Hi- I had this problem in OW1 too. But i could understand since there was a need for 2 tanks and it was unpopular.
I’m not sure if it’s my MMR that’s making it so that i’m always ending up with tank queue for most of my games. I’d say it was a split of 70 tank 30 healer games. DPS extremely rarely.
I just wondered if this is just me or if anyone else is experiencing this. Are tanks still very unpopular to play in 5v5?
Yep, me too. After all of their effort to prevent tank from having the shortest que time, it is still faster to find 2 dps or 2 supps than 1 tank. Funny how that works out
I recall early on for OW2 many bronze/silver players would come on here about no one playing tanks and showing this hellaciously high DPS Q times.
Though it does seem more universal now that tank is suffering. When top 500 launched season 5 you could be top 500 tank at only master 4 compared to GM 4 for support or DPS. Its changed a bit now, but as a whole I feel there are better options on DPS or support for general day to day things now.
I can single-handedly counter hammond using sombra or brigitte. I can greatly mess up any flanker using torbjorn. Any winston I can pick reaper. JQ or other press W tanks I can use Mei and wall them off. I can bully Sigma’s as Brigitte. I can play footsie with Reins as Lucio speeding my team away from him or booping him back.
As well as its just irritating when your team doesn’t pick stuff to counter the enemy team when they have so many good options to use. The only tool I usually want out of tanks on DPS or support is simply a pick a shield. There is almost nothing out of a tank I want from their kit at all beyond a shield to make our lives easier.
Tank population is super low. Ironic because they made 5v5 cause no one wanted to play tank in 6v6.
I find games in all roles in under 2 minutes. If you want to play a specific role then choose it. Don’t waste your time picking flex just for some measly XP.
It varies depending on the region. In my case, I usually end up playing Support more frequently than Tank. But I suspect that other regions may see more Tank queues; particularly if you’re on the East or West Coasts.
I kept track of my EU QP flex queues (~ low gold MMR) in season 4 and season 5 so far.
While flex queueing I got the following number of queue pops:
Tank: 79
Support: 74
DPS: 13
So for me flex queueing is basically 50% tank, 50% support.
Getting DPS while flex queueing rarely ever happens.
(Considering that each team needs only 1 tank but 2 supports I think getting a 50-50 tank-support split means that tank still is the least popular role.)