Tank gameplay is about to be the worst it has ever been

[Potatoad-21404]

You fool! Now that Rein has 200 more barrier HP, he has been gigabuffed and the entire match will devolve into a 1v1 against the other tank! Poor DPS characters like Pharah don’t stand a hope in heck. Yes, it’s hard being a non-tank in these trying times.

[Massquwatt-1951]

I don’t know why they keep buffing armour when there’s a sizable chunk of tanks that don’t use it and get nothing from it. All it does is just encourage people to pick the tanks with armour even more now since they’re able to withstand a lot more punishment naturally.

[Charade-21668]

i called this.

@Charade-21668

Yeah its fine if things have soft counters but ow2 has multiple hard counters. And speaking of powercreep the more buffs tanks get the harder the unfavored matchup will get. Counterswapping will always plague 5v5 tank because tanks 1v1 and the favored matchup comes out on top. Powercreep makes those matchups way more difficult. So by buffing tanks they make the game worse for tanks dps and support. Squishys will have to start Counterswapping the tank to stand a chance and tanks will always Counterswap. That sounds very healthy for the game right? Or we can stop pretending asymmetrical balance is able to work, it isnt. The longer 5v5 is the format the more what made overwatch overwatch will be destroyed

in this thread i called this

[LuckyDucky12-11252]

@Charade-21668

in this thread i called this

Yeah you did. To be honest, I just think they went about things in the wrong order; maybe we should have tried the tankiness buffs before the health increase and hitbox changes?

Of course, maybe we shouldn’t have done 5v5 at all if it was gonna lead to all of this. Reworking Orisa fixed double shields right out the gate, and if you try to run double shields with any other duo, there’s huge caveats involved.

Rein has no range, so Sig and Rein will lose out on incredible damage. Double shield with monkey and sig will be useless.

Now, Sig and Ram can do it, but due to Ram’s shield having a time limit, that’s a massive hole that will occasionally reveal itself over the course of the match. Double shield was essentially removed from the game.