Ngl I have pretty decent games when hes on my team and his damage is insane.
It’s not even orisa really the main issue comes in when the enemy team goes ana.
But for the most part hogs not this throw pick like I keep hearing he is.
And heck whenever I pull a roadhog to high ground they seem to always know exactly what I want, snatch that annoying hanzo and send him straight to the spawn room.
Hog players are so nice to 
slightly stubborn but very nice.
Many people can’t actually play hog well.
By that I mean being able to use his primary fire and secondary fire well. The damage on that can be pretty decent, but you need very explicit ranges for it to be effective. You have a narrow 0-5m for primary fire for most damage and a narrow 15-20m.
Anything in between is pretty awful damage making it very easy for many people to flounder on him because they aren’t used to playing at such oddball ranges.
Many people really could only ever play Hog by abusing peaking from cover and trying to abuse hook kills and not much else. You fail hook? Run away and health up and hope people chase you into a small enclosure with your primary fire and stuff is strongest.
Only 0.1% of Overwatch players can play Hog well. At least in this patch. You were quite lucky.
Hog is bad because the developers purposely destroyed him. We have been waiting for his rework, sometime “season 7 and beyond” iirc, which is ridiculous.
According to the devs’ stats, Hog’s win rate plummeted after the hook combo nerfs. Yes, it’s still possible to win as Hog, but let’s be honest here: a team with a Hog is at a disadvantage because he’s not as good as other tanks.
Source: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1730300399, ~30m in
And yet, they were fully aware of this, looked right at it, showed it for everyone to see, and the best they could do is “wait til season 7 and things might be better or worse than you ever thought possible”, sprinkling in nothingburger buffs every once in a while. but the heal boost buff for Breather was nice…
The Roadhog disrespect is real.
Wow his winrate plummeted faster than my sr last night 
It is because people do not realize those microbuffs saved him. He does not need reworked anymore, but the developers are so insanely incompetent that they are going to do it anyway.
In any rank where people comm and make swaps (GM and some of Masters), hog is terrible. He is marginally situational.
OW2 diamond and below (which is really just all gold and silver players) hog can work. So can 1 of your team going afk. So can you playing with your eyes closed.
Doesn’t mean hog is a smart pick most of the time.
I hope enough tanks start waking up and hard-locking roadhog to get the attention of the developers. I feel it’s the only way to get feedback across is by making others complain how bad he is.
Well, that drop was immediately after the patch. Some heroes the community has gone on to see a rebound of sorts. It might have stabilized at like 43% or 44% after people on the hog hype train got off him and only teh good players remained.
Even then they gave him a buff. His cooldown went from 8sec flat to 6+sec. 6 with variable cooldown as the shorter the hook the less cooldown you got.
Buffed his breather as well as whole hog duration to better let him do hook, breather comes in it.
the reason hog is bad is because they removed his key tanking ability.
like it or not the threat of hook is what makes him work as a tank. If he can’t reliably one shot with it he’s worthless.
He’s actually a fat dps now but he’s very bad because his damage is too inconsistent and his bulk is purely on him. You can ignore the Hog reliably and just kill his team
Because he is extremely easy to counter if you want to. And because people suuuuuuuuuuuuuuck at Hog.
Hog requires the DPS to pay attention and follow up on the hooks. Same way Sombra needs follow up on hack, Doomfist needs follow up on the stunned punches, and Life Weaver needs communication for life grip plays.
Metal ranks don’t like any hero that requires team work because you need consistency, which they don’t have, else they wouldn’t be in those ranks. Any hero that needs to be consistent you will be flamed, trashed and reported for playing. Hog, Doomfist, Sombra, Widow, etc.
It’s not Hog being bad just like it’s not Sombra being bad in Overwatch 1. It’s people all playing their own game rather than as a group. I’ve had games where I ran an 80% hook rate with Hog and we still got stomped. Why? Had a game of yet again double hitscan that need to spam, rather than land consistent shots on a solo target, and couldn’t follow up on a single hook. But amazingly, when I play with a Mei or Reaper who pay attention to someone being hooked out and follow on a kill, we run people over. Go figure. Hog is magically not broken again??? Maybe it’s not Hog???
Not Hog’s fault, but in true Overwatch fashion, you always blame the tank.
Not really, you can still kill stuff alone unless you hook people who are getting healed. One shot isn’t gone, it’s just not as consistent anymore and requires headshot which isn’t always possible (like when you hook someone above you). But yes, it’s infinitely easier to work when your team follows up with even that 30 damage or so.
Well then Winston would be garbage too because it’s easy to outheal his damage. Yet he is very very good. Just not in every scenario
It’s more because it’s infinitely harder to play around his counters like Ana when you don’t have that reliable one shot. You made that good off angle and surprise Ana, hook her… and she survives with 20 hp after combo. Now you are slept and dead. That’s the issue
He always was easy to stop but at least you had options when you land hooks. Nowadays sometimes you just need to get off Hog because anything but perfect play leaves you dead.
If he’s good and he has a good Kiriko and Lifeweaver… he’s unstoppable.
He is good as a counter to things like doom ball jq ramma, also a kriko helps if enemy has ana.
He is definitely throw pick against Orissa zarya
Zarya, yes. Orisa is a big fat shotgun target and if she pulls him in whole hog will delete her in half a second. Would not say throw pick if Hog player knows what they’re doing.
I’ll be right there along with you on Sombra 
No mobility. No shield.
You exist in your own bubble.
Even Doom can do some aoe without an ult. And his knockbacks.
Hog has his hook, and his ult can move stuff around.
That’s why his gun hurts. And that’s not enough anymore
So in conclusion; selfish tank.
Great bodyguard