These are last things you want to hear after making your picks, theres one person left who hasn’t picked and you don’t have a shield tank.
And yet you hear it so much in gold.
Lets be real tho, when they say this its not that they actually don’t know how to play these heroes, its just that they don’t WANT to and are hoping to pass the buck by feigning ignorance of how shield based tanks work.
If they did they’d actually try to learn them. But no, its easier to try and scare somebody else off their pick to deal with the problem.
We all know how crappy and miserable playing Main Tank is at this elo. At least own up to it and say “im not playing sheild tank somebody else deal with it.”
Nobody’s buying that “i dont know how to play them” crap anymore.
I play the game to relax and have fun. Who are you to tell me I need to play a hero that’s just going to frustrate me because I have little time on it just because you’re sitting there waiting there to tryhard instalock the fun stuff first?
I play it as long as i see it as useful. Once i see everyone flanking or dps moira i usually switch off to my favorite damage hero. With no teamwork, sheild tank is useless.
Also, there is a fine line between being to aggressive and not being aggressive enough.
Your comment is false. Creating space with a main tank requires shield management, ability cool down management, positional knowledge, and knowledge of when to use your abilities and when. These reasons are why inexperienced players who play main tanks do the following:
Rein - stands in one spot with their shield up until it gets destroyed. When the shield goes down, they blame DPS for not getting picks. They charge in to 6 players and die. Blame the healers for not healing.
Orisa - has zero ability and cool down management, terrible pulls, cannot hit anyone with her primary, and doesn’t know when to fortify or ult. Drags the team down.
Winston - jumps into a fight instead of positioning himself to engage and having the ability to jump out. Doesn’t coordinate with team, just jumps randomly, and they play onto hard counters.
Hammond - plays Hammond because they watch OWL teams do it successfully.
Main Tank is actually hard to play well. The controls might be easy but shielding v fighting and knowing the ins and outs isn’t easy. If it was everyone would instalock it to climb. But they don’t. Hmmmmm…
I mean, I can’t play rein, I’m just horrible at him. I could take the time to learn him and probably could get decent at him after a few hours, but I don’t feel the need because I already play off tanks plus all supports and many dps. If I can play like at least half of the roles in the game, I think that’s good enough. Ultimately, I don’t want to play a role that I know I’m not good at.
This happens when people are forced to play roles they’re not good at and are forced to fill. Tank is one of the most important role of the game and hard to play imo.
Yeah it’s a right piss off. They need almost like another Extreme Competitive mode, where people are willing to play for the the greater good of the team.
Comp now is just another form of quick play.
That said, Main shield tank is the worst thing to play, the least fun and the most frustrating when your team is all over the place and you still don’t have a Main healer.
Some else that ticks me off, this game is about counters. like paper rock scissors. BUT soooooo many times i keep seeing scissors smashing into rock hoping that one day, it just might work… i.e team of snipers vs a team of shield tanks that are moving the payload.
no matter which meta, overwatch is always meant/designed to be about switching, countering, using all the tools in the toolkit as needed.
so when somebody says they absolutely cannot play a certain role… that just means theyre not ready yet to commit to the competitive mindset yet.
if a certain role or hero is needed to deal with the enemy, or a certain hero is being countered by the enemy, the game wants you to switch. if you refuse to do so, that doesnt make you a terrible person, but it means you deserve the loss.
so, if you have a team of 6 people and none want to play main tank (because none of them felt the need to learn main tank in the first place), then they simply dont deserve the win as much.
maybe through sheer determination and skill with “unusual” hero choices they can win. but if they lose because of their ignorance/unwillingness… then thats fair and good.
That’s all well and good Daddy. BUT, i can fill any role, have played and can play anything. But I can’t fill every role at once. i.e I can’t be 6 different heroes at the same time. So i need to rely on my team “mates” to play the other 5 heroes. When they say, I can’t play this of that. I can’t cover for them all. So they end up bring me down with them.