The guy has nom-stop health
If I was a tank & I had to counter him, I would pick Orisa as I will fortify the moment I think he’s gonna punch, and if he did his block ability, a javelin would be thrown
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I agree with frra… the 2 biggest things you can do is NOT damaging his block form and 2 interupting or nulling his punch.
Orisa is great because you can spear his block form which cancels it, and you can fortify against his punch.
Other tanks can take his value away too in other ways, I could see a good zarya or rein even giving him a hard time because they can avoid damaging his block form like anyone can but can null any value you gets from punching by either counter charging or bubbling who ever he’s trying to punch.
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People might suggest roadhog/orisa, but you’re basically giving up and trying to neutralize the match up at best on worse heroes. What exactly are orisa/roadhog going to do on watchpoint into him? Go dva/winston and just play the better dive/punish a bad engage by bubbling off his heals/dming him.
I’ve noticed mobile tanks are better and kill their team or at least disrupt them. Most doom players leave their teams wide open. At least mid level ones.
And those two also only works if your team plays close to you. Which comes natural on some maps/modes. Defense on kings row with a dps that shoots the block? Orisa is good. Push? Not as good imo since he can just jump around you and pick your team apart. Slow tanks are good on some maps but i generally do better on mobile tanks that can either trade or keep up.
Countering requires you to be a target. Since doom should largely ignore tanks and try to displace/delete backlines, you can’t really counter a (good) doom as tank.
Your best bets are to either be the better dive tank yourself, which may or may not be possible based on your comp, or go a tank with high survivability, like orisa or road, and just completely deny all support the doom might get, understanding that you will also get very little.
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You dont really counter doom as just a tank, rather as a whole team with coordinated CC
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This. You don’t. If your team can’t counter then it’s a loss, just take it and move on.
Junker queen is good for it too
as monkee, I usually get between him and his team.
My bubble and my armor can usually tank more dmg and I don’t even get headshots from his dps.
on top of barely any healing reaching him.
if he doesn’t dip he dies.
only gets nasty when he can get quick kills
Jesus where do I start. A general counter every tank can do, is body block his exit punch from his slam engagements so he’s now literally stuck in the middle of the enemy team with no abilities.
Dva can outright bully him and DM any of his engagements.
Zarya can bubble the targets he dives.
Monkey can place a bubble and completely cut off any healing from his team.
JQ can pull him when he tries to escape with a knife (even better because she can just hit him with it and wait til he tries to escape to use it)
Hog has hook.
Mauga can poke doom out but doom’s generally going to avoid the mauga in the first place because that’s the tank counterplay to mauga… avoid mauga.
Orisa can bully him with any number of abilities. Body block escape with jav spin or fortify. Spear to cancel block.
Rein CAN force doom’s to not really be able to use block with his charge, but it’s not as clear cut reliable as the other examples. Also idk what it is but charge hitbox suction is hilariously strong against doom like you can miss by 5 feet and still pin him.
Objectively wrong. You can absolutely counter doom as a tank.
i have solo killed many DoomF while they are blocking while I am on kiri… headshots of course
i didnt know you could HS doom while he’s blocking? i mean if he’s low hp go for it but i wouldnt try to duel a doom on kiri unless the doom made multiple mistakes first like missing his punches + was already lowered hp.
edit also im a supp main but the OP was asking about tank counters - there are supports i might pick to counter doom like ana to sleep his block form or sleep him out of his ult when he lands etc but OP is asking for tanks,
well. i thought so too (coz you know, that fist blocking the head) but my game went “ting ting” (that headshot sound)… maybe i heard it wrong.
of course, only when the DoomF is low (tbh, about 60% is also manageable).
Bap on the other hand can very well take care of a DoomF. I am not worried at all when i play Bap.
For tanks, wouldn’t mauga be better since he literally shreds at close range…
maybe. my personal play style I’d like to interupt his blocks and make his punches meaningless with fortify on orisa but im no tank main. other people were suggesting just going a dive tank like dva or winston and just diffing the doom by being a better dive on their team and actually think that was great merit depending on the current objective and your playstyle. I can really only play rein or orisa well then half decent or passable with dva or winston everything else I’d be throwing on.
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