I’m noticing a pattern of losing when I do not play DPS or rather a pattern of consistently extremely poor DPS players. I’m not sure how to fix this, but I feel like there are many players whose rank should be much lower. Perhaps due to the long queue times this “adjustment” is not being made as fast as it needs to be?
It’s still very frustrating to queue up as Tank or Healer only to, again consistently, be paired up with one-trick, no-counter/switch, run-off-on-their-own, zero game-sense/mechanical skill DPS… 
Blizzard, please do something about the DPS queue and skill disparity!
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This may be your experience but tanks are generally the mediocre class up to diamond. 80 percent of games are lost because of poor tank play. Tanks is the most misunderstood role and the role that has the most impact. If your tanks are bad that’s a loss. If your dps are not the best it’s still winnable. Tanks and supports can killt things. You have a bad tank or a poor support. That game is over after the first fight.
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you’re playing your off role poorly and not enabling the dps.
dps is in it’s weakest state since release
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Welcome to the new meta. Your DPS win or your team loses. That’s it. OWL all the way to the bottom. Tanks and healers can fight forever without killing each other, so the only real deciders are the DPS. With only exception for very powerful abilities like antinade.
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this is absolutely not true, dps need space to make plays even more now than ever, a dps has to be completely blind to lose a game with good tank play
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lol. Carpe just 3v6 for the win, multiple rounds in a row. Corey, SB, on and on and on. Shields are SO palty now that there is no point. Whomsoever has the DPS wins. A tank can make space, a healer can keep you up, nothing in this game can make a kill except DPS.
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Play better at Tank/Supp.
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well you tend to notice those things when you keep being spectating, but it’s always other people’s fault right?
on average the dps are terrible not saying other classes can’t be but dps is the worse
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Tanks can kill things.
I play rein. I killed a Winston solo baiting him to get pinned. Went on point once again alone shattered both supports and a dps . Killed all three of them. Took point. Quit being delusional. Tanks and supports are the carry of overwatch.
Also to the above gothfist. That’s tank players.
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lol this was funny MORE please
It’s the tanks.
Noticed this two hours of playing Role Queue.
The day the game died.
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tanks is the most boring role in the game
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Not if you’re playing it right.
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playing a role right has nothing to do with it not being boring lol i can play tanks very well doesn’t mean its fun
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So far I am finding the tanking position to be lower than optimal. Unfortunately I don’t play main tanks well. I’m a killer Zarya and that is my downfall. I am in low Plat, and sure I play Zarya at a Mid Diamond level, but I can’t rank up with everyone, including myself, being weak at main tank. I am constantly going main tank and just letting the team down.
DPS being my highest rank, Masters, allows me to realize what is needed. Most times I am seeing DPS swap well, so I have seen no issues. Unfortunately since DPS is my strong role I am quite lackluster in tanking once again. I have the mind and playstyle of DPS which affects me negatively.
My last game I had an enemy hog who kept flanking and picking us off and no one did anything about it. As a healer I have no real solution to this problem. We got swept on control point due to one hog, and my team wouldn’t stop bickering amongst each other.
The dude played Hog right and well, he picked off our mistakes. As a DPS I could deal with him, but as a healer I have no clue. I sat there useless as Ana. Once again only being good at one role holding me back.
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so strange. dps is not a counter to hog. ana is a counter to hog.
sleep = kill.
grenade = kill
avoid hook twice = win team fight
btw, the 3rd one is way harder, so I suggest doing one of the first two. Ana is quite good against hog at higher ranks and can kill him as much as he kills her. Definitely aim and mechanics matters a lot.
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Sleep him as Ana. Tbh flanking hogs don’t bother me as Ana. It’s the dive DPS that give me issues
All of this evidence is anecdotal. In my experience it’s DPS that’s dropping the ball, consistently, at the gold skill level.
I really think issues with the skill rating system for DPS and the long queue times are attributing to the skill ratings not being sorted out properly. Tired of being paired up with bronze skill players who are somehow gold…
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Show us a vod then.
But I can tell you tank players at the gold level are mediocre. Like next to useless. Despite dps being gold their role is just kill things when the other two roles are played correctly. Which in gold they won’t be.