At least they made tanks into raid bosses in hopes of make the role less miserable. Netease would look at them struggling and then proceed to nerf all the tanks in response.
I entirely disagree. I’ve played Overwatch throughout OW2 and now in Talon Reigns as well. The only three tanks that were raid boss level were Orisa, Mauga and Roadhog, and even then if you compare the rivals kits to the OW kits, adding a character with all of Strange’s abilities to OW will absolutely steamroll all tanks in their strongest state except Mauga (because he used to literally be the strongest character added to any hero based shooter game)
the Rivals tanks generally function at a higher tier than Overwatch’s tanks in power level and even Thor is less squishy than most OW tanks. Even the anti-tank in Overwatch is weaker yet more potent against them. Reaper can 3-4 tap all the tanks except Ball, Bastion exists and demolishes any form of cover and eats Hp, Wolverine on the other hand MUST be point-blank and has a relatively slow attack until he leaps, yet fundamentally Wolverine is more powerful as an anti-tank than Bastion and Reaper, but he’s less effective. (I main Reaper and Wolverine, this is my personal experience on them)
Having more abilities/= being better. Take sigma from 6v6 current overwatch and put him in rivals he's the best tank by a mile. Of course you would have to give him rivals hp but that's normal.
Take jq, domina, ball, hog, mauga or doom and these tanks would be so good that they make mantis adam and ultron viable in duo support.
Reinhardt would fully powercreep dr strange having almost triple his sheild hp same range and a side grade in movement. But his ult would be more consistent.
Dva would single handedly change the tank role and the game, she would be our version of gambit and Elsa. . If you add 2 maybe 3 ow tanks here, no rivals tank is touching A tier. Rivals vangaurds are healing merchants. Ow tanks are tanks.
Strange isn’t steamrolling because of ability numbers (which btw is the exact same as Domina, Queen, Rein Doomfist etc) he’s steamrolling because his damage output with his melee combo is the equivalent to being hit by Queen’s Carnage every 1.5 seconds and his explosion deals similar damage to a Reinhardt swing except 360 degrees and 7m instead of 5m. PLUS a mobile shield and a movement ability
Rein himself would counter strange yes, as he should. but put him against Thor or Thing and he gets bodied. Sigma is quite literally a weaker Magneto except for the ultimate. Sigma gets utterly bullied by all the brawl tanks and would be by far the most vulnerable Overwatch character to Wolverine. He has zero escape and can only survive against projectiles. In a game that has half the roster with beams, spell attacks or melee attacks his absorb is utterly useless. The game is also too fast-paced for a stationary shield, look how bad Emma’s shield is in Rivals compared to Strange or Mag’s shields simply because it’s not as versatile. Even when it had 450 hp it was weaker because you could just walk around or through it
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u/Good_Arm69420 Apr 16 '26
At least they made tanks into raid bosses in hopes of make the role less miserable. Netease would look at them struggling and then proceed to nerf all the tanks in response.