as dps body blocking isnt your main role
but when youre playing with a support, if you body block for them, they can heal you while you take the damage while you also deal the damage. if you let the support take the damage, then you just straight lose the support and then you lose yourself. they’ll keep you up while you do the damage
and on the contrary, if it were the other way around, and the support due to weaker kill potential will die against most matchups assuming equal skill. and then yeah again, he’s dead, and then you’re dead.
it’s just synergistic to body block for the support
and i just realized this brings upon the importance of peeling for your supports as well. because if you dont peel for your supports, then the supports die then you die to a lack of healing and numbers advantage. supports are squishy and lose against most duels
but yeah from your post though it’s difficult to 100% just hard pocket a pharah. theres key decisions to make, especially when your team is about to die. i could stay hard pocket but then if the team dies and you dont make up for the deaths in kills then we lose. im basically giving up my resources just to support one player