Anyone who plays Overwatch, we mean really plays Overwatch, will tell you that it’s not just a game. Overwatch is all-consuming, it’s a lifestyle, and it absorbs your thoughts and your time. Since it is such a huge emotional commitment, players are prone to heightened reactions and understandably so. With all of that said; can we please say how much we f*@%ing hate the character Hanzo!?
Do you main Hanzo? Are you offended that we have something to say about your favourite character? Well, we’re not sorry and we have one hell of a compelling argument for why he sucks!
First of all, Hanzo is brutally OP for the skill required to play him (that means “overpowered” for the uninitiated) and anyone who mains Hanzo exploits that. Don’t sit there and pretend you don’t. Don’t tell us that you’ve never spammed hits to power up your ultimate. If you are a Hanzo player, then you have, and you do, and we resent that. He has the ability to deal up to 125 points of damage in a single hit and 200 points per second with his ultimate making him a cheese beast. His ability to climb walls and perch in ridiculous places makes him susceptible to only a few characters. Admit it, if your playing against a Hanzo, you’ve basically given D’Va a full time job keeping him in line.
Now let’s talk a bit more about his weapon(s). The hitbox on his arrows is huge, one of our coworkers calls his weapon “a brick on a stick” because it’s so easy to land a critical shot without even aiming. No, really! Seriously! Watch the kill cam playbacks, Hanzo barely aims! On top of that, he deals splash damage and has a pretty big AoE (area of effect). Here we’re just going to cry foul! How do arrows deal splash damage? Please explain the physics of this Blizzard, because we are genuinely baffled! And then there’s his ultimate attack; those damn dual dragons that travel the length of the map and can even infiltrate your spawn point. How is that fair? It’s not. It’s bullshit. End of discussion.
Like we said, we are not going to apologize if you play Hanzo and are offended by this rant. Even if, by some matchmaking miracle, we end up on your team as opposed to against you, we are still pissed off. Hanzo’s sins are unforgivable: he requires no skill to deal ridiculous damage, if you play as him you should change your gamertag to “I don’t care about the team”, and he’s never ON THE F*@%ING OBJECTIVE! In conclusion, he is not a team player in a team game and we don’t understand the point of the character; he is the worst member of the Overwatch roster, does nothing to enhance gameplay and is really, terribly annoying!
And don’t bother messaging us to defend Hanzo either, because we don’t want to hear it. Find a new main.
We have escape rooms to build… *drops mic*
Photo credits: all photos of Hanzo are property of Blizzard Entertainment, source: https://playoverwatch.com/en-gb/media/
I’m sorry you got killed by a Hanzo. Literally none of this is a compelling argument.
1) Yes, Hanzo has a powerful ult. Great. So does Reaper, and Mercy, and Dva, and just about every other character. It’s also a relatively narrow cylinder that is loudly announced to the world. Just step out of the way.
2) Explain how a character who can, at will, show where the enemy is hiding/coming from isn’t a team player?
3) Hanzo is a sniper. So yes, he has a powerful shot. That’s what a sniper is. He also can’t spray and pray like soldier or dva,
3.5) Hanzo is a sniper. Why would you keep a sniper on the payload? How is that a tactic?
4) What do you mean by “spamming hits to power your ult”? Do you mean “shooting at the enemy?” because building up for an ultimate attack is not a Hanzo specific trait.
5) Hanzo is perched in a ridiculous place?! If only we had a Pharah/Dva/Genji/Widowmaker/Junkrat/Reaper/Mei/Winston/Roadhog/Additional Hanzo that could get to them. Or SOME character with a form of projectile attack?
Maybe some people who play Hanzo are dicks. Sure. But so are Genji mains. And Junkrat mains. And most people with mains, actually. But this is just…kinda…whiny?
I think the above poster doesn’t really grasp the concept of the article. I think what they were trying to say is that the design of Hanzo itself is flawed. People who use him rely on the very narrow band of his play-style to be “good”. However, in top-tier play his limited dimensional game-play results in him being useless as a team player.
In very rare cases in top-tier play I do see Hanzo picks but I’m usually first to see if this player is playing the meta (to counter slow moving characters like Bastion/Torbjorn or if they use their alt to create a scatter for a Lucio ball.
It’s easy to be good at playing Hanzo but Hanzo is not a good player when you rely on a solid team-mechanic.