Whats the point of playing a tanks when you can play a bruisers?

taleofsonata··3 votes·976 views

I've heard Hashinshin used to complain about bruiser getting bullied by Lane bullies champion like Pantheon, Teemo, Heimerdinger, but now I understand why fighters should have a harder time laning. Currently bruiser Have the same amount of damage as an Assassins and the same tankyness of a Tank. They have strong early games which makes them very hard to shutdown.

The core problem for them is the amount of damage denial tools they have at their disposal early.

  • Sustain
  • Broken boneplate
  • Corruption potion abuse
  • Low Mana cost
  • Lifesteal
  • Abusing item, Ninja Tabi, Mercury threads
  • Lifesteal + Tiamat -sterak gage

All of those together makes for an unmovable lane champion, I personally think something needs to be done about them The fact that the tryndamere can sit in lane and eat Teemo auto attacks and blind all day and still manage to kill teemo with lucky crits? Makes me want to Vomit.

Don't get me started on conqueror and the BS Wukong 1 shot. Duskblade compensation bs buff.

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Khristophoros1 votes

Hard engage

OtterlyLost1 votes

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Hard engage

Bruisers have that too... camille, Warwick, kled, gnar(though he is definitely undertuned right now with him being a victim of runes just not working well for him; he cant use a lot of them in mini form but there arent any that are good for mega either), hecarim, wukong, j4...

Honestly, OP had a lot of the same complaints about bruisers that I had when people were saying they were weak and crap; that they are a toxic concept that just flatly shouldn't exist... why should one class get the sustained damage of an ADC, the burst of an assassin, and the tankiness of a tank? What is the weakness to that, how do you deal with it?

d4rkshock1 votes

They are easily kited if they are juggernauts. Also divers late are basically suicide bombers. I can't tell you how many times I used my ult on vi and nobody followed up when I went for the enemy adc who was murdering the fuck out of us. also I don't particularly consider divers bruisers. You mentioned wukong??? Your playing him wrong. He's more of an assasin. In fact, he builds full lethality because tank wukong is trash. Pantheon also builds full lethality and is a diver and only goes tank items if the game hasn't ended yet. because lame scaling.

OtterlyLost1 votes

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They are easily kited if they are juggernauts. Also divers late are basically suicide bombers. I can't tell you how many times I used my ult on vi and nobody followed up when I went for the enemy adc who was murdering the fuck out of us. also I don't particularly consider divers bruisers. You mentioned wukong??? Your playing him wrong. He's more of an assasin. In fact, he builds full lethality because tank wukong is trash. Pantheon also builds full lethality and is a diver and only goes tank items if the game hasn't ended yet. because lame scaling.

There is more to the bruiser class than juggernauts and literally all of the champs I listed with hard engage have some kind of mobility spell. And of course you died on Vi. She's trash right now.

d4rkshock1 votes

This was in S7 during the assassin update when she was considered top teir. I don't play her anymore. I switched back to shyvana and I only play her in ranked. In normals, I try shit out.

d4rkshock1 votes

Tanksshave allot of cc. They can initiate teamfights. Juggernauts don't and get kited because no real mobility. Shyvana is the only exception for mobity. The others have movement speed abilites where that can get cc'd and that nullifies it. Theres a reason amumu is the teamfight champion. He has that huge aoe stun that nobody cares about it even if you land all 5 because of they did, they would honor you instead of that oriana that destoyed in lane but she couldn't have done it without you. Not saying it's a bad skill. I'm just saying it gets you no recognition. Pick juggernauts if you already have initiation or you one trick a specific champion that is one and if not pick a tank.

420 grams1 votes

You don't pick tanks to win top lane, you pick them to win the game. If you're just trying to win lane, go bruiser.

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