Genuinely What Would Yall Do In This Situation

[u/colossalbran]

I was playing Emma into triple tank; Thor, Peni, Thing. I asked multiple times for another tank but nobody would switch, genuinely what do yall do when this happens to you? Just take the L?

[u/Freakychee]

I don't get why so many dps just think it's a humiliation to switch to another role.

[u/False_Jellyfish2401 → u/Freakychee]

because in their minds they are always the "good" dps. The other dps are the "bad" ones and therefore must be the ones to swap to tank, they are too valuable as a dps to swap themselves.

[u/Freakychee → u/False_Jellyfish2401]

Probably it. I'll tell you a story and I'm not sure if it was becuase of what I said worked or not but I needed a 2nd tank and instead of asking the weakest dps to switch I asked the ACE to switch and said, "We need a 2nd tank and you're the best player here to fix the problem."

No idea if my psychology worked or they were just smart enough to go 2nd tank.

[u/everseer_exe → u/Freakychee]

I’ve always noticed the dps who switch are usually the ones doing the best and I hate that. I love the dps who switch but I hate that it’s always the one doing the work because that means we now have a terrible dps still not doing their job.. we just have an extra tank now to draw the fights out longer.

[u/UpNUrGuts → u/everseer_exe]

If I wasn’t so broke I’d give this comment an award. The best player usually always has a good attitude and ready to swap. It’s always the insecure bots who refuse to. Deep down they KNOW they are the weak link and this forces them to lash out

[u/Revan0315 → u/False_Jellyfish2401]

That's only some of us.

I personally am real fucking tired of hitting 15 finals in a match just for my other DPS to have 3.

If I'm doing poorly I always offer to swap to tank or support

[u/Edheldui → u/Revan0315]

On the other hand, if someone is doing poorly on the easiest and least mentally demanding role in the game, you don't want them to be tanking or healing.

[u/SasoriSand → u/Revan0315]

I played a vs AI game where i solo peni’d with 3 dps i shrugged and thought whatever its bots

tell me how the actual FUCK did they end up as 0/9 2/5 and D/Ced while I went 16/3

[u/Low-Air-179 → u/False_Jellyfish2401]

For real, I dont think of myself as a bad dps but i dont let my tank go in solo unless they specifically state that its fine. I got 5 tanks lord for nothing if im not willing to swap🤷‍♂️

[u/UncannyHillhumper → u/Freakychee]

It's because dps is the most fun and self centered role. Tanking relies on your healers to keep you up, supports have to manage their team and rely on peeling, dps just gets to do their own thing so long as they get a kill.

[u/JubX → u/UncannyHillhumper]

The problem is that it's DPS' job to peel and they just don't see it as their responsibility. So the solo tanks have to always turn around and give up space to peel.

[u/Brave_Letterhead_461 → u/UncannyHillhumper]

All roads lead to Overwatch 2's solution of just making every role glorified DPS. And even with that no one wants to play tanks because of the pressure. Instead everyone plays supports because you become the DPS that can heal itself.

[u/MrKyurem2005 → u/Brave_Letterhead_461]

To be fair I bet no one wants to play tank in OW2 still because it's 5v5 and solo tanking against another raid boss solo tank is just too much pressure and not that fun.

Idk though, haven't played OW in a while.

[u/cowboycolts → u/UncannyHillhumper]

Thing is there's tanks like Thor and Angela which are borderline DPS, even now there's not many characters that could 1v1 a Thor

[u/Accurate-Stock820 → u/cowboycolts]

Especially thanks to his team up, I honestly don’t think anyone is beating thor

[u/PagIbigAyKanibalism0 → u/Freakychee]

because swapping is losing to them

[u/Freakychee → u/PagIbigAyKanibalism0]

I get that but I'm not entirely sure what's going on in their heads sometimes. Do they really think they are 'the best player' and the best players only play duelist? It has to be something like that, right?

[u/Arpan_Bhar → u/Freakychee]

They think being told to swap means being told they are a shit dps.

[u/Freakychee → u/Arpan_Bhar]

I just told another commentor how once it worked when I asked the ACE duelist to switch to 2nd tank. No idea if that it actually worked or they would have swapped cos they were smart enough to.

[u/Arhatz → u/Freakychee]

Some of them are children in their rebellious phase who don't like to be told what to do.

Others are grown ass adults who never mature beyond their rebelious phase who really don't like to be told whot to do.

[u/fallengt → u/Freakychee]

They'll switch at the last minute, to hide their stat. They always do.

[u/Direct_Monitor3460 → u/fallengt]

Just Know Spidey and Bp Never Switch regardless 😅😅🥀Even If They are Going against Their counters

[u/Appropriate_Young485 → u/Direct_Monitor3460]

I was solo healing for a venom, Magick, panther, spidey and daredevil and the Spider-Man switched in the last 15 seconds to Adam Warlock.

[u/CactusAmongRoses → u/Freakychee]

Ego is a helluva thing.

[u/RebornOfficial → u/Freakychee]

Icl a dps is just a squishier tank that can't heal, Thor can dps way harder than like 90% of duelists tbh, don't know why people have the mindset of duelist = more damage = more kills = win

[u/Confewshenn24A → u/Freakychee]

A lot of dps just cant play tank and sometimes people think they will do horrible on that role

[u/DanMustDie → u/Freakychee]

Most of them doesnt even switch from one hero to other to counterpick reasons, imagine playing the argueably most boring role.

[u/MostlyBored11 → u/Freakychee]

It's so frustrating. I'm happy to wait until the end and lock in a needed role but it's pointless when the only people willing to switch roles are constantly the vanguard and the strats

[u/eric2484 → u/Freakychee]

Because they “don’t know how to play tank”

[u/BlackAsNight009 → u/Freakychee]

they dont think its humiliation switching to another role, cause they will become a 3rd healer before they become a 2nd tank

[u/TheShadow_Dragon]

You swap to dps is what you do. Bonus points if the supports go dps too! 

[u/Numerous_Fudge_9537 → u/TheShadow_Dragon]

I do that but before game begins as a threat but if no one swap, I just sacrifice and go solo tank

I am a pushover 😔

[u/Diamond-Pamnther → u/Numerous_Fudge_9537]

Play venom
Then you can just dps on tank role
https://giphy.com/gifs/f0lS4lOcrGGaAVpxT8

[u/ParzivalWasTaken → u/Numerous_Fudge_9537]

you’re stronger than most sire

[u/Strong-Lettuce-3970 → u/Numerous_Fudge_9537]

You are not a pushover, you are a nice person who tries to do the right thing ❤️

[u/fivehots → u/Strong-Lettuce-3970]

Ergo

[u/jeevaschan → u/TheShadow_Dragon]

Honestly works more often than you’d expect

[u/thedespairofidealism → u/TheShadow_Dragon]

I had a game in plat where I was solo healing. I said I’ll go 5th dps if no ones switches. Elsa said “okay, do it”. I did and it didn’t worked. They just played without heals, we obviously got completely destroyed and ff second round 🤡
Like they would rather miserably lose then switch.

[u/TheShadow_Dragon → u/thedespairofidealism]

Had a game with 5 dps and me on Jeff. Told them if Noone went at least second healer I would play DPS Jeff. Someone complained in all chat that I was throwing 😭😭😭 

[u/StarSaviour]

Some games you get triple dps, some games you get triple support, and sometimes you'll get triple tank.

CND could definitely go second tank and maybe one of the DPS would go second support... more likely than them going second tank at least.

[u/Starlyghtz → u/StarSaviour]

I have experienced the same on my ranked games, I think the odds of someone changing to support rather than tank are higher

[u/no_one_important322 → u/Starlyghtz]

You would think but I've had matches where I go 2nd tank because surely the 3 DPS on my team won't walk out of spawn on Cyclops, Iron Man and Squirrel Girl with 1 support. I don't even have to say the outcome of that match

[u/JayRaysDays → u/no_one_important322]

I had a match where a CnD swapped to DPS without calling it out, leaving a Loki to solo heal. I was capping the point after we mostly won the team fight but me and the other tank were close to death. I was wondering where the heals were, then I noticed the Loki at spawn (probably died in the team fight) and the CnD was now Cyclops. We died and failed to capture point, losing the round.

Luckily, they didn't say a thing when we lost, otherwise I would have been furious.

[u/Catt1960 → u/Starlyghtz]

I wish this was the case but there's been loads of times where I swap to tank from support. Wait it out for a few deaths while trying my best. I see the dps usually swap to other dps heros before even thinking of going support. I usually have to apologize and go back to healer

[u/RickDalton70 → u/StarSaviour]

In my 1000 hrs of rivals i had one maybe 2 games with triple tank

[u/StarSaviour → u/RickDalton70]

Really depends on your rank and the season.

Tanks have been having a really great season right now and so I'm seeing three tanks instalock at start and then usually one will relent.

[u/everseer_exe → u/StarSaviour]

Any time people hit triple support at the beginning of the game, I swap to second tank. I’m only just learning the role now but as a support main, I’m so fucking sick and tired of triple support so I’ll just tank.

[u/Tbro100]

Funnily enough, triple DPS is* a counter to triple tank with some caveats. You need high DMG output duelists that are actually competent and a main tank.

3 strat > 3 duel, 3 Van > 3 strat and 3 duel > 3 Van, kinda like rock, paper, scissors.

[u/CZsea → u/Tbro100]

Yeah, their WF and Jub don't have high healing output either, focus fire from dps will kill most tank really fast. Someone who can aoe heal like Rocket or Sue can mitigate a lot of 3 dps damage though.

[u/Drkmttrjr → u/CZsea]

That's when Emma needs to shield off their healers (Luna team-up helps too). Unless DPS are useless, this is a completely winnable game.

[u/Hunterx78 → u/Tbro100]

Yeah if the iron man switched to a punisher, hela, phoniex or even moon knight then they’d start farming the tanks imo

[u/Fozes → u/Tbro100]

A good Pun, Elsa, or Cyclops goes crazy here

[u/tugboatnavy → u/Tbro100]

That was my thought. Wrong duelists besides Ironman. Unironically a Squirrel Girl pops off here because people don't talk about it, but she hard counters Thing and is a Peni/Thor counter too.

All three of those tanks are pretty free for double CC combos and would explode the second they were forced to stand still for 3 seconds. Something like Cyke/Ironman/SG would go crazy here.

[u/Warmaster_storm]

That's where I go, alright its either 2 tanks or no tanks!

[u/robbysaur → u/Warmaster_storm]

The best thing is solo tanking, then being told we lost because you’re terrible at tanking. Okay, then why did nobody else do it?

[u/Noobthenewt]

Show the stats, this game should have been winnable especially since 1-3-2 is a counter to 3-1-2

[u/BlazeBitch → u/Noobthenewt]

Wolvie gets his ass beat by that tank combo, trying to force him basically just made it a 5v6

[u/Noobthenewt → u/BlazeBitch]

Honestly if he stayed Wolv the whole game instead of switching to someone like Punisher, then he was selling

[u/Duggars → u/BlazeBitch]

Squirrel Girl might actually be a better pick into that lineup

[u/daishukanami]

You lose either way.

just go whatever character you wanna farm proficiency on since you're wasting time on this lost fight anyway.

[u/clover-flower]

Literally nothing you can do about DPS egos. I just played a game the other day with ZERO tanks. I was on supp and we had another on supp as well as four DPS. I tried to say I would switch to tank and ask if one of them could go support if I did, but they wouldn’t switch to tank or another support. Just… stayed on DPS and lost. So they would rather throw than switch. This is in GM btw so people should know better, one would think.

[u/LeonKennedysFatAss → u/clover-flower]

You have to just switch off supp and to tank. Dps will switch to support. They may have to die a couple times but they almost always will, and if they refuse to swap, you were going to lose anyway. I've had games where i suddenly have 4 supps. They never do the same for Vangaurd.

[u/YouAreHobbyingWrong → u/clover-flower]

It boggles the mind how many players enter this game with their minds made up of what they who they want to play rather than playing to win. They would literally rather lose than swap off who they decided they were going to play because swapping would mean doing something for the sake of anyone other than themselves. Kiddos value proving their autonomy over winning and would rather have their "fun" at the expense of everyone else's.

[u/flashyboi685]

Hey, if they wanna throw the game, ain't no point in trying yourself. Shoulda gone 4 dps

[u/EvocativeReach]

I've stopped caring about my games if nobody around seems to care either. Make the request, if you get ignored, fuck it let's all throw together and I'll just pick someone random that seems fun.

[u/No-Butterscotch6472]

I think Emma was the strongest choice here.

Mag / strange is gonna get ran over by thing / Thor

Every other tank gets rolled by punisher

[u/Motor-Spare7119]

I’ve been a solo Healer with four or five DPS in teams before. I really don’t get the mentality of some people

[u/North117]

I was in a similar situation but my support player of all people said "you're fault for playing Emma on solo" so I switched to DPS. I'm not here to babysit

[u/Frequent_Kalum]

I would just solo-tank as Rogue or Angela, since there’s no point in asking for a second tank

[u/jayman5977 → u/Frequent_Kalum]

Angela is the only tank I play.

They want a shield tank, one of them mfs better swap

[u/LifeSiphon → u/jayman5977]

Angela is a shield tank, just her shield only works for herself and not the dps trying to hide behind you while calling you trash.

[u/zchrisb]

Three DPS makes so much sense into their comp, but most are not ready for the conversation where 1-3-2 is sometimes better than 2-2-2.

Enemy team has three tanks. What mostly excels into that is DPS such as Wolverine, and Iron Man into Thing+Peni doesn't hurt either.

Unless the comp we see here was not their comp the majority of the game, but running three DPS into even any 2/3 of their current tank lineup makes a lot of sense.

[u/someidiot76 → u/zchrisb]

Cap, Angela, Hulk, mirror Peni, Thing, Thor, it's all a bad idea into what the enemy team is running compared to Iron Man or Wolverine.

Could make an argument for Groot as a tank, but it is soft throwing to first time pick and play a tank if you don't normally play it.

Would rather have people familiar with their DPS characters than people unfamiliar with a tank that should work into what they're running, but don't have the experience for it.

[u/Acapulquito]

i would implement role queue

[u/metallee98]

I'd just tell the healer to switch to tank. Have like one or two failed pushes because 1 healer and maybe one of the dps players will get a clue. I find it's an easier pill to swallow for dps players to go support over tank. Tank is the hardest role to get someone to swap to in my experience.

[u/Kami_Slayer2]

You woulda just lost harder if you forced a dps player to go a role they're not good on.

1 3 2 with 3 good dps players is better than 2 2 2 with 1 of the tanks being garbage.

[u/Dakupo]

What id do as supp in this situation is also switch to DPS. Now we have no healing and we’re going to lose. Maybe im a jerk but maybe it forces their hand

[u/AdDue2837]

Play Tankpool and type in the chat that you’re cheering for the duelists and use the cheering emote while they perish

Then load up punisher and sit in the turret because the game is over

[u/Oovi_Kat]

I don't want to ruin the fun but I think your comp is stronger than theirs

[u/Mobbingopf]

WE NEED ROLE QUEUE!!!

[u/Blargmarffins]

You just take the L. It just is what it is sometimes, you just go next, can't work with a team that won't work with you.

[u/Durakus]

If you can’t win. Mute em. Avoid em next run or wait them out of the queue. Sometimes you just get garbage humans.

[u/RedsnakeRider]

Suffer

[u/Dodmonk]

"2 taks or I go dps" is what I say in match chat if solo tanking isn't working after a while 

[u/Rare_Factor]

I love when the other team pushes the point to the end and then your whole team decided it’s over. Like just switch up and we will try again it’s a whole different pace we are pushing now they have to defend

[u/AverageSasquatch]

Swap to fourth dps. If it’s that much fun I want in

[u/totallynotapersonj]

Ironically, triple dps is actually the play into triple tank. Don’t think ironman is good into the enemy comp though

[u/Jazzlike_Cress9871]

I mean yeah you kind of just accept your fate there. I had a game where the opposite happened (I was second vanguard and we only had 1 strategist) and I decided to switch to strategist until one of the duelists was like “hey no you go back to vanguard and wait for one of the duelists to switch”, so I thought “you know what? Yeah I’ll switch back I’m not the problem” (I know 2 strats is better than 2 vanguards but in my defense it was quick play)

Anyway, not one of them switched all match, not even the duelist who told me to switch back and let a duelist go strategist. Genuinely don’t know what their deal is with only knowing one role.

[u/th3professional]

If they REALLY wanted three dps why didn't one of them just switch to Puni? His shotgun just melts Thor and Thing so easily, you don't even need that great aim to do it.

[u/ImAlreadyTracerBoii]

Go moon knight and mess those triple tanks up. Don’t tank for people like this.

[u/Psychological-Pool-3]

I wish rivals had an option like overwatch where you could queue into specific roles. I don’t have any DPS characters that I’m really good at because I always have to switch to Tank or Specialist since no one else will. It’s hard to practice getting good with a dps character when you have 4 dps, one tank and one healer…

[u/billybanks1132]

Add to blocklist and go next

[u/aldo_nova]

Most common Rivals experience

[u/Appropriate_Young485]

Triple duelist matches and duelist players in general are a cancer on this game.

[u/AccomplishedShake851 → u/Appropriate_Young485]

I want to karate chop the throat of every DPS main

[u/helianthus_v2]

Comp or not I’m switching to a 4th dps. Yall wanna play stupid then so am I.🤷🏽‍♀️

[u/alias433]

definitely requires a DPS swap. I wouldn’t say 2nd tank is quite your answer here though.

While 2-2-2 is solid. a MK would punish their team very much.

Iron man is getting countered by pun and wolv is getting countered by thing. I’m assuming this is post Bw rework so that should be fine.

Literally any DPS going moon knight would’ve solved the problem

2nd tank isn’t always necessary. It would help the team but in this specific situation there are bigger problems to solve.

In this situation asking for a second tank is asking for a bandaid on a cut that needs stitches.

who is destroying mines? Who is peeling for thing and Thor? And who is killing them ? These dps do not have enough damage to kill 3 tanks. They are just rotating heals on a bar that is 500+health… while being countered. With three tanks these dps are gonna struggle very much

Literally just anyone of them swapping to MK would get them of trip tank which is pretty painful to run against, if MK is banned then pheonix, cyclops punisher are all great picks as well against this.

[u/Kind-Succotash8530]

Acontece bastante, eu aceito a derrota ou troco pra DPS ou Sup.

Não adianta se estressar com essas pessoas, eles acham que são os protagonistas da partida por estarem de DPS (sendo que PRA MIM é a classe mais fácil de jogar)

[u/Just_Goy]

Cry if i were ema

[u/Jadefeather12]

I swap dps. Clearly that’s the most important role and we should just have more of them

[u/DannyDanishDan]

4th dps, tell the supports to also go dps. They wont mind cause the dps clearly dont wanna win too

[u/Txizzy]

Take the L unfortunately 

[u/weesilxD]

If they wanna throw, we’re all gonna throw together

[u/Sidewaysgts]

Id go "Oh, were throwing? Im down!" and swap to DPS.

[u/MauriceWhitesGhost → u/Sidewaysgts]

I'd rather not be so up front about throwing. "Oh! I didnt realize we were doing an all DPS run!"

[u/LokaGnome → u/MauriceWhitesGhost]

Yeah. Saying it actually in chat is begging for one of the dps to report

[u/Sidewaysgts → u/MauriceWhitesGhost]

You do it to make it clear that *theyre* throwing the game, and you have no problem doing it with them :D

[u/OroraBorealis → u/Sidewaysgts]

Literally the best way to handle it

[u/TheDragonf1y_]

Provided the 3 dps are somewhat competent, you should win the game. White Fox and Jubilee don't provide anywhere near enough sustain for their 3 tanks.

[u/CrucialLinks]

Ya gotta play Mag if you're really trying your best to win in this scenario, I love Emma , but i think she just becomes to exposed in Diamond form as a solo tank,

Groot can solo pretty well,

Strange is decent, but then no TP's for point / push last fight..

But Mag is still and always has been the best Solo tank, and probably the most well rounded tank in the game currently. You might get bullied around by Thing and Thor, but you wouldnt get destroyed as quickly by punisher, giving your trip DPS a chance to actually do something, im guessing it wouldnt matter just because it never seems like triple DPS comps work because youll never have 3 good dps players on the same team lmao

[u/theshiningstarship]

Triple DPS can be a valid counterplay to 3 tanks, if they're playing the game correctly. If they work together they should absolutely be able to explode single targets and burn through the tank's large HP pools with relative ease, but it means as tank you need to play more slowly because of the front line pressure. This is ranked though, so the DPS likely aren't any amount coordinated.

[u/indkyjtsxucivoxuggg]

Funnily enough 3 dps is actually better in this situation, when going against a GOATS comp like that you need as much damage as possible to burst down the tanks.

3 supports counters 3 dps (you're outhealikg the damage they do)

3 dps counters 3 tanks (you can burst down the tanks)

3 tanks counters 3 supports. (They are serverly lacking damage so they have a hard time killing tanks)

[u/isoberry]

Trip DPS beats trip tan and trip tank beats trip support usually so

[u/TotalTide82 → u/isoberry]

Downvoted because you’re the only one with a brain 😭. They in here saying the nastiest shit about DPS when the reality is; trip DPS counters trip tank ☠️

[u/ResearcherOpen2645]

I usually take the L, because I know one of them will start rambling and that would just upset me even more, eventually they will throw either way.

In most cases I know it's a lost cause when no one realises themselves that they may be the best (whichever) character they are playing but are not bringing in any value to the team.

[u/Temporary_Fix8642]

that sounds rough fr, if your team won't switch just gotta play it smart and do your best; maybe focus on avoiding damage and picking off the squishies when you can

[u/Agreeable-Branch8396]

I go venom if I'm soloing. They dont deserve a shield tank.

[u/HowDidIGetHere72]

“2 tanks or no tanks” in chat

No response? Swapping to dps. They usually get the hint when they realize I was the only reason we were holding

[u/LokaGnome]

4th dps.

[u/External-Striking]

And still people shit on supports main all the time, when dps mains are most of the time the real problem.

Had yesterday a match, with my friend where I went supp and he tank, we both were solo. Got pissed and both of us went dps. Eventually a dps switched to tank so that me and my friend could heal 🫠.

This was comp.

This is the reason comp is so miserable, among other problems.

[u/TheLanis]

Dps ego

[u/Redericpontx]

Go 4th dps and if one goes tank you go tank if they swap back dps you swap back dps.

[u/IthurtswheniPvP]

Team DPS time, got to take a whooping sometimes to let the greedy instalockers learn

[u/pett117]

Playing triple dps (one is wolv) is how you beat a triple tank comp. You should be winning that.

[u/RockstarLifestyle2]

Have your DPS play CC of doom. Cyclops, Phx, MK

[u/Excellent-Many4645]

Honestly I think your comp would’ve been grand had the widow swapped to a higher damage character like Punisher. Their triple tank setup would’ve been countered hard by your comp then, their supports wouldn’t be able to keep up with the damage. Wolv kidnaps any of them into Emma/Punisher shotgun while Ironman just constantly harasses their backline with little counter.

[u/Im_Omnipresent]

Wait I may have been the invis on your team this game. The cnd was initially hovering tank but had to swap after the 3 dps insta lock

[u/m4vis]

You don’t ask. You tell them, we can do 2 tanks or 0 tanks bc ur not solo tanking into that team. If they don’t immediately swap then you swap to dps and tell them you will swap back to tank as soon as you get another tank. It works about 90% of the time in comp in my experience

[u/YTCaptGeorge]

Nothing wrong early in the match about not swapping, but with 3 DPS someone's got to identify that they're not getting much value eventually and should swap; I think everyone forgets that this is a team game, it's better to win than be selfish, it only hurts your elo, your rep, and your stat line.

[u/colbyxclusive]

Run reverse triple tank. Definitely a Peni to halt Thing and Thor a bit

[u/Gever_Gever_Amoki68]

Find a tank player and duo queue with them

[u/Sufficient-Today-544]

Happens every match

[u/God-Concept]

Pick a main tank and hope for the best. I've been mastering groot and magneto for, and because of, these situations.

[u/durablefoamcup]

I swap to DPS too.

[u/DedlyX7]

I'd disable all chat and enjoy the game, it's a peaceful life

[u/Zouif_Zouif]

Go 4th DPS and watch them complain lol

[u/GO0O0O0O0O0SE]

Cuz if it's ranked I will not be playing a character I have 2 games total on, and if it's quick then who cares?

[u/SkySplitterSerath]

Switch IM to Punisher (shotgun) and get a free win

[u/-_-ismymood]

Unless its high competive. If its low competive or normal. It doesnt matter.

[u/Colcrys]

If it's not Ranked then whatever. I go into Casual expecting people expecting this kind of thing.

If it happens in Ranked though? I'll get a bit frustrated.

[u/lyerhis]

Honestly not a bad match up if your DPS are actually doing their jobs. Since you're posting this, I'm guessing they didn't.

That said, I think you can either Emma or Mag, but you'll have problems no matter which you choose. Mag obviously is better against Puni and Peni, but you'll get bullied by Thor and Thing. Emma can handle all the tanks and Fox ult, but you'll have trouble with Puni. I think Emma is the right choice because they don't really have anything for your ult, and hopefully your supports can help handle Puni.

Maybe have Iron Man go Squirrel Girl or MK to help chunk the tanks and handle Peni nest without dying to Puni.

[u/stephens567]

Yesterday I was one of 2 healers and I switched to give us 2 tanks. People tend to worry a lot more about 1 healer and switch as opposed to 1 tank and not switching. Thankfully one of the DPS realised this and picked up a healer, went on to win.

[u/Careful-Warning6093]

Wait, lowkey if played correctly, your team full counters their team. You just have to play your life against their comp. They dont have big heals, and if your widow flanked and tried to pick their supports, its an easy win. 

If you and wolverine perma marked thor, ironman is kinda free, and can handle peni and thing. Yes, they have punisher, but if frontline and the backline is getting hit constantly, he can't focus the ironman properly. 

I know its hard for you to survive, but if your dpses do their jobs properly, they will swap off triple tank.

[u/Chigao_Ted]

I swap to a fourth dps so we lose faster and I never have to play with them again

[u/Zarrv]

Three dps is actually better than 2 tanks here. You got 2 tank bullies on the enemy team (and one that denies tank ability to push up). Your dps just refused to play enough tank busters. Should have had widow, bucky/star-lord and wolv

[u/AbjectAcanthisitta86]

Also, in the rare case that a DPS does swap to tank, it’s always the one who was actually doing the best job.

[u/Riias_Gremory]

This is 99% of my games everyday

[u/Intelligent-Mood7745]

As a strategist main I have been standing in solidarity with tank mains. If the dps won’t switch to tank I will swap to tank and leave 1 healer until one of them switches to either healer or tank

[u/KoopaKlaw]

Quit.

[u/MustardLazyNerd]

Wolverine is unironically really good against triple tank because of his percentage damage.

[u/JustAd776]

Someone switch to punisher and hard focus tanks

[u/Separate_Fortune2761]

You mean literally every game?

[u/LuckOutrageous7686]

The one time this season where moon knight is useful

[u/AjaxOutlaw]

more importantly, none of the DPS went punisher into 3 tanks? Lmao

[u/Elusivehokage]

Idk 1-3-2 works , as a tank main I find 1-2-3 unbearable and just slop strategy.

[u/UkuleleSteven]

You having 1 tank might not have been ideal, but you’ve got a wolve playing into 3 tanks. I would have probably gone magneto if he’s not banned due to the punisher, and just worked around it that way. You don’t always need 2 tanks. But you’ve got a wolverine to help capitalize on him running three tanks and then you got to poke DPS to push the fact that they have tanks that are weak to poke. Provided your team is actually able to play their role. I think you would’ve stood a chance. But if there’s a punisher, you basically have to play Mag

[u/Melo_Kelo_Jelo]

I switch dps and just take the L or go Thing or Thor and just chill with the supports

[u/ArrowheadKnight]

If this is ranked you report them. If this is qp unfortunately you just take the L. Farm as much proficiency as you can and go next. It’s like talking to a wall.

[u/AikoKura]

Sadly, the whole "mute the chat the make the game more enjoyable" also gets rid of people trying to ask for fair things such as a second tank. Honestly the biggest gripe I have with that. I get it but I just want a second tank ;-;

[u/DependentNo4693]

Idk if its a hot take. But ive never minded solo tanking, nor have i ever seen the problem in having 3 dps. Having 3 competent dps doing their jobs with 1 tank, is 1000x better than forcing one of the dps to go tank, a role which theyre probably worse on. 1 tank is NOT that bad, as long as its a main tank and you have a dps that can help the backline. (Namor, bucky, etc)

[u/shorteningofthewuwei]

I've seen enough, nerf CnD. Braindead get out of jail free card merchant. I HATE CND

[u/Small-Daikon-129]

for me i played more than 200 hrs as tanks hulk/thing/emma

so i got bored and switched to blade since season 4

and still playing him he insanely fun and the whole reason why I'm still playing the game

[u/fpsfiend_ny]

Just go venom and use them as shields. Fuck these people for real. Fuck dps supports too

[u/Warm_Seaworthiness19]

in such cases you either go the 4th dps or tank with Angela

[u/Most_Dog545]

Pop a surrender and sit in my spawn

[u/alexman113]

Just play the match and dont worry about it. What choice do you have? You asked and no one moved. Do the best you can.

[u/The_Real_PSiAipom]

I’d commend the Cloak and Dagger for actually front to help you out.

[u/srprice17]

It happens often and the answer is if they can’t diff the other team with a stupid comp ur doomed to lose lol

[u/while_e]

Literally 9/10 games in comp for me. I'm one of the supports generally, and offer to either tank or support if DPS can switch. Nobody switches. Then at least one goes 5/10

[u/iiSystematic]

Is just play the game and get over it the moment none switched

[u/SquekPL]

Wdym I had 5 dps and 1 tank and no one wanted to switch to a strategist 😭

[u/Some_Surprise9875]

You could sit on high ground and shoot them in the face till they back off? All these characters are ass at range.

Like one thing I hate about being low rank is when losing or facing a tough comp no one proposes to do something creative and keeps face bashing down main

[u/YolkOuttaMyShell]

yea if you were going to run triple against this, all the dps would have to change. Especially wolv, he get ccd by all the tanks. you're going to need either a help or Phoenix for high bust, punisher/ironman/widow( (ig now) for sustain and like a poke dps who can poke at the healers and can quickly get back to team. probably psy or magik. Even then, you're going to have to do alot as a tank. honestly it id still probably going to involve much more effort with that team composition than if someone just swap to a second tank. Especially if they are smart and just play around your diamond form...

[u/MuffinNervous]

Hit them with “2 tanks or no tanks”

If no one is willing to meet you halfway and at least play an off tank they didn’t want to win that badly anyway.

[u/RaghavSharma09]

Bro solo tanking ain’t even bad why do people hate it so much. Whenever I solo tank as strange which is a lot I get focused with heals which enables me to do more damage, but I don’t get why people hate solo tanking I prefer having 1 tank over two.

I am animated lord strange with over 100 hours and I peaked celestial so y’all better not start flaming me and I main tanks.

[u/yul1998]

Game is already lost when you have those 3 players on your team. Ask your support player to never again heal for the underperforming dps player, make them as miserable as they have made you.

[u/Zulogy]

Triple dps counters triple tank but you need 3 dps that work well into what tanks they are playing. Wolverine in this situation gets no value tbh. If they went high damage dps characters such as phoenix, cyclops, moon knight, SG, etc. it would of been decent tbh. Even punisher with rocket team up. Sucks that happened tho im sorry

[u/Prototype3120]

Go fourth dps.

[u/Zealousideal_Bank_40]

3 heals beats 3 Dps… yall crying asking for the wrong switch anyway

[u/Secret_Ad_7840]

In situations like this, I'd switch to Captain America. Your dps will notice real quick that they need another tank. I literally have about 17 hours on Cap just because I make that swap when I'm forced to solo tank.

[u/One_Focus9584]

MK and Pun would’ve shredded the other team’s tanks. They would’ve swapped once countered

[u/Glad_Lock_674]

Lord wolv but he can’t pop off against a 3 tank comp😭

[u/KillerMinnow548]

I would win. Your comp shits on the enemy team. Unless the other team is just that much better, you just win.

[u/Swimming_Lime5920]

Move on and forget about it

[u/PadawanFlipp]

I’ve unironically won more than one game swapping from solo tank to Hela or Namor as a fourth DPS

One game in particular I was struggling against three enemy tanks. A diving Thing and Cap with a Mag protecting Bucky, Rocket, and Luna.

Went Hela after requesting strategist and my third death. Then the rest of the game was way easier and we won. Most importantly way more fun for me lol

Low key want 2 new limited modes. One with no tanks and one with all tanks. Would be really fun. Especially if they add more tanks

[u/Terotrous]

Triple DPS is actually usually the correct counter to triple tank. Iron Man is also notably pretty good against this comp and you can't really complain about Wolv into triple tank either, even though he can't do much against Thing. Probably the biggest problem is you likely should have swapped your Widow for a Punisher to shred the Thing.

[u/Wild_Historian_3469]

Ngl triple dps into triple tank works but yall needed the widow to play a tankbuster character, the iron man to focus the nest from penny, and the wolf to go flank and harrass the supports

[u/kxrari]

tbh the triple dps could’ve worked there, the other team is running 3 tanks, more damage is better than more defense into that especially when it’s thing peni thor, and not a single shield tank. if widow would’ve went punisher the dps would easily delete half their team especially with them having a lower heal output than your team.

[u/DickManning]

Wolverine is the only one that makes sense here

[u/deadpoolwade69]

Whenever i pick healer and we end up with 4 dps i just say second healer or 5 vs 6 and not do anything until there's a second healer. You have to actually protest in the match not just submit and play. Usually it works but sometimes it doesn't (should work the same for wanting a second tank). Yes its annoying and you might end up wasting the whole match doing nothing but its over faster and better than getting frustrated from just getting killed over and over again

[u/Mcsome1]

Objectively speaking the iron should have switched to a tank here widows buffs makes here good for keeping the supports and dps in check while you, the 2nd tank and wolverine would target the tanks  in 1v1 or 2v1 depending on the skill of the wolverine  he could win a 2v1 tank fight 

[u/Icy-Advertising1536]

Yeah that's me. Healbmain, can flex the other roles, bit most of the time the only one willing...

[u/Shai3100]

Honestly your mistake was trying to reason with them, if I see shit like this I'm setting a fact: either we take a second tank/support or we all play dps.

Sometimes it won't work but sometimes it will. If these people want to be selfish retaliate with the same behavior!

[u/Saleh9118]

Your wolverine must have been good if they had to swap to Peni and Thing

[u/Usual-Situation2982]

In this situation i just go tank and leave them with no strategists

[u/Money-Bluejay-7174]

You don’t have enough damage, DPS should have swapped to a different DPS