A better tank item that bruisers and mages can't abuse!

Forstedminiwheat·8/26/2019, 2:20:56 AM·2 votes·1,666 views

So everyone knows that tank items are kinda garbage right now so I was thinking of at least one possible way to buff them without letting a lot of bruisers and even mages abuse them. So my idea would be a new passive that would provide extra health or resistances if you're under a certain threshold of attack damage or ability power, this way carries wouldn't be able to get the full effects of the items while tanks would.

Say this passive is on an item with 400 HP and 60 Armor, If you have under 250 AD or AP you gain an extra 250 health or something like an extra 20-30 armor or MR. This would largely prevent champions like Irelia from using the item to it's fullest, but a tank like maokai or sion could use it much better.

I'd be willing to bet i'm not the first person to think of something like this, and I can already foresee problems with things like baron buff or even yummi giving stats, But this was just a thought I had that could potentially give tanks some tankiness back without making carries even better. Please tear it apart and tell me what's wrong with it, i'm genuinely curious to hear the things I didn't think of!

4 Comments

ThisName1sDumb8/26/2019, 4:35:39 AM1 votes

Hmm. Yeah, I guess that would serve the purpose of being good on tanks but not on bruisers or carries. I guess the question is, is it something tanks really need right now? It's tricky because some tanks are in a decent spot right now while others are pretty weak, but adding an item like this could put some pretty balanced tanks over the line. Idk, definitely an interesting idea though.

Juice8/26/2019, 11:35:16 AM1 votes

Tanks are OP and a role that is unfun to play or play against. Don't ever buff tanks leave them in dirt or turn them all into bruisers

DeathBurst8/26/2019, 11:39:32 AM1 votes

"So everyone knows..."

Everyone knows jack shit. Talk for yourself, not for all of us. I, for one, think Tank items are fine.

SithesisLord8/26/2019, 11:55:44 AM1 votes

Or just make their armor items scale with bonus armor (IBG, Cold Steel items, Thornmail, Sunfire) and their MR items scale with bonus MR.