What is your go-to-tank right now?

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Depends on the map and team.
Usually I cycle through Garosh, ETC, Mei or Diablo, based on the bans.

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I never used to like tanks, actually, so I just started getting into them. I have to say, Anub has always been fun, though. However, since her release, Iā€™ve never found a tank that is quite so tanky as Mei, for me. I seem to be able to stand in the middle of tsunamis of damage and make it through. Iā€™ve never found another character to be as survivable.

Iā€™m thinking that itā€™s a personal style thing, though, because other players can play a hero and be absolutely unkillable, and then fold like an origami swan when I play them.

But Mei, sheā€™s what a tank should feel like to play.

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I like Arthas even though heā€™s not considered super great Iā€™m just awful with other tanks. Maybe I should try Muradin more

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Mei is johanna 2.0 with ranged auto attack.
Tanks should not be balanced around being CC bots with several i do not die buttons.

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ETC is my go-to, can secure kills and can cover soak if my team decides to forget what soak is. Joh follows up closely too.

Also loving Diabloā€™s current AA build but I need to be in the right zone, if Iā€™m having a bad run ill put myself in a bad position too much or miss out on peel, but if Iā€™m playing well the cooldown reductions mean he is a peeling god and Iā€™ll just rip out the squishing from their team

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Sad crusader noises.

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currntly enjoying Diablo AA build.

other than in some cases, like against arthas or garrosh, I hav had issue.
but other than that, at times even i feel bad bcoz of not dying while constantly flipping n banging thm on to walls :smiley:

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I stopped tanking, since its a pure frustration most of the times.

But if I need to, its usually Arthas

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My ranked SL winrate started to go into horrible depth.
Despite knowing Arthas well. Main (not solo) Tank or Sololaner, usually lose :thinking:

Anyway, I still usually Tank with AA Dibbles or Taunt Varian, just as years ago.

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Blaze.

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My goto tank is not picking a tank.

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Muradin. I love his trait healing and his entire kit and his talent variety.

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I dont pick Arthas if they have a lot of poke.
But Arthas is actually a great counter to Diablo.
Also he is quite useless until he gets his Army.

Anyway, didnt touch Stitches for a long time.

Used to tank with Varian a lot, but people just refuse to follow up most of the timesā€¦

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Must I refer you to my favorite necromancer?

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Mei and Tyrael.
Honestly I never realized the power of Tyraelā€™s judgement until I tried him.

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hes a Beastā€¦ i hav 65% winrate this season with diablo, n im just spamming him like crazy, with cdr on lvl7 it is just insane

ppl still stand still n shoot, even in silver. i think it starts to change in gold

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Lmao, came here to specifically say that I do not enjoy Anubā€™arak anymore. He seems very unimpactful to me.

All I can do is a 1s stun and 0.5s knockup. Damage is miserable. Wave clear is among the worst. Beetle tower diving has been nerfed to the ground since towers/forts focus heroes.

He cannot trade with any hero. Loses every 1v1. Basically cocoon is the only good thing left. Beetles are a meme, because they are so slow they never hit anyone. Only good to block Liming spells.

My top 1 has to be Muradin. His Q can stun for about the same duration as Anub Q+E combined and has lower CD. Great survivability, incredible sustain out of combat. Can dive and actually destroy backline because he has good damage.

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I somehow got the vibe that he is weak now because I rarely see them play so yesterday I played 2 matches as Arthas and ended up carrying both of them with top damage.

One was vs Illidan, other vs Butcher. I denied them both matches. As long as they stay in E, I win the trade easily with AA build.