I’ve been a flex player for the past year, but lately I can’t bring myself to touch ranked. Not because I don’t want to play — but because hero bans have made it miserable, especially for tanks.
Every match, two tank heroes are banned. Out of a pool of just 13, that’s a massive hit. And since each team only has one tank and two DPS and support players, tanks get outvoted on bans constantly. That means the most picked, strongest, or most enjoyable tanks are off-limits almost every match. It’s not strategy — it’s bullying a whole role.
I don’t even want to flex into ranked anymore. Why queue up knowing I’ll likely be forced onto whatever scraps are left in the tank pool?
And now look at the numbers:
Ranked tank queue? Under 1 minute — because people like me are bailing.
DPS queue? Over 16 minutes — because there’s no one left to match with.
Support? Still playable, but ticking upward.
Then compare that to Stadium mode — no bans, fair pools per role:
All queues? Under 4 minutes. That’s balance. That’s playable.
We warned this would happen. Choking off already-thin role pools doesn’t encourage strategy — it drives players away.
Now ranked is bleeding out while Stadium is thriving.
Yey, someone’s on to something. But you just wait the forum vultu… I mean, experts - will come around and explain how you’re wrong and how stuff that’s banned should be banned anyways (insert “unfun” / “broken” / “OP” / “deserved” / whatever else excuse here)
P.S. Honestly?
– if that’s the case and it’s considered good then that’s all I need to know - so no, I’m not installing it back anytime soon.
I mean thats at the highest end, DPS us under a minute. But the other two seem to vacilate between 2-5 minutes depending.
So yeah it means bans are specifically for people that dont even like the game lol. Really just proving the point about Blizzard listening to the wrong people.
I did, they removed it last season though remember? It’s still gone. 6v6 max 2 tanks is not open queue hell 6v6 isnt even overwatch so no thanks.
You are trying to have a semantics argument but you are wrong about the semantic to begin with so rather than dunk on you about it I’ll just stop responding to that part of your defense of hero bans, that I also know you are against lol.
Lol that part is true, its like if role queue made 2 2 2 queue times terrible for all that were not tank, bans are going to do the same for 1 2 2. Hooray! Nostalgia lol.
Lol not gonna lie you had me in the first half. It’s definitely not open queue but it’s def overwatch lol.
Maybe in the sense that it isn’t 2 2 2 it’s less good? But like nah it’s definitely OW!
It’s basically just Zarya banned and maybe Ball. Occasionally you see something else banned but it’s not that often in my experience. What tanks do you prefer to play? You never said.
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