Is tanking balanced atm?

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or is it still as balanced as most people’s mental states at the end of 2020?

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Most balanced? No.

Worst role? Yes.

Tanks have been ruined through GOATs, and the inclusion of new characters that counter that role entirely. Old characters with kits that can’t be played in this game, don’t get played.

Every time they add something, something old just becomes terrible.

There is only 4 viable tanks right now: Sigma/Ball/Zarya/Rein.

3 of those unviable tanks are: Orisa/Winston/D.Va

All of these heros were good before they added game breaking characters and abilites in the game. So much, that some characters can’t even get balanced because of 1 character.

Winston: Easily abusable by everyone, his ultimate is free ultimate charge, his damage gets out-healed by everything now…

D.Va: Defense matrix nerfed to the ground, crit-box in a bad spot, & easily countered ultimate

Orisa: No mobility, nerfed to the ground halt, and PAPER shield.

All 3 of these tanks need to be buffed, imo.

Here are my changes:

D.Va

  • Defense matrix changed to 15m
  • New Passive, “Bullet-Proof” grants 15% reduced damage to the crit-box.

Winston

  • Ultimate now only gives off 50% ultimate charge
  • Tesla cannons buffed from 60 damage to 75 damage

Orisa

  • Shield buffed from 600 to 850
  • Halt radius increased from 7 to 8

These changes should fix these characters in role que… BUT we have to keep in mind… SOME tanks currently need nerfs… everyone… starts rolling there eyes at Sigma & Ball…

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If you buff Orisa THAT MUCH double shield is back

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he needs this so badly dude

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she needs full immunity just like the hamster, i mean he gets full immunity, stall capability, better mobility and escapes. more damage too

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its the most impactful role in the game.

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But she, and the other tanks shouldn’t remain in the state that they’re in.

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Tanks all feel fine until the other team counters hard with dps and support, which only leaves certain tanks as viable.

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Those are buffs to Orisa after Sigma gets murderered :slight_smile:

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…it does 60, guys. 85 or 95 would be INSANE. Winston could use a bit of help, but absolutely not.

…some tank mains are a special breed.

It’s not enough you have 2-3x the health, gobs of armor, a shield, and CC immunity and 40% damage reduction on cooldown, but Orisa NEEDS no critbox as well.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

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Tesla cannons do 60dps

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let the monkey taze, dude.

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And orisas halt radius is I think 5 and she can only be buffed if sigma gets reworked as she’s still really good combined with him

Kinda sad I know but if u make orisa better double shield will be the staple pick 24/7

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He can have 95 DPS on his lightning when he gets a Darth Sideous skin.

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i’m not that kind of nerd but i agree with whatever you just said.

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Read… above…

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I would say rein zarya is pretty much the dominant tankline at every rank now.

People ALWAYS forget that a huge portion of the meta is not one role though, it’s how they match up vs. the entire enemy team.

A given hero can still be good but if the meta DPS is something like sombra + reaper the meta tank isn’t gonna be a tank who gets shut down by both of them.

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We’re still in the spot of “Rein/Zarya is the op combo at most every rank, Sigma is wrecking masters.” Where we’ve been for the majority of this last year (except for that little trist with Hog we had).

D.va buffs don’t seem to have affected anything. Ball/hog are pretty solid picks right now. Winston/Orisa are pretty much useless, except Orisa can be a good supplement to Sigma in contenders.

Basically Sigma is still totally ruining high tier metas and Blizzard doesn’t care enough about low tiers to acknowledge the fact that Rein/Zarya is still the most OP thing there (since they literally just buffed rein despite his dominance in lower ranks).

So yeah, same old same old.

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Tanks, are fine. They could receive some tweaks like :

  • winston a bit more damage(5-10)
  • Sigma having a fire rate change / damage change (to lessen a bit his lethality while maintaining his aoe damage)
  • D.va she needs more mobility or at least more uptime on her boosters. Because she deals a decent damage and can block a lot of damage for sure, but her mobility isn’t that great. Reduce the duration of boosters but make them more often or a middle ground from that. Also keep open mind to try 250 instead of 300 armor.
  • Rein could receive 50 armor nerf
  • Consider beam damage reduction to 50% on armor. Would affect sym(primary and sentry) and zarya(primary) while maintaining winston almost untouched, his damage on armor will be weaker than right now, but could deal better against squishy. After that check zarya’s and sym damage and see how it performs, consider more slowing effect on her sentry beams if needed.
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I think tank heroes strictly speaking are in a better spot than they have been in months, heck maybe even over a year. Most tank combinations are viable and you can switch it up depending on the objective and the map and that’s a great thing. It feels awful to play because the matchmaker actually has no idea what makes a good tank player. It only looks at base level stats and its a misguided philosophy IMO. For the most part the matchmaker does an alright job I have to admit but it will fall back into creating unbalanced games that result in steam rolls. It always has fallen back into doing that since the game came out.