I thought tanks are OP? Why do I still get it 90% of my “ALL” queue?
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Because playing solo tank sucks, and nobody wants to do it.
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I still do it. I’m already dead inside anyway so I can’t feel the pain anymore.
Or I’ve had enough beer to take the pain away…
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Like an alzheimer’s patient, I queue up for tank thinking this time it will be great, then after two matches I switch right back out of the tank queue.
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In the words of Faith No More-“it’s a dirty job but someone’s gotta do it”.
Live with Honor, die with Glory. 
tanks are both OP, as in they’ll win 90% of 1v1s they take against non-tanks, hell even most 1v2s, and are the most important role for deciding the game, but are considered unfun because they are the most important role for for deciding the game, so if you have 1 good fight the enemy team will likely hard focus you from that point on.
consider simply being built different and enjoying tank anyways. I dunno how but I still like tank when I’m not just getting slept anti’d and discorded on cooldown, or when I’m Winston and their supports are literally outhealing my damage by just looking at each other.
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I’ve been playing Mauga lately. You step one nipple out of position and you get popped like a pinata.
But then if your enemies play like idiots you curb stomp them solo and get accused of playing a lame no brain tank.
You just can’t win either way, so I only tank for my friends nowadays.
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I used to get that line from DPS when I mained Rein 100% in OW1. They had zero idea of the mental gymnastics involved in a Rein mirror on Kings, baiting out shatters, having to hard focus on ult tracking the enemy Rein’s ult, and the enemy Zarya’s grav.
A lot of DPS have undeserved ego’s when it comes to flaming tank mains. If it wasn’t for us most of the time they wouldn’t be where they are right now-which from observation of their gameplay, is an undeserved tier.
And on top of that, god forbid they admit mistakes. If I screw up my shatter-I don’t have a problem admitting I screwed up because mistiming my ult screws over the whole team. But you ALWAYS get that one DPS who types in match chat “tank diff”. And they’re typing when they should be actually playing, instead of being AFK and typing. #DPSAreSmart
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Nah. In your case you’re correct. Rein isn’t an easy hero. He is very limited in what he can do all at once and has to choose between everything he does.
Mauga’s only difficulty is being a tank. Outside of that he is the easiest hero in the game.
I honestly think Mauga was just such a poorly designed tank. I’ve tried playing him multiple times and I just can’t abide playing him, I really can’t.
I never thought I’d say this-but I’d rather play Ball than Mauga. I’m not faulting the players playing him-just his design.
Not if you have to play ball into mauga you don’t.
He is poorly designed. I rarely say that. But with mauga he is poorly designed. And I’d argue one of the biggest issues tanks have to face.
Well I can’t play Orisa into Mauga. If I did that I’d fall asleep from boredom and get torn apart lmao
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Id say sigma and Dva are what you play. But even Dva isn’t really a counter as much as it’s an opportunity. I can’t both shut him down and get the kill. I just shut him down and then need my dps to shoot while he can’t passively heal. So Dva isn’t really a counter. Sigma again kind of. But not really. Mauga is one of those heroes that is making tank just an awful experience.
I do have to say, I have been playing a lot more Sigma lately when warming up and he does feel nice and solid.
I have tried Dva, but you need good reflexes and need to be able to adjust/react real quick for peels etc, and I’ve lost those key elements thanks to being an old fart now (50 next year(don’t worry fellow old farts not everyone is as slow as me lmao)). It’s a case I’ve got the awareness but not the relflexes (hence why I prefer Sig/Rein and calling out-have very tuned awareness carried over from OW1).
Some things never changes… others just become crappier… Tanking is the latter.
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I got you beat, 100% when I queue Flex Role these past few days.
5 matches as venture go by much faster than 1 game as doomfist. Screw tank.
They should change the name of “All” to “Mostly Tank” IMO
Who said that?
If they were OP, everyone would want to play them. Just like every single other OP hero, ever.
They aren’t so they don’t.
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the single tank is broken, I find tank busters the most annoying like Bastion, Reaper without those two and the other tank stopping you it’s so easy to run through everyone.