NEW ROLE: Hybrid. Mei, Bastion, Zarya, Junkerqueen, and Roadhog moved to Hybrid role.
6v6 role lock is now 1 tank, 3 dps, 2 supports.
DPS players can select up to a maximum of 1 hybrid character.
Tanks maintain all their current buffs. Tanks that are moved to hybrid role lose 200 HP but maintain all of their cooldown buffs and have their hitbox reduced. Mei gains 50 HP and Bastion has his tank form on a resource meter.
By having their HP pools reduce hybrids (formerly, off-tanks) will actually compete with DPS in power level by offering a trade off between insane abilities that tend to help in the tank battle and abities that tend to help in the pick off battle.
Particularly self sufficient tanks or tank players may find it advantagous to have a triple-dps comp due to the multiple threat angles they can provide. On the other hand sometimes more resource hungry tanks like winston or Doomfist could benefit from a zarya bubble, even if she has limited range and is a target with her reduced health pool.
With their reduced health pools, Hybrids will not necessarily have an advantageous 1v1 with pure dps characters and hybrid mains will need to focus on using their powerful resources efficiently (likely in synergy with their tank) to have impact.
Overall, the queue times issue would be greatly mitigated as many of the popular heroes (such as doomfist) would still be in Tank, main tank style tanks would be able to do their job instead of exploding like in OW1, greater freedom and decision making would be afforded to both teams, and “tanks” that were designed as off tanks can go back to their original design.
Finally, and most importantly, it would be literally impossible to pick 2 shield tanks (or two mitigation tanks like rein and ram).