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Roadhog
This page is about the Overwatch Tank Roadhog

Roadhog is a fictional character within the video game universe of Overwatch, created by Blizzard Entertainment. Roadhog is one of twenty-six playable characters within Overwatch, but is only one of the six playable tank characters. The only appearance that he has made within video games is Overwatch, but there is a small theory going around the games fandom that the top most iconic characters will eventually put within heroes of the storm. Other than video games, Roadhog has also made appearances within the comic's Waste Land and Going Legit, both are created by Blizzard to help build more lore for their characters.

Story
Within Overwatch, before there was Roadhog there was Mako Rutledge. After a robotic revolt called the Omnic Crisis the government officials gave away the Australian omnium and the surrounding area to the Omnics with the hopes of obtaining some form of peace. However, this move by the world governments enraged Mako and many residents within the Australian Outback. After being kicked out of their homes Make and many survivalists, solar farmers, and loners formed a rebellion called the Australian Liberation Front (ALF) to retake the omnium. Events would then escalate until an attack was made on the Omnium's fusion core, which created an explosion so powerful that it destroyed the city, irradiated the entire region, and left the Outback as nothing but a massive scrap yard. To survive Mako had to create a makeshift mask with chemical inhalers to survive the radiation sickness.

After this he had to battle for survival within the wasteland while riding his ramshackle chopper. Due to the mask's appearance and his new way of life he was given the name Roadhog, but after a day of riding he would always return to his farm, which is located on the outskirts of Junker town. After letting some looters live in exchange for scrap metal he headed to Junker town to find his old friend Bruce to exchange the scrap for some hogdrogen, a chemical to help ease radiation exposure pain. After doing so he heads to a bar to buy a beer until he hears some thugs talking to his soon to be ally Junkrat, who were threatening him over hearing a rumor that Junkrat knows about a hidden pile of treasure. after saving Junkrat from the thugs he demands fifty percent of the loot that Junkrat told the thugs about in exchange for protection. After this event the two men travel the world stealing anything and everything that they can get their hands on.

Skills
Roadhog's means of attack is to fire his primary weapon, the scrap gun. The scrap gun is a weapon that fires a wide spread of shrapnel within a short range. It also has an alternate fire mode that allows the shrapnel to be fired further but as a metal ball. Each piece of shrapnel deals 4-9 damage per piece of shrapnel with their being 25 pieces of shrapnel all together. After an update by Blizzard the scrap guns rate of fire was increased by 33%.

Second is Roadhog's iconic weapon, the hook. The hook is an attack were Roadhog throws a hook at a maximum of 21 yards, dealing 30 damage and pulling enemies that he hits within close range. because of this attacks function it is usually used by players as a combo attack, you pull the enemy in close and you fire your scrap gun dealing a large amount of damage. A nice little feature about this attack as well is that after the hook is pulled back your target will be stunned for a one second to allow you to do the combo. The hook is able to stop a Reinhardt or Doomfist charge, but after the character was updated it is no longer able grab a character around a corner.

Thirdly Roadhog has a self healing ability that is titled Take a Breather. It allows the player to heal a maximum 300 of Roadhogs health. In the past when Roadhog would use this ability he would remain stationary and unable to move until the health has been recovered, but within the update that took down his damage an additional perk was given to this skill. When ever Roadhog uses Take a Breather he is now able to continue moving, that way players can no longer gang up on you and destroy your health after the healing is done. One neat trick that a player can use with this ability is that it if the player times it right Take a Breather can allow you to live through the ultimate attacks of the other overwatch characters, such as Tracer, Dva, and Reaper.

Roadhogs final ability is his ultimate attack Whole Hog. Roadhog starts this attack by cramming an ammo loader into the top of his gun that fires a stream of shrapnel that knocks back enemies. This ability is so powerful that it can kill a Reinhardt's shield as well as the Reinhardt, the shield and character have a combined 2,600 health with Reinhardt's heath being split with 400 base heath and 200 additional armor health.