(General) Projectile damage reduced from 7 to 6 (150 total per shot)
Developer Comments: When combined with the changes to shotgun patterns, we’re looking to keep Roadhog’s Chain Hook combo reliable, but not overly powerful against heroes with higher health pools.
The RoadHog has been on the list of worst tanks for years, competing against the diva. Then you began to worsen his main enemies - shield tanks and he even became strong, you slightly increased the damage from each shot and slowed down the rate of fire. And now you return it to a state worse than the previous one? XD Im ready for unnerf shield tanks XD
Thats why you never ask buff bad hero. Phara got buff? Ez nerf. Sym? eznerf. Sombra? Ez nerf
I am not sure nerfing hog’s gun would change much at this point, but it would be interesting to see, but I think it killed him for being everyone’s ‘meta’ pick for ages.
This is an absolute great way to revive the game. Ever since RoadHog became meta, the game has become more of a FFA than it was ever. Now that Roadhog will no longer be a meta pick, you’ll start to see more main tanks.
Its minor buff. Unnerf shield tanks and its will be usls. With shields like this no matter this damage buff. (dont forget about fire rate reduce). Roadhog stayed bad no because he cant kill target after hook (btw on low rank its problem). Because he just cant find target for hook (Hook rein no best idea)
Yeah, only bad players can’t kill squishy targets with a hook. If you can’t kill targets with your hook, you’re just bad a RoadHog. Now they’re removing this hogwash from the game and hooking actually requires a certain degree of skill. Not much skill, but a certain degree of skill.
The shotgun pattern change makes his hook combo more reliable. The change essentially gives him the power they originally intended without making him too strong versus higher HP targets.
Trash talking people about their career profile while you have private profile is extremely weird. Also hog was the sole reason why Winston, Reinhardt, and Orisa are currently terrible. Him doing this much reliable damage to the point where he just tanks everything and then one shots everything is just not good. Playing, “Put my resources into my hog” is a questionable game.
This is exactly it.
This isn’t necessarily the case. Once these changes go live, map dependent comps should be the way. Playing winston against hog has always been a death sentence. Orisa gets melted by him by easily forcing fortify and then getting a free hook or killing her with whole hog in fortify. Rein has a harder time living than hog when both have a zarya because hog has no threat of being hooked so he can play as aggressive as he wants with bubble and get free damage.
Hog just isn’t a good hero for 2-2-2, and naturally just needs to rely on the main tank to be balanced. Although whether this will do anything, i feel like it does but I could be wrong. A buff to DVa matrix range could honestly help though. Eating hook damage is insanely inconsistent
You’re not gonna see main tanks played any more than right now cause they all still equally suck. Only Tank that doesn’t suck absolute crap is Zarya and WB.
Watch as WB gets nerfed in the coming weeks for “being too OP”
Same thing happened to McCree. Sure, he had high pick rates, but he never was good, then they buffed his fire rate and he started to become decent. After that, they nerfed his flash bang, and then nerfed his fire rate, and he’s much worse than he ever was, and Ashe and Widowmaker got away with minor nerfs. The developers have started to lose it these past weeks with the balance patches. Same thing happened to support heroes, Baptiste and Moira got a lot of nerfs while being some of the worst choices among the roster, but Ana got a minor nerf. How? How does this make any sense? The last “power balance” patch should’ve never went live, but the developers seem to disagree.
