I play all the roles in gold/plat and tank up to low diamond.
My question is why are dps always expected to flex and counter when tanks and supports get a free pass by saying “I can’t main tank” or “I only play Ana”?
I can play main and off tank equally well and play all supports barring brig who I only play situationally. Dps wise I play almost the whole roster.
There is nothing worse than trying to push into rein/zar and double hitscan with our dva/hog tank line up because our tanks “CaN’t PlAy MaIn TaNk”.
I’m wondering why one role is expected to flex while the others get a free pass?
Keep in mind, I play all the roles. I’m not taking sides here.
Thats a thing
No one supposed to be expected to swap because of how different heroes are from each other.
I heard many times being ask to swap off tank because i played mostly that role. No role have free pass in my experience from being targeted by teammates expecting you to do so.
I actually have little experience in being told to swap off my dps pick, even when playing junk in to phara. But thats just luck in there, we all get told to swap our picks from time to time no matter the role.
I’m talking about the team expecting dps players to switch in order to counter comps like phara/mercy or winston dive etc. while tanks and supports often get a free pass by simply saying they can’t or don’t play that counter.
Dps are expected to counter the entire roster while tanks and supports just shrug it off and carry on playing whatever they like.
I recently had a plat Ana 2 games in a row straight up deny the fact that she hard counters roadhog and refused to let the other support play the hero because “it’s her main”.
im not entirely sure you understood what he was saying.
if a widow is eating your team alive, a dps is expected too swap to counter. when the tank role is FAR better at doing so. same goes for when your teams getting run over and your healers are lucio+zen
if a flanker is expected to swap cuz the enemy has mccree, mei, moira and brig. then shouldnt the zen be expected to go lucio to help speed boost the rein?
if a widow is supposed to swap because the enemy is running dive heroes, then shouldnt the roadhog swap off and go dva to counter the hitscan on high ground?
there being a bunch of dps heroes doesnt change the fact that a dps is expected to swap constantly, but you can 1 trick a non meta tank or support and alot of people just give you a pass because “be happy theyre playing tank/healer at all!!!”
playing a tank/healer poorly isnt helpful too anyone
Is it really that they cant play main tank or is it more that they arent willing to play main tank. I can play MT but i have been despising it lately since responsibility feels like it skyrocketed since i last played it so I am not willing to play MT
I don´t know what games you play, but people use to bully this people too, if they write things like this. Quite often. Also look how many options dps have for flex and how little other roles have.
If you are a tank player then you only have 8 heroes to learn.
If you play support you only have 7 heroes to learn.
Dps players need to learn 17 to be better equipped.
Doesn´t work this way. It´s not number of heroes you have to learn…it´s number of heroes, you can choose from. It´s much easier to pick three or four option from dps rooster to learn and flex with them, rather than pick the same amount from let´s say support rooster (I am support main, but I also play dps, so speaking of my expirience). Most people still wanna play to have fun. I don´t feel comitted to learn the whole rooster. I wanna have options to choose some amount and learn that.
dps never need to learn 17, because usually only 2-4 are meta at a given time.
like right now most dps mains above plat are playing mccree, hanzo, ashe and sometimes widow.
they dont need to practice pharah and torb (though some still do), dps are expected too specialize so theyre really good at that one thing. aka hitscan players vs projectile player kinda thing.
However these are human beings we are talking about. The only ones playing meta are tryhards and OWL players. Everyone else is playing whatever they feel like.
