And why is he so successful lately? Now we don’t just have a stale DPS regimen, we also have Mauga x Roadhog heated rivalry. Except Mauga is still played even when there’s no Roadhog.
It certainly doesn’t help people are genuinely so stupid and constantly ban D.Va, fully knowing they disable their tank’s best tool against the current meta that is not simply mirroring it.
The DPS can use heroes like Bastion or Reaper as counters, but not all of them do. Too locked into the hitscan poke meta we’ve had for too many aeons, I suppose.
Even if they do counterswap Mauga, nothing will be gained if the tank struggles to deal with Mauga. The best option has proven to be mirroring. We’ve already had seen a Mauga x Mauga session one season. We all agreed it was sinful and uncouth.
At least many supports actively play Ana. But she’s often banned when he’s around. Wonder why.
At first I thought he was fair. After all, he isn’t one of those certain heroes that burst you down within a second from 30 meters away (and somehow still end up having a winrate barely over 50%?!). Mauga is a gentleman. He is a caring hunk, one that makes your heart melt. He runs up to you, facing you directly, and only then starts blasting. Right in and on your face.
But it’s getting stale real quick. His entire gameplan is running up to people and hold down both triggers.
And it’s entirely avoidable, if people just were a bit smarter with their bans.
Until then, I don’t want to see any ‘gg trash tank’. Those who write this were advocating for their tank to lose access to Mauga’s ideal counter.
ana is the only true mauga counter in the game so if you can avoid her cooldowns well enough then you are pretty much completely uncontested (zarya and dva are decent counters too but not enough to pose a threat)
his stomp cc also makes tank duels pretty straightforward, just wait for them to use their defensive cd then stun them out of it or if they cant be stunned you can always run away
such an amazing character with a horrible design, really unfortunate but until blizzard reworks him he will forever be the baby mode tank
If they banned Dva it’s not like they thought the enemy team was going to go mauga. Also assuming we are not talking about some high ranked coordinated dive, I’d say sigma is the best tank into mauga.
Imo mauga counters bastion, not the other way around. If he can close the distance he melts a bastion and heal through it. One of the few tanks that can shrug off a bastion close range.
Throw in an ana or zen and the mauga isn’t having fun.
Sigma gets overrun and shredded, just like other tanks without mobility. Mauga players are not stupid at my rank, the hero design is. And DPS/Bastions should know how to use cover at this point.
Ana is so vulnerable these days and with the amount of chip and aoe damage flying around, she has real tough time to survive and provide value, even against Mauga.
Mauge is a big problem because how stupidly easy he is to play and the amount of damage he can pump out while almost noone has the burst and/or consistent damage to pressure him
Everyone was focused on Hog at the time, so Mauga slipped under the radar after the Bruiser buff in s1.5.
Hog was nerfed because despite hovering at the ~50% win rate mark, people don’t want him to be viable and so he got nuked in the s2 patch. Now Mauga’s in the same spot, will he go the same way as Hog in an upcoming patch, or does there need to be more noise about Mauga first?
Aren’t you console? Cuz maybe that is the difference here. He looks like a completely different hero on the stats website. Plus sigma has 2 ways to stop mauga from healing when shooting. If he is able to constantly charge in and not die while his E gets no healing, idk what your team is doing.
Mauga is fun to play and people like to play fun tanks. I don’t think he’s nearly as strong as people make him out to be, but he is definitely fun and interesting to play. Not to mention with Sierra and Emre still being fairly strong heroes who can easily benefit from Maugas healing.
Here’s my beef: Mauga’s druid skin is an honest-to-gosh werebear, not some sort of gross hybrid with a human face. So why didn’t they do that with all the dragon skins instead of making them reptiles with human faces.
Really enjoy playing into Mauga Ana/X as tank while my DPS are in Narnia and supports are forcing Mercy/LW. Makes the game really enjoyable and playable
It does also help that he’s good into Hazard, the dominant tank at the moment.
His design is based entirely around bullying the enemy tank, which is neither healthy, nor fun. He was made more versatile with a cooldown buff to overrun, meaning he can do more than shoot a tank.
He’s due for a nerf, or better yet, a rework. The Bruiser passive should never have included a crit damage reduction. Removing that would be ideal.
