Seriously. There are definitely rounds when a support or DPS throws, but 9/10 times it’s the tank that has absolutely NO IDEA what they’re doing.
I get the responsibility of the role, I can see and understand when a tank is trying but being overwhelmed. It happens and that’s usually on the rest of us on their team to do something about.
But so many tanks are just completely lost. They have no idea what space is or how to control it, they often EXCLUSIVELY attack the other tank and NO ONE ELSE. You get Rein’s who just shield, Zarya’s who ONLY self-bubble, Orisa’s who just walk mid and never use cover, etc.
There’s no swap you can make to make up for a bad tank player. Mei/Brig can only do so much.
There are fights where me or a teammate will get 2 picks and we’ll still make no progress on point because our tank doesn’t move up to fill the space we made, and the enemies just file back in and reclaim it without much effort.
If you get a bad tank, you basically get an auto loss, and IT IS SO FRUSTRATING.
I agree, and I can be blamed often. When I queue “all roles” for the weekly, I get tank 90% of the time and HATE IT…absolutely hate it. I despise the pressure as the lone tank. I simply don’t know how to do it well anymore. Back in 6v6 days, RH and Winston were my 2 most played heroes. I LOVED that “off tank” role…being more of an assassin and inconvenience to the enemy team rather than its SOLE protector and space maker. No matter what, I just suck at being the lone tank, but I don’t have much choice when going for the all roles weekly =/
Man I agree, but know it happens the other way also. Tanks will push and no one takes up the space. There is a bunch of play style in OW and everyone doesn’t mesh.
Diamond tanks shouldn’t be shielding/self bubbling.
Screw off if you don’t have anything meaningful to contribute besides empty self-indulgence.
That’s definitely true, and I try my best to fill the space, but so many times they’re not making space as much as they are inting with no regard for their teams HP/positioning limitations.
What meaningful thing could anyone contribute to “9/10 times my tanks are bad”? Talk about self-indulgence, believing that 9/10 times some other random guy is the one to blame.
Sorry that I broke your safe space, I guess. This thread is just another one in a long list of “[insert random role] players suck”.
Hey, I get being frustrated about one role having too much impact on the game. My issue is purely with you complaining about almost all tank players in your games. Hence: Rank issue.
Everything else I agree with. 5v5 bad and all that. It’s just the self-absorbed nature of “Im better than those people who are in the same rank as me” that I despise.