I feel like Defensive Masteries aren't for tanks

Dingding123·Feb 9, 2015·3 votes·413 views

The page seems more like a... well... a "special" helmet for fighters and carries that want to get offensive items more safely early game.

Seriously: 20 more armor and 10 more MR while you're in the middle of the enemy team isn't going to do much for you unless you're lacking armor and MR in the first place and the rest of what you do have is health and damage.

15% Tenacity will not do anything for you as a tank. No one will care if you are CC'ed for a shorter amount of time while your abilities are on cooldown - if nothing else you'll always get one rotation off before you die. Alternatively Mercury's Treads can be standard for you anyway.

Nothing about the page says "beefy people get beefier" in a cost-effective fashion. That's what I see.

3 Comments

TehNACHOFeb 9, 20151 votes

Like how 5% attack speed will make all the difference for ADCs.

Or how 3% lifesteal/spellvamp will break all supports.

Seriously, you are missing a lot of context here man.

ErockandrollFeb 9, 20151 votes

I'm not really sure whether Masteries should address the larger picture of Tanks. (considering Masteries themselves are pretty small boosts.)

The biggest Problem with tanks is that they need to get buffed without buffing the fighters/bruisers with them. And it may be possible to only do that from the tanks actual kit.

I could possibly see something benefiting by being surrounded by multiple enemies (which tank are suppose to do) And yet that could be abused by fighters and Bruisers as well.

lojicianFeb 10, 20151 votes

{quoted} The biggest Problem with tanks is that they need to get buffed without buffing the fighters/bruisers with them.

Not really. Fighters aren't good either. The only one that's competitively good is irelia. Otherwise liss, gnar, lulu, and co still faceroll the lane and still outscale. Vast majority of melees need huge lane buffs vs the current generation of power/cc/mobility creeped range.

Actually tanks are probably better than fighters atm with mao/sion/mundo getting used in korea.