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Hazard counters

Who beats Hazard, who Hazard beats, and why. The hardest counters to Hazard include Echo, Mauga and Mizuki. Hazard is strongest into Venture and Widowmaker.

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From WinCon's coaching read of each hero's abilities, the same one the coach uses: a guide, not a measured win rate. Blizzard doesn't publish how heroes do against each other.

Heroes that counter Hazard

Pick one of these into an enemy Hazard, or watch for them when you play Hazard.

Tanks

  • Mauga (strong counter): sustained hitscan out-trades his close burst and Spike Guard
  • Orisa (strong counter): Fortify ignores Wall knockback and Javelin stops his Leap
  • Sigma (strong counter): Grasp eats Bonespur and Accretion interrupts his Leap
  • D.Va (slight edge): Matrix eats his projectile spikes
  • Domina (slight edge): barrier soaks his spikes and Repulsors push him out
  • Junker Queen (slight edge): out-damages him at shotgun range and wounds outlast Spike Guard
  • Ramattra (slight edge): Nemesis out-brawls him and Vortex slows his exit
  • Reinhardt (slight edge): shield blocks his spikes and the hammer out-trades him

Damage heroes

  • Echo (strong counter): flies away from his leap
  • Pharah (strong counter): out of reach of his spikes in the air
  • Junkrat (slight edge): splash and traps punish his close engage

Supports

  • Mizuki (strong counter): Binding Chain hinders Violent Leap
  • Ana (slight edge): Sleep stops his Leap and anti-heal punishes the exit

Heroes Hazard counters

Hazard is a good answer when the enemy plays one of these.

Damage heroes

  • Venture (strong counter): Spike Guard's homing spikes and Jagged Wall punish her surfacing
  • Widowmaker (strong counter): Vault and Violent Leap reach her perch
  • Genji (slight edge): homing spikes and Jagged Wall punish his dash-ins
  • Hanzo (slight edge): Vault reaches his angle and he can't kite
  • Tracer (slight edge): Spike Guard's homing spikes track her blinks

Supports

  • Lifeweaver (slight edge): Leap and Wall reach and isolate a low-damage support
  • Lúcio (slight edge): Jagged Wall and Downpour pin him down

Hazard against dive, brawl and poke

  • Good into dive: homing Spike Guard and Jagged Wall punish divers who come close
  • Bad into poke: long sightlines and fliers out-range his spike bursts