This character is way too strong right now. I don’t know what was in blizzard’s mind buffing him to this degree but with no real counter due to next to no cc makes playing against him in low ranks a pure nightmare. I’m almost at the point where if the enemy tank comes out as Ball I just leave. It’s too frustrating and tilting. Why are you trying to kill your game Blizzard?
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Everything is unfun until you learn how to play against it. One shots, stuns, sleeps, boops, everything. Hammond is no different.
Also, I hope now you realize that these minor buffs to uptime and the reversion of his minefield activation time aren’t game breaking buffs. The problem is that the community is so used to thinking of him as a throw pick that now that they’re finally realizing he was always decent, they have to reevaluate.
If any good comes from this, it’s that maybe the players won’t instantly soft throw and mald the instant they get a Hammond on their team, because that Hammond that never dies and always wrecks face on the enemy team is the same one you’ve been claiming does nothing but feed and be useless on your team.
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Against most Hammonds I just go Junkrat and leave random traps laying around in the middle of my team. Gets em every time.
Against one-trick Hammonds it’s probably better to go for Sombra or something.
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Hammond is just a bad designed hero
He provides nothing for the team whilst being extremely annoying to kill for the enemy
He is literally the same as hog was. A hero who doesnt belong in the tank category
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Yes, keep thinking that. Square that circle with OP.
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The Ball mains deserve their 5min of glory if hes too oppressive the devs will nuke him into the ground like Hog and Doom (and no im not a Ball main hes actually one of my least played heros in the game)
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Except that his only true counter, Sombra, is no good right now. I didn’t think of him as bad just not a good tank as he’s a selfish tank and not a team tank (Flats explained this better in one of his videos). His other counters have been buffed or are just played wrong/bad by other players. Frankly I’m in silver (mainly because I don’t play ranked) and my teammates usually have the processing speed of Spongebob in their heads. So all it takes is a ball player period and the game is just unfun and ruined. I main Rein and Winston and those two are the most fun to play with and against but blizzard hates them. Yes I know that Rein got “buffed” but they were laughable buffs compared to what he actually needs.
Brig is probably going to come back as a result of Ball’s resurgence. She doesn’t have her stun any more but her shield makes her immune to Piledrives, her new burst heal on Repair Pack isn’t much but it’s enough to stop someone getting bursted down by Ball, and her Whipshot can disrupt his Piledrives.
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He literally does though
What does he do for his team? He rolls off by himself for 5 mins and you are expected to push the objective down a tank whilst their rein stands on point and gives them free cover to blitz you down
He’s a bad designed hero
his job is to create space aswal as threaten the enemy backline like all of the dive tanks
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That literally sounds like the excuse hog players give
He doesnt create space. He rolls around and leaves your team 4v5 for the game. You have to engage an objective with no tank because he’s in narnia
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His job has always been disruption and making space for his team, even in OW1
He does if the person playing him does their job properly, if they don’t they’re a bad ball
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Yeah but being a bad ball still allows you to survive for 5 mins in the enemy backline because he is nearly impossible to kill even if you are bad at him
ehhh no, hog did create space tgrough treat of one shot.
Ball like all the other dive tanks (like Monkey, D.va, Doom) creates space through dislocation of the backline aswell as attacking vulnerable targets like a Widow for example
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Difference is monkey dva and doom, if they go in by themselves, they die
Ball doesnt, he just rolls out
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Surviving and having an impact are different things
He may well be alive, but if he’s accomplishing nothing he’s just sort of there
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Ball is a little over tuned and is for sure top of the tanks right now but once people start to remember Sombra got buffed and is now actually pretty decent he won’t seem as op. Plus the longer health pack hack duration will help force him out longer at times.
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they all can survive allone
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Exactly. Which is why ball is a badly designed hero. He just rolls around not dying for 5 mins while accomplishing nothing for his team.
Glad you understand the issue
Then ball players be like ‘dps diff’ when the dps cant even get through the choke without getting their head blow off because they dont have any tank
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A bad ball won’t cause any impact sure, and they are useless and a detriment to the team, but if they know what they’re doing ball can be very capable
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