Garrett Hawke
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what does road hog's right click do? i feel like it puts out less damage overall.
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MarioHead3
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It does a ton of damage from the right distance.
I've been noticing the same thing for myself. I feel like I have a much more significant impact as a damage hero. Having a good flanker to keep the enemy team staggered is devastating. Or a good Mei that knows how and when to wall. Just playing Genji or Tracer well is enough to make the other team fall apart in platinum rank from what I've seen.I don't feel like I'm playing healers that badly either.
Ana can be a game changer, but she requires a lot more skill than I think I possess. I'm starting to lose the mentality that to help my team best, I need to be playing support. The past two days I've played Tracer, Genji, Pharah, Reaper, McCree and Mei almost exclusively and have moved up about 200 SR. When I have had to pick up heals, I've been going Zenyatta.
I still feel like being a tank is helpful as well, but I usually avoid Reinhardt in favor of Roadhog because he's easy to get picks with, even if he's not quite as good at slowing the enemy team down. Zarya is pretty much an instalock in most of my matches, so I don't play her as much as I'd like to.
I think I'll start season 3 playing damage roles and see where I can end up at.
At 8 meters it spreads into a normal shotgun blast. Anytime someone is dancing outside your m1 range, you want to use it if your hook is on CD. Tracer 1 shots with it are so satisfying.
Shouta
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Shoots a clump of scrap that goes out a certain distance then explodes into a spray of scrap like his main. It only does 50 damage if you hit with the ball but does the same as his normal one once it explodes at the right distance.
Garrett Hawke
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It shoots a ball dealing 50 dmg. After a certain distance it dissolves into a hitscan blast that can deal 300 burst damage in total.
It's pretty good.
WaffleTaco
Wants to outlaw technological innovation.
Honestly I think Roadhog's hook needs to be nerfed somehow. Wether it's in damage, range or the ability to actually get out of it, I don't care. It's probably the most annoying ability besides Reinhardt's wall slam.
Fixed2BeBroken
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eh. i disagree since it actually takes some skill to get good hooks.
yea people get lucky, but to actually use it right, it takes some skill.
MarioHead3
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hmmmm
what's the right distance?
The exact distance is difficult to judge in-game. It's mostly just something you get used to, but it's when the scrap ball explodes that it does the most damage.
Getting hooked is kind of like getting sniped. So just think of it like a slower Widow bullet.
hmmmm
what's the right distance?
when you one shot the 200 hp characters
hmmmm
what's the right distance?
go to the shooting range and practice a bit until it becomes second nature, it will give you so much more power in a fight
didn't they say that they're throwing a lot of mud at the wall with all these changes?
Shouta
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I just said we don't know if they'll stick.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I don't mind the hook, but my god that tilts me more than the hook.
WaffleTaco
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Also happens to 250 HP characters. Was playing Reaper early and that happened quite a few times.
Handle as in a player choosing him or counter him?
Good job.
Counter, Seems the Bastion Reinhardt combo is making a comeback at least in my matches.
Mocha Nova Coffee Scotia
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Finally managed to claw my way up to Diamond league so im one of the dogs now. Luckily i didnt hit that losing streak until right after reaching it
jasminlovesyoux
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It's insane to that I keep running into people who straight up won't swap under any circumstance whatsoever. This is around the 3000 SR mark. Why play competitive when you don't want to try????? Uggggghhhh. Need more friends who want to group.
I mean that guy lowers the average of the other team though so it kind of evens out
yeehamuffins
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Ugh, just finished a match where we lost to a team playing Bastion... on Hollywood... on Attack. Like, I try my best switching to Genji but I can only do so much.
That's something I've learned about playing this game a lot: I don't mind losing all that much. But losing to a horrible comp... that makes me want to rip my hair out.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I actually kinda love having bastion on my team.
Like, half the time it doesn't work, but the other half I just play ana to keep him alive and boost him which can lead to some hilarious stomps.
You take the good with the bad.
Like, half the time it doesn't work, but the other half I just play ana to keep him alive and boost him which can lead to some hilarious stomps.
You take the good with the bad.
People need to stop spamming thanks the minute something bad happens. It always snowballs into getting absolutely thrashed because everyone is busy spamming lines and picking troll characters. The competitive community really sucks.
MastAndo
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Man, solo queued from 1700 back up to 2152 (my season high), and just when I was feeling like I had accomplished something and was in control of my own destiny, we get absolutely steamrolled in my last two matches. I mean, completely disheartening, why do I even play this game, I'm useless and so is everyone on my team kind of losses. My last 15 matches or so matches prior were mostly wins, but even the losses were competitive.
Someone insta-locked Zarya AND Zenyatta ahead of me (go figure) and I guess I got...tilted? I hadn't played Roadhog in so long, my old man brain stayed stuck in Zarya mode and had me throw more than one accidental hook when trying to bubble myself.
Someone insta-locked Zarya AND Zenyatta ahead of me (go figure) and I guess I got...tilted? I hadn't played Roadhog in so long, my old man brain stayed stuck in Zarya mode and had me throw more than one accidental hook when trying to bubble myself.
Wyndstryker
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Now that I've added Reinhardt into my list of chars, I don't mind Bastion so much. Actually if the comp is Rein, Bastion, Mercy, Ana, Pharah, Zarya then I'm actually confident on the chance of success. I've seen Bastions put in work so I don't rule them out at the start. Same goes with Symmetra and Torb.
Only ones I'll get suspicious at start nowadays is Hanzo and WM.
Nano boost nerf, plz no Blizzard
Every team should have a Lucio. The nano boosted target should still be given speed to get kills. It was just too insane to have Lucio speed boost on top of nano speed boost. Of all the things they nerfed on nano, they nerfed the one area that won't prevent the ult from still being "must have" and Ana to still be the default primary healer in the competitive game IMO. Reinhardt can't just run full speed and pound your whole team with one hammer swing anymore, or have Reaper's ult cover a football field of distance.
The Driver
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Phew, my mains are mostly untouched or getting net buffs lmao. Well, I play Zarya a lot but it's mostly when someone else gets on Roadhog or I know she'll be a huge help, I don't really find her that fun to play otherwise so seeing her get toned down doesn't make me sad.
The 25% ult reduction seems big though. Those whiffed ults are gonna sting a lot more haha. I can see a lot of people sitting on them for a while trying to wipe the whole team smh.
The 25% ult reduction seems big though. Those whiffed ults are gonna sting a lot more haha. I can see a lot of people sitting on them for a while trying to wipe the whole team smh.
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My team just fell under pressure and couldn't do a damn thing even when I took bastion down.Also mercy is such a bad pick for KOTH.
My team just fell under pressure and couldn't do a damn thing even when I took bastion down.Also mercy is such a bad pick for KOTH.
I try to keep myself able to play most characters so I never really feel out of place.
LurkerPrime
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THe_DeiCiDe
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Whoa, lots of people don't know about Hogs alt fire? I use that more than the primary.
Wyndstryker
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How many people actually play on other regional servers at different times of day?
Early morning NA tends to get rather slow, so curious as to how people's experiences with the connection to other regions are?
Early morning NA tends to get rather slow, so curious as to how people's experiences with the connection to other regions are?
As it should!!!
Ana is the defintion of 'has way too much'. Best ult in the game, best single target healing in the game, decent damage, a grenade that heals, buffs healing, damages and blocks healing and the best CC in the game.
And no one during testing thought, 'hey maybe we gave ana too much'. Like people like to complain about Lucio but he's in his spot because of how strong team fights are to the game. Ana would be good with or without team fights.
Newtype-001
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It was only 39 damage. Only one was a solo kill.
I was thinking the same about lucky charm. Both times they haven't been amazing though.
Might take a while to upload so here's my latest that I uploaded.
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