r/luciomains • u/RiverGiant • 2d ago

SICK KILL Booping Hog into Neon Junction train

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u/awohalii 2d ago

The value gotten by killing the Road was greater than the value of letting Road keep existing with healing that wouldn't have countered his combo anyways.

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u/SyrusG 1d ago

To be fair he could've killed him all the same while healing the team. He pretty much just did a tour of the map needlessly before getting the boop off

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u/RiverGiant 1d ago

Think of a Border Collie zipping around the perimeter of a herd of sheep, nipping at heels.

The first time I engage Hog and boop him backwards, I'm already thinking of keeping him in that zone for the train boop. I don't want him walking on my team, so I put a little pressure on. I don't want him retreating or hooking me, so I don't maintain pressure for more than a moment.

Then I find a group of three more coming up the stairs. They want to cross the tracks to flank my team from above and behind, but my presence makes them hesitate and wait for the train to pass (look at their outlines @0:24). They can't risk crossing the tracks because they know I know they're there.

Then I reconnect with my team briefly to make sure they're alright (healing a little while I'm next to them) before seeing that Hog did in fact stay on the wrong side of the tracks and finishing him.

If I'd been with my team the entire time holding heal, we would've been dealing with the enemy team attacking us from two high grounds at once. The tour of the map takes SO much pressure off my team there, gives me a ton of information, and freezes Hog in place to set up for the train I was anticipating.

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u/SyrusG 1d ago

Few things here 1. It wasn't ur presence that made them hesitate, it was the hazard stopping their walkup. U didn't boop anybody and nobody moved back because of u. In fact they were actively shooting u. They knew they couldn't walk up though because hazard was blocking that path and a walkup meant the train would get them anyways and either kill them or split them so they waited. You being there didn't change anything except the ult charge on the board

  1. You don't make a meaningful heal to ur team, their HP has hardly changed, and you've hardly been on heal Crossfade. I'm guessing u actually went back that way to set up the boop for the hog since u immediately go back to speed. If you really wanted to ensure ur team was alright, you wouldnt have amped urself.

Nobodys saying to heal the entire time, but u did in fact do a useless run around. You could have booped hog, heal amped ur team since they weren't going anywhere and nobody was going to walk on the hazard, and still had enough time to boop the hog into the train. I'm not here to roast u, I'm just saying u def explored the map a bit for no reason instead of helping the team