How does using a Sniper Rifle take less skill? Using the Sniper Rifle requires aim, using a homing projectile requires no aim. You can literally aim into the sky or even look away from Hale, yet you will still deal massive damage. All those other perks you have said can be dealt with. You can run away from Short Circuit Engineers and Spies. You CANNOT run away from a homing projectile. Simply run away from them, get rage, use rage, they are dealt with. Homing Rockets aren't that much of a threat considering even a crit deals 270, that's a big difference from 360. The other fact is that Rocket Launchers run out of ammo a lot faster than the Huntsman on FF2, considering it's ammo is increased. Homing Rockets also don't knock you 100 miles away, they do push you yes, but like 5 cm far. As for Hyper Heavies and 520 Scouts, they are NOT OP. Considering a Hyper Heavy deals 195 Damage to you (which isn't that major) has to get right in Hale's face to even touch him, in which you can easily just smack him in the face as Hale. And the exact same goes for 520 Scouts, except they don't have to get right into Hale's face to deal damage. Scouts deal waay far less damage than a crit boosted arrow at 100% charge. A crit boosted Scattergun shot at point blank range deals about 210 damage, still a big difference to 360. Scout doesn't have a damage output as big as Snipers, unless he is at point blank range which is risky because Hale has a chance to actually kill him. And at least Scouts and Hyper Heavies don't sit in a corner on top of a 50 ft tall tower and get 360 damage every 10 seconds, they have to go through effort to deal damage meanwhile Homing Arrows are just lazy, incredibly easy to use, cheap and super frustrating for Hale to play against. And for Demoknights that can charge infinitely? All you need to do is hit them once and they're pretty much done for. They keep running away so you can't catch them? Use your rage on him. ''Well why can't you just play a Hale which can easily teleport to me?'' You can, but it is completely random who you teleport to. And even if you do manage to teleport to the Homing Arrow user, he can EASILY 'Stab stab stab' trap you forever, not even using your rage will help you escape. Unless your rage deals damage to people around you such as Captain Falcon, Skeleton-Mann etc.
I would like Homing Arrow users to play as Hale and feel how frustrating it is to play against 6 Homing Snipers on a very large open map.