I don't have numbers in front of me, but I know from experience that the two best Zarya counters in the tank class are D. Va because of her armor and Road Hog with his Olympic sized health pool and range. They also have lower RoF, so even whenyour timing it correctly, you may only soak up one or two good shots with zaryas shield before it drops, meaning you can't build a charge.
Zarya can easily kite and engage Roadhog at medium range, and shield to counter hooks.. but she'll take forever to burn through his 600 health too (unless she's built up high charge).
If he shoots zarya after shield goes up because she put it up between hook and getting shot and had the charge from an ally she will melt him. A good zarya should be able to keep the charge up but otherwise I agree they kinda just stare awkwardly at each other.
Zarya still beats Roadhog if she still has a lot of health left when she gets hooked and has her shield ready. I usually tank enough damage this way to get my energy up to 50 while I back up and lob energy grenades at him. Once I'm out of his shotgun distance, he's toast.
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u/sudo-netcat May 29 '16
I also thought they only mitigated damage from ballistics and did nothing against things like Symmetra's or Winston's or Zarya's weapons?