My quick thoughts on the tank patch

[Mehno]

Honestly, yeah its nice that tanks feel stronger now, but now it feels even more than before that you get rewarded for doing nothing. In fact you cant help your team more often than not because tanks are literally all build to not fight each other now. You are doing nothing against a Rein as Doom, Queen, Dva, Ball, Winston, Ramatra, Hog and even Zarya.

The gameplay loop right now is just mindlessly try to find squishies and stomp them, there is no synergy play and no actual thought into gameplan most of the time. All while bad tank matchups feel even worse now and again taking away options for playing tank in for example decisionmaking if you want to play a peeling syle or more dive.

TLDR: It feels just a tiny bit better but changes nothing about what is my actual problem as a tank player. I miss 6v6.

Edit: Some individual changes, I do like. Even without the intent of buffing tanks hard (the Junker Queen ones for example)

[TheSpaceTuxo]

I do kinda agree that Rein deserved more shield and maybe that Ramattra needed to do more dmg in nemesis form (I do think it got kinda out of hand tho) but making stronger tanks trying to compensate for 6v6 is lowkey stupid. For example, Mauga would feel very comfortable to play pre-patch as an off tank, how do they fixed the issue at Blizztard? Buff him even more to the point when if there's a Moira or a Mercy with him he's unkillable. I want to play whoever I like without worrying much about counters ffs, is that too much to ask??

[Mehno]

Originally posted by TheSpaceTuxo:

I do kinda agree that Rein deserved more shield and maybe that Ramattra needed to do more dmg in nemesis form (I do think it got kinda out of hand tho) but making stronger tanks trying to compensate for 6v6 is lowkey stupid. For example, Mauga would feel very comfortable to play pre-patch as an off tank, how do they fixed the issue at Blizztard? Buff him even more to the point when if there's a Moira or a Mercy with him he's unkillable. I want to play whoever I like without worrying much about counters ffs, is that too much to ask??

Yeah, as I said there are some buffs I like as well, Rams dmg increase on pummel, Junker Queens better regeneration even Maugas waaaay nerfed uptime for his E is really good.
But at the end of the day it stays just the same that you cant balance tanks like Mauga, Hog, or Ball for 5v5. In 5v5 its either you buff the numbers so much that every tank only looses to other tanks or more than half of the cast becomes unplayable because they are too easily countered.

At this point Im just really interessted in what they will say during the next devblog, as they said they wanted to talk about 6v6 as well.

[Ernesto]

Originally posted by TheSpaceTuxo:

I do kinda agree that Rein deserved more shield and maybe that Ramattra needed to do more dmg in nemesis form (I do think it got kinda out of hand tho) but making stronger tanks trying to compensate for 6v6 is lowkey stupid. For example, Mauga would feel very comfortable to play pre-patch as an off tank, how do they fixed the issue at Blizztard? Buff him even more to the point when if there's a Moira or a Mercy with him he's unkillable. I want to play whoever I like without worrying much about counters ffs, is that too much to ask??

i agree rein and ram has deserved that buff
both of them can counter to each other
nemesis from and charge
but the mauga arguments fails when we remember his release in season 8
his ultimate is fine cage fight always synergies with other ults of bastion or hanzo

[CLUTCH]

They will never be able to fix tank.

They would have to double shield/hp to make up for the loss of the second tank.

Wait...did I just fix it?

Good times!!!

[Buddy]

Originally posted by Ernesto:

Originally posted by TheSpaceTuxo:

I do kinda agree that Rein deserved more shield and maybe that Ramattra needed to do more dmg in nemesis form (I do think it got kinda out of hand tho) but making stronger tanks trying to compensate for 6v6 is lowkey stupid. For example, Mauga would feel very comfortable to play pre-patch as an off tank, how do they fixed the issue at Blizztard? Buff him even more to the point when if there's a Moira or a Mercy with him he's unkillable. I want to play whoever I like without worrying much about counters ffs, is that too much to ask??

i agree rein and ram has deserved that buff
both of them can counter to each other
nemesis from and charge
but the mauga arguments fails when we remember his release in season 8
his ultimate is fine cage fight always synergies with other ults of bastion or hanzo

Rein needed a buff. But Im going to be honest, 200 shield health isnt it. Now you get to play as more of a shield bot. The pin change is good, but youre still going to get cc'd out of it.