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Personally I feel yes. He does need a bit of a buff, and this could counter the Shield Meta. 
If they’re going to keep his gun damage bad? Sure.
Getting hooked is a minor inconvenience outside of environment kills.
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His gun damage isn’t bad, its just inconsistent. They need to lower the spread a little bit.
How about no. Like honestly just no.
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What no! Reinhardt mains would quit, and generally speaking anything hititng you through a shield sucks. That’s why we have Storm Arrow instead of Shield Pierce Arrow
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Nooooooo thank you…
stop trying to suggest removing counterplay as a buff idea
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Nah, the way to is fixing the bugs that exists currently and buffing his damage(or dps) a little bit.
hahahahahaha yeah…
no
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He really is totally fine right now. He gets semi-countered by Brigitte, like most characters, but he doesn’t need to hard-counter Reinhardt to make up for that.
They need to lower the spread of every shotgun in the game. 
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Nope. I think my man Jeff said it pretty well when he said (and I’m paraphrasing), “We don’t think it feels very good to stand behind a shield thinking that you are protected and then getting wrecked”. I don’t think it was about hook, but it certainly applies.
Nah. Leave the spread. Reduce the falloff or buff the damage. I’d rather see the falloff reduced.
hell no.
nothing to discuss
How can any one complain about a “shield meta” in where the shields go down in less than half a second? It doesn’t matter if your Orisa or Rien your shield will be melted in just a few peeks. Dva, Junk,Hanzo,Bastion all can do insane dmg to the shield. The only reason shield tanks aren’t useless in this meta is because DPS dmg is so High without that small safety net (brief as it is) it would be even worse.
Never mind a comp that can actually field a bastion and how he’s always destroyed shields.
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Hello! Roadhog enthusiast here!
He should absolutely NOT hook through shields. Orisa and Rein would be so hard countered that you’d never see them around. They have it hard enough with snipers, junkrats, pharahs and tracers all looking to gun them down.
The ONLY way I could see that being acceptable at all is if they nerfed the range on his hook down to something pathetic like 5 meters.
There is good news though! If you are teamed up with a Doomfist or (to a lesser degree) a Brig, they can force the Rein (or Brig) to drop their shield, opening them up for a well placed/timed hook!
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lmao that would be easier than 1 shot hog
I say no.
If you’re going to allow hook to go though shields then Junkrat’s mine and trap should. This is to OP. Also it would be another nail in poor Rein’s coffin.
For Brigitte’s shield, I would be ok with Roadhog having the ability to hook her with her shield up. With Orisa and Rein, no because you would have the ability to easily end a defense setup with just Roadhog which would be broken.
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i really think he does need a couple of buffs and i would love it if he could hook through shields but that would be so OP, it would make him the most OP character in the game