❓ Why do DPS exist

What does playing DPS role have to offer when a Support or Tank can do the exact same while aiding team mates?
Need burst? Zen Dva
Need Flanks distractions? Moira Winston
Need CC? Ana Brigitte Reinhardt

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Wow

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Because of the pew pew pew mindset of CoD kids.

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Not really my question. I’m genuinely asking what does playing a role tunnel visioned on what any other hero can do have special to offer

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NO, Becouse they are the best at it. They are meant to focus on doing the damage.

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Mostly DPS mains have been playing CoD for much time. CoD must not have been existed.

No they aren’t, a Zen can buff his entire teams damage while doing more damage than a Genji or Mccree, who is better will come down to skill, so again why is there a role for it

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the tanks will be the big ult battery for the enemy tho
the dps deal a lot of damage while not giving the enemy much ult charge and have better chance of surviving, they have the best mobility / burst damage and consistent too
Tanks cant do that

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Because some of them are better than Tanks and Support, that easy.

Or are you telling me that zen has more DPS value than a tracer?

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And do you often see a Zen killing a bunch of people with his ult?

Never thought I would read a thread like this one day.

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Ults, A zen cannot get a quad with his ult, Nor can he counter pharamercy. Really, if the game wants to have sales it cannot be shown as a Non-Shooter.

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Moira does, and a Zen can buff his entire team to outdps a Tracer. Not good enough of an arguement

By that logic, why do we have football when there’s already basketball? Need to get a ball into a goal and get points for it? Play basketball.

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And it is more of a problem about Zen Than anything

It’s funny when people say this is a DPS-dominated game even though there have been entire metas without them.

Besides that, dps heroes do good damage without needing their team to protect tnem, that’s the difference between a dps and, say, zen.

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Finally something I’m slightly believing. Dps cater to the people who buy FPS games. Is that why they have a CoD mindset?

To remind support classes that support means to actually support because that is indeed how you support the supported. AKA stop runnign ahead like you are a dps YOU FOLLOW US YOU SUPPORT US. Tanks-dps-support in that order.

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Then move zen to dps, he barley heals

Also, They do not feed ults 24/7 As well as having the small hitboxes, So they can go on a flank, And add more challange to the game, If we filled the game with 1star heroes only, It would be pretty boring

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Ana has a small hit box and is 3 stars, and last time I recalled DPS were mad that Moira took their gold elims, she’s an effective flanker