I PLAYED MAUGA A LOT

The stomp setting enemies on fire would be useful in giving him more lethality and survivability.

So what I'm hearing is release Brigitte was like a 25/10

I actually find that Junker Queen has a rather favorable matchup against Mauga. Her speed with commanding shout makes her rather hard to hit, on top of having one of the smallest hit volumes for a tank. It seems counterintuitive, but her rushdown style and passive healing seems to be rather effective against his kit.

One complaint that I had was that his charge feels clunky if you cancel it. For comparison, Rein has a relatively smooth recovery if you cancel out of charge, sliding forward a bit and giving you back control. But Mauga just sort of freezes in place and the camera zooms back into first person POV.

I think his fire minigun would be alot more forgiving if it just lit enemies on fire after firing for a second or two.

I can't describe enough how good it feels to play pharah with mauga on your team. It's like having a Graviton but the enemy CANT shoot you

Mauga after shooting Genji even if he's definitely deflecting "Fired up like a volcano!"

agree with pretty much all your thoughts. As an Ana main I do worry post Mauga release that Ana will be doing so well because of being strong both against and with Mauga that she's just going to get nerfed into the ground

I like the idea to allow movement abilities while still keeping players trapped within the bounds of the cage fight. Honestly, I was surprised that movement abilities were disabled, because the visual of the chain doesn’t suggest to me that it disallows movement. I could see it disallowing movement that phases you out (Fade/Wraith) or takes you out of the map (Recall/Meteor Strike), while still permitting movement that involves physically traversing the space within the cage.

I found Dva to be a hardcore counter for mauga, since he’s so reliant on hitting tanks to heal defense matrix starves him of that ability and makes it easy for my team/rockets to shred him. And I actually liked my odds as mauga against sigma quite a bit, especially with a kiriko to suzu me if I got rocked, charge makes it easy to pass his shield without getting rocked and cardiac arrest + passive overhealth means sig can’t do much to me while I focus his squishies. Could just be my experience though.

Another top tier Yeatle video. And it was really fun watching you play Maui over the weekend.

really loved your contributions on both the Group Up pod & Spilo’s little thing. You have a great mind for the game. thanks for the content

if anyone wants to see more perspectives with mauga and other heros i have more footage of the pugs with yeatle and mauga uploaded if anyone would like to watch :) theres also his full vods with his perspectives on his twitch! Its alot of fun i would recommend hopping in some time.

As an Ashe enthusiast myself I’m very excited for Mauga combos they sound like a lot of fun

He feels OP when uncountered and useless when countered. I thought we were supposed to be moving away from hard counters. I know powercreep is the root issue but still, this isn't helping.

While Mauga seems strong, I fear he will have a hard time finding an identity. He is yet another brawl tank, doing well against dive and poor against poke, as do all other brawl tanks. Maybe he will be the strongest brawl tank, but if he isn't, then I don't see him having any sort of niche besides "I REALLY don't like this Winston on the other team, and have decided against playing the other anti-scientist tanks". Unsure if this is much of a problem though if people still play him for his depth and fun, just a league level problem. Excited for the Mauga compilations, featuring him diving the enemy widow using extremely niche charge spots.

Monkey stonks are indeed, in shambles - Winton

From what I've played of him which is quite a bit, he's really feast or famine and takes a lot of game knowledge on when to get in and get offensive. He is quite dependent on his supports. He's fun, I like him, but I don't know if he's good for the health of the game. I think he perpetuates the put everything into the tank to destroy it mentality.

I feel like he is a lot squishier than most of the other tanks, healers in overtime work to keep him alive

Fun Tip: Even at close range with dual chains going. Aim for the head. The right gun crits anywhere, but the left doesn't. (And I don't have total confirmation, but I think the right gun crits for more on heads while burning. IDK how to bring up numbers in the training range)