I know it seems like a generalization but, god! I feel like every game the tank is stubborn and refuses to do the one thing the team asks or needs to win!
Examples: enemy team has widow and genji screwing with the supports, the tank will switch to junker queen, ball, hog but will refuse to pick the winston that the whole team is asking for, zarya just casually walks in the middle of our team like it’s her house and melt the squish, our tank? They will never pick reinhardt to counter her, sh*t they will make an effort to ignore it and not do anything about it.it’s EVERY GAME It’s as if they’d rather lose than listen to others.
I’ve been told that I’m a bad tank when half or more of the enemy team is focused on me and me alone, I’m not in danger of dying, and I’ve brought several of the squishies to low health, even killed one or two of them. The problem is that I can’t be everywhere at once, and it sometimes feels like no matter what I do, my team will never be happy with me.
Some people don’t seem to understand that a Tank is there to help you do your job, not do it for you.
Is this just one match?. Since it makes no sense for a tank to choose winston to counter widow & genji and then the same tank to swap to rein for Zarya. They can only be one tank in a single match.
Playing tank is also the boring thing in this game.
Tanks no longer peel in OW any more. DPS have to adjust and make changes because there’s 2 of them. You have one tank and they cannot be in every place at once. If a tank dives the Widow, then it leaves the point/cart uncontested, and you’ll complain when they start pushing the back line.
You do not have 2 tanks any longer and people (the DPS players specifically) refuse to understand this/adjust. Tanks get countered and beaten into powder in OW2. The tank cannot push payload, maintain a front line, peel for the supports, and dive snipers all at the same time. It’s a physical impossibility.
Because 5v5 forces tanks to either hug the walls or do plays. Peeling is non-existent now. It used to be in ow1, but now peeling is a great way to instantly lose your matches.
These were just two examples of things that happen in several different games, It’s like a pattern, not a isolated thing, it’s not like that they refuse to change, no, they refuse to play or do anything to help the difficulties the team is having. The entire team is asking the tank to do one thing and they will do it anything but that one thing, then we lose and they say the suport didn’t heal, that the dps didn’t kill… after spending the entire game refusing to help
What is happening 5v5, Blizzard balance, and awful matchmaking has driven away the competent and good tanks. Add on that in the past you had two tanks so that one could frontline and the other peel. Now the solo tank has to frontline, dive, peel, not die, and get picks…yeah I’m sure you aren’t asking for much nvm the fact that they may not be good or know how to play Winston or Rein. I get that it sucks for you but with the way that OW2 has been pushed you have to be a team player while also being selfish and looking out for yourself. I flex while also being a main tank player myself. When I play support it’s ana. I heal every chance I can but sometimes I just say screw it and leave because if my genji is being 2v1’d by a reaper/kiriko and I’m around a corner or two. I could save him but if I don’t get there in time he dies and then I die. It’s a waste. You just have to weigh the situations and adjust.
Pretty much. I main Ramattra; I can put up a barrier to help the team through a chokepoint, put down a slowing field that can maybe catch a flanker or dive tank, and make myself a big, tanky target by holding Block in Nemesis Form; but really, for the most part, the best defense is a good offense. The average Tank’s kit, in large part, just isn’t built to block damage; it’s to make yourself a big target, annoy the enemy team, and potentially kill them if they ignore you.
Like, what defensive tools does Reinhardt have? His barrier… that’s it. Everything else is built for killing.
I’ve certainly stopped. Playing 1 of the 4 meta supports has become such a necessity for Tank survival that I will write off a support who isn’t playing one of them.
It’s not even that I want to, it’s just a passive “They aren’t beneficial to me staying alive” because they are so outmatched by the meta supports I can’t even notice their impact.
I HATE that I feel like the match is already lost when I see a Lucio. It’s unfair to those players who enjoy playing that hero that they are garbage because Blizzard wants Ana and Kiriko to be the top dogs of support.
Probably most of the tanks in your games these days are people queueing for all roles because they are trying to get a daily or weekly reward. And most likely they are hoping and praying to get anything but tank, yet the ended up on tank anyway. There’s very few people these days who actively “choose” to play tank. And therefore, very few people that actually know what they are doing on tank.
Let me guess, you’re still on some slow character and being bullied by genji while the ball is engaging the widow in their backline. Or you run straight into her los while the hog is dealing with genji. Maybe you should change some things? Stop poking your squishy head around corners before the tank has walked out and change to a character that doesn’t instantly get walked on just because the tank left you alone for 10 seconds.
Tanks are not there to “help the team” mate, those are Supports.
Tanks are there to contest and try to destroy or neutralize the enemy Tank. Theres only ONE Tank at the moment, you can’t pretend that the Tank should do those 2 things AND also peel / help the backline AND also jump to Widow/Genji’s face when available.
YOU play around the Tank, not the other way around. Remember this. Follow this principle, enable the Tank and you will “magically” see how you get more Ws than Ls.
Yeah lol. Sometimes you play tank and even if you deny the enemy tank your dps cant win a duel to save their lives. Ok so I’ll contest the enemy dps so my dps don’t lose every single duel. Well now the enemy tank does whatever they want for free. There’s just no winning sometimes.
Your team could pick brig or whatever to deny genji or sombra to contest widow but they won’t so it’s on the tank I guess
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