Role Rework Concept

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Tank is very unpopular. My queues for tank are almost instant but the other roles it's like 5 minutes plus.

What if instead of tank just being a role for "big punching bag" it meant instead just someone your team's strategy can be built around, so like Torbjorn as a "tank" (or whatever we would call this) wouldn't necessarily have way more health, he would just be building stuff everywhere. Maybe in this world the new role includes both traditional tanking for a hero like Rein but also a bucket of the weird stuff. Maybe Widowmaker becomes a hero you build around, etc. Maybe rather than tanks current passive, the new role can have a team passive based on the hero, maybe being on a team with Wrecking Ball makes you faster, or being paired with Widow reduces your falloff.

I realize this sounds somewhat insane however at the same time the juxtaposition of my tank queues to the other ones sorta suggests that the tank role is struggling to get even 20 percent of the players in a standard match, so maybe the current concept of the role is just leading to bad vibes.

Posted Dec 29, 2025, 7:47 PM UTC

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