I think most people would agree the hog rework was a complete failure at every point of change
Their goals
• make him more team oriented
• make him less about ‘1 shotting’
• make him more able to play around his counters
Firstly he is not team oriented at all still. He provides no value to a team as a teammate to the hog. He is still just a walking wall of fat with no actual team focused ability
Secondly his 1 shot burst potential still exists and actually now feels even worse to die to, especially for tank, because you now also get significantly slowed and crippled by his trap and still end up dying. So we traded an instant kill with no time to react, to instead being hooked in and then taking a chunk of dmg + slowed and still dying with no way to interact in anyway. So the actual interaction of playing into hog hasnt changed, you still get hooked and 99.9% of the time still die but it now feels worse because instead of it being instant death, its 1-2 seconds of slow before inevitable death
Thirdly, the changes made to address his ability to play around his counters just straight up removed the key weaknesses from the hero that gave nuance to playing against him. Allowing him to eat stuns and it not cancel his vape completely just dumbed the hero down insanely and make him so braindead to play. There is no risk to just running at someone because unless they have an ana you can just vape your way back to safety. When he could be sigma rocked or javelin’d out of vape, Hog players used to actually have to think about their positioning and windows of opportunity. Now he can just tank those abilities and play with no thought at all. In doing so it also actually made a hero like ana more necessary into him because by allowing him to tank stuns heroes like sigma became completely unplayable into hog.
All the rework has done is made the hero no less frustrating to play against, no more helpful to play with as a teammate, and removed a large chunk of viable heroes that can be played into him by removing key weaknesses of the hero. So nothing about the experience of playing with or against a hog has changed except now the pool of heroes that counter him is smaller so you are more limited to what you can play as an enemy.
To think sigma used to be a viable pick into him cus you could shield his hook, rock him out of vape and ult, eat his ult if necessary. Now if you play sig into hog your rock cant cancel anything, if you try to eat his ult you get hooked out of your suck and instantly killed. Your shield still gets melted. The tables completely flipped by the devs deciding to remove all fundamental weakness of hog
So they set clear goals for the rework and none of them have been met. He still isnt team oriented at all, he still has a 1 shot, sure he can play more into his counters but all thats done is limit what heroes can actually be played into him.
Complete failure of a rework
