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Wrecking Ball

Wrecking Ball

Tank
49.9% Win3.4% Pick
Quad Cannons

Quad Cannons

Automatic assault weapons.

Grappling Claw

Grappling Claw

Launch a grappling claw to rapidly swing around the area. Enables high speed collisions to damage and knockback enemies.

Roll

Roll

Transform into a ball and increase maximum movement speed.

Piledriver

Piledriver

Slam into the ground below to damage and launch enemies upward.

Adaptive Shield

Adaptive Shield

Create temporary extra health that increases with more nearby enemies. Some of the health can be transferred to allies.

Minefield

Minefield

Deploy a massive field of proximity mines.

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Wrecking Ball's Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths

  • A dive tank with very high durability

    Wrecking Ball moves very fast and has high durability thanks to Adaptive ShieldAdaptive Shield. As a result, with high player skill, he can put out overwhelmingly higher durability than other tanks.

  • His fast movement speed makes it easy to be self-sufficient using side health packs.

    Because Wrecking Ball moves fast, he can go pick up health packs on the side and be self-sufficient without receiving that much healing from allied supports. In turn, the supports can focus on other things.

How to Counter

  • When Wrecking Ball + a flanker come in, use heroes that can escape easily.

    Against an engage from Wrecking Ball alone, stopping him with crowd control from Ana, Mizuki, or the like is effective, but if an enemy flanker also dives in together, you end up at a big disadvantage. Using heroes such as Moira or Jetpack Cat removes the targets Wrecking Ball can easily kill, indirectly countering him.

  • Use heroes that can fly into the air.

    Wrecking Ball has a hitscan primary fire, but its damage isn't that high, so it's hard for him to kill aerial enemies. His other abilities also struggle to rack up damage against aerial enemies.

  • Play so you don't group up too tightly with allies.

    Wrecking Ball's Piledriver and charge-in attacks are a major damage resource, so grouping up tightly with allies makes it easy for multiple people to take damage. Also, Adaptive ShieldAdaptive Shield gains health based on the enemies around him, so spreading out as much as possible makes it easier to nullify Wrecking Ball's strengths.

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