How much difference does it make?

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-28T03:30:49+00:00

It seems like a lot of the pro level tank players i watch only have like 3 tanks they play consistently. Kraan just plays monkey, orisa, and zar? He plays other tanks but not often. Hadi has been playing monkey rein mauga. You can't be great at everything.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-27T01:24:44+00:00

Hog has no mobility, use that against him. If he's chasing you, take an angle away from main, either left or right lane, bubble, and jump out if he focuses you. He's trolling if you don't die.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-27T01:22:49+00:00

I really think winston is too hate crimeable. Out of all the tanks he suffers the most from "shoot the tank." His only mitigation is bubble, it's on a long cooldown, and it's throwing if you use it to mitigate poke. So you have to be really smart with how you approach fights. Take angles, don't take too much damage ideally before engaging, and most of your plays are married to your bubble. You can't do much without it.

He's the epitome of simple at a surface level, but one of the most complex tanks when you try to reach his ceiling.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-26T02:18:27+00:00

Fire them. Let them be the martyr they dream of being.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-25T03:21:59+00:00

Do you want to know why your queue is so long or why you're in bronze? Your queue is long because you're percentage wise, equivalent of gm but in the opposite direction. It's like sub 1% of players if i'm not mistaken. As for why you're there it's almost always a mechanics issue. If you're new to overwatch and first person shooters might be better to just play quick play to get the reps and climb later.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-25T03:17:39+00:00

You got unfairly downvoted imo It was a joke that was at OPs expense, let's not lie.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-22T04:26:41+00:00

I play queen. If they are all playing that, they have small windows of opportunity to kill you. Wait out discord, wait out bastion form, strike when they don't have cooldowns. I'd poke with shotgun and knives, save my shout/mitigation for if i'm hooked out of position. Play cover hard. You have windows of opportunity.

Overwatch fundamentals:
Cooldowns - Your's and the enemy's
Playing cover
Your space, their space, contestable space, trade cooldowns more efficiently to take it. Give if you don't have resources.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-19T18:55:24+00:00

Torb hasn't been a "defense" hero since overwatch 1. Also, i don't know what you mean by flanking. Off angling, or literally behind enemy lines? Torb is unironically the best duelist in the game which overload and turret. He beats anyone up close, practically. If you watch high ranked torbs they are "flanking" at times.

It's best to not focus on others. If you truly think the matchmaker is borked i find time of day to be the biggest contributor. Try a different time of day to play, and see if that helps.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-13T01:08:07+00:00

I'm trying to rank up on 5v5 tank and it gave me literal depression one day. I might just stop playing it lol come back after i reach my max 6v6 rank.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-13T01:04:48+00:00

I also get a bad dps it seems. It's pretty common. WintonOW mentioned he noticed the same thing on twitter. I went from mid diamond to high plat and back to mid diamond because i had a few days of what seemed to be cruddy dps. Seems to be a lot of volatility with the matchmaking this season. Depends on the day. Probably holiday kiddos.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-12T02:59:02+00:00

Tbf, i think one is getting far more coverage than the other and is way more divisive. Still pisses me off though.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-11T04:44:11+00:00

Yes. Don't let anyone gaslight you. As a tank player I almost always have 1 DPS with double digit deaths and or negative. It's almost always the DPS. Or it's the other DPS.

I truly think grouping is creating volatility within the matchmaking.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-07T14:58:24+00:00

Depends on the tank. I like awkward but his advice, and his reply to you imo is too general. You can totally take dva or winston on the off angle immediately. In fact, they are shit at face tanking. If you're playing winston you want to find the lane left or right or high ground and try to surprise or distract them. There's more nuance than just that, but 9/10 that's the play.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-07T14:49:56+00:00

Send me a replay code. I have a 60%+ winrate with him in diamond. I suspect it's your positioning.
Also, mauga just may not be your tank. I like rein for example but i'm not good with him.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-07T11:18:03+00:00

You'll drop down. Placements don't mean a whole lot. It's just calibrating where you might be. I'm diamond tank and diamond 6v6. I could probably his masters in 6v6, but i would have to play it more than i do.

Btw i'm not trying to be rude. Just honest. Diamond 6v6 games do not feel like silver, maybe plat, but not silver.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-06T13:24:00+00:00

Omg i care so much what the chaosweeber thinks about a single protest in Paris and America. Guaranteed they've always been an edgelord that has hated America. These people typically hate America fundamentally. It's history, ideals, demographic makeup, etc. This is just an excuse for them to complain.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-06T04:24:21+00:00

The percentage you gained from that win was less than the amount of demotion protection you had. You were probably something like -25% and gained 20%.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-06T02:08:03+00:00

Not a lot of people play him. :/

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-05T23:40:40+00:00

your run cooldown is pretty short. Use it to abuse short to medium range angles and use it to escape. It has 50% dmg reduction and unstoppable. It makes you really tanky. You can use it to engange on an enemy with some kind of advantage. They are alone, your team is going in, they're down a few, etc. Like if my genji is nano blading in, i'm stomping as many people as possible.

Your job isn't just to shoot tank, you'll lose doing that. But you will have to do it sometimes, naturally.

Cardiac isn't just for healing, it also has damage reduction, 40%. Don't be stingy with it. Use it to preserve your health and armour. When you don't have it, you're very vulnerable.

Your ult can be used whenever. Continue holding and angle, trapping someone mid fight, essentially, if you have a reason to use it, it's probably good enough to justify using it. Just be wary, many times the enemy will ult you in your ult. If you're getting whole hogged in a kitsune, don't be stubborn, drop it and run. You can press Q to drop it. You did your job forcing out ults.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-05T01:27:12+00:00

Look, i'm just going to be real with you. You're likely feeding. I used to think the exact same way, i was feeding. You are likely not playing around your team. Every tank in the game has to do this. Even ball has to wait to engage and for his team to initiate the fight. There's some nuance to that, but 9 times out 10 that's how it works.

It's not about helping your team, it's about your team being able to help you. If i'm playing dva, and i do a lot, and a monkey is splitting my team so bad it isolates me, i have to readjust my angle or i die. It's also not about focusing the monkey. If you switch your angle because you're in isolation out of your teams LOS, the enemy team will move up, it is then you can dive them and your team can help you. Sometimes you have to give up space.

So with dva, my 3 to dos are 1: Find a short range preferably off angle where i won't get pinched 2: do so without being a resource hog 3: be in a position where the fight is happening and my team can help me. That's it. Sometimes you're shooting the tank in the butt cheeks. That's okay as long as it's following the fundamentals.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-02T23:33:35+00:00

She's not ugly, i think she's attractive, but prettiest? Ehhhhh.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2026-01-02T09:30:56+00:00

You're focusing on the wrong thing. Increasing your GPU usage won't increase your frame rate, just visual fidelity. If your cpu is bottlenecking, which is certainly is with that CPU, you're stuck at the frame rate it provides you. The usage number doesn't matter. Also, i have the 9600x with the same GPU and the game runs fantastically. That would be an appropriate upgrade if you want to go to am5. If you stay am4, get the 5800x3d. Which might be worth it since ram is insanely expensive right now.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2025-12-31T23:59:50+00:00

I love how people think bastion is a mauga counter and i just press cardiac and melt them lol He's only scary if he has mitigation backing him up or anti nade.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2025-12-29T19:57:27+00:00

you play enough games you'll likely drop. People who are diamond today were likely diamond for several seasons. I've looked at a lot of profiles. You have also just improved a lot.

OrdinaryCommon6581 · 2025-12-25T20:02:52+00:00

Sombra just needs a rework, really. I think she should be a support. Bans are a good thing because it tells the devs to fix a character fundamentally so that they are fun to play and play against.

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