lol impossible to kill when using his ult? i have seen pro overwatch players hiding while using their old(it was on hollywood) praying no one would see them because if someone does they die, during their ult, whole hog is garbage
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Sorry, I wrote ult by accident. I meant his Take a Breather ability.
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oh all good i would agree with you there, well i have been killed while using take a breather but that is only during those overtime moments where i am trying to buy time and i got 6 people targeting me, the sad thing for me is i am a good hog but i was silver 2 days ago maining hog so i switched to brigitte(who i never used) and got to plat and i am a good hog but i am an average brigitte
Itâs called off-tank. He doesnât need to become a main tank. His kit would never allow that.
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And yet there are 6-7 other heroes that can perform one shots in even less time.
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and they are usually much safer than hog to perform tbh
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Gonna have to stop you there.
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This is the part that all the proponents for âhog is perfectâ now seem to forget. His spread is inconsistent, so sometimes you can land the same combo on the same target HP and one time it gets the kill the other they get awayâŚassuming their teammate doesnât, bubble/armor/shield them
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they always get bubbled or armoured
I mean, thatâs fair. I never whined about Roadhog anyway. His original hook was broken, but after it was mostly fixed, I had no issue. He punished for bad positioning, thatâs fair.
I hope you are speaking in a generalized sense with your last statement. Iâm certainly not a âlow tier skillâ player whoâs whining.
I will say though, that he never truly did serve as a tank despite being in a tank category. A part from being a large bullet-sponge.
Whack a lingering effect to the heal so if he gets stunned it just doesnât stop everything completely
Let him regen 100 HP if he gets a stunned keeping the 300 max heal, so if you get stunned at 100 HP gained it will be 200 HP total and if you get stunned at 250 it will cap at 300
Ajust after that if need be but stun just wreck him way too hard
Yes, but as someone with a DVA icon yourself, you know that an off-tank can serve many roles. They arenât âtanks that just do damageâ. Him being labeled an âoff-tankâ doesnât necessarily justify that he doesnât tank at all, apart from being able to take massive damage when being shot.
DVA is an off-tank and she is quite capable of many different things. She defeats Roadhog in comparison because of her overall utility she offers a team. Roadhog is a giant target that doesnât protect anyone. His kit is entirely self-serving. If it were not for is large HP, heâs basically a DPS.
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I think Hog is fine atm, but Iâd prefer the season 1 version (the most fun version imo). Hook 2.0 made getting kills too easy, 3.0 was fine but they decided to nerf his gun, post gun nerf Hog is just a walking wall of fat that eventually kills you.
Either way, I donât think Hog has ever been overpowered statistically. Only time he had a higher than 6% pick-rate was in the tank meta, which is only because he was one of the off-tanks. So itâs not like reverting him would break the game lol.
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Someone who is a Roadhogmain since day one knows what he is and was. Oldhog had to be self-sufficient because his role was to protect the backline without distracting his own healers. Thatâs why he had no mobility skills, every ability slowed him down and a self heal, but flanking Hog was efficient too sometimes, thatâs why they nerfed him, because it is so hard for some people to spot the fattest character in the game. He was a good off-tank before the nerf and when you want him to actually protect the team, you should want the revert too.
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lol roadhog has always been such a sneaky character
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Thatâs a very well developed and thoughtful argument.
No. Donât revert.
His hook is fine as it is. The problem is the RNG nature of shotgun-like pellet weapons.
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While Iâm more or less fine with where Hogs hook is right now, and would rather have his damage buffed back again, I thought of some logic regarding the hook.
If a spiked hook wrapped around your body, which is attached to a bendable chain string, wouldnât it make more sense if hogs hook behaved like hook 1.0? If a person got hooked and walked behind a wall, I feel like it shouldnât invalidate it
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i think if they buffed his damage to make up for the fact that they are too lazy to fix his bugs then i wouldnt complain
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âPoorly balancedâ I couldnât have said it better myself.
i dont think he is terrible to begin with.
remember that he is now much tankier than before?