@@GoldenKirby Let me introduce you to this concept called "aggro". Bro if you fuck up as a tank, especially at that level, you are going to lose. His team won. So clearly he was doing something right.
You know what would fix everything just give hog quake strafe jumping it would be funny and everyone would forget his design is uninteractive and unfun to go against lol
I've started running Sombra to hack hogs during their heal. They switch off pretty quick. Same with the Doomfist players. I just had how much of a resource sink he is to play against.
As a Junk main, taking down a Sojourn requires planning a mine-jump, good positioning to deal with her cooldowns and using the team, or just going YOLO and trying to take her down before she slides out or gets her 1-shot. You can definitely make it work, but depending on the situation it can be difficult. Taking down an Orisa solo requires a whole plan to lead and trap her in a closed space, use ricochets, and inevitable go into a 1v1 where her spear can end the game. It’s hard, but it’s very possible, and if she gets reinforcements they can get hit by the splash damage. Honestly it’s a fun fight. Planning a Hog trap literally can go perfectly according to plan, and he will either kill me or I will have to mine jump out before I die, and at the end of it he’ll never be below 25% after emptying my ammo, catching sometimes 2 traps, using mines so he doesn’t land hook, and then he’ll just get back to full because of course the healers want him alive. It’s so stupid. And it won’t matter unless I have a whole team with me because unless I have a Baptiste or Kiriko keeping me from dying in 1-2 hits, it won’t make a difference.
7:06 I think that a hero being on a razors edge of balance generally means that the hero themself is quite strong but is hard shutdown by their counters. So when the counters are no longer effective you see the true power of the hero (Kiriko allowing Hog to run free). My solution would be to nerf the hero *and* their counter to make the "knifes edge" a little more dull, so to speak. In the case of Hog it would mean nerfing him a bunch, while also nerfing anti nade. Specifically I'd like to see anti nade no longer completely blocking healing though it's duration but instead reducing it by say 80%. For Hog I think reducing his healing to 200 but reducing it's cooldown in an effort to make healing through damage less effective, reducing hook range, and reducing primary fire damage would be a good starting point.
i still can’t believe the crit hitbox on earthshatter was from Flats’ experimental patch. the BEST rein buff we ever got besides pin cancel. thank u rein king
Nah, rein pin is one of the worst abilities in the game, for the amount of risk involved, it has to be high damage or its barely worth it. 225 isn't enough, just make it 300 again, ffs. And 100 damage firestrike, that way IF you can potentially hit two shots on the same squishy, BEFORE they get any heals, that's an insanely high skill maneuver, and you should deserve that kill, especially if you hit them through a window.
I wonder when the devs will really get locked in with the balance. I don’t have much faith because of how incompetent they have been with doom fist and sojourn but with the new hotfixing they plan on doing and experimental mode coming back I’m just not sure
It’s the little things about Flat’s gameplay that makes me respect him as a player For example at 2:13 he shatters the cree and Kiriko. If that were me I would’ve hard tunnel visioned the Kiriko to confirm a support kill and deny any cleanse plays but Flatts recognizes that he’s against ANOTHER REIN who has pin off cooldown so he reads this then backs off to dodge the pin. I would’ve gotten pinned into the next century and lost the team fight
honestly i think he really just knew that rein was to his left and he might have pin, people who keep track of others cooldowns are a different breed fr
So if anyone ever argue with you that Hog is not broken, just show them this part 0:25 . Got JQ ulted and breaks off from his team, healed anyways, hook+kills Lucio, JQ dumps full CDs on him doing nothing, his team comes back and kills JQ, then healed again. "outskilled" btw. hoo boy I'm really excited for that mid January patch... i hope they nerf him down to the point where people will BEG for you not to use him.
Yeah people are afraid of hog being bad and are afraid theres nothing fun about it i what to see him become doom in season 1 then there wouldnt be any tank thats an win button
@Flats I feel like alternating stab and shotgun does the best dmg and heals you as much as possible so I stab a ton a junk queen. Kinda like the 2 shot, heal grenade on bap combo
Without totally reworking his kit, what’s the best way to rework hog? Lower his damage to be more on par with other tanks? Limit his hook’s range? Longer cooldowns?
I think tweaking the numbers is not the solution. In this state, they need to give him a soft or total rework. He Still needs to keep his character but also be able to tank. I personally would lower his damage a lot, give him 2 hooks and give the breather maybe a team utility like JQs shout
@@k22k I like that suggestion especially the part of the breather. Because didn't they do an experimental where his breather helped his teammates too back in OW 1?
@@leash8932 They can always hard cap any green overhealing it would do if they let it give any. Like he has his base HP + up to 100 overhealing that goes away
Is there any possibility that I can end up against Flats in any QP I play? Does it have any special matchmaking system (For example, he will only end up against GM or Top500 even in QP)
im not very high ranked but i dont understand the issue with hog, i played a bit in the first few years of OW1 and he had a one shot combo, is he an issue now because its 5v5 and there is one less tank?
Nerfs to Hog not to completely and utterly delete him? Take a Breather, and reduce damage reduction from 50% to 25%. In this game, I honestly think hog taking 25% more damage while he's healing would be enough to take hog from "Must pick" to a balanced pick. Maybe increase the cooldown... but while he has one shot potential killing that would kind of completely nuke him into old Doomfist territory.
how do you use JQ, whenever i use her it feels like im shooting soggy tea bags at my enemies and the passive DOT does nothing, but when im agaisnt them they can deal 80 dmg halfway across the map with the primary fire
she has a shotgun so play in shotgun range headshots are delicious knife pull shoot knife pull axe stay in shotgun range wait for Kiriko to Suzu ULT Team holds W
Against Sigma, I'd say anything that can get past him and deal with his backline (WInston, Doomfist, D'Va are good examples). And when it comes to Hog, ignoring him and go for his supports is by far the best counter, but if you really need someone that maybe has some counter measures to his kit, then D'Va, she can eat good portion of his ult as well as the left click he does when he combo someone (preventing his one shot) with her right click.
Fix for hog: vape only heals 200 hp but you are invincible while using it so maybe 2 seconds, hook gets a distance nerf along with damage nerf to gun so one shot DPS and Support go away. He need to be a tank still but rely more in team engagement.
The promble is had gawdamn invicible to just not be dead for letting his team die he can just leave that just maked the promble worst also bio nadeing wont do anything if he just invicible during it
Ye but the fact that his crusty friends are healing him versus a pro healer on Flat's team. Just goes to show how they were outplayed on multiple fronts ngl.
The skin Flats is using? it's a skin from an expensive full-game priced Blizzard 30th anniversary bundle. You can no longer buy this. It's based on Starcraft's Jim Raynor.
I feel like the idea of hog 1 shot killing someone is ok BUT only if they are less than 70%, they are out of position, and damn make that hook hit box smaller. Throw that shit at the moon and hit a helpless zen behind the corner 😂
Yo they need to fix rein's charge. How tf do you pin a 200ph Lucio and he walks away from it. And the hitbox is a joke. Mfs will be right in front of me and bounce off like a beach ball.
Yo Flats I got a bronze match for you and your friends to watch, I was playing a bit of Sigma and Rein this was one of my placement matches and I think I did Ok. FAZA7B
That Sonic edit was so freaking good. Kudos to the editor!
I'm certain he edits...
@@ghostyun8832 Well then Kudos to Flats lol
@@ghostyun8832 no, look at the description
An Ethical Rein Mirror, also referred to as a Gentleman’s Reinhardt agreement, will always give me faith in humanity.
Mad props to that guy. Put himself in an incredibly unfavorable position *JUST* to be nice, and won anyway.
What an actual fucking chad.
No kidding. Top 500 players really are another breed.
He didn't win, his team won for him
@@GoldenKirby At this level, that's literally impossible. He's playing tank.
@@minimalgrammar1276 Considering the sheer MTDizzles we saw that game I can believe otherwise.
@@GoldenKirby Let me introduce you to this concept called "aggro".
Bro if you fuck up as a tank, especially at that level, you are going to lose. His team won. So clearly he was doing something right.
Heck yes!! Waking up to flats along with a few others on a Sunday is amazing
how many people share your bed bro wdf
@@itookaonabookanyway7385 ask your dad
@@Waffl3B1T ask him what
Flats, I don't know who your editor is, but give him a raise.
Fr
ong😭
roadrunner, check description
pan crit sound at 5:05 💢
I'm his editor.......and I'm also a compulsive liar
Flats getting *wide* suddenly during his song had me cracking up 😭
The day hog is fair in deathmatch is the day i rejoice
Agreed
You shall never rejoice!
I think we can all agree that hog mains are a whole different breed of subhumans XD
frick you
As a hog main I am indeed a subhuman
Agreed
XD confirmed
You know what would fix everything just give hog quake strafe jumping it would be funny and everyone would forget his design is uninteractive and unfun to go against lol
Playing against hog is about as fun as playing against sorjoun. I’d actually say it’s worse because he literally never fucking dies.
I've started running Sombra to hack hogs during their heal. They switch off pretty quick. Same with the Doomfist players. I just had how much of a resource sink he is to play against.
As a Junk main, taking down a Sojourn requires planning a mine-jump, good positioning to deal with her cooldowns and using the team, or just going YOLO and trying to take her down before she slides out or gets her 1-shot. You can definitely make it work, but depending on the situation it can be difficult.
Taking down an Orisa solo requires a whole plan to lead and trap her in a closed space, use ricochets, and inevitable go into a 1v1 where her spear can end the game. It’s hard, but it’s very possible, and if she gets reinforcements they can get hit by the splash damage. Honestly it’s a fun fight.
Planning a Hog trap literally can go perfectly according to plan, and he will either kill me or I will have to mine jump out before I die, and at the end of it he’ll never be below 25% after emptying my ammo, catching sometimes 2 traps, using mines so he doesn’t land hook, and then he’ll just get back to full because of course the healers want him alive. It’s so stupid.
And it won’t matter unless I have a whole team with me because unless I have a Baptiste or Kiriko keeping me from dying in 1-2 hits, it won’t make a difference.
I love how the Lucio player just went "WHEEEEEEEEE!" in chat when he Sonic the Hedgehogged into point at 1:55
1:51 The rings coming out of Lucio really put the cherry on top.
Tha poor kiriko at 8:33 the charge just vortex'ed her into it
LOL im the cassidy (Areris) and my friend is the rein here (Kiseki), great vid that was such a fun game hahahaha
Roadrunner those rings were perfect on the lucio kill. Well done.
Love that sonic edit with the sound effects and the Lucio losing all of those rings.
I have no issue with hog being op, ill fight it all day, just give me back a rein that can do something again
Yeah that pin onto the Reaper was immaculate, and it doesn't even reward a kill. He just ghosts out, doesn't even need help to survive it.
The pin not killing 250 hp targets wouldnt be an isssue if the 250 hp targets didn’t both have abilities that could save them for free
@@Baconator4579 Both?
@@silverembers3302 Mei and reaper
@@mrgiraffe1577 Poor Torb, all forgotten and alone
7:06 I think that a hero being on a razors edge of balance generally means that the hero themself is quite strong but is hard shutdown by their counters. So when the counters are no longer effective you see the true power of the hero (Kiriko allowing Hog to run free). My solution would be to nerf the hero *and* their counter to make the "knifes edge" a little more dull, so to speak.
In the case of Hog it would mean nerfing him a bunch, while also nerfing anti nade. Specifically I'd like to see anti nade no longer completely blocking healing though it's duration but instead reducing it by say 80%. For Hog I think reducing his healing to 200 but reducing it's cooldown in an effort to make healing through damage less effective, reducing hook range, and reducing primary fire damage would be a good starting point.
1:50 The edit on the lucio had me cackling
i still can’t believe the crit hitbox on earthshatter was from Flats’ experimental patch. the BEST rein buff we ever got besides pin cancel. thank u rein king
8:33 the most illegal pin I've ever seen
4:10 nerf genji btw
He literally shatters air but if you look closely it’s the built up self-esteem he didn’t destroy in the first round.
I used to think rein pin was way too good
Then I stopped being a bronze player
Ow1 maybe
Nah, rein pin is one of the worst abilities in the game, for the amount of risk involved, it has to be high damage or its barely worth it. 225 isn't enough, just make it 300 again, ffs. And 100 damage firestrike, that way IF you can potentially hit two shots on the same squishy, BEFORE they get any heals, that's an insanely high skill maneuver, and you should deserve that kill, especially if you hit them through a window.
@@nuclearsimian3281 I feel as if you're speaking from a solo queue prospective...we don't do that here.
@@ghostyun8832 Nope, I am a f2p player
Seagull yelling at you for falling for the boop made my day.
That Cass got bonked, really enjoy seeing my streamer bonk people around.
Fun fact Hog and/or Sojourn can be busted for multiple seasons.... Sym got to be a meta pick for like a day in OW1 before she was nerfed.
Genji was meta for two weeks and then was gutted to an even worse position then before his buff
I wonder when the devs will really get locked in with the balance. I don’t have much faith because of how incompetent they have been with doom fist and sojourn but with the new hotfixing they plan on doing and experimental mode coming back I’m just not sure
It’s the little things about Flat’s gameplay that makes me respect him as a player
For example at 2:13 he shatters the cree and Kiriko. If that were me I would’ve hard tunnel visioned the Kiriko to confirm a support kill and deny any cleanse plays but Flatts recognizes that he’s against ANOTHER REIN who has pin off cooldown so he reads this then backs off to dodge the pin.
I would’ve gotten pinned into the next century and lost the team fight
honestly i think he really just knew that rein was to his left and he might have pin, people who keep track of others cooldowns are a different breed fr
*cassidy :D
@@fudgeymoss Enjoy the moral high ground dude
@@atomictacobell_6773 😂😂
you're telling me you don't have the knowledge to back up when you see and hear a Rein pinning on your left while swinging on a Shattered target?
Flats bullied them so hard they went Bastion, love it!
So if anyone ever argue with you that Hog is not broken, just show them this part 0:25 .
Got JQ ulted and breaks off from his team, healed anyways, hook+kills Lucio, JQ dumps full CDs on him doing nothing, his team comes back and kills JQ, then healed again. "outskilled" btw.
hoo boy I'm really excited for that mid January patch... i hope they nerf him down to the point where people will BEG for you not to use him.
Yeah people are afraid of hog being bad and are afraid theres nothing fun about it i what to see him become doom in season 1 then there wouldnt be any tank thats an win button
Realy loved that Video my man! Keep on the great work
Love the song at 6:38
It's crazy how much damage you put into Hog and yet with his self heal and a pocket mercy it's like you didn't really damage him at all.
same thing can be said about orisa
@@p6id at least you juggle cool downs with orisa. Hog you push one button and you're basically unkillable.
@@daybreak2127 instead of one button it’s 2, not much of a difference
1:51 top tier editing
The sonic rings had me crying!
@Flats I feel like alternating stab and shotgun does the best dmg and heals you as much as possible so I stab a ton a junk queen. Kinda like the 2 shot, heal grenade on bap combo
Without totally reworking his kit, what’s the best way to rework hog? Lower his damage to be more on par with other tanks? Limit his hook’s range? Longer cooldowns?
I think tweaking the numbers is not the solution. In this state, they need to give him a soft or total rework. He Still needs to keep his character but also be able to tank. I personally would lower his damage a lot, give him 2 hooks and give the breather maybe a team utility like JQs shout
@@k22k I like that suggestion especially the part of the breather. Because didn't they do an experimental where his breather helped his teammates too back in OW 1?
They were really saying Mashalla in chat lmaoooo 😭😭😭
Would you think it would be a good idea to make it so that Hogs Vape gives him Green temp health instead of straight up healing himself?
I was thinking of this just now, but realised that he could have 1k health and that’s worss
@@leash8932 They can always hard cap any green overhealing it would do if they let it give any. Like he has his base HP + up to 100 overhealing that goes away
Flats playing Rein is so good to watch
8:31 WHAT WAS THAT PIN LMFAOOOOOO
Oh hey I was in the stream during that esperancia game
1:51 The editing tho
I ltotally lost it
4:11 since when does pin do less than 250 damage?
Since the launch of OW2.
Is there any possibility that I can end up against Flats in any QP I play? Does it have any special matchmaking system (For example, he will only end up against GM or Top500 even in QP)
if youre low ranked chances are your mmr is low, while his is high
so you may not match against him for now
Got placed in bronze after climbing up to gold last season. Pretty demoralizing to out dps all the dps as Ana while still being top healing.
NOOOO WHAT THE HECKK
I STARTED WATCHING YOU IN QUE AND I FORGOT I HAD THE GAME OPEN
YOU JUST MADE 5 PEOPLE LOSE RR WITH A BANGER VIDEO
10:50 honourable*
Poor John, three canceled high noons. 😔
Top notch editing!
Wanted vs Flats greatest thing ever
Hog is the Blackbeard of Overwatch
That was fun to watch!
I didn’t even realize how early I was until I checked comments near the end.
this was absolutely cruel. how could you
I hate your profile picture and I agree
im not very high ranked but i dont understand the issue with hog, i played a bit in the first few years of OW1 and he had a one shot combo, is he an issue now because its 5v5 and there is one less tank?
I wish reins shatter actually made that bonk sound lol
rein skin with a squeaky hammer
New flats vid before work lets goooo
my 2 fav ow youtubers against eachother lel
POV: Never Happening. Flats has been a Hog main for years. You can see his OW record, Hog's his most played hero even back in OW1...
Nerfs to Hog not to completely and utterly delete him?
Take a Breather, and reduce damage reduction from 50% to 25%.
In this game, I honestly think hog taking 25% more damage while he's healing would be enough to take hog from "Must pick" to a balanced pick.
Maybe increase the cooldown... but while he has one shot potential killing that would kind of completely nuke him into old Doomfist territory.
how do you use JQ, whenever i use her it feels like im shooting soggy tea bags at my enemies and the passive DOT does nothing, but when im agaisnt them they can deal 80 dmg halfway across the map with the primary fire
she has a shotgun
so play in shotgun range
headshots are delicious
knife pull shoot
knife pull axe
stay in shotgun range
wait for Kiriko to Suzu
ULT
Team holds W
@@GoldenKirby dam
Escaping Hog in QP?? Idk about you guys but Hog is the tank i see the most in QP (other than Dva and Ramatra)
give hog the genji treatment
I’m one tricking as Orisa rn and seeing that most tanks can’t do much to counter you
What's the best tank to use vs sigma and hog?
Against Sigma, I'd say anything that can get past him and deal with his backline (WInston, Doomfist, D'Va are good examples). And when it comes to Hog, ignoring him and go for his supports is by far the best counter, but if you really need someone that maybe has some counter measures to his kit, then D'Va, she can eat good portion of his ult as well as the left click he does when he combo someone (preventing his one shot) with her right click.
Aint no way reaper survives a reinhardt charge, someone please explain what happened there
Bad balance
They nerfed his charge damage from 300 to 225. He can’t oneshot a full hp reaper now.
Fix for hog: vape only heals 200 hp but you are invincible while using it so maybe 2 seconds, hook gets a distance nerf along with damage nerf to gun so one shot DPS and Support go away. He need to be a tank still but rely more in team engagement.
The promble is had gawdamn invicible to just not be dead for letting his team die he can just leave that just maked the promble worst also bio nadeing wont do anything if he just invicible during it
winton winton winton
I just noticed that the Mcree you pinned on that esperanca, or whatever that map is called, was fucking Wanted
IMO best fix for Hog, reskin all of his skins to "skinny Hog" - give him 225 HP same kit require 2 shot melee combo on hook. Make him DPS.
First love your content man spectating bronze is hilarious bro
I went hog in a qp game last night. You don’t just get to have 2 pockets and t bag my supports
Love you Flats! ❤️🔥Sorry you gotta keep dealing with Hog players tho I honestly get them in almost any comp or qp game
In all honesty if I asked for a mirror, if I wanted to switch I would just politely say so In chat so they know to change too if they want
“This is so sad can we nerf genji 😔”
What rein skin is that
He’d prob survive a nuke with 50% damage reduction
Pin needs to 1 shot squishies!
Holy sh×t you're a good Reinhardt.
what did Wanted ever do to you Flats?
Hog punishes bad positioning
Damn Flats them bars 😍
Yeah. If they would lengthen the cool down and half the amount of heal, he'd be pretty balanced.
Man, you made me like playing Reinhardt.
Ye but the fact that his crusty friends are healing him versus a pro healer on Flat's team. Just goes to show how they were outplayed on multiple fronts ngl.
Wth is that Rein skin, it looks fucking awesome
The skin Flats is using? it's a skin from an expensive full-game priced Blizzard 30th anniversary bundle. You can no longer buy this.
It's based on Starcraft's Jim Raynor.
Poor John :D
Keep blaming hog
This is hilarious
"He was fair when (his 1shot was the same as it is now, but kiriko didn't exist)"
Lmao
if we make all tanks busted we cant complain about hog
Day 14 of asking Flats to do bronze vs bot again.
bots"
@@callandulyea fun fact: you can edit comments
I feel like the idea of hog 1 shot killing someone is ok BUT only if they are less than 70%, they are out of position, and damn make that hook hit box smaller. Throw that shit at the moon and hit a helpless zen behind the corner 😂
Its an oneshot not 70 percent shot
Yo they need to fix rein's charge. How tf do you pin a 200ph Lucio and he walks away from it. And the hitbox is a joke. Mfs will be right in front of me and bounce off like a beach ball.
I gotta be honest, people calling hog op is like people calling ganon or Kirby op in ssbu
Ok but that Ganon has a Max tomato every 6 seconds so if you dont kill him in a single combo, have fun
Also his warlock punch has no start up and was an projectile
Poor wanted
The dream of getting Rein mirror against flats but you play console😭
When Flats out plays you and you still win and get POTG... Yeah the term "TANK DIFF" means absolutely NOTHING in the current meta.
Tbf tho, potg tracker does whatever it wants....
For someone who seemingly complains about this game every video. I mean literally every video never anything positive. He sure plays it a lot.
Do you just stop going to work if you don't like your job?
@@christopherbonds1858 fair 😂
Yo Flats I got a bronze match for you and your friends to watch, I was playing a bit of Sigma and Rein this was one of my placement matches and I think I did Ok. FAZA7B
Hog boosting some of these players way too high.