The archer Hanzo has a bad reputation in Overwatch. However, his arrows are much smaller than all players claim …
Even within the Overwatch player community, there are many small groups that tease or outright despise each other. Particularly “popular” are insults against “Mercy mains”, “Genji tryhards”, and of course – the perennial favorite – “Hanzo mains”.
Players of Hanzo have always had to endure a lot of mockery and ridicule.
After all, the hero is laughed at by a large part of the player base and has created the reputation of the “Hanzo main” who only plays this hero but can hit nothing with it – except for a scattershot one-hit on the tank.
Hanzo is the meme master of Overwatch
Since Overwatch has existed, there has been the notion that the hitboxes of Hanzo’s arrows are as large as tree trunks. There are numerous memes about how Hanzo fires not arrows, but entire trees at his enemies.
Now, however, the developer Geoff Goodman has surprised everyone in the Overwatch forum by clarifying that Hanzo’s arrows are not as large as everyone thinks. According to him, Hanzo’s arrows are the same size as the “smallest projectiles in the game”, such as Genji’s shuriken.
To provide a clear comparison, Goodman cited further examples. Thus, the projectiles from Mercy and D.Va’s pistols are about 150% larger than Hanzo’s arrows.
Hanzo fans hope that with Goodman’s clarification, the memes and hostility towards Hanzo players will finally come to an end. However, since we are on the internet and it simply doesn’t work that way, I wouldn’t bet on it.
