Am I the only one who feels this way? I’ve always been a support main, but I play tank more than any other role simply because of que times. It’s very frustrating at times, but this season, tanks actually feel…. Good to play. The tanks are very well balanced against each other. Sure, counterswapping still exists, but I don’t care much about that, since I can almost always outplay my counter.
What made tanking last season unbearable was hog. As long as hog, Mauga, sigma, and Orissa aren’t the hard meta in a given season, tanking is actually fun to me
Honestly, there is just no way you are consistently outplaying your counters if Hog made tank unbearable for you. I do not believe it. Especially with the throwaway Sigma comment. I could not even tell which tank you play with that information. Is it Rammatra?
Reinhardt has more tank counters than just about any tank. Orisa, Rammatra, Roadhog, and Doomfist. Perhaps Mauga depending on who you talk to (I do not believe this at all).
No other tank has that many counters. Heck, the tanks he supposedly counters are soft enough that you could realistically play Zarya or Sigma into him without much difficulty. It is not as if Dva mains swap to Reinhardt to deal with the Zarya or Mauga mains swap to Reinhardt to deal with Sigma. Or at least I have never seen it happen.
I tried queuing all roles in quickplay for maybe 20-30 games yesterday and got tank every time except once (got support). Clearly people are not lining up to play tank.
In my experience, I get all of the roles an equal amount which is why I do not enjoy queueing for all roles. I just want to tank. I wish I was at your rank or region or platform or whatever nonsense that is giving you guys the golden age of all roles.
Eastern US (so probably the Chicago servers or whatever they have now for central US). Granted it was pretty late at night, but I’ll bet if I queued all roles right now in quickplay I’d get tank.
Hog has not been my main since his rework. I am a Reinhardt one trick in competitive which is my main mode. I only play that embarrassment in quickplay when I have a heal based challenge because I do not play want to play support.
Yeah, counterswapping does suck. I only really get mad when it’s like constant counterswapping. Like they counterswapping me, so I ult and swap to something better suited just to immediately get counter swapped without them even ulting. I usually refrain from counterswapping and instead will mirror them if I can
I also am a support main, and I’ll meet you in the middle.
The tank heroes feel fantastic to play. But the tank role of solo tanking feels awful because it puts too much reliance on teammates who are incentivized to chase kills somewhere else instead of helping the tank secure objectives or clutch kills.
From a strategic perspective of supporting your team, which tank is supposed to do in a way, it was much better when there was a co-tank to help out in those tasks. Right now, tanking feels like you’re playing support alone without the ability to heal.
Ironically, tanks feel the best in any game mode except 5v5 role lock, even without tank stacking, because they don’t have to be in 3 places at once.
