I’m kinda tired of picking off Tanks Roadhog or Zarya at this moment, while I want to play Main Tanks more.
I can only know Orisa but her current state is quite poor till you have a good Sigma to pair with. Meanwhile, Sigma is weak against Doomfist until he foolishly dives into Sigma with a rock not on cooldown.
Reinhardt is a free punching bag to Doomfist. Even if I counter-charge him, I’m exposed to attacks and I will have nothing to counter-charge their Rein.
Sure, me and Doomfist may die together but dead Rein hurts the team more than dead Doom does and Doom returns to the fight quicker.
Winston damage isn’t high to kill Doomfist but I may dodge his punches if I play around corners. Not sure for Wrecking Ball since Doomfist CC abilities generally counters/disturbs Ball.
Orisa is the only MT that counters Doomfist. Wrecking Ball is a shield gen for DF, Winston gets destroyed by DF and Reinhardt doesn’t do anything to DF.
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Orisa literally ignores Doom’s CC and takes very little damage through fortify. Halt screws his cooldowns as well.
Winston is relatively countered by Doom and Rein doesn’t have the easiest matchup. Orisa is your best bet for a main tank. The off-tanks Zarya and Hog are hard-counters to Doomfist, so you might just have to either get one of them as a teammate or swap to them yourself.
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If you look at the Tank alone its only Orisa, but if you look at the comp Reinhardt comps are usually less weak against doom becauce of the higher CC and becauce you all play together
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Roadhog if you think meat can be a shield.
Seriously : Rein can benefit from his passive but need the help of a Ana, a McCree, a Hog, etc. Alone he can’t do a lot.
Orisa can deny his combo and slow down his seismic slam and help her teammates to fly.
But has MT you already have other things to take care. So ask help to your teammates.
I would say Zarya would be pretty good against Doom. As she can bubble the targets that Doom goes for.
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Steadfast means that Reinhardt isn’t as badly countered by Doom as some make him out to be. You’re not going to kill him a lot of the time, but you’re less likely to get punched off the map or off high ground, which leads to you not being separated as easily from your team who can help you better.
Doomfist being aggressive towards you is better than him diving one of your more vulnerable teammates. As a MT, it’s often your job to soak up damage & these sorts of abilities.
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You can play Orisa and try to move doom around with halt but legit the main counter tank wise to Doom is roadhog.
I get people don’t want to hear it but that’s the truth. You just sit back a bit, save your hook and go to town. I’ve throw down 77%+ hook rate games vs metal SR doom mains who don’t swap off.
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The thing with rein is more about not getting exposed to other team than dueling doom itself, you eat dooms if you manage to take the duel in a corner making doom int into you, you do more consistent dmg to him, avoid or counter charge his punch. Firestrike and melee will melt doom while you can shield his shotgun.
Also whenever he meteor strikes charge kill him.
The key is to shout you are the alpha and show doom his place in the pecking order.
The other thing is you will look cool and inspire your team to fight with you when you do this.
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Yep, but wb also has some things that is good against doom. Its easy to dodge seismic slam and rocket punch with high ms, you can use piledrive to dodge the mid air punch after uppercut or use it to chase after him if targets some one else with slam when you’re in the air. His uppercut also gives you a pd opportunity without needing to use grapple of jump of something. You can chase him down when he peels or be right in his face with grapple the moment he comes out of ult. I don’t know how they are against each other in the top tier but at around 3500 its a lot of fun with mind games, keeping track of cd’s, picking the right engagement etc. Feels like it more about individual skill then the hero.
I have the most issues with Zarya, her dmg and bubbles can screw you over.
Hog is fine too, but it’s quite easy to play around him.
Orisa does nothing to you unless she pulls, but that’s rarely the case.
D’va can bring trouble with her dmg sometimes.
Winston is a joke.
Rein is another joke.
Wrecking has only mines that can deny an area for you, else you just bully him.
Sigma is yet another joke, maybe the rock.
Orisa does not counter Doomfist.
She is one of the few tanks that can realistically contribute against a Doomfist, however, her Halt just isn’t fast enough to counter Doomfist.
Orisa counters him best out of the other main tanks because she can halt and fortify.
I would say your best bet is either Orisa, maybe Sigma. Winston and Rein aren’t really good against him.
As for off tanks and our special grey-area tank (Ball), Hog is 100% your best bet imo. Hook alone can disrupt him greatly.
Orisa’s Fortify makes Doomfist cry.
Rein can counter charge his fist, shield his slam and primary, and uppercut will do Doom no favors most of the time. But Orisa’s definitely a better counter.
Orisa craps on doom. Every other main tank besides Winston is pretty neutral to doom. But other than that 90% of the roster is neutral or counters him so if you can’t kill him there’s no excuse why your dps won’t go sombra or your supports won’t go brig.
Hog, or Sigma, that rock can be devastating. Orisa too, but that has been pointed out a lot.
Winston and WB can chase Doomfist when they are running and low. Sometimes that can be the difference between killing him or letting him get ult in time to do something else. I don’t recommend chasing DF as Dva though… but you still can, as long as he is not running back to his team.
Reinhardt does 75 dmg a swing… even if DF slams 4 people on your team, as long as you hit him once he will only get 25 shields. It definitely makes a difference. Of course Sigma has rock… don’t need to say much about that.
This. You shouldn’t be able to choose a tank and nullify a hero if that’s what you’re looking for. A team comp is what does that, not a straight character.
Unfortunate that DPS characters get to do it to tanks though lol