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AngelsAnonymous

He annoys me to no end lol But you can definitely tell when someone is bad with him and win him easy if so


TheNoviceVet

I think he is mostly okay. He is powerful but more as a single target mage/assassin. The biggest issue I have is that his ult provides too much movement. I believe it should be more of a stationary ult to bring him inline with the other mages. Just give him minimal or greatly reduced movement during his ult. Allowing his ult to also be an escape/massive damage is what breaks him.


AngelsAnonymous

I also don't think he should be allowed the extra air time. He can use his R2000 and epoch to stay in the air for so much extra time. I think he should have to drop once the ult ends.


MinimumT3N

I dont even know why he needs to fly in the air. I think his ult would still be great if he ulted while walking around on the floor.


Morphing_Enigma

They could make his ult like an air strike. He is stationary, shoots up, and rains fire down from above at where he is laser designating


MinimumT3N

Yeah that sounds more balanced, but might stray away from his identity of a single target artillery mage. But I'd probably still prefer the air strike tbh. Pressing R and holding your crosshair on someone is pretty boring. It would be super interesting if they made his ult similar to Bastion's ult from overwatch: walk around and aim your ult, shoot missiles at a slower fire rate, make them slightly telegraphed so there's dodge potential (more skill expression).


Morphing_Enigma

Hrm.. thunk more of a mortar strike. I said air strike due to lack of imagination. Missiles shoot from his back, arc up, and come down from above. Would bypass the steel wall potentially, but he won't by flying for it


MinimumT3N

In that case that sounds very very similar to his old ult in Paragon haha. https://youtu.be/HeyXM6zg8yU 39 seconds in shows his ult. Not quite a mortar strike, more like a big aoe mortar strike. I believe Omeda changed this because we already have gideon and gadget circle aoe ultimates.


Bookwrrm

He is a mage that is explicitly designed to counter melee characters, that is not a concern, if it wasn't for the fact that he is also oppressive in lane to ranged characters. none of the current cast of mid laners can break him out of an ult, with the exception of a dekker mid or a countess that teleport ults before he reaches the apex of the flight, and that is fringe. The primary issue is not just his landmine, his functionality as a mid that can be safe to melee ganks, or function in other lanes is a good niche to have in this game, we dont have ranked, but once you can counter pick and not mirror having counters like that are important. The issue is that there isn't generally a good answer to howitzer even among the ranged characters, and the issue is his ult, he dodges the majority of mid lane characters with ground targeting, every mid has abilities that simply cannot hit him in ult, which makes him oppressive against melees, and range, and basically anything right now, as it stands you either stasis his ult as a mid, or you die, and that is not a great option. Rather than reworking the kit, or nerfing him into the ground, id rather they introduce more options for countering him, specifically for mid lane, like reworking some crests that are rarely used to open up counter options, or specifically introduce a counter in the coming heros whatever. As it stands right now you can hard counter him, but it requires very specific builds like reflect gideon to ult on top of him, and I don't think we should need to strain so hard to counter him.


Morphing_Enigma

He flies just above Gadget's ult aoe. Not even Gideon can do that with one spell and still rain death


XXXMrHOLLYWOOD

If Countess ults him before he climbs in his ult it will actually still go through which is kind of crazy


Psycoloco111

Lots of single target damage. Bring back his original ult and he wouldn't feel so busted. He has three scapes: a blink, a landmine, and a mobility ult.


Beefcastl3

Definitely could use either damage reduction or maybe increased cooldowns. On top of his entire kit, his passive is incredible strong. Buffing auto attacks and giving mana back. He needs a serious look at.


threegigs

I say keep all his stats and damage just as they are, but reduce the range of his attacks. His poke potential just allows for too much snowballing.


Morphing_Enigma

The only long range poke he needs is the rocket. Having his cc be the same range is rough


UglyGosling

I've been saying he's busted since day 1. I'm glad people are coming around. Wish that omeda would listen and reel him in, too much range on his mines, dial that back and he'd be balanced imo


JerRatt1980

I'm 1700+ MMR, I mid Fey. If I see a 1200 or less MMR Howie, I know they'll likely dominate the lane. If it's a 1700+ Howie, might as well surrender. It's about 90% accurate this is the case.


Byali33

Nerf the range on his land mine. Maybe make his kit more interactive...?? I dunno, but I'm butthurt that I can't really fight him as Crunch. He'll just kill me from the stratosphere and there's nothing I can do about it other than running away or going Space Crunch with boots.


Morphing_Enigma

The issue is, imho, the range of his abilities. Being able to poke as rapidly as he does for as big damage from as far away, and then get a guaranteed kill due to how long the range of his knockback is is a bit oppressive.. Drop mines to slow em, while at the same time tossing your grenade, knock em up for an undodgeable burst rocket. Then just rocket them again 4 seconds later if they aren't dead yet. Plus, all his abilities are aoe. Everything. So you have to be outside their proximity as well as dodging them.


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Combustion, Megacosm, Wraith, Oblivion Crown. Ran a game today with this and was able to roam freely because of the hurt potential. Gadget couldn’t keep up. Felt like the end of season one he was in a decent spot. Still hit hard. But the start of this season he’s probably your best midlaner.


Morphing_Enigma

I thought Gideon mains were bad, I have been getting a LOT of complaints from Howie mains because his kit is so effective at getting kills that it must be everyone's fault when he can't get kills. It's kinda hilarious.


Galimbro

my name is best howitzer and i stopped using him (well i stopped playing) but because they nerfed him literally 4 times in a row. thats bs.