Because to be honest i cant name one . Flankers die to his storm arrows, long range ones die to his normal arrows…mid range ones die to both his type of arrows…
Genji craps on Hanzo.
Also provided I don’t take the duel from outside of my effective range I generally win the duel more than I lose on McCree. It is not like I play against Wraxu, I’ll say that now, mostly Diamond/Master players, maybe higher in FFA. But if they miss an arrow it’s generally over for them, since he is slow and easy to hit.
Also Widow, with the caveat that the Widow is good. An average Hanzo wins vs an average Widow.
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Genji, Widow, Hanzo, a good Sombra, more than you would think but forum hanzo has no counters
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A skilled Genji always gives me a hard time on Hanzo.
Believe it or not, a DPS Moira can really piss all over Hanzo. Her hitbox is so tiny, Hanzo has such a hard time hitting her, let alone headshotting her, so he misses or gets one body shot and then dies to her.
Shooting Pharah out of the sky with Hanzos arrows is really hard. So if she decides to hunt him down, he’s screwed most of the time.
Tracer is tough, because she’s not only hard to hit, but if you don’t headshot her, she just Blinks, gets a health pack, and comes back to harass you.
Basically, anything with a tiny hitbox that is hard to hit can counter Hanzo. It’s not as easy as you think to land reliable shots with Hanzo. The forum thinks it is, but they’re idiots.
One question though, why does it have to be DPS? Because Roadhog, D.Va, Winston, and Zenyatta can all make Hanzos life hard. Winston and D.Va especially.
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Your character means nothing. Hanzo is more or less about learning when to engage him and avoid dying. Your kinda at their mercy of how skilled are they but the more mobility with range you have the better off you are.
Recently Ashe has done me good vs hanzo. Pretty fair fight for me and it’s my best counter ATM. Im not a widowmaker player and alot of my roster is kinda weak to hanzo besides her.
If you have to preface a counter with “a good”, then it isn’t a counter.
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There isn’t a counter. And that’s how it should be. Like, what’s counters S76? Well nothing really you just play better. There’s not a special hero that shuts him down and only him.
Counters didn’t use to be such a big thing. A couple years ago there was only a few counters in the game and that was to the neice hero’s like Sym and Trob. Until Tracer was so dominate the community decided she needed a hard counter.
And this has now set up down a path believing every hero needs a direct counter hero.
And this has now set us down a path of, thinking there’s too many hard counters. And actually we should be counter playing, not counter picking. Much like Segull talks about in his famous state of OW video.
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Sometimes they mean anyone that doesn’t suck at that hero. Of course a crappy anything shouldn’t counter anyone.
Just because it’s a counter, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have to be decent at that hero to effectively counter.
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I was going to reply with “Doomfist” with your 76 question, but then I remembered that we’re in 1.31. Lul.
I have a pretty easy time taking care of Hanzo with Mei.
I can out snipe him if I get the drop on him, Freeze him fairly fast so he only gets one decent chance to kill me if he’s lucky, wall to stop spam kills, wall to chase him if he tries to wall climb away, and Cryo is great to prevent a headshot/body shoot (got to be a quick cryo not sit in it letting him charge up+aim a shot to the head)
I mean… there are skill brackets. Crappy hero A will be fighting crappy hero B. Go up a little and it’s mediocre hero A against mediocre hero B. Make sense?
If you say “a good hero A counters hero B”, you are implying that hero B got outplayed. That isn’t a counter.
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Tracer is pretty good against Hanzo, she is literally the best dps hero in the game against Storm arrows. She acts like any other 200hp hero against them requiring 3 bodyshots or 1+ headshots and she is extremely mobile with a tiny hitbox.
The only way Hanzo beats her is to land the headshot or to play against a bad Tracer in which you can bodyshot + melee her. No Tracer is that dumb in my rank though.
There are undeniably some heroes where the dynamics of their duel changes as both players get more proficient, though.
A bad Tracer is countered by a bad Symmetra. A good Tracer counters a good Symmetra. That sort of thing.
For instance, when I play Bastion, I kill most Hanzos no problem. But when I go up against any Hanzo that is as good at Hanzo as I am, they absolutely destroy me (Note I am better at Bastion than Hanzo, which makes Hanzo a counter, and a hard-counter at that). There’s a threshold of skill where it goes from not being a counter, to being one.
It’s not just a case of outplaying… it’s just that that player has to know that hero well enough to counter with it.
I’ve killed lots of Hanzo’s as Sombra, but a good hanzo will turn and one shot me long before I can kill him.
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A good Genji, a good Widow, a good Hanzo, a good Sombra** and more heroes who are played by people who know how to use the hero and know when to engage***
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It’s because she isn’t the best counter but it’s because she kinda needs a buff which is my original “good” comment
I don’t see a buff that would change this without making her OP. They can’t give her one shot kill, that’s too much. Hack shouldn’t stun, again too powerful. At most some small improvement to her gun, or a small damage element to hack.
Lol, nah Hanzo doesn’t have counters. Not even Winston. Hanzo doesn’t have any weaknesses that I can think of.
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