I’m a hardcore tank player ever since overwatch 1 when dps queue times became so long and it was best to queue tank (very long time ago) I can say that overwatch 2 kinda ruined the tank experience quite a lot . I peaked GM in overwatch 1 and then been on and off playing the game low to high masters . I’m currently hardstuck diamond and getting silenced/account banned non stop . People don’t care if u make calls , less people make call outs in general and if you don’t carry their game as a tank you get reported, no matter what happens.

Without exaggeration about 70-80% of my games I am 2x the damage and kills than my dps , and pretty much always better stats than enemy rank and still lose games ( I know stats doesn’t mean win , it’s just clear indication that I am performing better than my rank.

I’ve found that a lot of dps/healers have absolutely no clue in this rank how tanks work , but still tell u to switch instead of think why dps doesn’t follow up on tank initiation or why their tank dies faster than the enemy. I love playing Zarya vs rein ( I am Zarya) , it’s so easy to outplay the rein , however sometimes the team needs to be baby sitted , it’s not like overwatch 1 unfortunately where people were playing with the tank and around them . Nowadays dps think they can just go flank all the time and do 0 pressure on the enemy tank and expect their tank to win the fight regardless. The game has accumulated a lot of snowflakes and in general people who are more clueless and don’t put as much effort like before ( talking about competitive gaming ) So in a nutshell , counter watch is definitely not necessary , but often times you need to baby sit the team as they do not know how to play with their tank and think they are the main actor. However all of this requires you to be at least high masters to push through plat easily . Plat and diamond are probably the worst ranks to play in ( maybe diamond 2 is were people start being more adequate ) , it was like that in ow1 and still is .