AP On Tanks

EnigmaticMachine·1/24/2020, 5:29:19 AM·1 votes·752 views

When tanks start abusing the gold efficiency of AP Items like item 3285 item 3089 item 3135 item 3157item 3116 item 3100 item 1402 item 3165 item 3151 that shows there is a huge problem with AP items and with tanks having insane AP scaling. Everytime I see a Amumu Malphite Blitzcrank Zac Chogath Galio I just cringe because all of these champs are really good at abusing the items above when they should be playing as tanks. The fact that playing an ap burst/brusier is better than playing a tank build shows the broken nature of AP Itemization. Each AP item is at 100% or well above 100% gold efficiency which allows the ridiculous ap scaling of these tanks to get out of control. The only tank I know who cannot run AP is my main Shen This guy has a ridicoulous ap scaling on his ult but not so much on Q.

I know why Riot gave these tanks ap scaling. It is because baron grants ap after being slain and tanks are meant to be mid to late game champs, but Riot has ignored the fact that AP itemization has been getting increasingly more broken over the years with item 3089 anditem 3135 getting two separate buffs increasing their original percentage scalings from 30% to 40% without giving MR a buff as well. In fact Riot nerfed item 3211 to make it the worst item to purchase for gold efficiency.

Riot please remove or drastically reduce ap scaling and start gutting ap items or buff magic resist. Even if the tanks ap scaling was meant for baron it is being abused by poor design changes and balanced that you the company will not fix.

2 Comments

Zero Skill Tank1/24/2020, 10:57:26 AM1 votes

When tanks start abusing the gold efficiency of AP Items like that shows there is a huge problem with AP items and with tanks having insane AP scaling.

Not really, it only shows that tank items are complete garbage.

Each AP item is at 100% or well above 100% gold efficiency which allows the ridiculous ap scaling of these tanks to get out of control.

Gold efficiency is basically meaningless when talking about AP items, because it is derived from Amp Tome, which price was set higher then what it is really worth to prevent too easy item 3145 rush in the past (when rev gave spellvamp).

FatesDefiler1/24/2020, 2:23:38 PM1 votes

You're looking at a zero sum situation, I think. The reason You build AP on tanks is to keep yourself relevant in terms of threat potential. A pure tank build will just be ignored by the enemy team while they kill off your teammates.

The game's balanced where ADC's reach their 'lategame powerspike' after just 2 items and start 3 shotting people with auto's. Building tank items does almost nothing to stop the amount of damage present at all stages of the game. Tanks HAVE to build damage items because tank items, except for their utility, are mostly useless.