Tanks need/bruisers to be nerfed or all Assassins need a buff and also amor pen items

tremblink··1 votes·915 views

These days im seeing tanks in every lane and every role, they even ran Assassins from mid lane, being honest, how many of you can say that when u play a game of league the other team has at least 3 tanks? I remember in the past where people would say as long as u dont feed the Assassin then the game would go even. But now a fed tank.bruiser wins u the game because they soak up all your damage and probly do more damage than an adc and mid Assassin combined. All that damage when their only offensive item is item 3071 how does this even work. Galio for example I have seen played perfectly in every lane. Volibear no matter your build cannot die but kills u in an instant. In the past if an Assassin unleashed their full combo + Ult on a tank then about half their life is gone, which is understandable and fair cause its a tank. Also if the tanks unleashed their full combo the same would happen to the Assassin because the tank has no offense. But today if an Assassin with full build like Talon has item 3147 + item 3142 + item 3074 + item 3380 + item 3158 +item 3033 (bear in mind no defense but a lot of offense/damage) if talon has this build and a Volibear has item 3742 + item 3065 + item 3075 + item 3083 + item 3111 + item 1401 (bear in mind little/no offense/ad but a lot of defense). If Talon unleashes his combo + ult then vollybear looses 1/4 of his life(maybe less). Which is kinda acceptable(he should loose more) but none the less i'll accept that. But the funny thing is that if Volibear unleashes his combo + Ult then Talon is dead. Thats the part that buggs me. Talon and vollybear is just 1 example, but in general tanks/bruisers seem to do more damage than an adc. Just look at Sion Darius and Irelia late game they can 1 v 2 your 2 bot laners. Nasus and Garen are the only 2 tanks that seem balanced and sensible. Actually Nasus more because if you see him win a 1 v 3 or a 1 v 4 you know for a fact that its because he has 300+ stacks, so when you get killed from him you know why but all the others kill you before they even reach level 6 whereas Nasus have to bet at level 6 with 150+ stacks to be a threat. Not saying he needs a buff or nerf cause he's perfect as is and when he kills me and I look at his build and stacks im cool with it. But those other tanks are way off balanced. RIOT doesn't have to nerf them just bring back armor pen items and make those items actually penetrate armor instead of hitting me a 6 for a 9. And P.S item 3124 and item 3153 don't do piss shitt against a tank even in the hand of MasterYi

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Infernape5 votes

Well of course. Assassins cannot tank bust. They all buy flat pen and deal burst damage. Tanks nullify burst but are torn asunder by sustained DPS from typically ADCs or certain ap champs like Azir, Ryze and Cassiopeia.

The thing is Darius, Nasus and voli are not tanks. They are all juggernauts which belong to the fighter class of champions. A tank would be a champion like Shen or Nautilus.

Divine Winds2 votes

First of all, while Nasus and Garen and likewise tank damage, they are not tanks. Tanks are champions who are tanky, yes, but also have lots of peel/cc to disable the enemy team in a team fight. Think Ornn, Maokai, Sion. And Tanks, imo aren't even that bad rn. They aren't as oppressing as the s6 tank meta (where whichever team had 3 tanks won) since games are much faster now - take down gold, first turret, herald. What needs to be changed is the dependency on botlane, coming from an ad main, and team dependency (can't solo carry).

Divine Winds1 votes

Also, i'm not sure you've seen many yi's. They can easily take down a tank solo, but in general yi isn't even a team fight champion. He's much better of a skirmisher. We see him teamfight a lot because he's probably 14/0 and one shots the enemy team with q

DuskDaUmbreon1 votes

"Assassins need to be buffed"

Meanwhile, every assassin right now:

#SLAIN IN .27 SECONDS

Sure, bruisers need a nerf, and badly, but tanks are just fine.

And P.S [Rageblade] and [BorK] don't do piss shitt against a tank even in the hand of [Yi]

Lmao what. I've seen a Yi melt a tank in less than 3 seconds.


Also: Voli, Nasus, Darius, Garen, Irelia...They're not tanks. The first four are juggernauts (which are a subclass of bruiser). And Irelia is a diver/skirmisher, again, another subclass of bruiser.

You literally want to nerf and buff those 5 at the same time.

PhDs Nuts1 votes

I had over half HP as Malphite against a Master Yi, and we were both 5 items and one of his was a Randuins. I died in 3 autos due to his passive + rageblade + conqueror. No armor pen. Just melted by true damage.

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