oh wow shroud has an opinion so i must believe in it
placed in plat because he understands the game extremely well.
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No one cares what a CoD/Battle Royal streamer/pro had to say in a game that isnât either of those. His opinion isnât really valid here.
Thatâs like asking my pediatrician if I should worry about something regarding an 80 y/o.
Probably not their area of expertise.
It varies from person to person. I love playing support, even if I get frustrated. Moira, Ana and Mercy are fun for me. Sometimes tanks can be fun, but theyâre not my cup of tea (though itâs fun to get a good D.Va bomb ). I tend to like DPS like Mei, Junkrat, Torb, Symmetra and Sombra. Soldier, Hanzo, Genji all bore me.
But that doesnât make the heroes I enjoy inherently fun for everyone, or the heroes I dislike boring. Itâs just a matter of preference and playstyle.
People like different play styles. I actually love playing tank, but I donât enjoy some heroes like Pharah, Hanzo, and Doomfist. To each their own. Just donât try to fundamentally alter the tanks so that people who currently enjoy them stop enjoying them and weâre good.
I will say that I much prefer tanking in a 2/2/2 comp. It can be rough if you donât have enough heals. And solo tanking isnât great unless you are wrecking ball.
âŚAmâŚAm I being shamed into like tanking?
what
just what
I used to think tanks werenât fun, and then I played on the ptr.
Is begging to have competent DPS and healers to help you while you eat all the CC in the game and bounce around the map.
The only fun tank right now in the game is Roadhog because he doesnt need a healer following him around or DPS because he can 1 shot almost all the Damage Caster
I personally havent pick a Tank since season 10
He said he âLOOKSâ fun, not âHE IS FUNâ.
Itâs a bold strategy, Cotton. Letâs see if it pays off for 'em.
As if Shroud somehow became the basis of whether tanks are fun or not.
You could have probably picked a dozen other players and their opinions would have been more valid.
If you ask a pediatrician something regarding an 80 y/o theyâre going to have a greater understanding of what is happening to the 80 y/o because theyâve got a lot of experience in the medical field and Iâm sure that knowledge will float over
Just like if someone who has played of a lot of shooters makes a comment about a game that involves shooting is more than likely going to know what theyâre talking about.
As far as i watched him play this game he doesnt even like to play against shieldtanks. He said multiple times in his stream that playing against Orisa, Bastion and Babtiste is the worst thing ever. And the times he played tank he played mostly as Hog and Hammond.
Sure it doesnt matter in the end what one streamer says. But its a good window of opportunity, because if you just simply make a post about Orisa and Bunker beeing broken then nobody will listen, but when you say: âShroud doesnt like it eitherâ then people will strangely start to take notice.
And people should take notice, because Orisa was broken since release. A shieldtank without any noticeable cooldown after shieldbreake is just pure broken and leads to really unhealthy gameplay comps.
Itâs kinda funny that you failed to mention the game that he was actually a pro in.
I think that his opinion is quite interesting because heâs mechanically more gifted than the vast majority of all FPS gamers.
If someone who is so good at pew pewing can find heroes fun that donât do it at all then I think others can as well if they give it a chance.
I like playing Tanks except for one problem. Knock back, it feels terrible to be playing a Tank and get knocked around like a beach ball in a crowd. Sure they finally addressed this problem exists with Reinhardt by giving him knock back resistance. But they didnât give him enough he still feels like a beach ball.
Iâve suggested it plenty of times before. It might even be where blizzard got the idea.
Besides that I think all the Tanks should have passive knock back resistance. Never got around to names for the passives of the other Tanks.
Besides knock back I couldnât care less about the other CC abilities. Iâm not asking for CC immunity just knock back resistance thatâs high enough to be noticeable. Other then knock back being a royal pain I enjoy playing Tank even with all the other CC in the game.
I donât like them because theyâre the worst of both worlds. Isnât as solo as dps heroes and doesnât have the self sustain of a healer.
Tanks and supports are a lot of fun but their enjoyment is also very much tied to your team, if you have a well rounded comp and the team is working with you theyâre a blast, but if youâre solo tanking with a solo support or worse no support and your dps refuse to work with you and instead wonder off for kills or donât commit with you itâs miserable and youâll just get punished over and over again. I think 2/2/2 will help quite a bit with this, not everything of course but itâll be better and hopefully that will work towards ending the stigma against tank play because it is probably the most complex and least understood role in the game
Reinhardt in my opinion is the most fun character to play in Overwatch. I donât know why, but there is no other feeling that can match that of when you outplay an enemy Rein and land a huge shatter on him and his team.
The Rein v. Rein mind game is honestly the most amazing experience I have had in a video game.
ok
I doubt if itâs even that. They probably havenât even tried. Thereâs just pervasive attitudes in the community that tanks are boring, healers are no skill, and DPS carry.
Itâs a lot more to do with ego than anything mechanically in the game. We only get to boring as a denigration because anything else is just so easily dismantled as an argument against it.
Zarya is one of the most mechanically demanding heroes in the game requiring arced projectile aim and good tracking. Thatâs before we get into bubble use. D.Va is an aggressive, mobile bully. Orisa is an absolutely intractable wall.
I donât even know how you can paint a whole class as boring when itâs so varied.
Tanks are fun. I love playing them (have 50% of my playtime on tanks across accounts).
Hereâs something from my perspective:
Playing main tank is extremely stressful. Largely since if you make a mistake, it generally results in a lost teamfight against a competent team. The amount of cc doesnât help either.
The biggest problem of tanking in lower elo: healers would be Moira or Mercy (mercy isnât a main healer unless you run dive tanks. Even then she struggles). Most Moira mains Iâve seen are busy dpsing while I die. You could argue why I donât play healer then. I did but i donât find Moira to be fun. But tanks below 3k donât seem to understand theyâve to play slow/play in LOS to get heals from Ana. So itâs more frustrating for me.
But if Iâm dpsing, I donât have to worry about others doing their jobs. I can rely on health packs+ can win 1v1/more control on the general outcome of a match.
I wasnât toxic until I started maining tanks. Just got out of 2 weeks suspension. So yeah. No tanking if I want to chill.