i dont understand why that makes sense
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I dont know either its weird
To make his skill not suck. If it could get canceled easily by non-beam things, it’d be fairly awful. To get decent value out of it, it has to be allowed to go through with the entire duration.
It’s like a weird combination of Deflect and D.Matrix right now.
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It’s on too long of a cooldown to be interrupted so easily. He’d be useless if Hog could just hook him every time he does it.
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it will still be good if it did tho. kinda like how deflect is already good and defensive matrix is already good.
he doesn’t really have a counter besides pressure. but lucio has no speed anymore so thats why hes so good. and his ult is crazy. no real counter play since his shield has no cooldown time.
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Because his ability isn’t Defense Matrix. It’s not zapping the hook out of existence. The hook is literally getting sucked into a black hole.
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Because the devs don’t like the Orisa/Hog combo?
I dunno.
Let’s not give Hog even more tools. He’s already killing anyone under 200HP without any counterplay, and now you want him to be able to destroy tanks too? No.
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I’ve hooked him while he was floating before he started the flux.
Unless you were talking about his shift.
counter play is there already. if u have an escape ability then u escape. this isnt old hog.
and his tools suck. hes the worst tank. he was only good with orisa but now sigma came in hes gonna get 0 play time again. too many things counter his hook
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Sigma’s kinetic grasp works kind of like Fortify, you use it when you don’t have a barrier up. If you could hook him out of it like you can with d.VA, you’ve pulled in the enemy main tank for free and put a short duration skill on its incredibly long CD.
He’s also super slow, so he has no escape like d.VA, so it’s basically gg for Sigma if he gets hooked during KG.
Cause its an black hole?
It makes perfect sense actually. Hog’s hook can’t be destroyed, which is why defense matrix can’t shoot it down (remember that defense matrix doesn’t actually “eat” anything at all).
On the other hand kinetic grasp creates a black hole in front of Sigma, and the hook disappears into it. But again, the hook still isn’t destroyed which is why Hog is allowed to retract it from the black hole.
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It’s delicious.
Sigma should yank hog to him if he eats the hook with the black hole.
I don’t care if it’s balanced, make it happen!
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I mean it is a back hole. Heck it should yank Hog into him when ya think about it.
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I think you understand perfectly. It just doesn’t make sense.
The balance implications aren’t even that big of a deal, although Sigma definitely doesn’t need to block hook with it, since he already has an on-demand barrier to block hooks whenever he wants. Mostly it just feels wrong for the hook to bounce off an empty space.
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Because it works more like Deflect and less like DM.
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I think it’s to kinda something they might have added later when they realized Hog completely dominates Sigma.
If he couldn’t use Kinetic Grasp to stop Hook there isn’t a whole lot Sigma can do against Hog. He’s such a Bruiser and Sigma’s lack of armor is a huge win for Hog.
Having Sigma have an out on Hogs Hook combo is kinda needed.
Deflect blocks hook tho.