Whats your hopes for the next tank

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I hope its a longer ranged hitscan poke tank to help deal with flyers in the tank role

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Mauga with swimming trunks skin.

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D.Mon. Rein-D.Va hybrid, with jump ability, shield, and of course eject passive. Itā€™ll never happen, but you said hope not expect.

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Tanks are supposed to claim space and/or draw attention/fireā€¦.a long range hit scan really isnā€™t a tankā€¦would just be a suped up ranged dps

Orisa is closest thing to that but thatā€™s why she has projectiles insteadā€¦sheā€™s deadly in like mid range

And Hammond is technically a hitscanā€¦.but he poses no threat from rangeā€¦.if he did though heā€™d just be giant soldier

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Pretty obvious itā€™s Mauga. Theyā€™ve been holding on to him for a while now. I wouldā€™ve loved Mama Hong but doubt weā€™ll ever get her.

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Hopefully something actually unique. And not another flavor of barrier tank.

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I would like a Vishkar tank who actually believes in Vishkar and operated as there enforcer.

Would be nice to have more evil tanks beyond Ram.

Or even better, maybe a Vishkar exec who decides to take matters into his own hands.

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I hope some kind of hitscan, something attractive for DPS mains. Nice to know, that he/she is comming next season.

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Agreed.

No purely because it brakes the game on dva already so no more please.

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Less focus on blocking damage, more of a focus on mitigating and preventing it.

Stuns, AOE buffs, some maneuverability and with good self sustain. Also a knock up. We need some of those

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Just not a brawl tank please

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Someone to dethrone Rein as being the only real tank in the game.

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Mauga seems to be the likeliest candidate. Based on that, my wishes are EVERYTHING this:

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I mean hog used to take space through the THREAT of being hooked, they could maybe have a similar deal with a hitscan shot?

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Its reliability. Many players will not respect widow until they blow their nogging off around 2-3 times the moment they peaked a corner. THEN people respect the widow.

Roadhog hook is so easy to use and get kills off of that people generally did respect it a bit more unless they were super evasive characters like Tracer. The moment you see hook used its likeā€¦ NO HOOK NO HOOK GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO

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hogs effective range is not that longā€¦hes got a hook that you play aroundā€¦and hes not a hitscanā€¦

a tank that is an actual threat from range wouldnt just be commanding spaceā€¦theyd be commanding the map periodā€¦i dont think anyone would actually want to play against that

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Mauga but heā€™s a DOT tank with flamethrowers. Minus the burn status effect since burn does extra damage to armor and heā€™d be an instant requirement against anyone with armor.

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i believe mauga but i have no idea how he will work or if he will have a barrierā€¦ some of the old npcs/talon bots from the old archive missions might have his design? a heavy with 2 big machine gun looking things

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yeah but again if they balanced it out with a longer cooldown or maybe even force them to mitigate damage to charge said attack

I mean what youā€™re talking about is essentially just widowmaker and hanzo (kinda)
so idk i dont think it would be that farfetched to see it on a tank

  • in actual practice its not gonna function like widow and thereā€™s gonna be counterplay, if ur tank is chilling at the back getting a pick every now and then there isnt gonna be much space for ur team to work with , + that becomes more map dependent anyway
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yeah i mean this is the same sort of philosophy with quite a few tanks (orisa, ram)
like, baiting or playing around cooldowns is definitely part of tanks so it doesnā€™t seem too crazy to me for a hero like that to exist, idk