Tips on handling potential smurfs or people that troll in bronze tank
Hi, this is I guess a part 2 of the last time I posted in here a while back. For context I started playing in April of this year and since then I’ve been climbing out of bronze 3 support to Silver 4 and slowly climbing out of bronze in dps. However, it’s still a struggle on tank bronze 3 since I sometimes go up and then go back down. I got better at positioning, trying to push more and peaking on the tanks I’ve played in comp, but lately whenever I’m on tank sometimes I run into what I think are either smurfs or people that troll on the enemy team.
The most memorable one being this duo of a reoccurring tank support where the tank kept trying to spawn camp with the support on jetpack cat. The way I’ve tried to handle it is ignoring them and focus on the objective. However, I either get teams that either keep focusing on the Smurf duo and we end up losing if the whole enemy team joins in or some of us that tried to still push on the objective still lose due to just getting whooped.
I feel like I struggle in these type of situations a lot cause of how it kind of felt overwhelming at times having to fight off whatever enemy teammates were focused on the objective and not the duo smurfs. It also makes it frustrating on how with still struggling on tank, I couldn’t really do anything besides switching and hoping whatever I switched to works.
The tanks I normally play are mainly Dva, Domina and Orissa. I have played ramattra, mauga, and sigma sometimes in comp, but those were very situational. I don’t know if it’s cause since I’m used to flankers or mobile supports that maybe it’s just not clicking for tank for some reason. I like playing tank, but it just feels frustrating at times when getting a potential Smurf duo like this or even in non smurf incidents.
So the overall question is: how do you handle players that spawn camp that are either trolls or smurfs, etc and what’s mainly overall tips for trying to get out of bronze tank or any further tips for tanks I’ve tried playing?
Posted Jul 26, 2026, 11:46 PM UTC