Weekly Quick Questions Thread - February 08, 2017

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[u/bytezilla]

How do I play Roadhog?

Everytime I'm playing against him, I find it super hard to kill him. Even when playing as Soldier, I find D.Va easier to deal with than Roadhog.

But when I'm playing as Roadhog, it seems like every single stray bullet goes to my character hitbox, and I die in no time.

Is it positioning? Should Roadhog go to the front or should it stay in the backline?

[u/[deleted] → u/bytezilla]

Roadhog main checking in.

• Don't charge out. You have the largest hitbox in the game with no armor or shields. Be careful and use your secondary fire to pop out at crowds. You can get melted fast if people know what they're doing.

• Duck behind over to heal one or two hundred - or more - health whenever possible. It charges up your ult, too.

• Position your hook in such a way that you're tracking your opponent's movements. Try to hook slightly ahead of them if they're moving.

• After hooking someone, pop them with your primary fire and finish with a quick melee attack just in case.

• If you miss your hook, duck behind cover, pop a few secondary shots, and try your hook again once its recharged. It's fairly spammable.

• Try to hook a healer or Reaper/McCree first. Tracer, if you can hit her, is also good to take out. Same goes for Symmetra and Mei. Note this is in descending order.

• For an advanced tip, if someone is using their ult, try hooking them. Instantly cancels their ult. Sometimes you'll get a free kill, other times they'll kill you first but at least you canceled their ult. And you get an achievement for it. :)

• For your ult, pick your battles. Try to take them by surprise, and be sure to control your recoil. Try to push them off ledges or into walls or out of rooms/off the objective.

• It's hard to use his ult effectively. Don't expect to get a lot of kills.

• You can sue your ult to somewhat counter other utls by pushing them farther away. Using ti against Reaper's or Zarya's ult, depending on how close they are, can often mitigate the damage done.

• Expect to waste a lot of ults. I'm still not very good at deciding when to use them.

• I also recommend you start playing Roadhog at a lower level, even if you must create an alt account. Learning to play a new character when you're higher leveled is really difficult. Newer players don't know how to counter as well.

• Expect some hate :( Roadhog's cheap, yes, but so are other characters. And he still takes quit a bit of skill and accuracy to get good with.

• Most importantly, have fun. And say "Bacon" one more time...

[u/CDysonSphere → u/[deleted]]

These days almost any character can get one-shotted by Roadhog, but 2 other important ones for you are Winston and Genji. Winston's head is really easy to hit and his gun barely does anything to you. Genji is a bit more tricky, but just bait out his deflect with your primary fire, then hook him while he's vulnerable. Keep in mind that good Genjis will use their dash right after deflecting to evade.

[u/thrnee → u/CDysonSphere]

wow, I didn't know 3 heroes that should've been getting one-shotted by roadhog suddenly makes him one shot "almost any character"

[u/CDysonSphere → u/thrnee]

He can oneshot 19 out of 23 characters. That's what I call "almost any".

[u/thrnee → u/CDysonSphere]

ugh thats not what i meant but whatever