Thursday DE: Leeroy Jenkins

[bjornwilde]

In many video games, especially combat oriented ones, characters are split into three roles:

Tanks who can take a lot of damage and get the other team to attack them, thus freeing up the other players on their team.
Support who are the healers of the game who can often apply other bonuses to their team mates.
and Strikers who are the ones who do a lot of damage but can’t take many hits.

Which role would you put your character(s) in?

Also go tag the All Skate and get pie. 
 

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[numberthree]

Lady Marian - Striker
Jean Grey - Tank
Jo Harvelle - Striker
Sara Lance - Tank
XVII | Star - Support

Allison Hargreeves - ... literally controls reality. Just obliterates the game. || Prefers to be a Striker tho, cause she really has a visceral penchant for violence, martial arts, and face-punching she'd rather use first.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

I do like pie!

Bastion comes from a canon that has categories somewhat like this pre-applied, but I'd classify them as a tank in this system even though they're more of a striker/tank hybrid in their canon (which categorises them as a Damage character) because Overwatch only requires that damage/striker characters be less sturdy than the tanks, not fragile in an objective sense. They do a crapton of damage, but they also have a very high health cap for someone who's not officially a tank and can refill it pretty freely with their self-heal. Also they can literally turn into a miniature tank. (Overwatch 2 stripped them of almost all their tank-like game-mechanical elements, including Configuration: Tank itself, and I am salty about that.)

Wilson is Assigned Support By Canon, because during the Forge event his special talent was that he was the best at reviving dead teammates. He was often the healer in the first Forge because of this, which was reflected in the animated cinematic, although by the second Forge event he'd been overtaken in this role by Wickerbottom because her special talent is getting more heals per casting. At any rate, he knows his way around a healing staff.

Aradia also takes on a tank-ish role in canon, mainly when she had a lot of expendable doomed timeline doubles with tough robotic bodies but she could still pull it off with God Tier immortality.

Thurlow is a Striker, being more offense than healing-oriented but not great at absorbing damage.

Cirava is not great at physical combat (including psionically, thanks to their injury) or healing, but applying bonuses to teammates sounds like the kind of thing they could do, so Support.

Wormwood is a Striker. They're a competent fighter in their own right - you have to be, to survive the Constant - and could maybe bring along some plant-monster allies (that's how the mod that adds them into the Forge did it), but their glaring weakness to fire and difficulty healing quickly disqualify them from tankhood.

(All-Skate characters: Purple is a Striker, Yochelm's a Support/Striker hybrid.)

[canttrickmeanymore]

Peter: in the spandex, he's a Striker - he can do a lot of damage, but hits will get him; in the Iron Spider, he's a damned Tank-Striker combo

Harry: he puts himself in the Tank role, though he can be the Striker. As Winter Knight, he's a much BIGGER Tank and can eat a lot of hits before he needs to recharge

[angry_friendship_wolf]

As far as the Eight go in pitched Digimon battles, Yamato and Gabumon are v. much the team's designated Strikers -- Garurumon, WereGarurumon, and MetalGarurumon are fairly fragile compared to the rest of the team's 'mons (with maybe Togemon, Lilimon, and Tailmon being moreso), but they're also the fastest and they have the joint highest damage output.

In terms of just, like, a fistfight, Yamato's a Tank-Striker combo, because that's what Taichi is and the two of them have finely honed their capabilities for the purpose of hitting each other in the face.