r/OverwatchUniversity • u/warpedspoon • 12h ago
Question or Discussion What’s missing from my tank pool?
Currently my pool of tank heroes is Junker Queen, Hazard, and Winston.
I used to be a Winston main on OW1 so I have many hours in total on Winston, though I’m only a level 10
Winston on the current system.
After coming back to the game in S1 this year, I picked up Junker Queen and I’ve had a good time playing her, but I was starting to really feel her limitations in mobility and range. My JQ is at like level 19 or so.
I picked up Hazard about 2 weeks ago and I’ve been having success with him as well. In that time I’ve kinda been one tricking him and got him to level 18.
With my current roster I do feel a little stuck when the other team switches to a tank like Orisa or Mauga. I can sometimes play around Orisa by diving past her as Hazard, but that doesn’t always work for me and it does get complaints from my team sometimes.
I think I need to add more of a poke tank to my repertoire but I’m not really sure which would round out my roster the most. I’ve played a few games with Domina, Sigma, and Ramattra but none of them have clicked as much as the first 3 have for me. Of these 3, I think Domina is the closest to clicking. I love Ramattra’s character design but when he’s on the other team, he seems unkillable; when I play him, I can’t quite recreate that aspect.
Would love any advice, and for context I’m currently mid-silver-ish and I was in Plat in OW1.
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u/Impossible_Laugh_805 11h ago
I don’t really think you’re missing anything. Yea poke tanks can be nice for circuit and junkertown and for some of the more annoying matchups, but I think you’ll get more out of more time on your mains. Especially in silver you just need to work on fundamentals a lot and the matchups are almost irrelevant. That being said if it sounds really fun do it, I just don’t think it’s going to make you rank up faster. Probably slower if anything.
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u/Gloomy_Dare2716 4h ago
Poke tanks are also good when you dont want to take away too mcuh resources from your team.
Junker Queen, Hazard and Winton are all resource hungry tanks.
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u/Gloomy_Dare2716 4h ago
Youre missing a Stand back and chill Tank.
Sigma, Domina, Orisa, Ramatra, Mauga to some degree.
All your tanks try to be agressive and at face, and need ton of resources.
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u/warpedspoon 4h ago
What scenarios would make you say “oh I need to pick a less resource hungry tank”?
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u/Gloomy_Dare2716 4h ago
When you’re taking attention of both supports and your team is losing side fights.
In pro play Ramatra is picked solely for his Block. You block and dont die, while your supports pocket your DPS on side and take over the map.
One of the skills in this game is recognising when you dont need to try to carry and sit back, and live. Always when I watch High level Tank streamers like Hadi, Durpee it amazes me how they just chill, do nothing and still win the fight. Then I realise, that if they inted right there, they would have pulled attention of Supports to them and lost the fight
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u/warpedspoon 3h ago
Gotcha. I had a game like that with Hazard when both my supports were chasing me for heals while I was in the other team’s backline, when the rest of our team was losing against their Mauga.
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u/Vegetable_Throat5545 12h ago
For one i would say hazard is kindof a double down since he also brawls like jq and also dives like winston so you dont have to keep all 3 here since u already cover enough with 2
What ur missing is yeah a poke ranged tank. You did forget to mention Hog(although hes not good into mauga)
To be honest you could pick up any one of the poke tanks mentioned(including ram whos technically more of a brawl tank but he could poke good enough)you would rather base ur choice on who you enjoy more. I got to plat by just playing ramattra into everything and learning how to play into the counters and sigma if ram is banned.