Roadhog

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Roadhog

"I'm a one-man apocalypse."

Hero Information

Role:

Tank

Real Name:

Mako Rutledge

Age:

48

Relations:

Occupation:

Enforcer (Formerly), Bodyguard

Base of Operations:

Junkertown, Australia (Formerly)

Affiliation:

Junkers (Formerly)

Release Date:

2015-10-27

Base Stats

Hitpoints:

600

Mako "Roadhog" Rutledge is a Tank class hero in Overwatch.

Abilities[edit]

Scrap Gun
	Ability: Weapon Affects: Enemies Roadhog's Scrap Gun fires short-range blasts of shrapnel with a wide spread. Alternatively, it can launch a shrapnel ball that detonates farther away, scattering metal fragments from the point of impact.
Damage: Count: Ammo: 4-9 Per Pellet 25 Pellets 5

Chain Hook
	Ability: Cooldown Affects: Enemies Roadhog hurls his chain at a target; if it catches, he yanks them into close range.
SHIFT 8 seconds Damage: Max Range: 30 21 yards

Take a Breather
	Ability: Cooldown Affects: Self Roadhog restores a chunk of his health over a brief period of time.
E 8 seconds Health restored: 300

Whole Hog
	Ability: Ultimate Affects: Self After cramming a top-loader onto his Scrap Gun, Roadhog pours in ammo. For a short time, he can crank out a stream of shrapnel that knocks back enemies.
Q Damage: RoF: Duration: Headshot: 7 (4928 total) 128 pellets per second 5.5 seconds ✓

Strategy[edit]

General Tips[edit]

Roadhog is an unorthodox tank who focuses on trying to make the enemy team less of a problem either by using his Chain Hook to easily eliminate someone, or using Whole Hog to knock back the enemy team.
Roadhog has the highest base health in the game, with 600, only being behind Winston during Primal Rage, which is 1000.
Roadhog's abilities have low cooldowns, making him a great tank for quickly eliminating the enemy team and staying alive.

Weapon Tips[edit]

Scrap Gun[edit]

Use your left-click to eliminate an enemy you have caught with your Chain Hook
The right-click is good for shooting at a choke point the enemy team is at to significantly harm them
The Scrap Gun has a low ammo count and a slower reload time. Make sure you don't go head-to-head with the enemy team without a full amount of ammo.
The Scrap Gun is also slow firing, so make sure you don't miss your shots.
The Scrap Gun reload animation can be canceled for a slightly faster reload. When Roadhog pushes his shells into the barrel of his Scrap Gun, pressing the melee attack will cancel the remaining animation allowing the player for a faster firing rate for the Roadhog and allowing him to strike a nearby enemy.

Chain Hook[edit]

This ability has a 8-second cooldown, making it a good thing to use whenever you need to kill someone.
Chain Hook does 30 damage on hit. That plus Scrap Gun's left-click (up to 225) and a melee hit, deals 305 damage, killing most unbuffed heroes in the game.

Take a Breather[edit]

This ability heals for 300 health, making it better than a large health pack.
Use this ability if you're low on health and you can't find a health pack.
If a support is healing you and you're really low on health, save the time for the support by using this.
If you haven't lost that much health, you might just want to find a health pack or ignore it.

Ultimate: Whole Hog[edit]

This ability knocks anyone you hit back, making good when reducing the power of a big push and throwing their aim off.
Using the knockback on certain maps, such as Watchpoint: Gibraltar's first and last area, can be good to get rid of the defending team and push.
You can't use any other abilities during Whole Hog, so make sure a Mercy or Zarya is helping you.

Synergies[edit]

Lucio	Lucio can Crossfade into the speed boost, which can greatly help with Roadhog's slow movement speed.
Zarya	Zarya can give you a Projected Barrier, which will absorb any damage you take. Get a shield right before you go in for an attack.
Mercy	Mercy can heal/damage boost you during Whole Hog and damage boost you when using your right-click.
Orisa	Orisa is able to send a 'Halt!' above enemy barriers, allowing for Roadhog to get a very easy hook onto an unsuspecting enemy, and her SuperCharger amplifies the damage outputted by Roadhog's Whole Hog.
Ana	Ana's Nano-Boost combined with Whole Hog allows for massive damage output, while making Roadhog a much harder target to kill. Her Biotic Grenade also allows for Roadhog to heal himself much further than he normally could with Take a Breather, as well as acting as a way to prevent healing onto targets that Roadhog has hooked by throwing the nade at the Roadhog when he gets a hook.
Junkrat	Junkrat's Steel Trap allows a Roadhog to hook an enemy into a trap and prevent them from escaping if they can survive his Hook-Shoot-Melee combo, such as a Doomfist with 100 shields.

Lore[edit]

Roadhog is a ruthless killer with a well-earned reputation for cruelty and wanton destruction.

After the Omnic Crisis, government officials gifted the Australian omnium and the surrounding area to the omnics that had nearly destroyed their country, hoping to establish a long-term peace accord. This arrangement permanently displaced Mako Rutledge and a large number of the Outback's residents, a scattered collection of survivalists, solar farmers, and people who just wanted to be left alone.

Furious over the loss of their homes, Mako and others turned to violent rebellion. They formed the Australian Liberation Front and struck against the omnium and its robot population to take back the lands that had been stolen. Events continued to escalate until the rebels sabotaged the omnium's fusion core, resulting in an explosion that destroyed the facility, irradiated the region, and littered the Outback with twisted metal and wreckage for kilometers around.

Mako watched as his home became an apocalyptic wasteland, and he was forever changed.

Adapting to his environment, he donned a mask and took to the broken highways of the Outback on his ramshackle chopper. Little by little, his humanity was forgotten. The last vestiges of Mako faded away and the ruthless killer Roadhog was born.

Trivia[edit]

Voiced by Josh Petersdorf

Version History[edit]

Balance Patch History
Patch Version	Balance Changes
September 1, 2016 Patch
September 1, 2016 Patch	Chain Hook If the hooked target isn't in Roadhog's line of sight when retracting the hook, they will be moved back to the position where they were originally hooked
July 19, 2016 Patch
July 19, 2016 Patch	Whole Hog Ultimate cost increased by 45%
April 13, 2016 Patch^{[note 1]}
April 13, 2016 Patch^{[note 1]}	Chain Hook Now pulls smaller targets closer than larger targets Whole Hog Decreased the movement speed penalty
February 9, 2016 Patch^{[note 2]}
February 9, 2016 Patch^{[note 2]}	Chain Hook Stun duration after being hooked has been slightly increased
↑ Developer comments: The change to Chain Hook should enable Roadhog to more reliably kill smaller heroes after a successful pull. Since Roadhog’s primary fire has such a wide spread, this allowed smaller heroes to avoid the majority of incoming damage from Roadhog after they were hooked. For Whole Hog, we feel the movement change helps the ability be more flexible while also making it less dangerous for Roadhog to use. ↑ Developer comments: It’s always been intended that, after successfully hooking a target, Roadhog would have a chance to act before his target recovered; however, there were some situations in which this wasn’t happening, particularly at higher latencies. We’ve slightly increased the stun duration following Chain Hook to compensate.

References[edit]

[1] Developer comments: The change to Chain Hook should enable Roadhog to more reliably kill smaller heroes after a successful pull. Since Roadhog’s primary fire has such a wide spread, this allowed smaller heroes to avoid the majority of incoming damage from Roadhog after they were hooked. For Whole Hog, we feel the movement change helps the ability be more flexible while also making it less dangerous for Roadhog to use.

[2] Developer comments: It’s always been intended that, after successfully hooking a target, Roadhog would have a chance to act before his target recovered; however, there were some situations in which this wasn’t happening, particularly at higher latencies. We’ve slightly increased the stun duration following Chain Hook to compensate.

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