Genuine question, they took it away for… a season? Maybe two? Now he has a trap AND a one shot, he one shots even without the trap… what?
I repeat, he can still hook+shoot and instant kill WITHOUT THE TRAP, to all the reply’s mentioning trap.
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Because they can’t balance this game. A slap on the wrist damage reduction nerf isn’t enough.
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i was playing ashe and got max range hooked and one shot at full health WITHOUT pig pen
genuinely why did they shadow add it back into the game
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Because Tanks need to do 2 things.
- Stand on objectives really well
- Give their teammates a positioning advantage
- Either by making their teammate’s positioning safer (i.e. Reinhardt)
- Or by making enemy positioning worse (i.e. Roadhog and Hammond)
This doesn’t explain why he can one shot? He can do both of those things without getting a free instant kill every time he hooks.
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Roadhog is a feast or famine hero,you either give him the 1 shot and he’s good or you take it away and he’s bad.
It’s an issue with his core design but changing that would require much more work than they’re willing to spend on him.
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Because its the favorite tank for low elo players
Just remember that Sigma got nerfed because his one shot combo with rock+CC, was too quick for players to react
Now we have to deal with fatty, his CC crappy long sniper hook, both primary and secondary combined, and a trap
/Cheers
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Because Blizzard can’t make up their mind on how they want tank heroes to play. I remember how bad Roadhog was a few/couple seasons ago, the worst tank by a mile. Blizzard did a half-baked “rework” on him not too long ago.
Having faith in Blizzard to give reasonings as to their decisions is not going to go well.
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What else does he have going for him?
He can get hard countered and he feeds ult charge as an easy target to hit. Not much left you can nerf on him.
He doesn’t fit 5v5 format, but nothing can be done until the devs put Roadhog in a composition where his kit works with more balance to it.
they’re slowly reverting and giving back braindead combos to everyone
Hog being able to one shot without pig pen because of all the “small” buffs he gets every season like hook distance to target, projectile size etc
Soon they’re going to give Junkrat an extra 5 damage on his mines so he can one shot combo again. They’ve already given his primary a 2 shot again
Then they’re going to nerf hero health pools so Hanzo can one shot again
Widowmaker also got a nonsensical range buff a few seasons ago to “compensate” for hero health pools being increased
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90% of the time i will die to his “combo” anyway because 5hp is nothing xD
that is one tracer bullet
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It’s a free kill on cooldown. This game is gonna be on iOS soon promise
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Oh yeah, forgot that part.
Hog basically messes up enemy positioning, often times known as “Zoning”.
But not primarily because of the Hook, directly.
But from people entirely avoiding LOS of the THREAT of the Hook.
Kinda like how Widow mostly just existing on a sightline, gives her a lot of “Zoning”.
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Only if you or your teammates are dumb enough to stand 20m away or less. Otherwise, you get to farm him for free.
Because he can’t shield, he can’t provide team utility, he can’t infinitely soak damage for periods of time, he can’t use mobility, he can’t safely poke.
So he gets a combo. If you don’t want him to have it, offer a better solution.
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because the devs cant figure out something between
completely valueless ult battery
and
absolute monster that holds W and eliminates squishies on command
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my better solution is to remove his fat ahh from the game
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Remember that people genuinely want the answer to be “tanks have no upsides”, and they think that makes the game balanced.
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It is because the dev team is just incapable!!!
What the hell is pig pen??
What do you want them to do with him lmao?
Can’t protect his team like Rein. Can’t fling about like Doom. Can’t sit there and be an obnoxious distraction like Orisa. Can’t attack from range like Sigma.
The options are;
- Delete the character entirely
- Deal with it
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because the team balance dont play ow
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