Hammond is absolutely my favorite character in terms of actual character, he’s literally a hamster from the moon in a giant robot hamster ball. That’s glorious
The problem is he’s barely even fun because he’s just so bad. I’m pretty sure he’s the worst tank in the game because he was meta for like half of season 3 and people thought he’s annoying, so he’s just doomed to be borderline unplayable forever
I just want him to be good, not meta, good. Obviously a good ball can dominate lobbies, but 99% of the time you’ll get infinitely more value by playing literally any other tank. His machine guns are borderline useless, he’s easy to shut down, he’s a huge target
He has his pros and cons and works fine in QP, but in comp playing him feels like it’s actively harming your team. Why do people hate ball so much? He’s not THAT annoying
People say OW1 was bad because of stagnant metas then get upset when the meta tank isn’t rein or winston
The issue with ball and doom being meta is the removal of a tank. Unless you are extremely high level I’m talking masters+, I play support (diamond 1) and I think every ball this season minus like 4 were dog shit and never put pressure on the enemy team. They may try, but by the time they do the other tank already pushed W through the team and wiped us with the help of their support.
I think ball is a great character with a great kit. But everything in his kit screams IM NOT A TANK, the same thing with doomfist too. They can’t cover their team like any other tank can and it sucks to play with.
There are a few DPS that don’t really fit being a “DPS” based on their kits like Mei, imagine if they boasted her HP to tank levels gave her 50 armor and reduced the cooldowns on her block and wall and you moved her to tank. She would have so much more impact for her team than a ball or doom do as a tank.