How to have fun with tanks, a simple guide

Play what you want.

If the enemy tank is giving you issues, shoot the other members of their team first.

If a specific match up, or tool is giving you issues. Look up a top 500 player on that hero, and just how they deal with them. 9/10 it’s as simple as use X tool when they do Y thing.

Let your team know how your going to play, who you want to target, or if they can peel of X hero for. If you feel like your out of sync.

Play to get kills, use flanks and walls to save resouces on tools like DM / barrier so you can have them when you start a fight in your ideal attack range. That way you almost always will have them to eat the big cooldowns or to set up your own attacks.

And from their you can climb like any tank you like. Regardless of meta.

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I already do that.

I do not have a gun. It is this weird sort of rocket powered hammer. Their tank usually just walks up to me while I am swinging it. I do not believe they are afraid of it despite the fact that the bludgeoning could result in brain damage. They are very brave…

Cloudy told me that I could be the best Reinhardt player in the world and a platinum Orisa would dominate me. :skull:

No, that knowledge is forbidden.

Oh, I do animals. My team begs me not to flank. I ignore them and it sometimes, occasionally, every so often works.

I will not disappoint you.

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walk around flanks, jump off highground onto dps / supports.

Charge is actually a solid mobility tool, don’t forget it exists and that you cancel it into instant swings / ult / and firestrikes.

Also just don’t lane push, that barrier is a lot more handy when you can just eat a d.va bomb and still have enough juice to eat a whipshot / boop / nade /sleep.

Tell them to come with you. The main lane is kind of pointless to push if their isn’t a cart acting as a sudo tank for you.

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Play what you want is the big one. Everybody complains about “counterwatch”, but that’s a result of people not learning how to push through their counters at all. Playing tank roulette is the best way to lose and not have fun doing it.

Of course, if you’re playing like Wrecking Ball, then unfortunately you are gonna end up in the feeling like you can’t play the game situation because the devs just don’t want to do anything about his Sombra matchup.

Yes you can work around Sombra, but that one absolutely is map dependent. I was on Circuit Royale offense and played around their Sombra just fine. Swap to the defense round and it’s utterly hopeless because you can’t engage at all without getting hacked. Blizzard plz, do something about Sombra.

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You can sorta ignore sombra via setting up dives from a flank, with a teammate to dive with you, and by pressing the extra HP button on que with the hack sound effect. And just be prepared to shoot at the like the support or something to the rest or team can capitalize on the pressure.

Be it ball is on their to work on list, so he most likely will be getting more tweaks in the upcomming seasons.

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Honestly it’d be a really easy issue to solve. Just make hack disable switching modes instead of putting you in walker mode.

She can still cancel the piledriver, prevent the shields and mines, and prevent rolling if Hammond was shooting, but then Hammond would at least be allowed to roll around without Sombra auto-killing him.

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I mean honestly you should just make a thread about this, it’s actually not a bad idea and gives him a little bit of safety and counter play when his cooldown isn’t up.