dance partner slacking and expecting the rest of the team who is getting eviscerated to pick up the slack. Like… no, that is OUR job.
Yeah, bad Wrecking Balls are a large part of it. But Roadhog needs to be good too. And please, please, please do not just charge their backline and forget that you have a backline too.
I’ve had a lot of games with more mobile tanks and I spend the entire game either wondering where the hell our tanks are or dying to the other team’s tanks. It doesn’t matter if you wipe their backline if they wipe your backline.
I feel that is a strength of Hog/Ball, Hammond and Hog have such strong peel potential that they would need to be suicidal to try it. If they come to us, and we pick them, we win the fight.
Yeah, if this comp worked like this, I would like it better.
Usually it goes that I shoot at the Rein and don’t accomplish a lot, the Wrecking Ball dies somewhere I can’t see him or get to, the Roadhog dies next, and then the Zarya kills me. Repeat until I leave the match.
I get it, I really do. I feel it is a composition that requires coordination that is just not present at most ranks. But at the same time, I also believe if people really tried to make it work, they would find relative success. In my experience, too many people give up right as they see that is what is happening.
I won’t say I’ve never won as part of that comp but man, it feels awful as a DPS. You still die a ton and you feel like you’re playing like garbage, and you don’t get damage/elim medals either.
Even when it wins, it is one of the worst feeling comps in the game. Worse than Hog Zarya even.
Planetside 2 has this and it feels so sluggish, if the game wasn’t fantastic otherwise, I wouldn’t play it anymore.
The entire feel of the game would change if you added that.
Hard no from me.
Note: There is movement de-acceleration on the floating characters.
Remember when they banned Ana & Moira at the same time?
90s kids will remember.
Thank you for removing this idiotic system.
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ha, i hated that.
remember when they banned every hitscan aside from ashe and hanzo? good times
EXACTLY!!! They havent nerfed orisa, sig, bap, ashe, brig, or echo rly. They just change the other broken things that son’t rly matter
This post should be a textbook example in game design courses on why you should never, EVER, listen to your own forums when deciding on game balance.
Wow.
Well if that’s how you play supports this one’s on you
Basically.
yes! no more hero pools so i can actually play mcree more than twice a month 
btw I just wanna let you guys know. Please fix the map pool system. Currently its making the game repetetive. You should instead, remove the maps which are not fun/balanced from the playable pool, and keep the ones which are completely fine.
Currently as we all know horizon and Paris are the worst maps in the game and need a rework. why not remove them and let the rest of the maps be playable?
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Some of these are horrible ideas.
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Some of these are the way they are for certain reasons.
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Give them time with the Paris/Horizon reworks. It’s almost like there is a global pandemic going on.
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