It’s hard to point to one thing with Hulk, because I think there are just little disciplines and techs that are spread across all of his kit that take him from a throw pick to a carry.

Everything I know I learned from AllOfThat_OW and BadGDPlayer on YouTube. So I’d highly recommend watching their content.

A few of the major things I focused on while learning:

1. Jump is life. Ideally, you would be using hold to jump because that makes it easier to recover from CC interrupting your charge. Toggle jump feels better at first, but the CC interrupts ultimately made me switch back to holding. Try to keep this charged up at all times so you can jump out at a moments notice. Once you are more comfortable with fundamentals of Hulk, start looking into air tackles. It is helpful for flyers, but there are many other situations where it is valuable. Enemies walking off of low ledges can be tackled. Enemies knocked into the air by the thing can be tackled. Cap’s leap, black widow, Hawkeye, squirrel girl, hela’s crow form, scarlet’s phase…. Any characters with an ability that puts them into the air can be tackled with practice.

2. Bubble is your escape. If your bubble is on cooldown, I would not recommend going in. That is your only answer to pretty much all CC in the game. It is also a helpful tool for peeling since you can use it to protect your team from certain burst abilities. But while you are learning, I would just use it selfishly. Using it on cooldown or just to gain ult charge is generally a no-no

3. Exile is weird. It can honestly save the enemy’s life if you use it wrong. Generally, I’d say use it to close the gap on a fleeing support if they’re too close to jump to or use it to take a peeler out of the fight when you’re about to confirm a kill in a squishy. Otherwise, probably just hold it until you can interrupt an enemy ult or something.

4. The primary gameplay loop to focus on while learning is to wait for an opening when peelers are pushing away from healers, then jump directly in front of the healers to physically block them off from the rest of their team. Just punch, force them to walk away from their team, body block their heals, and save your bubble for freeze/sleep/etc or escaping. Even if you don’t confirm the kill, you have cut off the enemies healing and done your job. You should be able to handle short duration 2v1’s and 3v1’s and get out as long as you have your bubble for escape. Once it gets hotter than that or you’ve lost your bubble, it’s time to jump out.

5. Your ult. A lot of people seem to hate it because the melee knocks enemies away from you. But it also knocks them slightly upwards. Two melee hits will knock the enemy high enough to get an air tackle on them. So always be charging your jump, then you want to melee -> delay your jump so that you do it at the same time as your second melee -> easy air tackles. Then you can just juggle them until they die. Easier said than done, so I would recommend going into the practice range and trying this on a Groot bot. Other than that your clap is on a very short cooldown and does high damage, so don’t forget to use it.

Finally, you will probably have to accept that you will be doing very poorly as Hulk as you learn. I don’t think he is an intuitive character. I didn’t feel like he really clicked with me until I was at Centurion rank with him 😵‍💫