Tanking is garbage,AWFUL and disgusting experience!
It’s never been this bad!
DPS and Supports countering tanks is the most absurd thing ever!
Your role as a tank is relegaded to beign carried and at the mercy of “teammates”!
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Watch your replays. Watch good players. Send a match in to Flats to critique.
If people are still struggling on gigatanks in the big 2024 I have no words other than git gud
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I’ve been grinding ranked solo support for years but won’t touch tank tbh
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While I don’t disagree that tanking isn’t an amazing experience right now, and am in the group that thinks that duo tanking is vastly superior, I will say that DPS and supports countering tanks is nothing new.
Back in Overwatch 1, at the peak of double shield, who was practically a necessary pick for any team going against double shield?
Symmetra.
Being able to vapourise the shields made a huge difference in a lot of games.
I’m a Zen main on support, and guess what, the entire time I’ve played Zen, Zen has been a tank counter in many regards.
Discord is a tank countering tool.
Antinade has been the bane of every Hog for forever.
Sleep is frequently bane of Doomfists in my experience.
I specifically started PLAYING Reaper on DPS years ago because Hog was gigabuffed, and he was viable in countering Hog.
DPS and supports will always have options to counter tanks, otherwise the game would be unplayable.
This is a completely separate issue from the real issue, which is that when all of the focus is channeled to one tank, that necessitates the rock papers scissors counterswapping cycle, moreso than OW1 ever had.
OW1 certainly had counterswapping, mind you.
It was just a little more complicated and interesting.
If the enemy team swapped to Zarya, Sym, and Mei, because I was making their lives too difficult as Dva, my duo tank might swap to Zarya, and me getting bubbled when diving them might be the one thing that made it viable for me to stay Dva, and continue my reign of terror.