Talk:Hydroid/@comment-95.180.59.37-20151008082127/@comment-24805178-20151011233838

Hydroid is equipped with innate crowd control capabilities in all his powers. He can strategically lockdown multiple areas with Tempest Barrage by knocking enemies down constantly, sweep enemies off their feet by ramming through them with Tidal Surge, drown enemies with Undertow, and ragdoll enemies caught in his Tentacle Swarm.

Since his 1 & 4 can be cast over infinite range, you can make use of both powers without being close to the destination. Hydroid excels at many gamemodes where enemies swarm from all sides (most notably Interception, Survival, Defense, Excavation). Depending on how you build him, Hydroid can specialize in 4 major categories: mobility (high duration Tidal Surge), team survivability (Tidal Impunity & Curative Undertow augment), team resupplier (Pilfering Swarm augment), and area denial (high range).

Thus, Hydroid trades raw damage and killing power for pure utility.