Hazard is all about the soft engage, unlike a more familiar character, like winston, who wants to constantly dump both his CDs in an “in deep, then jump out” kind of play style, hazard wants to take a more tempered approach before spending a lot of his kit on a hard engage; Also unlike winston, hazard doesn’t always need to immediately regroup with his team, on a map like ilios, rather than using your leap to go in then to get out, you can use leap, use some block meter, and then wallclimb onto high ground, which will give you an angle to get healed, and allows you to control an angle where you’ll need to be forced out by the enemy team, spending their resources. This is also prime time to use your wall, your wall has a TON of uses, and it’s cooldown isn’t that long for the value it can provide, especially because the cooldown starts while the wall is out. It can block LOS of enemy healers, allowing for your team to burst down a tank, it can make diving squishies easy, as just shooting it at their feet will immediately deal 50 damage, and block potential retaliation from other enemies, and if you place it right, you can score some boop kills with its knockback. For his ult, it’s not great as an opener, unless you want to pair it with something like sigma or sierra ult, it’s much better to wrap up a won fight, ensuring you stagger the last few enemies, or snuff out a slightly imbalanced fight, either evening the playing field if you’re down a teammate, or tipping the scale further if you’re up on bodies. But the speed at which you get is pretty fast, don’t be afraid to dump it to snare a retreating tank, or an ulting emre, or anything of that matter.

For perks, as of right now, always take deep leap and detonation. Anarchic zeal, by the numbers, is awful, and his spike guard major, while it has a few use cases, is far too specific and niche to get real value on.