I can only win if i play dps. As soon as i play tank or support I am paired with dps who kills no one ever. No one using my shield, even if anyone picks a bastion keeps going in solo dying without shield and heal. It’s like if I don’t play dps I am matched with idiots most of the time.
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Tanks and supports enable their teammates.
Maybe you’re just bad at enabling your own teammates. Or maybe you’re good at playing DPS without being enabled too much. Who knows?
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If it was me being useless as tank, then I would not end up with gold kills so many times when dps not killing anyone 
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Yes, a lot of people are misplaced, but it’s not “our DPS suck, but my DPS/tank is good”.
Quit whining.
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Your dps will be good if your tanks and supports are good.
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Easy to claim tank is no good, but even if I play orisa shield choke etc, dps killing noone.
Gold kills as tank means nothing. You’re in the fray touching everyone as rein, zarya, or ball. Orisa and dva have great scratch potential and get credit for a lot of elims that weren’t their work. Roadhog has a huge range spread to tag and is arguably the best 1v1 hero. Sigma played as a 1v1 is also extremely powerful.
None of that means you were carrying the game. Gold damage doesn’t either. Unless your DPS are truly terrible(and trust me, despite your whining they can’t ALL be truly terrible), gold damage or kills as tank in a losing game often means you’re focusing too much on 1v1s or flanking or suicide pushes and too little on carving out space in a manner that won’t kill you.
Oh, you’re a bastion main with a total of 3 hours on Orisa. Yea, I’m gonna guess that’s your positioning bud.
Happens the same to me: I’m a support main and I’m good at those few heroes I play, I only soloq, and as support i lose most games, even if I performed well: I don’t die much, I’m always top heals, or assists, or something else in the cards at the end of the game.
It always feels support and tanks r decent or good, and DPS r 9/10 so incredibly trash it’s unbelievable how they r not bronze (like ppl with 0 aim who don’t kill anything even when healed over and over or even die 1v1 while healed, widows getting killed over and over by enemy genji or widow and blame the team because others have to kill that enemy genji, and I can keep going).
I play at diamond but it really feels like there r players with so different MMR: so if I’m lucky and get to play with decent DPS, I win, otherwise, and it’s most of the times, it’s a 100% loss, doesn’t matter if I did good and tanks also.
It feels like the whole team’s performance doesn’t matter, because the team with the best DPS will eventually win anyway.
How sad and frustrating I must say.
I hope Blizzard somehow tries to fix this 
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imagine you played with a copy of yourself.
or watch your tank replays carefuly, specifically from the view of the “bad dps” you complain about.
Now, THINK:
if you were back on your dps main, would you want to see you self tanking there or would you roll your eyes of feeding?
Im a dps main without mic and i have to really be focused when playing tank/heal get to close rating, or to be better value than enemy tank/heal.
You realise Orisa has a gun too, right? And that you need to be aggressive in order for your DPS to have lots of space to work with. Again, misplaced players are definitely a thing right now, but it’s not always DPS. You’re just blaming DPS instead of looking at your own tank play.
I just played healer. DPs level 26 new player, other dps not better either, turning game 4vs6…
Unlucky, gg go next.
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After placements I dropped extremely low and I was on here screaming role sucks people suck, dps suck, blah, blah, blah. (On console)
After about a week i started climbing and playing better matches. Now i am back where i belong and i honestly feel like i earned it. Lol. My point as a support main be patient and start looking internally as to why you might not be climbing.
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next game newbie dps again!!! Ended up with silver kills with healer while healing like a maniac, tank had gold kill, dps had barely any kill ever…
I stand by what I said, you’re probably as bad as your DPS and don’t realise it. Tanks on gold damage is nothing bad.
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Have you tried to kill someone? Why is it that only in high elos all 6 people are trying to kill something, when in low elos it’s “dps carry me or I’ll call you an idiot in order to not help this situation at all”
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I love it when people complain about role queue when they haven’t even done placements on the account they use to complain about it.
It might be the system placed you to high, I am having no problem winning on tank and support, my DPS was all loses for a bit but stabilized where I belonged and now I win about 50-50
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I’ve been a tank main for quite some time. I can always tell if the other tank is a tank player or a dps main playing tank. Every profile I have checked afterwards if it isn’t private has been a dps main so far.
There is a lot more to tanking that DPS guys think. Hopefully over time the SR system will put you where you belong.
I’ve found main tank to be easy clean climbing so far. Just make space and go aggro.
If you’re checking your medal screen every five seconds and screaming (or even just thinking about it) every time you have a silver or gold medal as a tank you’re kinda scum. I get silver/gold damage the vast majority of my tank games (I mostly play high damage tanks like Orisa, Hog, Zar) and I never mention it. If you prefer trying to actively sabotage your game I’m sure you’ll struggle to climb.
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Just had another game as ana. Gold kill, gold obj kill and gold obj time…
Guess what… we lost
Tried moira… 3 gold including kills and heal… guess what… we lost…
Played baptise… team refused to group whole game, still did 7k heal always left me 1vs3 on payload never came under my immortality field etc… why am I groupped with players like these nearly every game unless I play dps???