THE PROBLEM WITH TANKS

It's no secret that Overwatch 2 forever changed the way the tank role would be played. Unfortunately, for a lot of veteran tank players the experience has felt inferior. Many have chosen to put blame on the format and offer no other solutions. This video is not that.

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THE PROBLEM: (0:00)
WINSTON: (1:43)
REINHARDT: (2:32)
RAMATTRA: (4:55)
ZARYA: (7:35)
JUNKERQUEEN: (9:29)
D.VA: (10:18)
ROADHOG: (11:54)
WRECKING BALL: (13:31)
MAUGA: (15:39)
SIGMA: (17:17)
ORISA: (17:51)
DOOMFIST: (19:19)
OUTRO: (20:15)

[yeatle]

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[onlyfacts]

Playing tank = playing goalie. You exist for your teammates to make the big plays and they blame you first if the enemy team scores

[Steb__]

Can you imagine getting your weapon jammed by winston and then getting hacked by sombra, and then you literally just dont play the game

[tkills]

Bro just chased a brig around for 45 secs on Winston.

[trashcnn]

The reason people play tank is because either

1. No one else will
2. The other players are worse at tank.

[bryankopkin]

Yeah with all the problems with tank rn I think nerfing genji would really be the only solution

[michaelbowman]

The problem with Roadhog: he's not a tank, he's a bruiser that has been forcefully thrust into the tank role.

Roadhog was at his best when there is an actual tank on the team and he is free to roam and pick priority targets, when it's just Roadhog it doesn't work because he was not designed to be an effective tank operating as the backbone in a team fight in the first place. He's a chunky assassin that obtained said chunkiness at the expense of mobility, it's why he has a hook because if he can't go to the enemy, he'll just bring to enemy to him, and why he has a selfheal and a lot of health because if you can't dodge attacks, then you need to be able to survive attacks.

[Aentismik]

i STILL can't believe after almost 10 years that FIREstrike does NOT set enemies on fire...
Just sayin...

[Fungias]

I disagree that doomfist ult should have a red line indicator cause you can already know where it is by hearing it

[BallotBoxer]

Achievement unlocked: "When pigs fly"
Get 3 eliminations in one match while bouncing in air on a Pig Pen trap.

[Someone-sqim]

Imagine Winston alt-fire with a Sombra. Literally unable to do anything

[goldcobraarima]

Reins ult is not the problem, the problem is that he gets hard countered by half the tank base and gets kited by everyone else.

[Jaxiepie]

The problem with tanks is the fact that they are affected by non tank abilities at the same rate as DPS and support.

Grannies melatonin dart probably shouldn’t affect the 7 ft German man in armor the same way it does a 100 lb teleporting woman

[donovan]

Playing tank in OW2 season 9 feels like being an under appreciated and overworked house wife. You have to play perfect and babysit the whole team so they don’t die, for no reward, because the dps and supports get to take all the risks, secure kills and make the big plays. A DPS can die 13 times and no one will notice but if the tank dies once or makes one mistake it’s a tank diff and your whole team will flame.

[checktec]

About Zarya and the contesting snipers thing: how about a right click you can charge for a short time to make it fly faster and further? maybe give it a little damage increase to keep the dps of spammed right clicks and charged right clicks the same.

[lordsmorgasbord]

it's nice to see someone actually propose potential ideas and solutions to the tank problem instead of just saying "this is the worst season for tanks" over and over again

[iamdacheezburger]

I genuinely like almost all the changes but with the Winston one it would make Winston sombra dives miserable to play against not being able to use abilities or primary fire would literally make you unable to play the game

[Randomness]

Other tanks: *suggests QoL changes that would make sense and restore flow and keep their identity intact*

Orisa: HELICOPTER HELICOPTER

[NoisyRogue]

I’m sorry but a weapon jammer has to be the stupidest proposal I ever heard for a secondary fire. Imagine he dives you and jams your weapon, how the hel do you realistically fight back

[NoSleepDaChimney]

my biggest issue with tank is I’m the only one so if I mess up I get put on blast every time without fail