Can I ask a couple of questions about melee bruiser/tanks, and their lack of viability?

hashinshin··6 votes·775 views

Why is the tank elixer the only elixer that gives no defensive nor offensive stats?

Why is mages taking over top considered fine, where if melee taking over mid (unlikely to ever happen) that would be considered a defcon 1 crisis?

Why is Lissandra more survivable than Sion?

Why did Sion get reworked practically to show "hey no more mobility creep!" then Kalista got released?

Why does Kalista have a knockup (ignores tenacity) and 20% health magic damage? Was perma kiting not strong enough against melee?

Why do tanks item cap 5-10 minutes faster than other champions?

Why did FH get reworked from a hardcore anti-carry item to a bargin bin discount item?

Why is red buff perma slow fine, but omen doing a measly 10% slow breaking the game?

Why did Warmogs/SV/BV get nerfed? Why did the very item released to ensure mages don't dominate tanks get nerfed so hard? (Spectre's cowl.)

Why do sustained damage burst kite poke healing mages exist if thornmail doesn't effect them? Are they just supposed to be immune to tanks? Why did Riot create another one?

Why is Thornmail a required item? Who has fun with thornmail? ADCs hate fighting thornmail, and tanks hate having their thornmail out healed.

Why does 30% lifesteal exist?

Why is BT back to 20% lifesteal if it was intentionally nerfed away from that in the past for making ADCs heal tanks?

Why doesn't riot balance ranged champions versus melee, instead of balancing range against other range?

Why can't riot balance mages versus tanks in top lane? Why must riot always nerf mages that can go top lane instead of giving an actual reason to prefer a tank on your team?

4 Comments

TehNACHO1 votes

At the first point, to be fair, it's an elixir that's placed between two different roles - Fighters and Tanks. Fighters want to optimize for their effective time on the battle field, Tanks want to optimize for utility. It's hard to have both of these elements and extra tanky stats on an item only worth 400 gold, even if the gold value is skewed by nature of being an Elixir.

Tik1151 votes

Because Riot doesn't care about immobile Melees and bow to their ADC overlords

Jambat1 votes

I'd like to see answers to these.

WooBeeWoo1 votes

The new Sion is a god dam joke. Idk if higher elo than me can make him work but whenever I see him I laugh he's like a kid being bullied and when he trys to run at you a tackle you you just sidestep and he slams his fucking face into a wall. like his ult blows except as an escape, his abilites are easy as shit to cc cancel and with certain cc you just beat him up while he wanders around trying to get an aa off or two.

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