they’re just not as freakishly op as they used to be.
someone had to say it.
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Tanks are suppose to be good in all situations, but DPS are forcing tank players to hide in a corner and NOT click W. Then you scream at players for not clicking W at all.
Tanks are giant wet cardboard boxes who can’t even make space anymore, unless ur name is hammond.
And then you guys scream @ people for picking Orisa or D.Va. Like ???
No wonder nobody wants to play tanks, it’s a role to get harassed on. I don’t think anyone want’s to get made fun of for playing a hero they enjoy in Comp or QP.
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that goes for every role, toxicity is transparent
Tank role, so great nobody wants to que for it so the game has to bribe you to play it.
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Tank balance isn’t bad, it’s just a random coincidence that nobody plays it and the role is constantly memed on
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I’ve never seen more toxicity from other roles directed to 2 specific players on the team: aka tanks.
yes, toxicity is transparent but when I play it usually comes from DPS and Supports just bashing the heck out of Tank players.
Nobody wants to get screamed @ either. That’s why DPS is easily the most popular role, because you don’t really have a “important role” per say.
I mean, who doesn’t want to sit back 50m away and deal more damage than tanks could ever?
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People prefer DPS playstyles, whats more fun? actively killing 6 people? or making space…
Some people like me have fun tanking 5k dmg in seconds (with support help) instead of killing someone.
Some tanks are fine while others are hot garbage. Fix the hot garbage ones… Hammond hog & sigma are fine
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if your in LOS long enough to take 5 thousand damage and dont use any one of your many damage mitigation abilities, you should die regardless of role…
Fun is entirely subjective and participating in fights and getting elims is 100% part of the tank role
The fact that you think it’s the DPS that are getting every kill is kinda funny, usually the whole team chips in with damage and the DPS are just the heroes most equipped to finish people off
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And then to think people still saying hitscan is underpowered…
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but when you pick reinhardt, you don’t go in thinking.
“man cant wait to go on a massive flank and one clip both there healers!”
no you think about how you can best ENABLE your DPS, like as Orisa, getting a good pull, as Ball, slamming the Zen in the backline so your Tracer can follow up, as Zarya bubbling your Pharah when she goes in for a barrage
Your job is to enable your team, which isnt that attractive of a job.
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Most tanks are trash regardless. Orisa pull and shield are trashed. Fortify is for her own personal gain. Rein is… alright…
Dva is trash because matrix can’t babysit if it’s short
Monkey gets CC’ed to death. Give him cc resist
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Thank you for your hot take OP.
Only problem is I’ve been saying this for a long time 
We had a meta with literally zero DPS, and people think that tanks were “the most balanced” then somehow
Once 2-2-2 was oh so thankfully released (not sarcasm, should’ve been implemented at launch, not 4 years later) we saw tanks had to be nerfed pretty significantly to not entirely control the game (thank you again Blizz for the great barrier nerf patch) and even after that some tanks needed more nerfs, and we’re finally in a pretty decent spot now.
That being said, balance still isn’t perfect & needs some tuning, but not just in the tank role.
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No one said they were the are just boring to play, whether it is cause they got what you call freakishly op taken away or not. They are not fun at all.
Tanks were balanced. The Supports were problematic. Why else do you think D.Va was replaced with Sombra, instead of some Support being replaced? Because they need the Supports, they can still do well with one less tank.
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Most people that play computer games just want to shoot stuff and frag other people. And they want to be able to do that all the time, seeing some one but being unable to attack them isn’t that fun so if they don’t have the range they want the ability to quickly get into range. And ofc they want the ability to get crits so you’re aim is rewarded with quicker kills.
Basically all dps heroes can do these things but there is only one tank that can. So ofc dps is going to be the more popular role, you could give rein 50+ damage and most people still wouldn’t want to play him.
Tanks weren’t balanced.
Saying that with no reasoning invalidates your point.
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Exactly. DPS players whine sbout tanks being “more impactful / dictating meta” while my answers is: “No **** Sherlcok?” This is an objective based game, not a freaking deatmatch. By design tanks are always going to be highly impactful on higher ranks. They require coordination but higher ranks have that coordination. Doing objectives wins matches and tanks are designed with those objectives in mind.
Nerfing tanks non-stop based on this just makes the whole roster awful to play. Cuz what was it again… claim and hold space, right? Yeah, pretty damn hard to do if you keep nerfing what they were designed to do in the first place. Is the goal to nerf all that so tanks just become mediocre fat DPS? I mean, sure they’d lose that diCTaTiNg MeTA aspect but what’s even the point of tanks then.
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