Playing Tank Is Stressful In Overwatch 2 

I got into tank for the short queue times. Now I genuinely enjoy playing tank, it’s just frustrating when your teammates don’t know how to play with you and they just flame you in chat. People should try to help their tank instead of expecting them to do everything themselves.

⁠​⁠​⁠@@erikdayne5429​​⁠ As a tank main, the queues have always been shorter than every other role since ow1 released. And that hasn't helped. I do love tank, but its so stressfull it pushes players away. I have almost 2k hrs playing tank and i barely want to queue it lol. That's why it's always been the least populated role, even more now in ow2 with 1 tank its amplified. Its not just the stress of timing all your cooldowns or tracking ults, but on top of that the social stress like you mentioned of getting flamed and told to switch all the time. I just play qp with friends every once in a while to have fun.

at this point i think going to have heart attack if i keep playing tank. btw i play solo

It sucks, the feeling of winning is just wiping the sweat of your brow and queuing again, no “let’s go” or “good job team”. The only reason I kept going was just because I was good at it and my friends needed a tank.

Just to let yall know. The sign of gaining no joy from victory yet defeat feels miserable despite being drawn to play is tied to addiction. Some of yall might literally have an addiction to overwatch. Gaming addiction is very real and can fuck you up just as bad as a drug addiction. And if it feels that horrible to play. Stop playing this dog shit game. They'll either fix it by adding back 6v6 because the mega buff didn't work. Or the game will be unplayable for everyone else

I could really use him on mine

He inspires me to be a teammate like him every match

As a new player, that is exactly my experience as a tank. I've been playing Sigma and I feel like I get elims, take space and keep the most of the other team on a a poking distance just to look back and realise a reaper has killed my whole team. Tank is very impactful, but at the same time it's so exhausting

​@@kantanenakseli8886 pro tip, on Sigma, don't turn around. Put up a shield and cut off healing resources to that Reaper and he should die in a 1v4. If he kills 3 on your team, they probably just suck. You mostly don't want to peel for your team outside of specific situations, or being on Dva etc.

As someone who plays Reaper and constantly keeps an eye on the team I can say this. The team is constantly doing one of three things. 1. Dying because I'm not there to peel someone off them. 2. Sitting in a spot where they are creating no value so I have to basically run off and fight something in the enemy backline, while surviving for a minimum of 60 seconds of the enemy team sending 3 people to kill me, so my team has time to realize they can actually walk in. 3. They're actually playing decently enough that I can just vibe and look for opportunities to tag team targets with them. Usually seems to be 1, and tank tends to be a contender for the one getting kicked around, so I've had to keep the tank safe fairly often because alot of people seem to just zone out and shoot the biggest target. It ain't much but it's honest work, always feels good to pop a genji trying to dive my Ana.

@@Skynet5885 what rank are you? Genuinely curious, not saying you're doing anything wrong, I'm gold and trying to get better

@@BrofUJu I think I peaked diamond last time I dared play rank and that was ... 3 seasons ago after not touching ranked since like season 1 or something. But I rarely touch ranked in games these days, used to pretty often in Overwatch 1. At this point I'm 32 and can't be bothered dealing with the energy a few too many teammates bring to ranked games. So I just hang out in quickplay, trying to help the team get a win.

It happens when you make a role a billion times more powerfull and impactful than the others combined.

@@anthonyfarias5076 It also happens when you remove a member of said role. So now you're forced to do that because Blizzard didn't want to nerf 4 heroes.

@@anthonyfarias5076 Yep, legit. If you're the most impactful role in the game you'll have the most stress because naturally everyone will have you in their crosshairs. Maybe if they nerfed every tanks damage and buffed their HP pool, utility abilities and their ultimates the tank role wouldn't be as stressful as it is now, but no Blizzard thinks DMG = Fun.

​@Ascendant275 I have always been curious if they made tanks have more CC and utility and less dmg how that would go.

i find outskilling mei, sombra and ana fun just so i can roast then at the end of the match

I feel like you have to pop off every single game with tank, science ur the by far strongest Charakter on the team. If you don’t perform 9/10 the game is lost. This makes it really stressful to continuously play tank for me.

Tbh they're kinda pathetic, they could get a job and stream what they want 🤷🏻‍♂️

​@@PatrickArcato who says they dont have a job?

Lmao and in addition to all that I also had someone tell me that I need to stop and look around and make sure my teammates were following up with me. It’s like nah I need to pay attention to what the enemy team is doing and try to stop them from doing it, it’s my teammates job to pay attention to what I’m doing and try to follow up on it. I mean if you’re on the front line your teammates should be able to see what you’re doing, that makes a lot more sense than stopping to turn around while you’re front lining.

Tanks don't need to do anything. They don't provide any value. They are only a distraction for the rest of the team

@@SuperLifestreambronze take

@@SuperLifestreamclearly doesn’t know how to play tank 💀💀💀💀💀💀

Don’t forget about somehow being expected to peel without losing any frontline space

We’ve had multiple metas where tanks have been op man, this patch just aint it

@@shutoutvideos3986 and no patch will. This is why 6v6 will solve MOST problems not all.

@@shutoutvideos3986 Yeah but we don't really need tanks to be op, just not a55 to play

​@@shutoutvideos3986tanks can be op but also feel really bad to play as.

​@shutoutvideos3986 he's saying they're a struggle to play. That's the problem. Tanks are pretty op right now and they're still no fun to play

now it just means u got suzu and lamp out 😭😭

Yeah you’ll win a lot more games by working with your tank than you will by yelling at them

Dude, even this game where he had that, it was so stressful.

I'm starting to expect "tank is fun if the team coordinates" is akin to "playing with friends is more fun than alone" No shit. Playing on a coordinated team makes a role in a team based game feel good? Perhaps that doesn't mean the role is good. Just that the game has that inherent potential to be good when everything goes right. Now play 20 matches before you get that feeling again

> Tank is fun with people who genuinely understand how the game works And that right there is why tank is miserable for most of the playerbase. Half the players just want a rein shield 24/7 to hide behind, others don't understand the concept of "holding space." I could go on, but you get the point. If only one could educate the 80% of players who don't play tank how that role functions, instead of them declaring that they know better about a role they've never touched apart from that one time [insert meta hero here] was OP.

I don't think tank is fun in this game at all even with that. The role is so dumbed down and bland in OW2 from what it used to be in OW1, it's just hard to accept this when we clearly had it better before.

There is a reason why I almost only play Quickplay Open Queue... much less stressful, and far less toxic people than Competetive. (It is a game, it is supposed to be fun, and that is all that matters).

@@DanildFlammeexactly bro I only play open q now as a tank main

Yeah I relate, overwatch 1 I climbed and learned so much on tank and had fun queuing game after game almost everyday, then overwatch 2 came out and it's like all my love disappeared. I uninstalled a while ago idk what changed from ow1 to 2.

@@hiimnifty3625 couldn't say, but I will that it feels more soulless with the battle pass and money money money of it all.

​@hiimnifty3625 Could have def been OW2 changes, but sometimes people are in a point in their life where what you onced enjoy just stops being enjoyable and you need a change of scenery. It's pretty common

@@D_Jilla burnout is real for sure

Were you a tank player in OW1 there still were plenty issues especially as a solo q tank

@@D_Jilla I was and I agree with him, with the 6v6 format the tank role was less stressful since there was 2 tanks to deal with all of this instead of it all being one person

DID YOU FEEL LIKE BASTIONMAIN ?! SUPERTF ?!

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exactly like me they never seem to follow up or play around the tank but in the end blaming tank when they just let me die not supporting or dps not getting kills as they should and pushing after my dives like im a new player and i understand that its not that hard

The terrible thing is every toxic Ahole will blame the tank for everything when your dps or supports have the power help the team win as much as the tank does. People rather blame someone else than look at their own mistakes. As a player of every role, each roles feels equally as impactful right now, yet tank feels the most pressure to play.

That's interesting cause I feel tank is the most impactful it has been right now. Why do you think you feel that way?

@@D_Jilla i can kind of answer for him from my own perspective as a tank (im a new player) i assume he meanst what i feel and what annoys me alot of the times which is getting not always but often the most kills or damage as a tank and we're still losing because my team couldnt keep up either dps didnt do their job and got little kills or supports didnt heal enough and anytime i dive with winston for example nobody follows up which is not what you should do when you have a winston tank you play around him and push after his bubble its pretty basic in my eyes and i have just 60 hours into the game its shocking to me how ppl who play it longer cant understand that there is so much a tank can do when people dont use the space the tank created or dont kill anything you just die and do nothing in the end even if u got alot of kills it meant 0 all you effort wasted

"kiri is in a good place right now" - OW community probably

From this gameplay everytime he did something he got exploded unless he played perfect overwatch, felt like he was alone 80% of the time and had to 1v5 the entire team since otherwise he afks or the enemy team rolls. Does not look fun in the slightest.

Don’t worry this game is pure garbage but thanks to marvel rivals and threat of competition at last they are bringing back 6v6

The least offensive part is the infinite ammo chain shotguns. Nah fr tho the shotguns are so mind numbing that’s why I don’t play her.

He def didn't have zero impact. Just because he doesn't pop off, doesn't mean he didn't provide a lot of value to the team. The issue with tank is that a lot of the value you get by taking space, taking attention, and taking cooldowns is not something you can see on the scoreboard. A tanks value is not something that feels clear like getting a headshot kill. Btw it was the same thing in OW1. Most people in general don't play tank because it requires a different mindset.

ahhhhh i was wondering where it came from sounded familiar

Maugas meta is old news

@@ardiandes112 for real, its all about dva now

It's because of the DPS autism, they wanted a team game to be more about solo plays (i.e. them), they wanted more impact, they wanted xyz all handed to them on a platter, they scream about role q because they think removing all restrictions means they'll be the solo star with 2 tanks and 3 supports pocketing them the entire match as they pop off (hint there's a reason open q is just tanks and supports). Tanks going to a singular role did not work, it has never worked, 222 RQ is the way the game should be played