The thing that sticks out is how he just gets more and more frustrated and miserable the more he plays to the point where he just can’t play anymore and gives up, stopping the challenge.
Why? Ana of course. Having to face Ana in every single game just gets to you as a hog player. A game with so many heroes that should have so much variety. This isn’t the case if you play Hog. Every single game you play against Ana. Then you get orisa or mauga on the other team if you do remotely well (or not, they just swap after first death). And Zen in many games and a small number of other heroes like cassidy, soldier, reaper, etc.
For a hog player, OW consists of about 10 heroes because the enemy team will all switch to counter. But the thing that gets most frustrating is constantly being naded and dying to it more than to anything else.
I think it would be good for hog players if you just remove him. I can imagine those players, like me, just getting more and more annoyed and frustrated as they play game after game to the point they feel like hitting the keyboard and just give up for the day early.
Why have a hero that automatically is countered by another hero in 95% of games? And don’t say “Oh DVa and beams” because Zarya isn’t picked even half as often against DVa as Ana is against Hog. It’s virtually every game.
Please Blizz, do hog players that massive favour now and remove him so we can get on with our lives without the burden of playing him against Ana.
As melodramatic as it is, I would genuinely be happy if they took Sidewalk Piglet to the slaughterhouse. I hate seeing him like this. It’s time to put him down…
This honestly highlights the issue with counterpicking. You are relying upon another player to cover your weakness instead of Blizzard making that weakness not as severe.
People want to solve it via throw in more heroes and bank on your allies swapping for you. Its just a dumb 5v5 or 6v6 debate later one. Just stop making such heavy counterpicking abilities and finally gut the strength of certain tools
That’s the reality of 5v5 unfortunately. The more powerful you make a hero in 5v5, the more important it is to counter them. Consider this: you can potentially shut down 100% of a role with a single hero in 5v5. In 6v6, you could either have another tank to eat the cooldown for you, or you can retreat without having to give up all the space you have created or control.
What world are you living in? I have close to a 0% success rate asking supports to switch to kiri. They are either toxic or tell me to switch, which is fair enough if I am not countering the other tank. But since every single game has Ana it just means I would never get to play Hog in a fun game. This is pretty much where we are at just now.
“Some streamer made himself a challenge, failed at it, instead of having a kiri support or even asking for one, got a skill issue trying to get to him with Hog” == Please nerf ana
Great logic, except you do realize you cant one trick your way up high ranks unless you are also packing the skill with it, the streamer wasn’t, so he couldn’t.
Also, you having 0% success in having teamwork from your team seems to indicate a you problem here, if its close to 0 its very likely you.
Although, again, doesnt make it a reason to nerf other things.
“Hey guys, i am setting up a challenge for myself, its starting to be challenging, please nerf the characters i cant handle so i can “challenge myself easier””
What the hell, are you 10?
You can, just need to learn which maps you can and cant, where you can and cant.
If 100% of them are toxic to you, it might be the way you are approaching this no?
Eh, no. And you know it’s not. My rant is that Hog players have a hellish time every time they play, including me, because Ana is picked in over 95% of games to counter if you play Hog, and that makes playing miserable.
The streamer is just a documented example of it happening. He is not that important to the argument that Ana is a problem in the game because she hard counters some tanks too hard, and soft counters others. Her kit has too much in it that is anti-tank, and nade is just stupid in 5v5.