Tank busters are unhealthy for the game

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Tank busters are super unhealthy for the game.

The devs had a streak of tuning heros and creating hero’s meant to melt tanks durning the goats era.

Oh man where to start.

Reaper for massive buffs with lifesteal.
Sym got beam ramp.
Torbjorn got buffs with rework.
Bastian shouldn’t be designed the way he is
Mei got multifreeze
Sombra hack.
Junkrat only focusing tank is super viable.

I guess sojurn and echo were created durning goats with melting tanks in mind.

Counterplay isn’t bad if it’s skillful. Tracer vs Ana, zen, or even mercy doesn’t feel free.

If you do your overwatch math right. Tank busters are so easy to play into a tank. Your almost certainly countered.

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We just need 2 tanks again. The main tank/off tank thing in OW1 really helped eliminate a lot of these problems. The solo tank thing has led to a lot of things running rampant and an even worse tanking experience than OW1.

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I don’t think so. I think that may only increase the value of picking tank buster heros. 2 tanks = dbl the value of a tank buster.

I think spending a year trying to tune dps to nuke tanks through goats was not the best idea lol. Especially since it didn’t end up happening anyway

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ya tank busting is crazy and it takes very little skill and even snipers like hanzo has a good tank burster ability to just pump damage int othe tank

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  • Reaper needs to have his soul orb back with lifesteal removed. Give him long-range alt fire.
  • Sym should be reworked into support. Remove the turrets. Give her dual form.
  • Torb seems fine until he uses his overload.
  • Mei should be reworked in to tank
  • Bastion should be reworked in to tank.
  • Sombra should be reworked in to support.

If the tanks have no mobility then let do medium dmg. If the tanks have mobility then it does low dmg.

Honestly i hoped OW2 would haven been clean slate with all heroes reworked and they kept OW1 for those who wanted to play 2016 ver with no new heroes.

Instead OW2 is even worst than OW1. Nothing have changed except for MTX stuffs

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Everyone is fine with support and dps buffs, and when you buff a tank, they lose their mind. DPS dudes in this community want to be able to 1v1 all the tanks and their egos get destroyed when they can’t 1v1 a tank.

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See… tanks should not be able to 1v1 any other hero, too. Or worse, just walk into the back line, slaughter a support and go back.

Idk where the notion comes from that tanks should be individually more powerful than all the other heroes.

They have more health, armor, good damage, great ults, cc, many of them have mobility as well…

If anything they are overbuffed if you ask me…
I never was on a tank and thought “nah… I cannot take that one single player”

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Tanks must win 1v1’s because of their massive healthpools. People must learn to respect tank’s power. But if the tank is squishy like now, they cannot clear space, cannot peel, cannot do anything. Tank must win almost all 1v1s with squishies, otherwise why should I play a rein witn 700 hp, if tracer with 150 hp has more survivability?

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Sorry that Tanks don’t just get to walk in and murder everyone lol.

Like I know that’s probably hyperbolizing your post here but I also think you completely ignore why that’s needed.

Tanks already give less ult charge when attacked, have knockback resistance, have the most CC in the game…and they shouldn’t have heroes that can give them a bit of a harder time?

Like the heroes that you’re complaining about here are the ones who aren’t used that often in most of the game. You ignored Cass, Ana, and…well, other tanks that do a lot of damage lol against other tanks. I don’t feel like you understand what you’re asking for.

Anyways 5v5 is inherently going to suck for tanks so 6v6 would be better

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btw, WHY Torb and Bastion have all of those HP compared to the other heroes considering they are no longer locked in a spot to do damage?

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They have gigantic hitboxes. Karq made a video highlighting those. If u haven’t watched it. Then do so.

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Tanks have a much larger health pool and defense capabilities that dps do not have. They shouldn’t also just get to press W and murder everyone. There has to be tradeoffs. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

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Yeah no. If the tank is getting countered, they should switch unless they can’t level their playing field. This is coming from a tank main.

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Dude you can 1v1 tanks right now

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Tank busters are great because it makes kids with crappy spelling cry until their moms hopefully slap them straight.

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Because Bastion is probably the weakest DPS at the moment, and Torb is also pretty easy to kill.

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Hot take, they totally should.

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They have these abilities, but only on paper. And dps with ana and zen have much more to provide to absolutely not care how many defensives a tank have. It’s like you are being under a missile launch attack and tell everyone that you will be okay because you have a helmet.

Nobody is saying they must murder everyone. They must press W and be able to do what they are supposed to do, create space or claim space. But right now, you press W and die.

The tradeoff is your massive body and constantly being under barrage from 5 possible sources. The tradeoff is that you have to meet perfect conditions to secure a kill on an enemy that doesn’t retreat. The tradeoff is that you are responsible for team’s movement and you must win the game for everyone just by your decisions. The tradeoff is that you need have a perfect position more than anyone else. There are so many tradeoffs already.

That’s my point, it’s not good that every single dps can 1v1 tanks now. How am I supposed to claim space with my tank if I can’t even duel a squishy?

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mei cant even really freeze people outside her ult she can only slow them down

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Tank busters are fine. If you’re going to nerf tank busters, guess what else is getting nerfed alongside? Tanks.