Rein, zarya, Winston, d.va. Hammond. All of those heroes constantly have to expose themselves. Of course none of them can properly play when all the Dps are being powercrept. You get melted before you can do anything. If that wasnt bad enough blizzard decided to nerf off tanks defensive abilities. Blizzard has been balancing for goats they screwed all the tanks in normal comps over. Now we in a spot where Orisa is the only main tank tank left that can actually do her job.
Let’s look at it.
All are overwhelmed with damage and struggling to operate right now.
rein needs protection. D.va lost almost all her protection. She can’t even protect herself. Zarya needs rein but now zarya can’t give enough protection due to Dps putting out way more than she can handle…
Winston needs d.va to dive and cover them. D.va has zero survivability. She can’t even afford to dive much less protect. Both die really quickly.
Hammond is Hammond. free ult charge. Dies to cc. And lost d.va that normally would beable to dive with them but no longer can.
That leaves Orisa hog. The only anchortank in the game besides rein. The only option that can atleast fight back without immediately dying. CC hell, machine gun mcree, or sniperwatch. The last viable tank comp.
We have actually hit a point where Orisa. The tank that been underwhelming everywhere besides junkertown. Who has only gotten a QoL change recently. Is now the meta pick. Her stats are inflated simply because none of the other tanks can even play the game now. This Dps powercreep needs to be addressed, and tanks need to be actual tanks that can afford to protect thier team again,
While it’s reasonably well disguised, I gather that your point here is “buff D.va”—and since teams not having a D.va allows damage to be dealt, the meta shifted to dealing more damage.
What I don’t get is, how has she “lost almost all her protection” recently? Just the 10m range limit on Defense Matrix? Why would that even affect her ability to defend herself or other tanks right next to her?
I don’t really agree honestly. I think the snipers and bunker is the only reason she’s meta, which makes the tank situation look even worse. She’s crutching on her ability to shield spam.
But yea the tank category is not where it should be. Their defenses are either non-existent, or their lack of cc countermeasures gets them killed. \
Well if you’re not safe behind Orisa barrier you just get spammed down by all the damage creep. It’s not even Snipers particularly, its most of the cast, whether it’s McCree, Hanzo, Pharah, Junkrat, Roadhog, Hell even Symmetra’s secondary fire can make a mess of you very quickly if you have a large hit box. Then when you do get close you’ve got to worry about Doomfist, Reaper and all the CC spamming around.
Tanks have been a mess for 12 months now at least though, I was asking for a Tank balance patch right after Supports got theirs. They just got some ad hoc changes since, mostly nerfs too.
I really don’t get it. Someone’s job at blizzard is to balance the game. Yet they are making obvious mistakes. With alittle thought the mistakes should be obvious.