Took a break when they nerfed Sigma/Orissa to the ground. Seriously, most tanks these days are dumpster tier; Rein/DVA are the only ones that work. Not to mention that tanks are the only class that have heroes PRIMARILY DESIGNED to counter them (seriously, can we make Mei/Reaper be good at doing something OTHER than countering the role that’s holding up queue times?) .
I probably won’t be playing much until the whole tank balance mess gets sorted out. Until then, I won’t be around to make your queue times shorter.
Tanking is vastly better than it was for quite some time. Orisa/Sigma completely suffocated the meta. Now you can play Reinhardt, D.Va, Zarya, Hammond, and Winston isn’t nearly as bad as he used to be. Orisa and Sigma are still playable as well.
Meanwhile the QoL for EVERYONE ELSE is a million times better. Ranged damage actually functions. High ground is actually useful terrain. Controlling high ground actually matters. You don’t die because someone removed control of your hero from behind cover as much. The meta tanks aren’t a pair of heroes that negate 90% of your damage and then when you start hurting them directly press Shift and negate 100% of your damage.
Then you should try playing a different role because tank clearly isnt for you.
Wrecking Ball
Winston
Rein
Dva
Zarya
Hog
Are all viable picks with huge QoL.
Sigma and Orisa paired together are still a really good combination if you are smart enough to not waste CDs.
Want to talk about QoL issues? Look at DPS. Very few can sustain themselves properly anymore. Devs ramped up damage rather than reworking kits like they’ve done for tanks and healers
I grew past rein ages ago and really like orisa. And I stuck with her through all the smack and hate for being bad.
5 minutes of meat and poof. She s unskilled trash and awful for the game.
I don’t play tank anymore. Because playing dps with a shield isn’t what I like doing. But that’s not changing. They want to make tanks more like dps. Not less. And I’m just not interested.
I mean, that’s pretty incorrect. Except for GM, double barrier had the most diverse tank picks in the whole game. Now it’s Rein/Zarya/D.Va pretty much in every rank by a wide margin.
The diversity was Sigma and Orisa and nothing else. They were horrendously overpowered, and I’m sorry but I don’t care if weaker players’ obsession with Reinhardt comps protected them a bit because the actual two best tanks were completely ruining the game at higher tiers.
I mean, if you wanna talk about just GM, it’s almost exclusively Reinhardt/Zarya/D.Va being played. Rein’s pick rate in GM is just about where Orisa’s was at the height of double barrier with the next two tanks not even at half his pick and win rate. Double barrier was less restrictive statistically even at GM. People were just mad about barriers.
It has gotten better. Tank synergies have increased, Reaper has been nerfed, Mei will be nerfed I promise you, CC is seeing consistent reduction since 2-2-2.
I love playing Rein, don’t get me wrong.
I just dislike being told to swap to him when I want to play something else for a change.
Other tanks may be viable, but the player perception is that only Rein is.
This is the biggest issue with Tanks imho. “Tank buster” cannot exist in a game where you are forced to always have 2 tanks on your team - unless “Tank buster” is an actual role that every team has to have as well, i.e. in a 2222 role queue.
I like playing d.va, only because shes fun now with added speed, shes still useless as a tank, rein is borderline broken now, they need to nerf him alot…combined with zarya, ana and lucio its unbeatable unless your team plays mirror matchup… hog and the rest are literally useless.
