Okay i’m going to drop my over 900hours+ Tank player opinion here.
You know how much as the DPS players likes to switch from heroes, to counter the enemy team.
For example your current DPS team comp is Junkrat + Reaper, but you as DPS player noticed that the enemy team has a Pharah and a Tracert, and the first thing that comes up to your mind is swap to mccree and the second DPS player is swapping to Soldier76 to counter the enemy team.
Well that is exact the problem at the tank department. You have no variety anymore like you do in DPS or Support, and the reason behind it is, that the tank that should counter that specific hero has been nerfed because of GOATS. And the balance changes have not been reversed.
Tank Heroes you barely see now.
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Reinhardt
Reinhardt had a problem since the beginning. You can bully him literally and figuratively as a voleyball, and you can puncture it afterwards. And what I mean by this is SUPRISE… There is to many CC in this game. (Btw blizzard, the new ability Steadfast didn’t fix his issue) -
Winston
Winston is a victim of Armor nerfs
Reaper buffs.
Mei buffs.
Brigitte. And he himself never had a buff.
Lucio nerfs -
Dva
Same story. Dva is also one of the victim of Armor nerfs.
Defense matrix nerfs
Reaper buffs.
Mei buffs.
Brigitte.
Lucio nerfs - Roadhog has the same reasons as Dva and Winston.
And if you do play Winston or Dva you are literaly just feeding your brains out, and end up in a lost match.
- Wrecking Ball has less issues and people are still playing him.
- Sigma is Overpowered and has less issues.
- Zarya is still okay. But Reinhardt is left for dead by these balance changes and she has no partner anymore. But people still do play her at some cases.
So in short. People don’t want to play tank anymore (Including me with a lot of hours) because there is barely heroes I can choose and enjoy the match because they have been nerfed to the ground?
I prefer to hop in the Support queue and win matches because Im good at it too, then getting mad about tanking frustrations because there is no other option, than just follow the current meta and leave the other tanks for DEAD.
Thats my take.
Daredevil ex-tank player. 