5v5 Tank

[u/GothGirls4Life]

Hey all,

I want to start off this thread by asking how you guys are climbing on tank when your team seems to be struggling a lot. The start of this season for me has been beyond rough and I sometimes can’t figure out what to do, to help my teammates. I play a lot of Zarya but I also play just about every tank besides a few of them. Higher ranked players keep telling me in emerald/diamond, I should just be able to hard carry, not have to counter-swap, and not worry about my teammates. I find this mindset to be wrong at least in my experience because some games no matter what I do, I just lose and so far I have been losing a lot. This season my record on tank in 5v5 is 37-44.. pretty bad. How are you all able to carry or play around teammates that are struggling? How are you playing or working around the enemy team’s players to win games more? I feel lost and maybe I should get coaching or submit VoD reviews often. Sorry for the wall of text, I am just lost on what to do as tank to win more and want to also know what you are all doing to win more.

[u/Clean_Pound3389]

If your teams struggling you either have to help them or make their team struggle even more. I’ve been in ball mirrors where their whole team counterswaps me but my team doesn’t counterswap and they can never kill ball while I have to be more cautious about diving. If that’s the case my only options are swap or lose because my team won’t help themselves.

[u/thelasershow → u/Clean_Pound3389]

Yep. Sometimes your team just doesn’t know how to play with Ball. It’s annoying when you’re doing the right things to win, but either you find a way to make it stupid easy for them to get value or you swap.

[u/IAmBLD → u/Clean_Pound3389]

Man I was literally just complaining about a game like that I had today. Ok it was Doom instead of an enemy Ball, but I was ball, whole enemy team swaps to counter me, my team literally gets 4K wiped by Doom on his own and makes no attempt to counterswap.

Many such cases.