again any character can peel, peeling just means coming to the aid of whoever is getting attacked in the backline. and when it comes to that winston, dva and zarya are much better at it, as well as mei, torb, Brig, Lucio, and many others as they have the mobility to quickly go and peel while hog will have to walk all the way over to wherever they are or at least to hook range. and then he’ll have to land a single CD on the most likely extremely agile attacker, as oppose to everyone else who doesn’t have to and have more reliable means to save their ally.
Id rather have a winston or dva come peel for me then hog because they’ll get their faster while also giving me protection while i can rest easy knowing they i don’t have to worry about them missing. so even if peeling was a tank only thing which it isn’t, other tanks are much better at it.
Yes. Because his healing doesn’t matter if he has 3 people still shooting at him. the only tank who doesn’t actually doesn’t need much healing is Hammond because he can grab health packs and isn’t in the fight for very long and no he isn’t out healing other supports unless they’re just really bad.
no he wouldn’t, he’d just be another version of hog, and this whole thread is about he isn’t an actual tank. you compare him to other tanks and he won’t even be close to a real tank.
it’s a niche reason as to why play as him or have him on the team is my point.
and if there’s barely a reason to have him in your match then there’s a barely a reason to play him. and at that point why even create a character that’ll knowingly be played very little you’ll just he wasting your time, and the argument for how it’s good to have an odd one out fell apart when they very quickly removed sym from the support category because she didn’t heal.
good character design makes it so each character has a standard set of rules and boundaries so that all characters are created fairly and with equal amounts of value. if you don’t then you could create extremely problematic designs that are just impossible to work with and keep fun or fair. if you want an example just look at the smash bros roster and see how messy and frustrating a good chunk of the characters are to play as or against.
It’s why all supports heal. all dmg dealers well do dmg and get kills
and all tanks can absorb dmg and protect the team, all but hog. when a character didn’t follow that rule, they got fixed so that they would, look at hammond and sym. hog should get the same treatment