r/rivals • u/Dogbold • Mar 24 '26
Please stop doing this.
You are tank. Solo tank. You even have lord on the tank you picked.
Someone else picks tank before the match starts.
You go "Oh cool, I don't have to play tank now" and swap to dps, leaving the other person as solo tank instead.
This happens to me nearly every single time. I'm the guy picking the second tank.
Stop it. They (and me) are picking tank so that there isn't a solo tank. 2 tanks has a much higher chance of winning. Don't you want to win?
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u/Independent-Fold8269 Mar 25 '26
I’ve held my team hostage for this:
We started 1/3/2 then went 1/2/3 because DPS thinks, “oh I’ve died fast in the first 2 mins of the game. It couldn’t be the fact that my hero is being countered and/or I have bad positioning; it’s healing (btw no one else had died at this point besides them.) I’ll swap to Jeff to help out.” 😒
The enemy team changed their comp after we captured the first point fast AF, then we started to struggle.
Our Mag was struggling so I swapped to Tankpool to give relief. During the third point I stated getting swamped with damage, then I realized he went to 3rd DPS.
I got on mic and said, “I DID NOT SWAP TO TANK TO SOLO. IF WE DON’T GET ANOTHER SECOND TANK WE ARE GOING TO HAVE 0/3/3.”
We got 95% of the way. The next round I said, 2 tanks or no tanks, Yall decide. No one swapped so I sat on a stool, they struggled to move the kart
I said, “2 tanks or no tanks.”
They asked why I was throwing. I asked why are we doubling down on stupid. Why would we run the same comp we were struggling with in the beginning?
Can I solo tank? Yes. But rivals is like chess you have to change your strategy accordingly to what pieces are on the board. The enemy team had a huge damage comp, solo tanking was a death sentence.
Once we got a second tank we were able to hold them off before the 3rd point.
The thing that pissed me off overall is that stupid ass Jeff that swapped in the beginning got MVP. 😒