Tank players, you are NOT a DPS. Whenever I queue DPS or Support, I constantly see my tank playing like a DPS… if you play like that, just stop. A tank is meant to protect the team, not seeking out kills. If your backline is being dived, go help the backline instead of pushing into the enemy team and then spamming for heals. If your DPS needs help, help them. Stop ignoring your team just to get kills, that’s the DPS job, and they can’t do it if you aren’t helping them and playing with them. If you’re kill thirsty, queue DPS.
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Nah, my hook go brrrrr and my fist goes bonk.
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In Overwatch they weren’t. Here they very much are. Tanks aren’t Tanks at all anymore. Anybody who played them and minded their team in OW will know exactly how it doesn’t work anymore.
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A tank is NOT meant to protect the team.
Their job is to claim space by being a big threat the enemy can’t ignore.
Welcome to Overwatch 2.
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Just tell the tank there are kills to be had in the backline. 
Big part of this is claiming the right space… if your backline has two 3 out of 5 of the enemy team in it and your not, what space exactly are you threating?
YES!! This is so true, you ABSOLUTELY spilled.
Not true.
OW2 is fat (I think the cool kids say thicc yo) dps, dps, and thin dps. Enjoy.
So sick of being dived and my tank doesn’t help me or my other support, anyone who disagrees is clearly hardstuck silver.
This is valid. Part of claiming space is making sure the enemy doesn’t take it back.
It’s absolutely the right call to collapse on a flanker in most situations, I’m just saying that the tank’s role is not solely to “protect the team”
when im in tank mode i try to protect the team and at times it actually worked depending on opponents
Shooter game players, this isn’t an MMORPG.
Got yelled at today because I wasn’t flanking for supports as Roadhog. So idk, I think how you need to play is team dependent.
Tell that to the DPS oriented tanks. Whether it’s liked or not, a new tactic is raw damage vs. damage. Remember the posts here yelling at Supports to deal damage instead of only healing?
Being an HP shield while laying pressure to the enemy is a method to protecting your team so the enemy doesn’t run into you or take great positions at angles to do damage that you can’t protect.
What you should have consideration for is that a tank basically has to do one thing at a time. If they stop doing what they are doing to peel, defend, etc…
That could be a bad move and suddenly your team gets wiped because they staggered.
esp true for dfs and hammies
lol if anything tanks are much better dps with heavy utility, self protection, good stalling, more health. Tank currently also happens to be the most busted role and gets insanely rewarded for little input, compared to other roles too
Honestly, they kind of are a dps, they are balanced to be the MEGA dps
What rank are you out of curiosity ?
if i play tank dps, things die
if i try to protect the team, i die and my team dies too. 
Idk who needs to hear this but all because Doomfist is very good right now does not mean you should still insist on playing him into Hog.