Tanks in 5v5 aren’t “Stronger Dps”

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Do you know what a tank is? Tanks are giant machines that can take tons a firepower AND put out mass amounts of destruction. That’s literally why a tank is.

Tanks in 6v6 felt like glass cannons. Get stunned and you instantly died. You constantly had to run and hold shield and would lose 1v1s regularly to dps. Tanking in ow1 was boring and lame.

5v5 turned the tank role into actual tanks. They are leaders of the team, and have impact other then just “hold shield, peal, and ult every once in a while.”

Yes tanks are the most important role, and that’s how it should be. That’s why it is our job as supports to keep the tank alive, and our job as dps to prevent keep their tank in check and get picks on squishies

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I mean they aren’t MMORPG “Tanks”.

They are Class Based Shooter “Heavies”.


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Forum users think that if the tank isn´t a sitting duck that does 30 dmg and is immortal, hes not a true tank

People do not understand what a tank is at all and just grab whatever concept they have of MOBA tanks to use

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Tanks in ow1 were literal glass cannons. Yeah they could do crazy amounts of damage but they could also get killed so easily with stuns and just lower health pools overall

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Just going to leave this here

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Tanks in ow1 sucked, literally glass cannons. Tanks are actually tanks now instead of protectors

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I don´t mind tanks being able to die, i just think that they should take a little longer to die and be able to do damage

The most healthy tanks rn in my opinion are:

Dva, Ram, Ball, JQ, Doom, Rein, Sigma (maybe)

If we had only those to play, i´m sure the variety and skill ceiling of tanks would rise a lot.

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“Let me explain to you what this one thing is in a completely inaccurate context”

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Coming to you from the same person who argues Brig has lots of utility because she has damage and healing

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No for sure, tanks should be able to die, and I have many situations where I play tank and still get melted but nowhere close to the level of ow1

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If anything, I expect that the devs will be buffing the survival/dueling on Supports somehow, and then compensating with Tank survival nerfs.

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Yeah but they’re not tanks anymore in the context of “overwatch” tanks?

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They’re better now. More fun to play and healthier for the game overall

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yes this is what i´m saying

If you play one of these:

You will die, but it´s kinda fair. Of course there are heroes that still one shot you lke soj, but it´s way better than in OW1

I think the only tanks with too much survivability are Orisa and Hog, maybe Ram with his ult or sigma. I think the rest is fine

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I mean, they knew Role Queue Tanks would be scuffed back in 2018.

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Yeah but I mean stronger dps would be the perfect description…

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Tanks are meant to have damage, they always had damage, you can´t make people fall back if you do baby damage

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No because dps don’t have hard CC anymore. That’s a tank role specific. Tanks also get CC resistance (tank role specific). Also dps don’t get most of the supportive abilities that tanks have (shields, shout, etc). Tanks are more unique now.

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Nah, I mean they are going to buff the survival rate on Support by like 20% in the next 1-2 months.

And they are going to need to compensate that with less Tank and/or DPS survival rates, to avoid too much composition survival.

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