Despite the big nerfs mauga is still an above average tank and none of the information in this video is outdated, I made sure to spend time playing him post nerf and then go over the tierlist accordingly. Clarifying since people seem to think otherwise.
If you need to heal or you've established that the enemy team can't sustain their tank, then yes. Otherwise, you should also be laying down suppression fire and picking off squishies who are in the open trying to challenge.
Wrong, you can press the ult button again to cancel cage then run away with your charge. The only reason Mauga wouldn't cancel is if his teammates can't get behind cover in time so he can sacrifice himself
Great video -- I want to add that Mei also has a great matchup against Mauga. Walling him off from his heals is extremely effective, you have ice block and wall to stall in the cage fight, and blizzard is a guaranteed freeze for cage fight as well. I farmed Mauga's pre-nerf and climbed from master 4 to GM5 exclusively playing Mei.
Thanks for the guide, been wondering where Mauga stands after the nerf. This'll definitely help when it comes to picking what hero to play on support/dps or giving suggestions to teammates.
Hey I think Mauga actually has a great matchup against Mauga. You can deal a lot of damage to him, you can cut the other mauga off from heals by using cage fight and even counter his charge by using your charge!
I have been trouble against zarya players with mauga because of that dumb bubble but when you explain that I can burn her inside the bubble that pop my mind of how simple to play against that lol! Ty you for the tips
Have you tried popping cagefight solely as a shield (not trapping anyone) to absorb damage in a mid-range fight against turret Bastion, Hog ult, or enemy Mauga? If you're starting to lose the fight, you pop ult and gain a brief window of time to lifesteal (with auto reload) without taking any damage. Even more advantageous if you have cardiac.
I climbed from gold placement to Master 2 (so far) with Mauga (Zarya as my counter to good Dva's and Sigmas). You always want to test whether the enemy healers will pocket their tank or if the enemy dps will aggro you. When they do either one of those two things, Mauga has to play much more restrained and strategic. Still, always be forcing the enemy tanks cooldowns and resources through raw damage output. Always. Also, kitsune and/or nano will dictate almost every Mauga mirror. If they have one of those and you have neither, you're not winning unless the enemy Mauga is very bad. And if they have bastion + mauga, watch out for turret bastion with lifesteal and damage reduction from cardiac overdrive. You won't kill him, and you will die. But stomping bastion out of turret is often clutch.
Play him a lot cause I like his character, he def is weak to longer ranged enemies but once I get in close if I get those ticks people panic and die usually.
I think Genji is pretty good vs Mauga. Getting up in his face with reflect not only denies his healing for a few seconds it also channels damage into him. You can do this in series with a tank like DVa or SIgma and it becomes hard for him to heal or deal any damage.
I completely agree with you on the tier list, except for dva. if she wanna win her team have to help her. her matrix run out before his bullets does, so personally i would put her in b or c, because of where her head is, his spread melts her
so i'm not sure if this is a new thing or if it works consistently but i was playing against a hog as mauga recently and when the hog ulted me i was able to use mauga's charge to negate the knockback of the ult and run to cover (it basically felt like i was ghosting through hog's ult). also, regarding the sigma match up, i've found the most effective dueling strat is to 1) juke sigma's rock then 2) pressure him into using grasp and 3) the moment he grasps charge and slam him which cancels grasp then you can melt him with both abilities on cooldown. i'm sure this is harder to do consistently in higher ranked games (i'm just a gold 1 tank) but i only really have trouble with sigma when he strafes back and forth across his shield.
Symmetra is very annoying when you’re mauga lol. I played a match a bit ago where we had a Mercy and a Dva and they both stuck to my side and Dva didn’t use her ult until I laid down trap. It was awesome. That Mercy was on point with heals and damage increas as well
I had no idea left click was fire and right was crit.. also that his thing was life steal lol, sometimes I felt super healing and others no heal at all, and I was left there wondering what the hell that was
What do you think about the soujorn vs mauga match up? I feel soujorn can farm mauga way too easy for powerful railshots. Also Hanzo in some way also can reliability headshot Mauga and his ult can deny space inside cage fight or combo with an ally cage fight
Sojourn is pretty good into Mauga but she doesn't really do anything to him. she does well because she can farm rail and then... rail a squishy in the backline, but she won't really do anything to him. Hanzo is pretty decent against him because the headshots can put some pressure on Mauga, especially if he lands many headshots with Storm Arrow, and he can get Dragonstrike very very fast if he lands headshots often. Ik Dragonstrike ain't the best ult in the game, but even the worst of ults become good when you can get one nearly every team fight lol
I def say mauga can counter the rein since he can just obliterate his shield and then destroy rein while using the E so he doesn't lose health. Obviously though while he is destroying the shield he is vulnerable since his E won't work to save him so depending on your positioning is how you'd attack the rein. You can also just charge the rein and stomp him from behind getting a stun and spraying him less than half and being behind him using the E to get him to choose whether he shields you or your team.
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Best Tips for Mauga for T500 from a fellow tank player: * Always shoot both chainguns, but only from far away * Shoot the squishies, ideally the very hard to hit ones * If you’re hit by Anti, rush into the enemy team * Trap everyone on the enemy team Thanks for reading. Best of luck in your ranked climb!
Bro, i just unlocked this dude and in three matches in a row, i won all of them, and in every single match made people leave, in one i even made 4 enemies leave and i also left after that this dude is just so unfair lol
Mauga is still surprisingly good down the metal ranks. I hate how much they nerfed him (especially since I started maining him) but now you have to play it safe with him, even in the metal ranks where he's still kinda dominant
I have something to say to windowmaker. Not she’s thi- I MEAN that i think yesterday and today im becoming a mauga main and i can pretty easily take her out🧐 10:07
Reaper is probably the best DPS counter against Mauga. Orisa and Maug aren't really counters because Mauga disrupts Orisa's style of play and Mauga's just heal each other more than they dmg each other, theyre practically just farming dmg. Junker queen is pretty effective against Mauga if you dont wimp out for no reason, jumping around a Mauga and taking life steal from him works like a charm. Winston works well if you just keep ignoring Mauga, even if he saves his abilities for you, he wont kill you before you can jump out of combat again. Not without skme help at least.
I always feel silly telling high ranking content creators what's what but Orisa being among the Good Mauga Counters, especially with a lot of this seemingly being pre-Mauga-nerf, feels so so wrong. Sure, now that she can't be forcibly crit she does better but even post nerf she feels like maybe the biggest throw pick into Mauga.
The pitfall orisa players fall into is using every cooldown in a short window and never using cover. You do those things and mauga has very hard time killing orisa or getting past her.
I don't think he's bad design. He has a different playstyle that doesn't conform to tank norms. He doesn't keep his team alive very well, but neither does hog, and Mauga has overdrive whereas hog has nothing to help his team. People are just mad that Mauga is disrupting the tank role and they don't like it. He's fine.
Every hero has a simple ass kit. Every hero is simple. He's fun to play, easy to counter. You have other options. To me, sigma and rein and orisa are boring af. Mauga makes shit happen. He is confrontational. How is that boring?
@@KSxPharaoh because he only does one thing and that is shoot. With rein you have a range disadvantage so you need to properly use cover and manage shield to get in close, block the correct abilities and go aggressive when the opportunity arises. Sigma you have milions of creative ways to hit hyperspheres at targets, lots of important abilites to block with proper shield management and ults to interupt with rock. Orissa is more lika mauga but she still has more options. Mauga only ever has one option and that is shoot
@@d00mnoodle62Zarya is literally the same thing lol. Point and shoot. Throw in the occasional cardiac- I mean, shield bubble to make yourself harder to kill while also getting stronger to melt enemies. Half of the roster is also point and shoot lol.
I have something to say to windowmaker. Not she’s thi- I MEAN that i think yesterday and today im becoming a mauga main and i can pretty easily take her out🧐 10:07
coming from a fan of yeatle since overwatch 1 ball plays including off-meta plays and sticking to it, i love your thought process and educational information you dish out and especially your u2gm's where you actually think what would make a difference and whats best for each type of scenarios, a lot of your concepts gave me new insights and got better at the game. i feel like compared to most overwatch stuff out here i consider yours very highly and first in priority because you don't just describe what you're doing in-game you actually give ideas during gameplay. im a plat1-diamond mauga main and im kinda struggling to climb in season 9, i had 65% win rate on season 8 playing only mauga but now im down to about 56%ish this season and its been kinda rough especially vs. doom/sigma/dva and some teammates really dislike mauga on these matchups, i don't usually make comments but i would really love some of your insights of how to climb as mauga on s9 after nerf and dps passive/zen meta etc. im a huge heavy tf2 player and mauga has been a dream come true for me in ow2 and i love every bit of of him, so i really want to make him work and not be a meta-slave per se and i hate counter-swapping. thanks yeatle, huge fan, your content has always been relaxing and informing also love your peaceful attitude while gaming
pro tip; only use your left gun to ignite enemies up close, its more accurate and consistent when single fired, and then fire both once ignited to max out your damage and conserve ammo.
Mauga and rein charges cancel each other unlike Rien duels it's more dependent and who hit it first. At least from what I have seen. ~90% mauga if Rien charges first. ~50% if Mauga charges first does the rein charge effect stomp charge.
As an Ana main, a good Mauga will always get my vial on him when I see his Cardiac Overdrive go off. Enemy Maugas suffer greatly while my Mauga feels unkillable which increased healing for almost the entire Cardiac Overdrive Cooldown. Also, Nano is great for those Cage Fight 1v1/2/3/4/5's that Mauga loves doing. I just like having tanks that like taking Damage for me and can peel well when I get Dove.
I'm sad bc I use to be a ball main and now in season 9 I feel like he's unplayable and now seeing that even the man who taught me everything ik about ball isn't playing him as much just makes me sad...
I wanted to add to the Mauga tips, another way you could get some use of Mauga's ult is force ults with it. If you could get 1 support ult and 1 dps ult. It means you have increased chance to win the next fight easily ( ofc this comes from my experience and i await any tips too)
Despite the big nerfs mauga is still an above average tank and none of the information in this video is outdated, I made sure to spend time playing him post nerf and then go over the tierlist accordingly. Clarifying since people seem to think otherwise.
Tips for mauga: Shoot the tank
Thanks for watching :)
Thank you
Love ur vids Yeatle
If you need to heal or you've established that the enemy team can't sustain their tank, then yes. Otherwise, you should also be laying down suppression fire and picking off squishies who are in the open trying to challenge.
Prioritize the healers
btw this is meant as a joke
Doom is also practically helpless during cage fight because his most valuable abilities are locked out.
Is his damage mitigation locked out during cage fight? Thats crazy. Good to know if so.
@KSxPharaoh I believe doom can still block but it doesn’t exactly help.
@@fighter5583especially cuz he can still get crit by mauga while blocking
Another thing about mauga vs dva is she can just ult inside of your ult and you're trapped with it
Hahahaha wow
Wrong, you can press the ult button again to cancel cage then run away with your charge. The only reason Mauga wouldn't cancel is if his teammates can't get behind cover in time so he can sacrifice himself
Great video -- I want to add that Mei also has a great matchup against Mauga. Walling him off from his heals is extremely effective, you have ice block and wall to stall in the cage fight, and blizzard is a guaranteed freeze for cage fight as well. I farmed Mauga's pre-nerf and climbed from master 4 to GM5 exclusively playing Mei.
Thanks for the guide, been wondering where Mauga stands after the nerf. This'll definitely help when it comes to picking what hero to play on support/dps or giving suggestions to teammates.
Hey I think Mauga actually has a great matchup against Mauga. You can deal a lot of damage to him, you can cut the other mauga off from heals by using cage fight and even counter his charge by using your charge!
I love using maugas charge to evade enemies as much as cause damage. Glad you agree!
I have been trouble against zarya players with mauga because of that dumb bubble but when you explain that I can burn her inside the bubble that pop my mind of how simple to play against that lol! Ty you for the tips
As someone who wants to get good at Mauga I’m glad this video exist.
Have you tried popping cagefight solely as a shield (not trapping anyone) to absorb damage in a mid-range fight against turret Bastion, Hog ult, or enemy Mauga? If you're starting to lose the fight, you pop ult and gain a brief window of time to lifesteal (with auto reload) without taking any damage. Even more advantageous if you have cardiac.
I just started playing OW again after a few years and this is exactly how I used his ULT. I've only played him 3 times. I saved my whole team 😂
Usually I use Cage Fight to enable Dragon Cage (a combination of Mauga and Hanzo's Ultimates).
Such a great Video with alot of insight, thanks for the Video Mr.Yeatle!
I climbed from gold placement to Master 2 (so far) with Mauga (Zarya as my counter to good Dva's and Sigmas). You always want to test whether the enemy healers will pocket their tank or if the enemy dps will aggro you. When they do either one of those two things, Mauga has to play much more restrained and strategic. Still, always be forcing the enemy tanks cooldowns and resources through raw damage output. Always. Also, kitsune and/or nano will dictate almost every Mauga mirror. If they have one of those and you have neither, you're not winning unless the enemy Mauga is very bad. And if they have bastion + mauga, watch out for turret bastion with lifesteal and damage reduction from cardiac overdrive. You won't kill him, and you will die. But stomping bastion out of turret is often clutch.
Play him a lot cause I like his character, he def is weak to longer ranged enemies but once I get in close if I get those ticks people panic and die usually.
I think Genji is pretty good vs Mauga. Getting up in his face with reflect not only denies his healing for a few seconds it also channels damage into him. You can do this in series with a tank like DVa or SIgma and it becomes hard for him to heal or deal any damage.
I completely agree with you on the tier list, except for dva. if she wanna win her team have to help her. her matrix run out before his bullets does, so personally i would put her in b or c, because of where her head is, his spread melts her
so i'm not sure if this is a new thing or if it works consistently but i was playing against a hog as mauga recently and when the hog ulted me i was able to use mauga's charge to negate the knockback of the ult and run to cover (it basically felt like i was ghosting through hog's ult). also, regarding the sigma match up, i've found the most effective dueling strat is to 1) juke sigma's rock then 2) pressure him into using grasp and 3) the moment he grasps charge and slam him which cancels grasp then you can melt him with both abilities on cooldown. i'm sure this is harder to do consistently in higher ranked games (i'm just a gold 1 tank) but i only really have trouble with sigma when he strafes back and forth across his shield.
Symmetra is very annoying when you’re mauga lol. I played a match a bit ago where we had a Mercy and a Dva and they both stuck to my side and Dva didn’t use her ult until I laid down trap. It was awesome. That Mercy was on point with heals and damage increas as well
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Cardiac overdrive with a Genji blade IS insane
I had no idea left click was fire and right was crit.. also that his thing was life steal lol, sometimes I felt super healing and others no heal at all, and I was left there wondering what the hell that was
What do you think about the soujorn vs mauga match up? I feel soujorn can farm mauga way too easy for powerful railshots.
Also Hanzo in some way also can reliability headshot Mauga and his ult can deny space inside cage fight or combo with an ally cage fight
Sojourn is pretty good into Mauga but she doesn't really do anything to him. she does well because she can farm rail and then... rail a squishy in the backline, but she won't really do anything to him.
Hanzo is pretty decent against him because the headshots can put some pressure on Mauga, especially if he lands many headshots with Storm Arrow, and he can get Dragonstrike very very fast if he lands headshots often. Ik Dragonstrike ain't the best ult in the game, but even the worst of ults become good when you can get one nearly every team fight lol
mauga IS a character for dummies wtfdym
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The run techs are very helpful. Thanks man
Another honorable mention is Tracer, she'll weaken you down then toss her nade on you.
I def say mauga can counter the rein since he can just obliterate his shield and then destroy rein while using the E so he doesn't lose health. Obviously though while he is destroying the shield he is vulnerable since his E won't work to save him so depending on your positioning is how you'd attack the rein. You can also just charge the rein and stomp him from behind getting a stun and spraying him less than half and being behind him using the E to get him to choose whether he shields you or your team.
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Best Tips for Mauga for T500 from a fellow tank player:
* Always shoot both chainguns, but only from far away
* Shoot the squishies, ideally the very hard to hit ones
* If you’re hit by Anti, rush into the enemy team
* Trap everyone on the enemy team
Thanks for reading. Best of luck in your ranked climb!
What not to do
This was positively useless!
If I'm playing Mauga and the enemy team switches to Sojourn, I'll usually switch off.
I have a question veatle, what about tracer, torbjorn, and Moria would those guys be counters to Mauga at all?
Dud did his homework
Bro, i just unlocked this dude and in three matches in a row, i won all of them, and in every single match made people leave, in one i even made 4 enemies leave and i also left after that this dude is just so unfair lol
Unfortunate that a lot of this was made and recorded before his multiple nerfs
Look at his ammo count, it was one of the nerfs
@@feliper7420 some clips it does, most clips it doesn't
Mauga is still surprisingly good down the metal ranks. I hate how much they nerfed him (especially since I started maining him) but now you have to play it safe with him, even in the metal ranks where he's still kinda dominant
the information is still useful though regardless
this comment sucks because he uses only some clips from pre nerf in moments where the same info would apply regardless of Mauga’s current balance
I have something to say to windowmaker. Not she’s thi- I MEAN that i think yesterday and today im becoming a mauga main and i can pretty easily take her out🧐 10:07
I’d expected junkrat to be on both tierlists considered he can just spam mauga then tire every team fight
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Reinhardt is the most balanced tank.😊
maug runnin over rein ez
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Reaper is probably the best DPS counter against Mauga. Orisa and Maug aren't really counters because Mauga disrupts Orisa's style of play and Mauga's just heal each other more than they dmg each other, theyre practically just farming dmg. Junker queen is pretty effective against Mauga if you dont wimp out for no reason, jumping around a Mauga and taking life steal from him works like a charm. Winston works well if you just keep ignoring Mauga, even if he saves his abilities for you, he wont kill you before you can jump out of combat again. Not without skme help at least.
Why they keep making shit like this baffles me
Mauga is indeed for dummies
No.
I always feel silly telling high ranking content creators what's what but Orisa being among the Good Mauga Counters, especially with a lot of this seemingly being pre-Mauga-nerf, feels so so wrong. Sure, now that she can't be forcibly crit she does better but even post nerf she feels like maybe the biggest throw pick into Mauga.
The pitfall orisa players fall into is using every cooldown in a short window and never using cover. You do those things and mauga has very hard time killing orisa or getting past her.
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I would love to, but those two hearts won't stop getting that blood pumping.
@@itikuekuek I'd say aim for your head but mauga players don't need it anyway
My respect for yeatle has gone down for maiming mauga
Thats a you problem. Mauga is fine. Learn to deal with him.
dumbest hero ever. overwatch is cannibalizing itself
Just delete Mauga alltogether. Terrible character design.
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I don't think he's bad design. He has a different playstyle that doesn't conform to tank norms. He doesn't keep his team alive very well, but neither does hog, and Mauga has overdrive whereas hog has nothing to help his team. People are just mad that Mauga is disrupting the tank role and they don't like it. He's fine.
@@KSxPharaohexactly, I don't get the hate for him unless it's the salt they have for day one Mauga lol and they think he's still like that
Why would i want to play this boring ass one dimensional character though?
Every hero has a simple ass kit. Every hero is simple. He's fun to play, easy to counter. You have other options. To me, sigma and rein and orisa are boring af. Mauga makes shit happen. He is confrontational. How is that boring?
@@KSxPharaoh because he only does one thing and that is shoot. With rein you have a range disadvantage so you need to properly use cover and manage shield to get in close, block the correct abilities and go aggressive when the opportunity arises. Sigma you have milions of creative ways to hit hyperspheres at targets, lots of important abilites to block with proper shield management and ults to interupt with rock. Orissa is more lika mauga but she still has more options. Mauga only ever has one option and that is shoot
@@d00mnoodle62Zarya is literally the same thing lol. Point and shoot. Throw in the occasional cardiac- I mean, shield bubble to make yourself harder to kill while also getting stronger to melt enemies. Half of the roster is also point and shoot lol.
Doesn't he still self heal even when naded?
He can get his Overhealth passive for landing crits but he cannot get his actual health back from his cardiac ability
You are easily my favorite tank/educational streamer, especially now that you don't play Ball as much lol
I have something to say to windowmaker. Not she’s thi- I MEAN that i think yesterday and today im becoming a mauga main and i can pretty easily take her out🧐 10:07
coming from a fan of yeatle since overwatch 1 ball plays including off-meta plays and sticking to it, i love your thought process and educational information you dish out and especially your u2gm's where you actually think what would make a difference and whats best for each type of scenarios, a lot of your concepts gave me new insights and got better at the game. i feel like compared to most overwatch stuff out here i consider yours very highly and first in priority because you don't just describe what you're doing in-game you actually give ideas during gameplay.
im a plat1-diamond mauga main and im kinda struggling to climb in season 9, i had 65% win rate on season 8 playing only mauga but now im down to about 56%ish this season and its been kinda rough especially vs. doom/sigma/dva and some teammates really dislike mauga on these matchups, i don't usually make comments but i would really love some of your insights of how to climb as mauga on s9 after nerf and dps passive/zen meta etc. im a huge heavy tf2 player and mauga has been a dream come true for me in ow2 and i love every bit of of him, so i really want to make him work and not be a meta-slave per se and i hate counter-swapping.
thanks yeatle, huge fan, your content has always been relaxing and informing also love your peaceful attitude while gaming
pro tip; only use your left gun to ignite enemies up close, its more accurate and consistent when single fired, and then fire both once ignited to max out your damage and conserve ammo.
Mauga and rein charges cancel each other unlike Rien duels it's more dependent and who hit it first. At least from what I have seen. ~90% mauga if Rien charges first. ~50% if Mauga charges first does the rein charge effect stomp charge.
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As an Ana main, a good Mauga will always get my vial on him when I see his Cardiac Overdrive go off. Enemy Maugas suffer greatly while my Mauga feels unkillable which increased healing for almost the entire Cardiac Overdrive Cooldown.
Also, Nano is great for those Cage Fight 1v1/2/3/4/5's that Mauga loves doing. I just like having tanks that like taking Damage for me and can peel well when I get Dove.
I'm sad bc I use to be a ball main and now in season 9 I feel like he's unplayable and now seeing that even the man who taught me everything ik about ball isn't playing him as much just makes me sad...
You should just think like Mauga is Dv.a because There spread is exactly the same wen using both guns at the same time
I wanted to add to the Mauga tips, another way you could get some use of Mauga's ult is force ults with it. If you could get 1 support ult and 1 dps ult. It means you have increased chance to win the next fight easily ( ofc this comes from my experience and i await any tips too)
I fuckijg loves this mauga because I can relate to him having fun with guns
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Only rank 14? Why am I listening to this guy and not Metro!
a little too late
Biggest advice for Mauga: Dont play him, he is only good against Roadhog and even Roadhog is a trash hero
Not gonna lie when I saw this video title I thought, "Mauga can't be complex enough for a whole guide".
He can tho, and he is. There's matchup considerations just as with any other tank, and you can't just ignore his counters.