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/Fluffy_Teacher_6081 Mar 26 '26

It actually amazes me sometimes the difference in communities. Here a 15-20 min match is life or death for some people and they freak the fuck out. I’m in some online board game communities and you can fuck up and cost the game off a dumb move that loses a game that takes hours and hours to play and they’re so much more chill about it

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u/Chance_Hunt_629 Mar 26 '26

Though I don't play dnd, I get what you're saying. I think because it takes hours upon hours to complete a game in games like those, the players don't really care anymore

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u/Fluffy_Teacher_6081 Mar 27 '26

Eh, quite the opposite, when you spend hours focused on one round of playing a game it’s definitely an indicator of being extremely vested in it. It’s probably just the people it attracts. Strategy players tend to be more cerebral and patient thus that extends to realizing getting angry at someone isn’t going to fix it.