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
No shield, easy.
Playing with bad Balls can be hellish because he either hyperfeeds to the enemy team OR lurks around the map for too long, failing to create distractions that the enemy Tank (plus his teammates) can casually walk over your team.
Any Tanks that can fight back, will always be considered as Unfun to play against.
Because they are useless when they’re on your team but when they’re on the enemy team they have invincibility and your entire squad will try to chase after him while the rest of the enemy team stays on the objective and deletes any of your teammates that decide to have a bright idea.
I don’t mind you play ball or doom in qp, but please not in comp, IF you didn’t get value for it change it please…it’s very very hard to see a good play
Vast majority of tank players who try ball int their brains out. Maybe it’s collective scarring.
As a support main, without fail the enemy team just ignores ball and goes straight for me.
People say that ball is not fun to play agains, I think it even is not fun when ball is in my team.
If you play support, ball is just zooming all around the places, often out of healing reach. So sometimes there is the complaning about not getting gealed enough. Even if the ball is managing to survive without support heals, that is huge amount of progression away from your support ult, when you can not heal your tank. And then the main thing IMO. Tank is supposed to be bullet sponge. If the tank is not constantly somewhere where you can rely it being a “shield” to you, it really takes away from the teams ability to hold or push points.
“I need healing (no healers nearby)”
He is the tank version of Sombra that exists only to annoy me (yes me specifically).
When he knows what he’s doing, I love it
I’m playing a lot of Tracer lately
Depending on the character your playing you ethier can do nothing against ball as there not even a crit point to hit a skill shot to save your own life. Or you just shutdown the ball for free. There just no good middle ground with him
He feels like a troll pick because there are SO MANY bad Balls out there.
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.
He is incredibly powerful Wdym, a good ball player dominates a lobby regardless of counterpicks, if his team works with him at least