Hawkeye is NOT OP.

[Clumsybeast]

Hawkeye is not OP, you are just bad..

After playing with many of the characters, and finally deciding to play Hawkeye, not because he is easy, but because if you got SKILL with him, he can be dangerous, but even then he has a lot of negatives about him that make him only playable to people who know how to aim well. If you cannot aim well, he is the more useless character in the game. He has one of the lowest mobility in the game, so if people get to you, you are gonna have a bad time. His Ults only good if people are in focus, and dont have clutter everywhere.

The maps themselves do not favor Hawkeye since there is so much corridors, clutter, and more in the way of him trying to aim, and getting stuck in close battles a lot. Its only not a big issue if you know how to aim quick, and get enemies off you. Hes one of the few heroes that you actually have to aim very well with. He doesnt need a nerf.

[DaylightDemon]

Escrito originalmente por ViexxAz:

hawkeye has 15% boost damage this season if not mistaken

its his season specific team up bonus. so when paired with certain heroes, he gets 15% dmgboost. not always.

[Midnight]

I don't like oneshots in general.

You can argue about balance for years but at the end of the day it never feels good to be oneshot out of nowhere. Attempts to balance it usually result in the hero being clunky. Oneshots also completely bypass the healing/damage balance creating a massive outlier.

I don't know why developers keep making this mistake. You can put a bunch of restrictions on such heroes and make them feel ♥♥♥♥ to play and they are still gonna be oppressive in some situations. It just doesn't work well.

[Shuyin178]

Haweye's entire kit is "Hit the headshot forehead" and that's it.
There is nothing special he has to do, the rest of his kit is irrelevant.
He hits the headshot, he wins. He oppresses supports because he can 1-shot them, he can even 1-shot most of the DPS roster as well. It's not balanced and it's not all right to keep around.
And lets not forget about his attack speed too, he can shoot so many arrows in such a low amount of time it's ridiculous. He might as well have Punisher's assault rifle.

[DaylightDemon]

hawkeyes design philosphy makes especially no sense because they decided to give the signature hitscan sniper character an "almost" but distinctly not oneshot but then the almost-hitscan-projectile-with-far-bigger-hitbox-than-hitscan-character an overkill oneshot that is even pretty effective against tanks aswell. a sniper characters weakness should always be tanks. and for hawkeye thats true to some extend, but by far not as much as it should be.

[Angel-itis]

Yeah no. between network differences, janky hitboxes and him not even needing his damage bonus passive that he gets for looking at an enemy to one tap PLUS he can build that passive through walls he needs some sort of nerf. Wether thats to his projectile size, the hitbox on it or the damage he does. RIght now the characters that have consistently outclassed literally every other dps in every game is Hawkeye, iron fist and Hela. They're extremely good dps. Which is fine. But they can't be good dps because they're broken they need to be adjusted

[Angel-itis]

Escrito originalmente por DaylightDemon:

Escrito originalmente por ViexxAz:

hawkeye has 15% boost damage this season if not mistaken

its his season specific team up bonus. so when paired with certain heroes, he gets 15% dmgboost. not always.

That's a misconception. Hawkeye always has the 15% dmg bonus because of the season. He only activates widows ability when the teamup is active. Thats why Venom has 800 base health when on the games page it says he has 600. it's because all of the season bonuses are active at all times

[freind]

haha the haters.
if he would be so OP like you say, then you would also play the character, but certainly not criticize him in the forum here.
but he is too difficult for you, not for nothing the char has high skill rating.
you prefere easier combats, go melee and slaughter everything..stuff like that.
but it is certainly frustrating to be disturbed by a guy with a bow

[Arlek1n]

Yep, need some nerf i think

[DaylightDemon]

Escrito originalmente por Angel-itis:

Escrito originalmente por DaylightDemon:

its his season specific team up bonus. so when paired with certain heroes, he gets 15% dmgboost. not always.

That's a misconception. Hawkeye always has the 15% dmg bonus because of the season. He only activates widows ability when the teamup is active. Thats why Venom has 800 base health when on the games page it says he has 600. it's because all of the season bonuses are active at all times

interesting. i dont get this concept. so they basically make heroes op by default per season. a bit like in other hero based games where they would do it with official patches, just as a seperate buff. makes little sense to me but so be it.

[LightUpTheEyes]

Hawkeye isn't, but Jeff The Shark is.

[Carthanach]

Hawkeye not fun

[[Blood Raven] Cyrus]

hawkeye isnt op he does double damage aiming at hero with fulled charge bow thing and also his arrows have the same hitbox as hanzo overwatch 1 arrows size of logs you can test this in practice range you dont even have to aim at characters heads to get headshot you can aim besides the character

[DaylightDemon]

Escrito originalmente por Blood Raven Cyrus:

hawkeye isnt op he does double damage aiming at hero with fulled charge bow thing and also his arrows have the same hitbox as hanzo overwatch 1 arrows size of logs you can test this in practice range you dont even have to aim at characters heads to get headshot you can aim besides the character

okay you say he isnt op and proceed to make a point explaining how crazy op he is?

[Spriggan]

Escrito originalmente por dragonoftime27:

Escrito originalmente por Clumsybeast:

Hawkeye is not OP, you are just bad..

After playing with many of the characters, and finally deciding to play Hawkeye, not because he is easy, but because if you got SKILL with him, he can be dangerous, but even then he has a lot of negatives about him that make him only playable to people who know how to aim well. If you cannot aim well, he is the more useless character in the game. He has one of the lowest mobility in the game, so if people get to you, you are gonna have a bad time. His Ults only good if people are in focus, and dont have clutter everywhere.

The maps themselves do not favor Hawkeye since there is so much corridors, clutter, and more in the way of him trying to aim, and getting stuck in close battles a lot. Its only not a big issue if you know how to aim quick, and get enemies off you. Hes one of the few heroes that you actually have to aim very well with. He doesnt need a nerf.

judging by all the whiners on your comments, its clear you know what your dealing with. it doesnt matter what logic you use, how you have to line up the shot, how hard it is to get that headshot, what weaknesses Hawkeye have. They'll only focus on one point, Hawkeye's headshot is instadown and to them thats unfair. I agree with you, Snipers like Hawkeye aren't OP simply because how much skill it takes to Lead the target, line it up to get the headshot, all while being vulnerable to close quarters is why the role isnt OP

i already provided a video showing how its not hard to hit shots because the hitbox on them is so big so clearly the aiming isnt super skilled like you guys keep implying

[dragonoftime27]

Escrito originalmente por Spriggan:

Escrito originalmente por Clumsybeast:

No he cant. I tried this in practice mode, and you have to hit the head directly for it to count.

https://steamusercontent-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/46822405740383441/5F9A203E52B8D617A799AFB4A592122BD28B7E29/

Escrito originalmente por Spriggan:

Escrito originalmente por dragonoftime27:

judging by all the whiners on your comments, its clear you know what your dealing with. it doesnt matter what logic you use, how you have to line up the shot, how hard it is to get that headshot, what weaknesses Hawkeye have. They'll only focus on one point, Hawkeye's headshot is instadown and to them thats unfair. I agree with you, Snipers like Hawkeye aren't OP simply because how much skill it takes to Lead the target, line it up to get the headshot, all while being vulnerable to close quarters is why the role isnt OP

i already provided a video showing how its not hard to hit shots because the hitbox on them is so big so clearly the aiming isnt super skilled like you guys keep implying

all your video proved is that you were still aiming at the head of a "stationary" target even if was slightly to the right, not a moving one