Tanking is making space. For someone like Rein, sure, people can use his shield to shoot in relative safety but this is probably a more niche way than normal. A more effective way is to use it for himself too and use it to close the gap and inflict high melee damage where you either back away or die. This is also true for others like Sigma/Ram. There’s exceptions where you’ll toss a shield to wholly block the sight line of a sniper who is most likely gonna target your team, but it’s normally used to defend yourself to hold the line.
Same with Winston or even Dva. They can absolutely peel for their team but the defensive abilities and movement abilities are to disrupt and kill. Ball and Doom are just extreme examples of this.
Orisa is more Sigma, constant ranged pressure with some interrupts but is more comfortable in beating back melee/close range characters and holding her ground whereas Sigma has to give ground
That’s not to say playing alongside a Tank that isn’t the frontline isn’t different or difficult, especially for those not used to it. You need to time your attacks with the Tank which isn’t always obvious when they’re not in directly in front of you and you have to make use of natural cover, be more coordinated to focus down the Tank while yours has their Supports distracted or play something that can keep up with the mobile Tank
Most importantly you have to know that your front line is weaker than theirs. If they advance you have to retreat, preferably while shooting to slow them down until it’s time to attack.
Not to say any of this is easy, but having variety for every roll is important and making every Tank into a frontline brawler like Rein/JQ is a bit dull and an even faster way to kill off the Tank player base
that is a given, so many people have already voiced that the very idea of that is close to making that season pay-to-win that its ridiculous that they still haven’t removed them from the bp.
I’m just really feeling miserable playing the game after they messed up my account and I lost hundreds of skins that I now have no way of ever earning again.
I never said make every tank into a front-line brawler, I’m basically saying that these CC and damage focused tanks with practically zero team protection are bad for the game. It feels bad when they’re on your team since you can too easily die to ranged fire and such, and it feels bad when they’re on the other team because they can frequently CC you and burst you down.
No tank should be severely focused on CC and damage (unfun to play against), and also have no way mitigate damage done to their team (unfun to play alongside).
Variety of tank play-styles is brawl, dive, and ranged. Blizzard reworking Orisa into a brawl tank gave us less tank variety for ranged tanks. Sigma is basically the only dedicated ranged tank right now.
How is getting attention from the enemy because you deal lots of damage any different than a DPS hero? So basically you’re saying tanks should be made as damage heroes. That does not make sense.
im going to place BETS that it will be a welcoming party from microsoft and their “promises” (air quotes) to do “great” things for the “company”.
(Think austin powers Dr. Evil)…
What I am hoping for is a Bobby K Dunking booth outside of the venue…
Can you imagine how FAST they would sell out just for that event? 1 million dollars in an hour
