MAUGA MIGHT BE TOO STRONG...

Here's my first game of the new and improved mauga.
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[@Kyle_Evers]

I know Im going to get shit for this because he can die fairly easily without his supports but he feels too strong at the moment. All friendly and enemy resources seem to go to him. It's like when Mauga exists in a match, the match ceases to exist because it becomes about him. It's not fun at all if Im honest.

[@rick-db1wr]

it’s so boring

[@Hthe]

I see your point, but that's why he is weak. If you don't get enough resources, you die so he's kinda all or nothing I do agree it's not very fun though

[@Quacksnice124]

By chance what’s your rank?

[@Kyle_Evers]

@@Quacksnice124 that’s irrelevant, I have not played against him in comp

[@penrilfake]

Yeah, it feels ass going against him (specially as tank). And it feels ass having him on your team, specially as a support, and tangentially as a DPS too, because he takes up so much resources from your own supports that it's so much harder to get supported as a DPS if you need it. If I'm playing support and get a Mauga on my team, I have to make a constant, conscious decision to check in on him every 3 seconds, cause if I try to flank or frag he just dies immediately, even if the other support is an Ana or Moira that's behind him 24/7. It's ass.

[@tau-5794]

"Holy healing- I'm dead." Yep that's the accurate Mauga mirror experience.

[@wilfredocolon9234]

A 600hp hero doing bastion turret dmg, soldier accuracy with a self heal/rein charge. This man can do 18k dmg a game if the opposite team has a hog/orisa. Games not developing tanks anymore, they are developing overpowered/enlarged DPS's.

[@markpena6511]

it puts a bad taste in my mouth to watch this match, played my first tank against him the other day and almost rage quit. Nothing I could do would stop him

[@Daddix0]

honestly he fucking sucks to play and also play against. just such a terribly designed character

[@MrStanBowles]

Ball has entered the chat

[@jorigmamaco5245]

​@@markpena6511 just play as ana/zeny if you're a support main, sigma/zarya and maybe dva if you're a tank, for dps hanzo,torb or any mid/long range char to counter him, depends on your skill too, i play a lot as mauga and and I suffered a little to fight against these heroes tho

[@mag1ckyle799]

Cardiac Arrest would certainly be one of the abilities of all time

[@undefined69695]

Mauga is literally the WORST thing about Overwatch, you win or lose purely based on who has the best supports. Bad game direction imo

[@teegloo]

Ana nade: Allow me to introduce myself

[@ghostwalker435]

If you play him right, nade doesnt even matter that much. If you dive an Ana comp, he suffers. But he has good poke potential. When people quit running him down mid and trading ult charge with the enemy team, and actually start poking he plays much better.

[@derekeano]

I thought the same thing until I found out HE CAN LIFESTEAL WHILE PURPLE

[@teegloo]

@@derekeano no he cant😭

[@teegloo]

@@ghostwalker435 thats kinda true, but while anti is active and he used his life steal ability its warm toast for him

[@teegloo]

Ana nade and zen orb makes him lose tbh

[@eagerinspirit]

mauga is actually very easy to play into, he just has insane numbers. if he doesn't have cardiac his brawl potential goes down A LOT. especially once they tune him back. i think he'll probably be beside sigma as a poke tank. i think thats where he REALLY shines. he's kind of a reverse hog where instead of having higher brawl potential with some poke, he has higher poke potential with some brawl. he's really cool in concept.

[@MaskedMazter]

🤓

[@LiterallyPaulGeorge]

His range is insane for a tank as well. Like being up close and having good damage is one thing, but he’s out dueling dps from across the map lol. Def a bit overtuned. Esp with the new Kiri buffs, I thought hog was hard to kill but this guy take the cake. Takes a certain comp to be able to burst him down. More than just an Ana

[@autumnscd8362]

Torb 2 gm lord yeatle pls

[@neil002]

I would love to hear your basic approach to left click vs right click vs both. Seems like you use both within like 15m and alternate when further to try to keep the burn going but hard to tell. I also have no idea when to use his E ability. Looking forward to more vids!

[@joshstaples]

Echo feels really good against mauga I think. Big hotbox to land stickies, and if he doesn't have cardiac arrest the beam eats him up at half hp

[@Yeti-wh7wt]

yeah, i had another mauga and and echo ult as me just tear me to shreds.

[@Accuaro]

Mauga mirror is the most boring thing ever. The consequences of 1 less tank gets more pronounced every season.

[@alessiofe]

yeah the problem is there from day1, he just makes it more obvious

[@energyflash_tk]

Queue times towards the end of OW1 were horrendous for any role that wasn't tank because nobody wanted to play tank. I shudder when I remember those 11 minute dps queues.

[@whateverusername]

@@energyflash_tk that was before all the crowd control nerfs and tank adjustments they made for OW2, more people play tank now because it's actually fun

[@minimalgrammar1276]

Double tank was AIDS I'm gonna be real with you. The game wasn't just unreadable from a balance standpoint. It was unreadable *period.*

[@cantbelieve5231]

@@minimalgrammar1276why did brig and moira allow goats to function?

[@martinfoss3788]

Gotta say the gen 5 music is hitting insanely hard This is herby day 1 of asking yeatle to do a Black2/White2 playthrough

[@jackdryden7452]

Hell yea, driftvale city theme absolutely slaps

[@wisemysticaltree2676]

Dont worry guys theyll balance him after the battle pass is over so they maxamize sales like every other op release 👍

[@elliotthall6049]

Hero release weak. Community angry 😡. Hero release strong. Community angry 😡.

[@LilShaqi]

​@@elliotthall6049because we want balanced additions that still keep everyone viable and fun...?

[@mehdy9578]

​@@elliotthall6049 yeah, or do your job and balance him ? but even beside that, they make him overpowered on purpose, just to sale more battle pass, hopefully he's not playable in ranked, because its litterally a pay to win

[@lalalalallalamannchild7544]

I just had a 28 kill, 30 assist, 0 death ball game and your the first person i thought to tell

[@aaaardvark23]

I’ve had two types of experiences with Mauga. As Mauga, I’ve gotten groups that peel off and don’t support me. But when I’ve been supporting Mauga, especially as Mercy…we crush. Healed out Mauga through almost certain death with our other healer. I’ve never seen anything like it.

[@stormwalker1784]

driftveil city music makes me think this dude mauga is spamming drill run in a sandstorm🤣

[@Oldschoolgamerdad]

Chef chef!

[@wildeskompositum9556]

Goated Video

[@lordshaxxy3198]

And the kiriko replay?? 😢

[@KyleAllenMusic]

Mauga is OP if you have good healing. If you have bad healing you're just gonna keep dying. I feel like he's a character you don't main but you keep on the backburner incase you realize healers are pulling your team. Without healing he's kind of useless against other tanks.

[@StoneTheCr0w]

Need a Mercy for Mauga and a Bap for spamming grenades on everyone else. Throw his lamp against angles and just outside Mauga ult. EZ carry up to Diamond

[@IamLupo]

might be... thats a understatement xD

[@carthagegaming5545]

Both mauga having more damage than the rest of their team combined.... yup seems balanced lol

[@ieatsand9259]

He’s really fun but likely at least a little overtuned

[@fugonee]

Some characters like Ana hold him on a leash tho lol...

[@MitchSorenstein]

@@fugoneeAna holds everyone on a leash. Anti nade needs a longer cooldown. On par with kiriko’s suzu

[@Daddix0]

@@MitchSorensteinno, the character would be more boring and the issue would remain. fundamentally change the ability

[@MitchSorenstein]

@@Daddix0 good, she’s been busted forever. 75 damage per shot, sleep, anti. Ana can get two anti’s off in the time that kiriko can get one suzu out. It’s unhealthy

[@Daddix0]

@@MitchSorenstein u say “good” when i say the issue would remain. why is that good? lmfao. i’m saying to nerf the anti effect itself. also it’s 70 damage per shot 🤓

[@famulanrevengeance3044]

BIG YEAT UPLOAD WOOOOO

[@AvatarKid4]

Needs that fire to chill 🤣

[@EYETASTIC]

i feel like sym is gonna be very strong with this tank

[@doc-vg9lq]

Wouldn’t Maura be easy to bring down if he got ff while a dva, genji, orisa, etc jumped in front to deflect him so he doesn’t get hp boost? Or is that mostly supports keeping him up?

[@Slightly_Decent]

In my experience if he doesn't have a support glued to his hip he's gonna die pretty quick. Keep in mind I'm a low rank player and a lot of my quick play games are just people doing their own thing rather than taking it seriously. I haven't played him much at all so I have no clue whether his self heal is all that good.

[@sebastianrodriguez8992]

The whole point of fighting mauga is either drawing out his cardiac or using some form of mitigation to stop his bullets Whether it be a shield, DR, or an absorb like Dva As long as he doesn't get to shoot he doesn't get to do much Basically whatever can stop bastions gun or reaper

[@Nyxtia]

What is ff?

[@jackdryden7452]

Right so pump all of your teams resources into him for the slightest chance you can maybe bring him down, and then get shredded by the enemy dps cool-downs?

[@willburhans3018]

this is literally the case w every character in the game, and it does not work. Lmfao

[@xc809]

He is overtuned but by nature of his reliance on healing he is one nerf away from ana food

[@dazaiwangshu]

You should also put that replay on this video, i want to watch it!

[@Balling-Cell]

Trust me, get a pocket Ana and get Nanod during cage fight and infinite ammo and extra damage is ummm chaotic

[@millimeterpeterderekjeter]

If your supports are good then mauga is good

[@stanley3384]

This music is so funny

[@Majestic.17]

8:01 lore accredit mauga

[@avej99]

They definitely overcompensated with the buffs

[@JANT19294b]

Every new hero everyone has to relearn to elim the support first?

[@evanpetrolle2596]

Uh oh

[@goldcobraarima9819]

CQ hes way to good

[@reynauldwhistles2338]

As a lower rank player (peak diamond but im platinum most of the time) idk what tank to play against him, do i have to mirror until they nerf him?

[@myob94]

Imo the best experience is to play dive and deny him self healing. If you’re able to do that and trade backlines you win.

[@mouse454]

Ramattra and take a DPS with you. Stack you damage and try and finish him as your shield melts

[@KingDanOfBarr]

Tbh not matching him feels better just any tank that can stop him from doing DMG during his overdrive to deny the life steal. Sig, ram, zar, and even dva can all give him some trouble if they play well.

[@CJMattias]

This game is so done 😂

[@minterdaly1265]

He's 1000% a pay to win character.

[@marijandesin8226]

Shouldn't you be going for the face to get crit damage that heals you?

[@MrStanBowles]

I miss ball

[@KingDanOfBarr]

Sorry to be this guy but from watching the first game, yeatle you know you can cancel your ult right? You just tap q again. My bad if there was a different reason you didn't.

[@tiggle5485]

Yeatle do you still think Rein is good against Maug?

[@mag1ckyle799]

Rein is a weird matchup. It really comes down to whether or not you can keep enough shield to block Mauga's bullets when he goes for cardiac overdrive. If you can block the whole time he's going for that healing, it's pretty good. Plus it's basically free shatters. But at the same time, Mauga can break your shield with less than one clip so it also kinda sucks ass. It's like playing against Bastion, but all the time. Really gotta play cover and corners. Tough but doable. Zarya, Sigma, and Mauga are better options for sure though.

[@jrob3634]

They need to remove one of his abilities. He cant give himeself shield heal others and cause burn crit damage

[@germanluque9756]

Everything is ok with mauga except the fact that he can have 800 hp and a charge that gives him dmg reduction, other than that he seems a balanced tank,

[@Daddix0]

you just listed 2 major parts of the kit

[@germanluque9756]

@@Daddix0 no, his originality of his kit is that he is cc inmune on his charge and is a tank that can do a lot of dmg up close and can take 1v1s against dps because of cardiac overdrive, what I dont think is ok with mauga is how tanky he is, if you are gonna put a tank that can do similar dmg to bastion and has lifesteal and overhealth in his kit I think you should make him a glass cannon, if they are healing mauga you need more than 3 people to take him down, in the trials days of mauga he didnt had armor health and 600 hp and he was fine, now they just made him so tanky for the excuse of having a big hitbox, it seems stupid to me because mauga is a tank that can poke you really well, for roadhog, ball, dva and rein is fair that they have huge amounts of hp because they dont have any range whatsoever and cant just shoot a dps that is being pocketed and kill them, he should have like junkerqueen hp, 450 or so, because with the added overhealth he is ridiculously hard to kill, Im fine with the armor health so he doesnt just explode and can have time to react to for example a widow headshot, but as he is now he just does everything better than any other tank, is almost like there is no reason to play any other tank than mauga

[@Daddix0]

@@germanluque9756 he was 650hp in the test not 600. but 450 would be insane dude what? he already gets melted without a support literally dumping heals into him and if he isn’t constantly shooting the enemy tank. he already is a glass cannon if he tries to do anything else. either way, my first reply still stands lol. going “this character is mostly balanced” but then suggesting a -200hp health decrease is just kinda wut? for the record i hate the character, but his issue isn’t survivability, his issue is that he’s way too good against tanks. he sits there and just shoots and shoots and shoots the tank. that’s why he “doesn’t die” cause he gets overhealth and healing off of the tank and busts them down. but that’s it. it sucks for everyone. if he goes for a squishy or support, he dies immediately. if he gets antied or discorded, he dies. if his support looks away, he dies immediately. he shatters like glass if he isn’t dumping ammo into the enemy tank and it needs a complete redesign, not a 200hp nerf holy shit my dude. no one has fun with mauga around and a giganerf isn’t helping his fundamental issues.

[@germanluque9756]

@@Daddix0 covering behind walls make this character broken, if you push him you die and if you dont then he is dumping tons of dmg in everyone, not only the tank, he does almost 150 dmg poking if you burn them, and his range is quite generous and spread is good too, so if you die as him in the open is your fault, the character as it is is broken with cardiac overdrive and supports behind him healing him, having 800 hp on a tank is ridiculous considering winston with primal has 1000 hp, an hp nerf is the most reasonable thing to make the character not unplayable but not op and if you still think that he gets melted then you might as well think that junkerqueen and zarya have such a poor character design that they are unplayable, they arent

[@Daddix0]

@@germanluque9756 mauga and his head are the size of a wall, Junker queen is skinny and zarya bubbles are great anti CC/cleanse. either way, this character has fundamental issues and a -200hp nerf would do nothing for his horrible design except destroy him. he is the size of a massive WALL. he is 100% unmissable, every shot you send his way will hit him. there’s a reason hog has 700hp too. it’s not a coincidence. JQ has 450 because she’s skinny. not a coincidence either. you cannot give the widest, largest character in the game with the biggest head hitbox in the game 450hp when his only way to sustain himself is lifesteal that’s only effective on the enemy tank. he needs a redesign. because yes, he’s miserable to face, but for more complicated reasons than “unga bunga he’s OP.”

[@juanlee337]

Mauga counter Mauga.. any other tank is now obsolete.. which sucks now that he is live..

[@mouse454]

Remember when Doomfist was introduced? He was disgusting. Its normal there will be a fix

[@alessiofe]

yeah but required a decent level of skill, this looks braindead material

[@Polymath2B]

Don’t even mention doom lol. Maura ult is pretty much a permanent hack on punch and spam. Literal sitting duck

[@interrupted_reverie]

there is too much healing and too much damage what is this , looks boring af

[@connor.chan.jazzman]

His ult is so broken honestly. Some games he gets cage within the first team fight, and the cage being essentially a better grav AND EMP is insane. Having all mobility locked is absurd to me, especially since how are you going to escape when there is already a solid wall preventing you from leaving? It makes it so heroes like Genji cannot even use swift strike, which is one of his main forms of damage and fighting back, nor can he even use double jump or wallclimb at all. It feels like the moment he presses Q there is absolutely no counterplay unless you have a Sombra EMP, or a Zen transcendence. Other than that, he is fun to play into, but I find myself absolutely helpless if I am caught in his ult, especially since it just pops up instantly. Its not just him with infinite ammo attacking you in the cage; its his entire team.

[@333lih]

am i the only one who plays competitive just to not play against mauga?

[@RatEnjoyer]

Same here tbh. Tf am I supposed to do as ball against this guy?

[@kingclampz6081]

@@RatEnjoyerHammond? Against Mauga? Ah hell naw bruh 😂

[@fgagaerhjhjyfyjfyyjkf]

@@kingclampz6081reinhardt against mauga will make u want to take ur own life

[@kingclampz6081]

@@fgagaerhjhjyfyjfyyjkf 😂😂

[@cardmossdn8058]

I'm not a fan of all the new OW2 tanks, excluding doom. They all play the exact same, just walk forward and use abilities. We need a new dive tank or something.

[@kingclampz6081]

That’s honestly true doom is the only unique new tank for ow2 compared to JQ ramattra and mauga

[@tamas21145]

Mauga shits the other tanks so hard it's not even funny. He feels so out of place to me, he also feels a bit like ball or doom. Either too strong or too weak.

[@Salaaaad]

Mauga is so unfun to play against as tank. Not only he melts you, also as a tank you have to always fight the mauga and nothing else. It's like fighting bastion without the turret cooldown. People say ana counters mauga which is true but that's also true for every tank.

[@hamadsalem1881]

Dva is a good counter for him but you need to know how to use defense matrix

[@Salaaaad]

@@hamadsalem1881 Dva works but only for so long. Dm isn't enough to deny all of mauga's damage and along with the rest of his team shooting you it's too much. Sigma and zarya are the only tanks that stand some chance against mauga.

[@hamadsalem1881]

@@Salaaaad Damn Right sigma good against him but zarya no

[@bronxishomenomatterwhereig3149]

Mauga provides WAY too much DPS as a tank. Thats why resources naturally funnel into him. Keep him healthy? And he can steamroll a fight. His damage needs to be toned down. Maybe Increase the weapon spread. Remove the headshot bonus. Reduce his ammo. Something. But he should not be the main source of DPS.

[@MrStanBowles]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again this was always meant to be hammond’s final upgrade tree (remember janky crab crawl???) for the pve they scrapped; repackaged into an op hero for pvp that makes no sense except $. Overwatch £ I mean 2 has let me downsososo much: like your step dad falling on the tree Christmas eve, let down like a hot ballon on Neptune, let down like a sports bag after practice, let down like ball with a grapple timer… sort it out pls mr sexbox

[@BaronVonCarrot]

Gonna kill the game

[@illegalsareamigos24]

Problem is people think a new hero should come out every couple months. The more heroes that come out the more difficult it will be to balance

[@BennyBornAgain]

Bro. more heroes is not the problem. The problem is deeper than that. It’s just a completely different play style from end of ow1

[@rolytnz]

So far, playing Mauga has personified why is sucks tanking in OW2. EVERYONE shoots at you. Combine that with Ana sleep then nade, you're dead, If the other Tank has a pocket Mercy then you might as well quit the game and take the loss.

[@itsQPguys]

You should check out the new animated short with Mauga if you haven't, he's sooo good in it. Easy top three tank for me

[@erook2019]

Shh dont say he's too strong... I'm getting PotG with him every game while every other Mauga player i play against sucks, dont take this away from me

[@HollowG8]

Mauga is interesting, I just despise his ult. It's just an absurdly busted EMP with a shield that has little to no counterplay which, for some reason, persists after death. He already eats resources like a massive ult battery who never dies and does a shitload of damage, but his ult just shuts down certain heroes for free. Minigun Man is cool, just feels like a character with crazy Seesaw Potential. At least he's fun to play.

[@skynetintex5878]

Mauga is BS OP. If both teams don't have him, 9/10 times it's a foregone conclusion. It's pathetic how they release these OP characters and ruin the game until the next patch.

[@AdamsLTFC420]

I don't like this new hero

[@anilogo682]

Extremely boring herodesign imo

[@icedcreamgaming]

Broken as hell. My plat equivalent qp games every mag had 2k DMG per minute and so hard to kill without soj or reaper. They overbuffed him

[@tomnilan7318]

I think hes disgustingly overtuned. Feels game breaking to play against with any other tank

[@justaman4887]

His kit design is so damn bad

[@d00mnoodle62]

Most boring character ever, both to play as, against and with. He's a design failure

[@grsnowball]

He is not an interesting character, and because he is too good he is neither fun to play with or against.

[@chefaahz]

This game is so fucking boring now