for me as long as sigma and orisa are so strong right now there isnt much reason to play any off tank, obviously d.va works well with winston, and yes i enjoy playing orisa in orisa and roadhog is good for shield breaking but if the enemy has 2 shields and you only have one no amount of shield breaking is going to make up for his lack of shield
tank role make impact more than dps. look at map numbani’s first point , you will never ever capture it without good tanks guaranteed…
and if you play dps and you got two picks and your team loses the fight; because your role is useless. you need your tanks to do all the job or you will lose the game , that’s the sad thing about dps role, literally no value making throughout the match without good tanks.
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i can somewhat agree however i have seen one good rip tyre or one good genji blade(especially genji blade) manage to wipe the entire enemy team but in general good main tanks are very important
off tanks are kinda fun in open queue?
idk
that statement is hard for me to say because i half believe it
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the cause of good blade is good tanks, tanks make space for genji, genji has plenty of space and protection. no doubt he wont have a good blade.
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roadhog is godlike in open queue
that is true, as a main tank player i do like trying to make space for my team and with orisa its not that difficult usually, she is pretty strong right now
on roadhog on open queue, i dont entirely agree i mean if the enemy team is full of 200 hp dps then he is very good but if there is a zarya then your hooks will be bubbled so much, if there is an Ana then you will be slept all the time 
there is just so many hook counters but if its just 6 dps then its going to be a happy match for hog
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yeah and i sorta hate that. he’s way too good with that hook
it becomes stupid annoying
roadhog doesnt have auto aim with that hook, its all based on how good the player is
tank is the most unbalanced role. You have a half of them very strong a nearly always useful: Orisa, Sigma, Hammond, Rein
A couple are “ok” and situational: Zarya, Winston
and the other two are super weak and basically an inferior pick in every situation: Dva, Roadhog
its the only role where a certain combo picked (say Dva/Roadhog) makes the match basically unwinnable unless the other team throws
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i dont entirely agree that d.va is super weak, that said she isnt good but hog…hog really needs the changes from the first experimental card to actually be a viable option right now, either make him a tank that helps his team or make him a dps right now he is stuck in the middle
i do agree d.va does need more though
Winston is just awful.
i kinda forgot winston exists tbh
He kinda doesn’t right now tbh. There is almost no scenarios where he’s actually usable.
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I play Zarya quiet a lot and she is strong IMO.
Hog is trash feeder. Zarya is fine. Dva is fine. Sigma is too good at taking angles and duels.
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Zarya used to feel so good but she doesn’t anymore.
Winston feels somewhat easier to play… well if you have a mercy clinging to you
ok so maybe she isnt totally useless but … she doesnt do anything that another tank cant do better.
Hammond and winston can dive with less risk, sigma brings way more as an offtank on the front line, D.va just doesn’t have anything unique where your team says, “good thing we had a D.va there”
Dva is also very taxing for your healers, she really requires a lot of support attention.
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i think hog isnt really good and sigma is a little too good.
D.Va doesn’t work with Winston or anyone else at all right now…
Unnecessary nerfs and DPS power creep completely trashed her 
If they want Off-Tanks to play a more important role again I think it would be nice to integrate some form of shield burst into every Off-Tanks kit.
That way a Main/Off-Tank combination would be much more viable against Double Shield.
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