I was having an arguement with my friend about whether or not tahm was a good support, and one of his arguements was that tahm was the tankiest champ in the game. Personally, i think there's someone else who must be tankier. So, which champion is the tankiest in the game>?
Penns26 votes
with 
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Big Lincoln4 votes xd
MunchCrunchLunch1 votes
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Sasogwa16 votes
Who else can brag about surviving 5 seconds lategame?
EvanThomas4 votes5 seconds at 1 hp, even
LankPants13 votesIt's easily Alistar. His R gives him an absurd amount of DR, no other champ even comes close to 70% DR. Just to give some idea of how good that is at 200 armour 70% DR is worth the equivalent of 710 extra armour that can't be penned through by anything but true damage. Also due to the way that armour and DR interact as you buy more armour the DR becomes worth more equivalent armour, for example at 300 it's worth 933 armour equivalent.
When you consider that the next best is either Braum with 40% DR or Rammus with 120 armour/MR Alistar is just miles ahead of them.
junglerboy161 votesIf you're facing an AD heavy team then Maplhite is close to the top as well because of his absurd % armor bonus and passive shield, which makes any defensive item he gains exponentially stronger since it multiplies both stats very effectively.
Also, Cho'gath with his new ult can become far tankier than you'd imagine possible and scales indefinitely. I've seen people top out well above 10,000 HP, with enough resists to match. Only Vayne can deal with that within reason.
(once the changes go through at least) 
(again once changes hit) 
are all incredibly strong contenders for that title because of either damage reduction, in-combat self healing (sorry Garen), shields, resist steroids, or a combination of those. I'd actually argue that Alistar doesn't really count because his ult is the only thing that makes him comparable to the others here, while they get almost the same tier of durability on a combination of passives or basic abilities
Melledoneus2 votesShen has lower than average base stats, so he's on the lower end of the spectrum.
Cho'gath is arguably the most tanky.
Lord Galvatron4 votesTechnically Sion is the "tankiest" tank because he has potentially infinite HP.
Sasogwa4 votes[{quoted}](name=Lord Galvatron,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=0AErHKXc,comment-id=0011,timestamp=2017-04-29T17:17:05.713+0000)
Technically Sion is the "tankiest" tank because he has potentially infinite HP.
I'd argue 
with infinite scaling armor would be better.
Lord Galvatron1 votesIt doesn't have infinite scaling. I believe the soul cap on Thresh is 255.
Meep Man2 votesNo, it infinitely scales. The counter just stops ticking at 255 I believe due to coding.
Lord Galvatron2 votesNo, it infinitely scales. The counter just stops ticking at 255 I believe due to coding.
"The maximum amount of souls Thresh can collect is 999,999, granting him 749,999 bonus ability power and 749,999 bonus armor (99.99% damage reduction, reduced to 99.98% when hit by Last Whisper item.png Last Whisper)"
http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Thresh
Sion's and Cho's HP passives are uncapped code wise.
Sasogwa6 votes[{quoted}](name=Lord Galvatron,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=0AErHKXc,comment-id=001100000000,timestamp=2017-04-29T17:53:37.594+0000)
It doesn't have infinite scaling. I believe the soul cap on Thresh is 255.
It's just coded in a way that it works by packs of 255.
http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Thresh
Thresh gains the Soul Gluttony buff and resets Damnation's counter every time he collects 255 souls. The maximum amount of souls Thresh can collect is 999,999, granting him 749,999 bonus ability power and 749,999 bonus armor (99.99% damage reduction, reduced to 99.98% when hit by Last Whisper item.png Last Whisper)
Lord Galvatron2 votes[{quoted}](name=Lord Galvatron,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=0AErHKXc,comment-id=00110000000000000000,timestamp=2017-04-29T18:47:42.872+0000)
"The maximum amount of souls Thresh can collect is 999,999, granting him 749,999 bonus ability power and 749,999 bonus armor (99.99% damage reduction, reduced to 99.98% when hit by Last Whisper item.png Last Whisper)"
http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Thresh
Sion's and Cho's HP passives are uncapped code wise.
It's just coded in a way that it works by packs of 255.
http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Thresh
Thresh gains the Soul Gluttony buff and resets Damnation's counter every time he collects 255 souls. The maximum amount of souls Thresh can collect is 999,999, granting him 749,999 bonus ability power and 749,999 bonus armor (99.99% damage reduction, reduced to 99.98% when hit by Last Whisper item.png Last Whisper)
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/259/943/694.png
Sasogwa1 votes[{quoted}](name=Lord Galvatron,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=0AErHKXc,comment-id=00110000000000010000,timestamp=2017-04-29T19:09:10.000+0000)
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/259/943/694.png
shit didn't see your latest post when I answered that xD
Lord Galvatron1 votesIt's ok, I was laughing more then I was angry :D
EcchiOtakuTM1 votesHis passive actually sucks because LW just eats through it. That's why he dropped in popularity from pro play, cause LW negated his one advantage over all supports.
The ability to still have high armor while under leveled making him not disadvantaged like every other support in the game.
So while sion can get eaten by botrk eventually, it IS still AAs that have to do it unlike LW which even ability casters benefit from.
And I don't mean HARD sucks btw, I mean it's gotten a heavy hit just from the LW changes. He only has about 20 base armor, and only gets bonus armor.
Ralanr3 votes I'd argue for.
Cocho3 votes
let me see you try to take that monster down
Mannny3 votesNo champion is the tankiest. A video by Vandiril awhile back had full tank and duke it out and the fight would go on forever. Nothing is really the tankiest in the game, they would just sustain eachothers damage. It's about the CC they provide to their team which determines which is better, but tank-wise none of them really out-match one another.
BLACK REALM GOD2 votesdepends on your definition of tank. i explained this earlier in another post, but if you're talking about having lots of hp and armor then that's alistar.
meowwow72 votesit isn't that ali has a lot of armor it's that his ult at max rank gives 75% damage reduction for 6 seconds while also breaking any cc when he uses it
AwesomeGuyDj1 votes[{quoted}](name=BLACK REALM GOD,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=0AErHKXc,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2017-04-29T14:30:07.751+0000)
depends on your definition of tank. i explained this earlier in another post, but if you're talking about having lots of hp and armor then that's alistar.
I mean pure tankiness, just how much damage they can take. Like if you had all the tanks, and you had a full build adc try and kill each one of them, who would last the longest.
BLACK REALM GOD2 votesyou cant compare champions like that. the stats in this game are too varied. that's why you both have different opinions. to your friend raw hp might be what makes a tank. to you it might be something like spell shields and basic attacks. vayne for example is strong against pure hp builds. mundo has some amazing regeneration and his stats scale from HP so he can do damage while just building pure hp, but if he goes against vayne he's instantly wiped off the field. zac has regeneration and all of his ability scale from AP while being almost resourceless just like mundo.
you have to specify your scenario.
the best generalist tank is sion. the best damage mitigation tank is alistar. the best aura tank is amumu, the best distraction tank is singed. the best harassment tank is nautilus, the best damage soak tank is rammus, the best crowd control tank is blitzcrank, the best utility tank is maokai, the best offensive tank is leona, the best defensive tank is shen, the best anti-magic tank is galio, the best anti-physical tank is malphite, the best flanker tank is poppy, the best mobile fortress tank is sejuani, the best engage tank is zac, the best dueler tank is jarvan.
those are the only champions classified by riot as tanks in the client.
in the case of catfish breath - he's classified as a support. my opinion is that taric, braum, and rakan are better at tanking than kench. the reason being is that kench's bubble shield does not regenerate a large amount of HP or prevent damage for more than 2 seconds. more so his abilities do not scale with armor, magic resist, or HP. at least taric and braum scale with armor. i however cant remember if kench has an HP variable in one of his stats or not. i feel like he might.
regardless - due to the simple fact that kench is a support first and foremost he's going to automatically fall flat in the tanking aspect. though as a support that shields his allies with his own body he brings a lot to the table. if your friend means tahm is the most hp regenerating support then yes he's correct.
underscores2222 votesTahms autos used to scale with his max HP as a passive on his ult. I remember that getting changed, and I can't remember if it merely got reduced or was removed entirely.
Personally, I believe support is a position and not a role, so I would happily classify Braum and Tahm as tanks (just like Leona, who is a bot-lane support)
Khâmul2 votes 
Chembaron Yamada10 votesTwitch? What the????
A Bad Nasus12 votesThe new korean secret op 
now revealed.
Khâmul1 votestwitch can hold the longest,he just go camouflage and gtfo, best tanking is when you avoid huehuehue
Chembaron Yamada2 votesI call bullshit. Obviously Evelynn is the best tank out there then. :P
Khâmul3 votesnah,she can't tank because she has heels
Jerry SeinfeId2 votes 
atleast for a small amount of time.
Sir Fuzzi2 votesTahm possesses a unique 'burst tank,' where his grey health can effectively double his health if he's clever with the usage and enemies are unfortunate enough to focus him that consistently.
I've always stood by Leona-- defense stim, two stuns, good engage. Generally speaking, there will probably be more rules and exceptions than not, but I've never felt like Leona isn't at least a competent enough tank in her right.
But I mean in the same way, Graves is hella tanky versus AD these days, while AD also benefits from a lot of MR/dmg builds, so there's potential there. And he can better activate lifesteal and such. There's also Nautilus and Sion, with scaling health shields. Braum possesses very easily-accessed hard damage reduction, as does Warwick.
has always got exactly the kind of tankiness I need, though, and she's never lacking for other options besides 'not dying.'
Champion Skin1 votes is probably one of the most durable tank supports as long as he has his ult that is
E is incredibly powerful giving a shield which is at most 90% of his max health however it only last 3 seconds (so there is almost no way it will actually absorb that much damage)
And Tahm has a bunch of other problems like no immediate CC other then a single target slow and no AoE CC (which most other supports/tanks have) however his W is rather powerful but if he doesn't have any assassins/CC to deny it can lose a lot of it's power (since it also take the ally out of the fight in somewhat of a similar way to Zhonyas... Tahm can still move but the ally can't attack or cast abilities though some abilities still work like Swain ult, Rumble flamespitter and Aurelion Sol passive stars)
AlienPrimate2 votesThe argument for Tahm being the tankiest is that he can potentially have near double health in an all-in. Other than that he doesn't really get anything else defensively added to his kit. It depends on who you are fighting against on the enemy team as to who the tankiest champion would be. If against a heavy AD team it is probably Rammus or Malphite because they scale off of armor and can afford to strictly stack it. If against a lot of magic damage, Galio would be by far the tankiest being able to get massive amounts of % damage reduction from his W as well as a magic shield. As some others have stated, Tryndamere could potentially be the tankiest in some situations because of his ult. Against some champions like Vayne and Master Yi, it doesn't matter how much resistances you have which would put Tryndamere at the top for tankiness.
THE RlVER KlNG2 votesTahm is definitely one of the top three, alongside Alistar and probably Darius. New Sejuani and a Cho/Sion with Stoneplate probably are in there too.
SpookyNeedle2 votes
my main is the best tank in the game even with just a 
and 
xd
macromite2 votestahm actually has a pretty good claim, double healthbar and all.
deadlychuck2 votesGenerally due to the how well his W scales 9 / 11 / 13 / 15 / 17% maximum health.
Then combine it with a build including 
, you've got a 17% max HP shield every 10.8 seconds. With +35% bonus healing, and +10% bonus shielding.
If you're top just swap out w/ 
:D
Champion Skin1 votesTahm is for sure more durable with his E being a shield which is at most 90% of his max health (though it only last for 3 seconds) so in theory Tahm can take much more of a beating (reality maybe not so much)
FancyKiwi2 votes He has infinite health scaling
Mister Modesty2 votes
Let's say- HYPOTHETICALLY- a game lasts 5 hours.
Thresh would have consumed enough souls to give him well over 1K Armor.
Elisza Kitsune2 votes dont forget the stacking health passive ;PPP*[slayer-jinx-wink]*
TimX24968B1 votes5k HP sion best sion.
I just love going into urf and buying 6 warmogs, then looking at "damage recieved" after the game.
Meep Man1 votesTechnically:
or
In reality:
or although some could argue 
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Tahm isn't the tankiest champion in the game. In reality, he is probably tied with Alistar for the tankiest Support due to his E. Tahm is a DAMN GOOD Support though when played right, so I would say your friend is right to see that Tahm is a good Support.
Champion Skin1 votesTahm is lots of fun and can indeed be really powerful.... however Tahm support is also somewhat situational.... in that most of his power comes from his ally W allowing him to save allies from being picked up and protect the carries from being bursted/assassinated However it isn't very effective against DPS champions or AoE and it also has the weakness of preventing the ally from attacking or casting abilities which effectively removes the ally from the fight for a short while
Tahm also has the obvious weakness of only having a single target slow (though it is a pretty powerful slow) so he has no way of quickly interrupting enemies and his lack of AoE CC/utility can make his teamfighting a lot weaker then other supports
Though he does have surprisingly high single target damage (well not like he has any AoE) so if he goes for a somewhat selfish build he can be quite troublesome to deal with for immobile carries because of his high durability and repeated stuns and increased passive damage when he is able to get 3 stacks and stick to a target
crazy 11 years old sadistic Teddy bear lover possessing hot elemental powers gets 40% DR on her E. Her basic ability is better than Jax ULT.