Just because they’ve been nerfed a billion times and some people are trash with them, doesn’t make them underpowered. Any game worth its salt is balanced around top level play, and hover scorp is what wins there.
I find it pretty depressing how all these hoverbois are like “it’s the player not the hovers!” Like yeah sure, you never flip because you’re mad skilled. Sure, you win every peekaboo trade because you’re mad skilled. Has nothing to do with hovers… Oh wait you’re all on hovers… But that’s not hovers, you’re just mad skilled…
I do shit on hover (fused lol) scorps regularly with my Kaiju Spider. THAT’S not the hover’s fault, that’s the players being abyssmally bad. In no circumstances whatsoever a hover scorp loses at range against anything, unless he just a plain worse player than his opponent. I don’t delude myself into thinking I’m a pro gamerz who can own hover scorps all day long, because I know what properly played hover scorps looks like, and I know it demolishes me so hard I’d be playing Patrol if XO hover players were all good lol.
If hovers were overnerfed, they wouldn’t make up a solid third+ of the CW rosters. Played tons of full hover teams yesterday, and maybe a single full dog team, zero full spider team. Everyone’s so skilled 
+30 durability, 0 energy neutrino, +20% hover dura from Colossus, Falcon giving heavy scorp hover-centric buffs… I don’t suscrivbe to the theory that hovers have been overnerfed either… What exactly has been “overnerfed” about them the last year? … Nothing? Yeah, exactly. “b-but they lost 10% acceleration…” yeah, compare it to everything they gained.
Generally speaking, any discussion regarding skills in XO is moot. It’s not a competition of skill if it’s a competition of gear. And with the amount of terribad players scoring quite high thx to Porcs spam and other highly strategic and skilled relic shenanigans… hmmm… It’s definitely in good part a competition of gear. Even Monkey doesn’t shy away from admitting that fully fused hover is going to crap over a non-fused one a billion times at equal skill level. So where’s the skill competition when you need to dump 400k coins in a build before being competitive?