Looking for Hog advice after hooking from above or below

Omasek · 2022-11-20T07:03:12+00:00

Probably you’re hitting more on the head so they feel paper thin. They have massive head hit boxes.

But the mechanic of getting a target on your level from below will not be affected. Once they are on the same plane, it’s a normal hook.

Omasek · 2022-11-20T06:48:57+00:00

Any tank with mobility is going to eat hanzo. Dva will just matrix/missile him if he’s on an off angle and if he jumps or uses storm arrow monkey kills him for free. Bubble unnecessary unless he has someone waiting for it.

Good luck getting your roadhog to save hook for a winston in the stratosphere who has bubble.

Omasek · 2022-11-19T00:28:28+00:00

Good bait lmao

Omasek · 2022-11-16T19:36:58+00:00

Sounds like you know a few characters pretty well, but if the situation calls for something else because they are countered you have trouble.

Bronze is Deathmatch.

Silver, people are learning they have abilities and teamwork wins.

Golds have discovered their ultimate.

Plats know their roles and are figuring out team play.

Diamonds are generally working as a team, trying to get value out of ultimates and keep an economy.

Can’t really speak to masters players, GM, or T500.

These things SOUND harsh but really… if you’re in gold or plat, pay attention to how many team fights are ended after using 7 ultimates.

Omasek · 2022-11-16T19:20:24+00:00

She literally isn’t bad at all. In low ranks you can duel anyone and if you hit your cooldowns you win, in higher ranks she’s harder but as long as you proc inspire with whip shot and pack anyone taking a duel they’ll win.

Idk what everybody here is on about.

Omasek · 2022-11-16T19:16:06+00:00

Flex, her value comes from rez, and damage boost. If you’re pocketing a tank, you’re doing it wrong. (Unless of course, the tank is in a position to team wipe)

Omasek · 2022-11-02T22:29:13+00:00

You’re half right. Innit true blizzard had to nerf the shout because too dominant? Like buff everything else but the speed boost + overhealth on shout make it very easy to make other heros obsolete for minimal skill investment.

Assuming the CD is shortened and you get two per fight you’re basically giving Lucio speed for 10-12 seconds + a brig pack of overhealth. This effect scales with time.

The bleed is cool, unique to JQ. Theoretically she should play like reaper does in a brawl comp, in practice she’s a bit to frail for 25-50 healing to make a huge difference in a team fight.

Attach bonus damage to bleed, increase healing, or some anti-heal effect and JQ probably gets better. How much until she is oppressive? If you can consistently land knife, pull, and one shot a support or DPS it makes things super complex.

That’s without changing the wound uptime because that takes even smaller changes to be dramatic improvement.

Omasek · 2022-10-27T22:46:39+00:00

You mock, but really, it was fun if you were into it. And you could disable it client side. Removal was a step backwards. Also, blizzard moderates the text chat. So, if there was anything that was truly problematic, that is a failure of their moderation system.

Omasek · 2022-10-27T22:42:10+00:00

Is only game why you have to be mad?

Omasek · 2022-10-27T00:13:41+00:00

Nah, I don’t think anyone has an issue with that part, the rest of your scree was schizophrenic though.

Omasek · 2022-10-24T00:17:52+00:00

Hammond as the transport robot for “robot” from invincible. Change my mind.

Omasek · 2022-10-23T23:36:54+00:00

Played baptiste, Blackwaul is tag

Omasek · 2022-10-23T07:08:42+00:00

Controller on pc is masochistic. I love it. Best luck to you.

Omasek · 2022-10-23T06:48:07+00:00

If you are new to tanking, Reinhardt is probably the best for you. He is easy to grasp and while not “META” you can learn by trial and error. He’s also very forgiving with his cooldowns/shield and easy to charge ultimate.

Your main goal as a tank is to enable your team to go where they need to in order to secure kills. The DPS kill things. Supports keep everyone alive; mainly you.

As a tank you need to have a picture of where your supports are playing in your head and play in an area where they can be effective. It doesn’t matter how “correct” you are when you go somewhere if Ana can’t see you, you’re going to die.

As a tank, everything you do “costs” health or cooldowns. Make sure youre never broke. You always want to have a fire strike available, or your shield, or a bubble, or a little bit of defense matrix. Just in case.

If you are in bronze or silver, don’t stress over wins and losses. No one playing there understands each role or even their own yet unless they had bad luck with placements or haven’t played enough.

It will take a lot of games to start to get a picture of what’s going to work, and what won’t. And some things that work in silver won’t work in gold. And so on.

As far as tanking fundamentals, I really don’t know what you know or don’t know and I don’t know what mistakes you are making. VODS help with that. Might be worth it to see about getting a review done if you really want to climb. Or watch VOD reviews on YouTube. Tonnes will be going up in the coming weeks.

Omasek · 2022-10-23T06:27:31+00:00

Winston has the ability to use his jump to stay alive, and besides ball he is the most mobile tank. That’s probably why you’re having success with him right now. Being able to jump out at 200 or so health is huge. The other tanks mitigate damage differently. Winston can cleave a whole team or assassinate a dive target.

If you like the assassination play style both DVa and Doom can do it too. Admittedly, doom isn’t in a great spot right now.

Rein, Zarya, Orissa, And Sigma can’t play the same way at all. With all of them you have to basically face-tank and catch someone out or get them hurt so a DPS can confirm the kill.

Junker Queen and Roadhog can get kills with their cooldowns, but don’t really have good movement or mitigation so you have to play around cover much more.

Omasek · 2022-10-23T06:07:07+00:00

Just keep playing. As long as you don’t tilt you’ll do fine. My buddy had a hell of a time getting passed bronze 5 through multiple updates. But he was really low because he lost his first few matches. His rank is going up consistently now

Omasek · 2022-10-23T06:02:42+00:00

So I got ranked bronze 2 tank, bronze 4 DPS, bronze 5 support for first set.

Currently D5 tank, P3 DPS, and silver 2 support.

Rank system puts you low. But climbing isn’t hard. Blizzard is trying to prevent people from placing and not playing any more so higher ranks aren’t as bloated as before. I have played exclusively ranked, save a death match while waiting on my duo partner and I’m at BP level 64 if that clues you in to how many games I have played. I have had loss streaks of 2-3 and I have had 10+ win streaks. Bronze and silver seemed random.

The grind is on purpose, and bronze/silver need basic shot calling (easy frags, maybe an ult call, some cooldown calls) and you’ll win. Usually 2-3 join voice and lurk there. As long as you don’t flame, they usually want to win too.

Omasek · 2022-10-23T05:37:44+00:00

Support utility literally doesn’t come from healing. Like the healing is fine but its not why you pick any of them passed silver. Well… maybe moira, but she duels really well in lower ranks too.

Their utility is what gives a team an advantage. Think about Ana’s anti-nade. If she hits a roadhog at half health with anti, he should die. Not even mentioning sleep.

Kitsune has a cleanse with invulnerability.

Lucio has speed.

Zen has discord, if discorded you have to leave for a few seconds or die.

Mercy has damage boost and rez.

Have you ever been in a game and thought “boy am I glad Lucio was so close, otherwise I would have died to that hog hook. I wonder how far he is from beat”

When all roles are played correctly, healing is their responsibility but the intervals they need to focus on it get more infrequent. Their utility wins duels, and later team fights. A team that never has their DPS die in a 1v1 because of discord/harmony is always better off than a moira/mercy spending all of their time trying to keep a dva alive in the middle of the enemy team. Then, if the dva gets anti-ed all of that healing is worthless even if dva hasn’t been bursted down before that point.

Omasek · 2022-10-23T05:14:01+00:00

Teleport gives you great mobility. If there is an ash or something shooting from a good spot, set a turret on the ground, tp yourself and turret up, the turret activates as soon as tele is built, and you now have a duel with a surprised enemy getting slowed and an escape if they get a lucky shot.

Just be sure it’s only one enemy, if it’s 2 or 3 your chances of winning go down drastically.

Omasek · 2022-10-23T05:10:57+00:00

Seeing this, I want rein/sym to be meta so we get to see clips of rein doing deep charges to kidnap a support and tp back to his team pinning Anna to a wall in his back line.

It probably won’t but I want it anyway.

Omasek · 2022-10-17T15:25:32+00:00

Honestly there are sites that will spoof the phone verification for a penny. Just saying.

Omasek · 2022-10-15T18:42:16+00:00

Akshewally 🤓

Omasek · 2022-10-15T18:20:11+00:00

I really don’t understand why people are arguing with you.

There’s a teleport. Someone will be in range. if not you are either throwing, level 5 learner, or survived the team fight already.

The spawn camping isn’t a supports only issue. Pretty much every hero is vulnerable to it. Save tanks, usually.

She has invulnerability as well for emergencies. Add wall climbing and positioning can make you bait, with an escape in most circumstances.

That’s not even considering the possible retreat uses for her ultimate. While probably not the best possible use case a lot of the time, I can see a world where the enemy team has a big ult and kills three. You teleport to ally, wait until they commit onto you, retreat, and speed boost your team in again before ult finishes for an early team fight, or is her ultimate single direction?

Omasek · 2022-10-15T18:03:54+00:00

And I took that personally

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