A tip for every tank

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Here is a forced tank main with 1 tip

Anubarak
if you’re guaranteed to fight, you either cocoon the person who can burn it the fastest or the tank. If they only have one tank and you cocoon the tank, you can jump right into their backline and your whole team can get in there. Otherwise I like to save cocoon to catch people out of position outside of fights so my team has time to collapse for a free kill. (Notparadox gave this one to me 2 years back)

Arthas
Try to keep someone in your E all the time. If nobody is in it you deactivate it to preserve mana. Never open an attack with your D but wait untill you do a normal AA for the reset
Also try to get in front of the target instead of behind the target when someone tries to get away from you

Blaze
Dont light up your oils if you have damage around. You deploy a 50% insta slow, its one of the best CC in the game

Diablo
When you do a wallstun. Instead of pressing E, use your body to bodyblock the target. When he gets pass you, you press E to flip them over

ETC
Its horrible for your rightclickers and abilitie spammers to follow up on a W. Instead of pressing it as soon as you land a stun. Wait a tiny bit before casting it

Garrosh
Unless you are master, dont instalock him. You get a ton of counters. Make sure Johanna gets a ban too. Lock him 3th 4th or 4th
Also unrivaled strenght is extremely underrated

Johanna
You dont pick subdue for the quest reward you pick it for the slow. Try to maximize it in order to put as much CC as possible on a target. You can also trow your shield at one target to get close to another

Malganis
If you pick spreading plague at 7 and bloodrush on 13 you give yourself a nice movespeed every fight. Also dont press E at a long range but do it in melee range

Muradin
Early game your highest priority is to stack your baseline Q. If you go with dwarf block jump at the same spot before engaging in a fight. This will help you get the block before each fight. Dont worry with 4 charges of block and a giant healthpool you will get your charge back if you want to retreat

Stitches
Stitches has a large unit radious and giant healthpool use both to be your teams best friend. Be confident your body more then in your abilitie to be a hooker

Tyrael
Instead of using E for dmg every time. Use it to help your allies engage and escape
Alt+ leftclick to show santification is ready. This will tell others to stay somewhat grouped. So they dont get a suprised santificiation and react bad to it

Varian
Ping the target before you charge. If your going shield wall use the protect to deny dmg to your allies and place your banners on the side not in front of you

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You mean Subdue? :sweat_smile:

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So many names :sob:

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Tip to all Mura players. Dont pick Heymaker unless you know how to use it. Just had a game as KTZ were a Mura pushed my combo target away 9/10 times.

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Sgt Hammer

You are a god damn tank, don’t just sit there afk auto attacking. If you see your teammate getting focused down instead of you you should peel the enemy off with W. If they have used their cc cooldowns you should z to the enemy aggressors W them off your teammate then zoom back out. As a tank you should peel for your team if the situation calls for it.

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But those juicy 80% baseline slow if completed :sob:

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I do not agree with it 100%, some of your mates will expect an instant combo to throw their follow up CC.
If that is the case i feel it is better to match them than the other way.

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I used to cocoon healer, but like you said if they have fast openers like Ming who open it in 0,2 seconds your ult is completely wasted. Fastest cocoon opener is the most natural target.

Though if the healer is Lucio, he’s always a good cocoon target because he also opens them very fast with his AA.

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And then Behold, as your allies group around the cocoon because they think you want them to focus the tank lol.

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Wow I didn’t realize I was such a bad tank :pensive:

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I enjoy all the tips I can get. Thank you very much! Often times I just watch FanHOTS play on Twitch, along with his amazing and fun YouTube videos, and I feel incredibly inspired! I try to do whatever he does. But often times I don’t seem to make it look as easy.

I swear the only two heroes I feel on top of the world with are Xul and Rexxar. Even my most played hero, Cassia, has been up and down since the new patch. I need to figure out how to dominate with the beautiful Cassia again! :heartpulse:

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Just practice a few combos on sandbox/try mode like me :stuck_out_tongue: when you do combos heroes will be easyer to play

I learned jaina this way and it only took me 5 min (with icyveins on 13)

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Also applies to Artanis’ Twin Blades, btw.

Good post (I play Muradin and Tyrael).

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I am not confident in stitches ability to be a a hooker

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Likewise, but it’s a cliff notes guide to players new to tanking.

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Maybe its ability spammers vs surgical precision
Maybe OP doesnt even hold Q on li li but presses Q when he wants it to casts the blastfhemy

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Harbieee is a Master Malthael player, I think he could handle playing Li Li!

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:smiling_face_with_three_hearts: :heart_eyes:

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How will I sleep tonight with such a sublime image burned into my brain? :scream_cat:

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with diablo I actually do this for the bodyblock, ive notice actually a lot just flipping them over to a position that favors the enemy

With ETC ive notice when you wait a tiny bit before casting the enemys actually move towards you in order to rescue the target. So you boop them away too, ive trained my reflexes to always boop when I see a diablo charge or imperius stun

I refuse to like this comment ! I think you can be very good at it