Tanks: almost useless after the spread use of CLS?

"leef;c-1234532" wrote:
considering that general kenobi is the 2nd most used character by players ranking #1 and top10, 3rd most used character used by players ranking top100 according to swgoh.gg's meta report, i'd say atleast one tank is far from useless.
I foresee healers becomming more usefull in the near future, but don't see tanks becomming utterly useless.

I hate GK

For DN there's the auto taunters, and for fracture you can use dual taunts, but CLS just makes an entire class of characters irrelevant. In fact, he also makes glass cannons and squishy support non-viable. He practically one shot a G11 Rex who only has 31k protection+health, and no tank can save him from CLS.

"Sirjam;c-1234539" wrote:
In my opinion making taunt an undispellable buff would help. Taunt at the moment is one of the most useless buffs in the game. Tanks would become alot more used.

would help with what exactly? Obviously making taunts undispellable would make taunts way better, but would it also benefit gameplay, or just makes taunts super anoying?
I personally prefer slightly less usefull taunts over undispellable taunts. We just had a "meta shift", finally the protect nihilus tactic is less effective (wich was taunt heavy i might add).

New function incoming

Undispellable taunt

Or they could start thinking outside the box and release some new tanking mechanics other than just taunt.
Unique- while tank X is alive all other team members receive 50% less damage.
Unique- while tank X is alive 30% of the damage taken by other team members gets transferred to him.

I switched to two tanks yesterday under CLS lead cause I am tired of falling to around 11-14 when I wake up. Woke up at 9 today. Any team can win on offense without a tank but defending is where it's at.

"Sirjam;c-1234539" wrote:
In my opinion making taunt an undispellable buff would help. Taunt at the moment is one of the most useless buffs in the game. Tanks would become alot more used.

Good idea and may work for most tanks, but would make Shore and SRP possibly Baze and GK abit OP.

May be it could be "undispellable" / "locked" for that units next turn or for 2 turns or something like that.

Has anyone tried OB?

He should re taunt, I have not tried this yet.

Tanks have been useless for a little bit longer than CLS. Thrawn, nihilus, sunfec, and boba really put them in their place.

The only saving grace they had was pretaunt, which just made them the primary target. CLS can go around that but so could boba before him, this is nothing new.

Tanks kind of died out when Lando & Wiggs rolled up. Massive AoE damage rendered them pointless. Personally, I see healers becoming far more viable (if not for Arena then certainly TB).

"Kyno;c-1234618" wrote:
Has anyone tried OB?

He should re taunt, I have not tried this yet.

Tanks have been useless for a little bit longer than CLS. Thrawn, nihilus, sunfec, and boba really put them in their place.

The only saving grace they had was pretaunt, which just made them the primary target. CLS can go around that but so could boba before him, this is nothing new.

In order for him to re taunt he needs to be able to taunt in the first place, and that is not likely granted his speed. Best use out of him is fake taunting with an r2 so he eats fracture and dies of. But literally anything with a lot of hp can be used just as effectively... even Zylo is as good of a tank as OB.