The Truth About Tank Diffs

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This is for the lower rank players, as the upper ranks already understand this.

As a tank, you have the responsibility of an entire role on your shoulders.

You, as a single player, holding down an entire role, are the biggest and most dangerous player on the field. It is natural to be hard focused by the entire enemy team, and it is also natural for you to more often be blamed than anyone else on the team. Your performance has the most bearing on the outcome of a match, unless there is a massive disparity between the enemy DPS/Support and your own.

  • Stop complaining that you’re being counterswapped.
  • Stop complaining that you’re getting hard focused.
  • Don’t expect your supports to follow you into a death trap. It is your job to be in a position where you can create value and get healed.

This isn’t to say that only Tank is ever a problem. Supports and DPS are often as responsible for a loss as a Tank is.
However, the point still stands. Play smarter, and you will win more often, even if it may sometimes seem impossible.

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Can we also just stop calling our teammates bad in match chat? Keep peoples’ spirits up if you actually want to win.

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… and first and foremost, stop caring about whatever those random buggers are asking you to do and just have fun

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This is true.

Flaming a teammate most often does more harm than good. If you want a specific task done, nicely ask them to do it.

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Yea I’d sooner ask someone what I can do to help them (except play Mercy), any swaps they’d have me make, etc

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I think most lower rank players understand this during the match.

But the problem is, it’s not fun. Counterswapping on tank is a problem. I’m not going to complain about it in a match because I’m getting what I signed up for. I knew what to expect, and that is the name of the game. I will do the same thing they’re doing to me; counterswap.

But it still sucks and is annoying. I don’t think we should ignore that outside of that match.

The hard-focusing thing, yeah. That’s silly, and I can agree. Tanks need to expect that they’re going to get the ire of the enemy team since they hold the highest impact on their team. It’s going to happen.

I think as a support player, I have started to let my tank die more if they go out of position. I’m not risking my life to accommodate them going out of position. I don’t want them to start expecting this from supports, and they need to learn better position.

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You’re absolutely correct. It definitely isn’t fun, especially if you queued up with the intention of playing a particular hero.

And this is what players know, but refuse to acknowledge.

You can’t control the enemy’s picks. The best you can do is to change how you play. Complaining does nothing.

Outside of the match, have at it!

6v6 is around the corner :slight_smile:

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tanks are basically the military’s frontline, supports are the supply lines and dps are the paratroopers that go beyond enemy lines to sabotage supply lines
if ur frontline goes too deep and gets its supply lines cut u in for a bad time, if the frontline is too far away or in a position where it cant get supplies, u in for a bad time

fr, i might rage like the autistic simpleton i am but i rarely say anything to the team, no use in bringing moral down

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I do this as well. I never voice my frustrations in voice chat lol

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unless the start feeding their brains out right out the gate

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THIS. SO MUCH THIS.

I don’t care how fed up with someone I am. I’m not hurting someone’s feelings mid game. It’s not nice to do and it’s not going to do anything but make them play worse.

They know they’re doing badly. You don’t need to tell them.

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i wouldnt say never, if the team is doing something stupid again and again and again and ignoring the simple solution to the problem, like take the highground for once in ur life pls, i do say something

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In this scenario, I will rage on my own, then key in and say something like, “own high ground and we win”.

The way you frame things matters. Confidently saying (or typing) something that players can understand will often get them to do things you want them to.

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i wish i was that collected when saying something to the team, but like i said previously

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I find when I have more deaths of the two supports it’s because I was attempting to keep the tank up on their suicide runs. Once they fall over your next, so yea, been letting them die a little more often in order to try and keep the rest of the team up and in the fight after that.

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I hear that.

It took me a loooooong time to get used to, and stop, trying to save everyone and everything. A dead support can’t heal/support.

Sacrificing yourself has its place and time, but not as a steady diet. Better to support the next person on your priority list, fall back, and let those that like to suicide, not take you down with them.

Once I stuck to that mindset, my numbers went waaaaay up, and my deaths went waaaaay down. The game got a lot more enjoyable as well. (Just remember to mute your chat, because that suiciding player is going to start blowing a gasket.)

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If every support did this, tanks would generally become much better.

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Is this comp or something? In QP I never hear tanks complaining about any of this.

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I get a Doom every other match in QP spamming I need healing more than a Genji main when they jump in the face of the whole enemy team and hold block before realizing the Orisa still has spear or some other CC to disrupt them and kill 'em 3 seconds later.

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I really need to stop dropping salty and sarcastic voicelines on people in those situations where it feels like someone isn’t helping. I’ve drifted into that bad habit more and I don’t like it. It’s definitely not helping anyone :face_exhaling:

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