I can’t wait for him to be nerfed into oblivion and someone needs to be fired.
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its crazy how everyone wanted him to be a hero for the longest time. also it seems like when he was first released everyone was like finally magua
everything turned upside down i guess heh. maybe a tank bastion was a bad idea tho, shoulda had a slower fire rate?
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You must not have been here during mercy 2.0. Where she was a must pick for 11 months. Or brig launch, changing the entire meta and forcing a new one. Or sigma, giving us double barrier for like a year. Be happy mauga was only an issue for a few weeks.
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Yeah.
Hopefully they actually tone down Roadhog a smidge, too, since they were banking on Mauga keeping him in check.
Little did they know, Mauga would hold the game by the nuts with a death grip. 
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Those heroes were overpowered, sure, but I’d argue that Mauga is worse designed hero than any of those. They’re nerfing him to be weak, but that’s not going to fix his awful design.
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It was the opposite for me. I never wanted him until… I fell in love. He is so masculine. 
Every character that I love gets nerfed within a few weeks. If I hate playing against the character, it gets buffed into relevancy. So unlucky.
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Nah, but makes me wonder who was skilless enough to not do well on Mauga during playtesting to think he was weak? Cuz I was dominating fools with Playtest Mauga.
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If I ever see a Maui crossover skin somehow, I am definitely buying it like how I did when Saitama Doomfist dropped.
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I fear now every new tank will be a ticking time bomb.
Brig was eventually fixed but her initial design was centered around making dive heroes unplayable with her mere existence,that was so much worse.
Life Weaver is worse but god Mauga is trying to beat him.
i remember when hero releases use to have massive hype AND they still delivered a fun, engaging hero after all the buildup
I can only talk for OW2, but I fully agree in that scope. Mauga is awful hero design. The fact he is a tank bastion and can have an actual bastion on his team is a bit insane and must have come up during testing, surely.
I don’t really understand how they could have play-tested him and not realised he forces Ana and Kiriko every game too. Such bad design.
I am most looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet during games. The noise he generates is exhausting.
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The worst thing would probably be 5v5 and speaking of which it seems like mauga was designed for 6v6 anyway
Launch brig and sigma were a thing, so nah not really.
Brig was the worst addition to the game, hero wise, but Mauga can be a contender for the top five… sure.
Brig ruined the game for dive heroes. Mauga ruins it for everyone.
That’s very subjective
I don’t think mauga is a great addition, and needs some big changes. But both ram and jq were good tanks imo. Came out a bit weak, and got buffs, but their core design is good.
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Naw, brig also ruined it for most heroes, sure she affected dive the most. But everyone had to deal with how tanky she was, a burst 150 heal they would overheat into armor. An ult that gave ppl 150 armor that only went away through taking dmg. And anyone who needed to be near point, got to be hit with the 1s stun combo doing 155 dmg and the stun was a 5s cd. She made tanks hate their lives too, stunning through barriers.