As the title says, I’ve been getting a bit fed up with comp teammates demanding specific tanks (usually Rein).

I’m a Plat 2 Tank on console to start with.

A lot of games I’m getting pushed in team chat to play as a meat shield for my team. Namely along the lines of “Go Rein, put your shield up and let me do the rest” from DPS. These same DPS are then struggling to get a pick at all. So I go on the offensive or swap tank or just try something else entirely.

I’ve had games where I’ll take out the tank, both supports and hold point. Then turn around to find my team keeling over to a single Genji.

I’m at the point where I’m preemptively blaming myself for anything going wrong, as my team inevitably begin blaming me in team chat. Or just waiting for the end to flame me for throwing in Match Chat.

TL;DR I’m sick of my team pushing me to cater to their needs, play the tanks they want, and trying to hold point and peel all at once.

I believe all 4 characters popped their ults in a similar timeframe, or potentially an echo got 2 in a single activations. This was way back when echo would clone tanks since her health didn't get reduced at all

I'd appreciate any pointers

If a tank immediately dies at the start of a team fight, is that fight lost for that team?

It seems like whenever a tank is the first to die, that team loses like 90% of the time, whereas if a dps or a support dies first that fight could still go either way.

Is this true? How can you tell if a team fight is won or lost? Is it when everyone on the enemy team dies or retreats?

So i started grinding out ranked about last February so give or take a year and I got to gold, mainly playing tank and while being a Ram main for tank, finding success in Winston and Zarya. Then DBD came along and completely sidelined my interest for Overwatch but the past month or so, I've been getting back into OW and am thinking of jumping back into ranked. What are the main changes I need to catch up on?

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I’ve noticed a certain core attitude that makes the whole healing dynamic less efficient and more toxic. That is, thinking of your co-healer as a rival instead of a duo.

I played a game recently that exemplified this. I was Ana with a Mercy. There were countless mini-decisions she made that boiled down to Mercy either a) not thinking about her co-healers strengths/weakness or simply b) thinking of me as a rival to be “diffed” in this match. For example, diving out of cover to heal someone with 50 hp who I could (and did) easily shoot, and dying in the process, on top of making me less safe where I might need to use my grenade inefficiently just to live.

Why fly across the map when you’ve got a healing sniper? I have to assume it’s a competitive mindset, snapping up available heals like Hungry Hungry Hippos so your numbers come out higher. A little friendly competition can be beneficial. But it can turn toxic; for example, one healer might be playing competitively and letting the other healer die so they can maximize their own numbers, and then use that discrepancy to blame and flame.

Another case for this is building ults. Be aware of the other healer’s ult status, and if they’re far behind you it might be wise to leave some heals to them for that reason alone.

Even if it’s just an implicit bias, it’s worth checking yourself periodically to make sure you aren’t playing like this, and instead think about how you can complement your co-healer instead of competing.

I was on a bad losing streak man. I always go on losing streaks, and I try not to tilt queue, but no matter how much I wait in between I always remember that my last game was a loss. It feels like either I'm dominating the lobby and winning five games in a row or getting my butt rocked and losing 5 games in a row. This game was especially bad. I felt like I was playing better than I ever had before, but no luck. I've played this game for hundreds of hours and I'm still in Bronze. Everyone says "just turn on your monitor you'll get out of bronze lol" but it never worked for me. Please help me fix some of my mistakes.

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Tag: SoosTheMoose

Hero Played: DVA

Rank: Bronze

Map: Shambali Monastery

Platform: PC

Thoughts on this game: Felt very hard to force progress. I'm always playing with the mentality that I can't rely on my teammates, I have to carry on my own. But I'm not sure that's how I should be playing anymore, as it's very feast or famine. A lot of times is what happens is I'll leave my team to try to dive but then they will get overwhelmed by the opposing tank. So maybe I should stick with my team more. But then progress feels impossible, I'm just sitting there holding Matrix. Also I feel like I never get good value out of my ultimate.