I literally just go Mei or Sombra and easily shut him down. Even on Tracer I can easily farm pulse bomb off him and tag supports. I agree he’s strong rn but not that strong. Too many one-tricks in this game now…learn how to swap.
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Because he doesnt exist in a vacuum and his team will cover him.
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that is the thing though people are complaining about flanking hog, if he is flanking then he isnt with his team
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But thats still splitting team focus. Thats if he even gives you enough time to notice him before hooking you from max range so he doesnt make any footsteps.
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Considering people are playing him in almost every match at GM level it’s obviously not an issue of countering him. Anything you can do with Sombra/Mei is immediately shut down by Zarya bubble.
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Not if he’s paired with Zarya who counters status effects and can take infinite damage.
Sort of like how it’s not worth hacking Doom if he’s being pocketed by a Zarya. You setup to go after Zarya instead.
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Or a smart pair of healers that are keeping him alive. Roadhog can self sustain pretty well, if he knows not to overextend and has even one healer that’s giving him a decent amount of attention, you can’t whittle him down fast enough to kill him. If he’s not getting hard pocketed by an Ana, Mercy or Moira to engage, he’s got a Zarya bubbling him when he needs to escape when his breather is down. He’s got a lot of resources if he paces himself, to the point where you can’t really get around him.
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Because he’s overpowered and demands too much resources to stop, making it so that either him or his team are gonna get the pick they need to quickly overwhelm the fight. Unless you have your own hog doing the same thing
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I’m probably just bad or have terrible memory but I don’t remember there being any changes to Zarya bubble or take-a-breather. So I don’t see how hacking/freezing is less effective than before.
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There’s been some changes, but that’s not really the factor. The factor is barriers heavily prevented hacking/freezing where now they can be much easier executed.
Even when they can be easier executed, they aren’t stopping the Hog/Zarya meta.
This can be countered by Ana’s anti-heal ability. Then he just becomes useless and vulnerable to the enemy
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His damage is higher so the ability to prevent a kill is lower. It always took a lot of resources to kill him, but he wasn’t such a huge priority target because you could save his target more often. This made it significantly more reasonable to split focus/resources between him and his team.
On top of that, strong barriers provided more cover from hook.
Again, Zarya’s bubble removes anti-heal as well. That’s why Hog/Zarya is so popular. Zarya is never bad in her own right, but she is enabling a bit of a ridiculous piggy right now.
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Well, there are always gonna be heroes that enable another.
Well for one thing… Mei doesn’t counter Hog. He can hook her from further than she can freeze him. And even if she DOES freeze him, she can’t kill him. Assuming Hog doesn’t even shoot back. She can freeze him, deal out 150 damage. He can walk away. Assume he gets frozen and headshot AGAIN, he still has 200 HP left. Then he can take a breather. And Mei hasn’t made any real progress there. And that doesn’t even take into account that Mei has to reload. The amount of time Roadhog takes to kill even from one of the suggested “counters” is like 10+ seconds to try and kill him, and that’s assuming he doesn’t fight back. Meanwhile, hog can one shot her. And Sombra isn’t all that much better.
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'Cause some people still think Reaper counters hog pfft
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its only forums who cant counter hog and they are mostly no aim silver support players.
His only true counter is Ana. That is probably why.
Mei and sombruh can be easily 1 shoted tho.
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you are plat thats why its works for YOU
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