I think I already know the answer to this but I just want it confirmed. Mainly because only 1 tank could possibly be less than 300 pounds but all of them get thrown around like ragdolls, tanks do nothing against high damage and are useless when they have to try to absorb it, and get absolutely shredded in almost every single team fight. Orisa is the only one that actually feels like a tank but she has to use an ability to get there
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Seriously I hate playing Rein when enemy team has Lucio and Pharah
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I love when I get booped half way across the point by a lucio looking down at his max boop range as dva
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Then play Orisa.
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It’s really hard to change tanks because each have their own set of skills
Yes, but you should still learn them if they solve a problem you regularly encounter.
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I dislike playing Orisa in mid elo, she relies on her DPS to do most if not the entire damage which in mid elo you got Helen Keller and Stevie Wonder as your DPS
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I have seen it first hand many times, good Rein players can’t play Winston and the vice versa. I have also seen non tank players attempt to play tank and it was disastrous. Tank skills aren’t easy to master and change. Especially because of the reasons I already mentioned
I disagree.
With Orisa you can simply shoot the enemy Reinhardt’s shield until it’s gone. You can stop his charge with fortify and you can force him and his team back behind your shield with halt.
After breaking his shield it’s headshot city.
Orisa skill #4:
SHOOT THE ENEMY SHIELD
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I’m not disagreeing that heroes are easy to master, but I think you should do it anyways.
Orisa doesn’t do near enough damage for that. Halt doesn’t actually stop his charge and can easily get other teammates killed. I don’t even play her and know how much she struggles with damage
Mastering and being decent are 2 different things. None of the tanks are similar and each have very different counters with different people they can go after. I struggle with Rein in arcade outside of Total Mayhem
I feel the need to post this here:
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It’s almost accurate. It forgot the bugs and what happens after he charges and firestrikes and the boops
I play a ton of Orisa, she’s my go to tank. That said I’ve gotten decent enough at winston to pull a win out of a donkey against divable targets.
I said to use use fortify against charge. Halt is to keep the enemy team between you and your shield.
Orisa does 132 dps. One magazine will do 1,650 damage. This is more than 3/4 of Reinhardt’s shield.
Now, put it into the perspective that your team will also be firing against the shield. Suddenly, Reinhardt’s shield looks to be very weak.
As for doing damage. She struggles to hit fast moving targets because she shoots projectiles, but against tanks you should be destroying them with headshots because her projectile hitboxes are very forgiving.
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With Orisa, at least she has something. And she is pretty good on most maps so you’re probably best playing her until something changes with the tanks.
I would like to introduce you to a thing commonly known as Reinhardt’s right click.
What about the other tanks. How are you on them? Also on what scale are we rating your Winston 
She’s never actually always shooting at his shield. That’s just a bad Orisa if she is. Between Rein and his other teammates, I’d honestly be amazed if she got a full clip into his shield while still putting down a shield and using her other abilities to stay alive. There are very few times when an entire team is actually shooting at a Rein’s shield. Most of the time 1-3 people are while others are trying to find someone they can actually shoot
Let me introduce you to high damage. Rein’s shield is down before they get out of choke then you’re stuck trying to find somewhere to hide while trying to kill them. There’s no counter to high damage output
Tanks are meant to take high damage, and that is what they do, especially the main tanks. High damage is especially good against them, but even in the Junkrat meta I have not had my shield go down before the enemies pushed through choke. You aren’t the only one on your team and if the 5 other players you’re with are not helping kill the high damage then there are other solutions to that. Sounds like poor gameplay if you ask me.
Tanks are getting tossed around like rag dolls and getting big burst damage because that’s the best way to kill them everything else tends to fail.
You’ll notice despite significant numbers of tanks complaining about the CC Orisa still has a terrible pick rate.
Junk/Pharah, Zen, Mercy, and Hanzo/Widow. They can easily do 2k in less than a second. I have had many games with those heroes where I’ve eaten close to 20k as D.Va. High damage doesn’t have a counter. There are many times as D.Va I’m out of my mech in less than half a second even when I eat some of the damage first
Yeah but you shouldn’t be able to throw 300+ pound things around like rag dolls. That doesn’t make any sense. And Orisa is super situational. You can’t pull her out any time you want unless you’re on a good map for her and have heroes that can stay around her to help when she loses her shield