Can one player have a separate tank rating and support rating?

Yes — that is what the Player Choices rating type does. Roles are a choice set on the leaderboard and each player carries an independent rating per role, used for display and for team balance.

Does the bot actually enforce one tank and two of each other role?

Yes, through balanced Unique Choice Matchmaking plus a Team Composition quota such as tank:1, damage:2, support:2. Both are configured from the Discord settings modals — they are deliberately not in the web form — and the counts must sum to the team size.

Can a group of friends queue together with role lock on?

No. Party Queue is only eligible when unique-choice matchmaking is off, because the two settings give conflicting instructions about team formation. The usual answer is a second, unlocked queue for stack nights.

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Overwatch 2 Custom Games, Scrims and Elo Leaderboards on Discord

A 1-2-2 role lock the queue actually enforces, and a separate rating for every role you play.

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The hard part of Overwatch customs is not measuring skill, it is composition. Ten people show up and seven of them want DPS, one will grudgingly tank, and the whole thing is resolved by whoever is willing to be unpopular in chat. Every community that has run customs for more than a month has a person whose actual job is that negotiation.

Sitting underneath it is a measurement problem that looks similar and is not. One ladder covering tanks, DPS and supports describes none of them well. Role is not a difficulty modifier you can subtract out — it is a different job with different inputs, and a player who is genuinely excellent on support and mediocre on DPS has one rating that is wrong in both directions.

Both problems have the same solution here, which is the thing worth knowing about this setup: Team Up handles them with one mechanism. Roles become a choice set on the leaderboard. Ratings are then tracked per role, and the queue is told to only assemble teams that satisfy a fixed role quota. Nobody negotiates the comp, because the queue will not produce an invalid one.

Setting up a Overwatch 2 leaderboard

The decisions that are specific to Overwatch 2. Everything else follows the general setup guide.

1
Make roles a choice set, then rate on it

Create a choice set on the leaderboard (dashboard → Option Sets) containing your roles — tank, damage, support — and set the leaderboard's rating type to Player Choices (Specific Format). Players pick a role when they queue and carry an independent rating for each one. This single decision is what makes an Overwatch ladder mean anything.
2
Enforce the comp with Unique Choice Matchmaking

In /settings → Matchmaking Rules, set Unique Choice Matchmaking to the Balanced variant of your role choice. The queue will then only form teams that draw one of each role — which is the enforcement mechanism, not a preference.
3
Set the quota to 1-2-2, because the default is not

Balanced mode defaults to one of each choice per team, which with three roles gives you a three-player team. For 5v5 you must set a Team Composition quota explicitly — tank:1, damage:2, support:2 — and the counts have to sum to your team size. This is the step people miss, and the symptom is a queue that never fills because it is waiting for a composition that cannot exist.
4
Party queue and role lock are mutually exclusive

Party Queue requires unique-choice matchmaking to be off — a pre-made group and a per-role quota are two different instructions about who ends up on which team, and the queue will not honour both. If your community wants stack nights, run them as a second queue with the role lock disabled rather than trying to make one queue do both.
5
Balance on the role rating, not the average

With Team Formation set to Balanced Teams, a player who queued support is balanced using their support rating rather than a blend their DPS games inflated. That is the payoff for the extra setup — per-role ratings are not a display detail, they change which teams the bot draws.

Commands you'll use

/queue_versus Create a versus queue or lobby launcher /record_match Record match results and update player ratings /leaderboard_config Configure Elo rating settings for leaderboards /mystats View your own player statistics (ephemeral — only you can see it)

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Overwatch 2 guides

Overwatch 2 Customs: The Role Queue Math That Decides Whether Your Lobby Fills

A role-locked custom lobby is a supply problem before it's a rating problem. Here's the arithmetic that decides your wait time, the 1-2-2 quota setting that silently stops a queue forming at all, and how per-role ratings change which teams get drawn.

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The Attribution Problem: Rating Individual Players in Team Games

A 5v5 win is one bit of information split five ways. How Elo assigns individual credit from a team result, why the naive even split is wrong, and what you can and can't fix with stats.

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