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If they know the instakill cheese, you can't get out. If they don't know how to do it properly you can ice yourself, jumpjet etc.
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I'm not sure what to think about Widow because I honestly believe there are plenty of counters to her but teams either refuse to play them or don't bother to focus or harass the widow. When I know there are snipers in the game I tend to go for them. The few times I've been against extremely good widows is normally when their team is steamrolling too and you just can't get a foothold at all. Less an issue with widow and more just being steamrolled by everyone.
McCree is the only hero I have an issue with. It's just not fair that he can stun and do 2x Fan the Hammers before you can even move again. No other hero can dominate in such a fashion. McCree can AoE stun and take out multiple people with Fans. Roadhog hook+insta-kill is only acceptable because it's single target.
Against good widows you just need to fight in better spots (not open terrain) and/or get different heroes, like Genji, Winston, Reinhardt, D'Va, Tracer or counter-Widow if you have the skills to match your opponent.
McCree is the only hero I have an issue with. It's just not fair that he can stun and do 2x Fan the Hammers before you can even move again. No other hero can dominate in such a fashion. McCree can AoE stun and take out multiple people with Fans. Roadhog hook+insta-kill is only acceptable because it's single target.
Against good widows you just need to fight in better spots (not open terrain) and/or get different heroes, like Genji, Winston, Reinhardt, D'Va, Tracer or counter-Widow if you have the skills to match your opponent.
Kriptini
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If you get the pull from far away, your animation lock ends before your victim's allowing you to kill them before the pull is even finished. Pharrahs learn very quickly not to fly when I play the Hog!
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Yea, there's no way to escape insta-death if you get pulled by Hog unless he doesn't know the combo or unless you have more health than his burst. Even Reaper and Mei can't escape with their Ice Block/Shade, which is practically instant.
You need to juke the Hook if playing a squishy, bait it out then engage, or you need to play a tankier hero.
You need to juke the Hook if playing a squishy, bait it out then engage, or you need to play a tankier hero.
Depending on range he can with alt fire, hook, primary fire, melee. That should do the required 400 HP.
Kriptini
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Yes he can, I did it three times in a game I played last night. Hook, headshot left click, headshot melee, dead. It's possible that the Zarya had taken some small damage when I hooked her but she was usually being healed by Mercie so I think it's unlikely.
Hekotat
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Yeah, join a game with Brahma, sit back behind his shield and lay down Orb of Discord and snipe the shit out of people.
Cinge
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What's the trick to roadhog? I have played him a few times, and I hook, hit left click right away then spam V but doesn't seem to work out for me.
Headshot melee? Is that even a thing? I don't think you could kill a Zarya with a hook/shot/melee combo if they are full health/shield. Something else probably hit them(maybe a teammate behind you shooting, since you can shoot through teammates).
Headshot melee? Is that even a thing? I don't think you could kill a Zarya with a hook/shot/melee combo if they are full health/shield. Something else probably hit them(maybe a teammate behind you shooting, since you can shoot through teammates).
With Roadhog you don't want to actually aim at their head with your primary fire. You want to more aim kind of at their neck (probably a bit lower, really) that way the top half will headshot and the bottom half will bodyshot. If you aim at their head you'll get all headshots but fewer bullets will hit so you don't do enough damage. Any 200 HP character should go down pretty easy. Reapers seem somewhat hit or miss for me but I'm also not a great Hog player.
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Brahma yelled at my rl friends for not healing him enough and you want me to play a healer.??
Its fine he yelled at my Mercy because he decided to shift into a group of 5 people and die immediately and wondered why I didn't follow him into the grinder
Kriptini
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I have no idea, I just instictively go for the head and people die.
Nobody was behind me because I was hiding in an alcove, but it's possible that someone would shoot her right as I landed my chain, I guess.
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That was the night I tagged along as well. We totally destroyed that all Mccree team iirc. Pretty sure that was the game I had 36 kills in. lol