The reason that tanks and supports are now starting to flame more is that they can’t just say “hey you’re not doing so hot, mind switching to support and letting me DPS?”
The one thing I absolutely hate is the excuse of, “I would be doing more DPS if my tanks just made more space.” I can bet 90% of the players who say that are using that as an excuse for not knowing where to position.
And the excuse of, “my supports aren’t healing me” is so stupid. No support in the game is going to look at a 25% Hanzo and say, “Ehh maybe next time buddy.” If you are not getting healed it is either because:
A. your support is busy healing someone else or
B. you are halfway across the map 1v1ing the McCree you said you would spawn kill.
And when your Sigma has more damage than your Hanzo, there is a problem. DPS have the highest damage numbers in the game for a reason. We signed up as tanks and supports to play WITH you not FOR you.
Edit: I am not saying by any means that it is always the fault of the DPS. I am saying that people shouldn’t be using their tanks and supports as excuses for playing poorly when it is their fault. It goes the same for supports and tanks too I just wanted to address the DPS because it seems to be a lot more prevalent lately. I’ve also seen DPS players who think that the game revolves around them and that tanks and supports are only there to make them look good.
You’d be surprised. It’s not that they do it on purpose, they just don’t notice you. And I’ve seen this happen when the injured guy is standing right in front of them, a good number of times.
And yeah, Zarya, Sigma, D.va, Hammond are all tanks I’ve gotten gold damage with quite a lot. Even Rein sometimes, and I’m far from the aggressive yolo Rein. But you are right, a Hanzo should be doing more.
Oh, I actually did that on purpose about two weeks ago. Last pick, 4th dps hanzo on a team with a mcree, widow, and a monkey. We still won, guy was pissed, called me a bot and told everyone else to report me.
Pre 2-2-2
OMG TO MANY DPS! WE SUPPORTS Q.Q
After 2-2-2
OMG ITS YOUR FAULT BECAUSE YOU BAD DPS!
Oh wait… maybe its the Supports fault for letting their dps die? Dead dps = no DPS.
You know… OW is a team game and Blaming DPS for everything like blaming Trmp for everthing Clinton did. Oh wait… those people dont even see what they are doing.
Or how about tanks that are passive like a squirrel against a human? A DPS cant do sh*t if your tank is to afraid to move on a bit aggressive and if a DPS goes for a kill just because he is sick hiding behind Reins shield which stands behind the payload… but yeah… lets just blame DPS for everything.
I have won many games with at least one bad support and dps… but i never won a game with tanks. A good and aggressive tank can carry a game if he has a good heal behind him but no godlike support can carry a game with scaredy tanks. JJonak maybe but thats one of a milion.
It is my fault that other people are not playing their role properly? It would not be the first time I heard that mumbo jumbo, but it honestly gets old. I do not really care one way or the other. My fault? Okay. Who cares? I lose less SR because I am dealing boatloads of damage. If you want to win, you had better carry me… Because I am just there to enjoy shooting at heads. Make the space and I shoot twice the heads. Keep me alive and I shoot twice the heads. Whatever. If I kill 3 people after we already lost the team fight or 3 people to win the teamfight… What difference does it make to me? It don’t. So you better start pulling extra weight if you want results.
dps players way overrate the value of flanking. if you flank you need to get a minimum of 2 picks without any help just to make it worth it.
even if you get 1 pick its now just an even fight on the frontline. you could have made it an even frontline fight much easier by staying with the team.
its dumb stuff like this which is why dps have such a bad rep.
Now that 222 is forced, hero balance is all off. Shield tanks are very strong while shield busters are weak. Lets not forget one hero that has a specialty in taking out shields was nerfed.
This game is going to be pretty bad until Blizzard can start balance around 222, that is IF they even do. I’m not holding my breath though.
Oh that crap isn’t going to fly. Don’t you dare sit there and pretend that a large portion (not all or the majority) of healers don’t just outright refuse to heal certain heroes, and then blame the player for them not doing their job. And don’t you dare pretend there aren’t a very large portion of supports that have an unhealthy habit of pocketing one or two players, ignoring the rest of their teammates.
There are many many people who just dont want to admit that they are bad.
They get angry at supports and tanks, they get angry when the tanks do more damage, when tanks or supports get potg they call it “lmao nice aim … boring potg”.
A lot of them are just salty … very very salty inside. Which is hilarious because this is a videogame but they think dps is the only important and skillful role to play in this game. Thats why they dont want to play tank or support … “tanks so boring, supports so boring” while in reality they are just to ignorant and dont have the mindset to go through a lot of frustration.
There are many games that I have lost as a support because our tanks would literally just not be making space. Either they just sit at a choke or don’t move even when the enemy main tank is dead(saw that yesterday on the enemy team, allowing us to full hold).
About ever other game DPS on our team get blamed, while usually the blame can be any role, or all the roles.