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A balance suggestion for the current meta

IS1d51f7fd0f8e2764617b0·12/17/2014, 5:15:14 PM·5 votes·871 views

As you all may know, tanks today are not what they have been, or what they should be.

I main one of the last true tanks, sejuani Sejuani and it is with great loss and grief i have seen all other tanks but her, maokai and alistar get reduced to paper bags for the almighty ranged carry's Tristana Jinx Twitch to poke at.

Tanking today usually feels unrewarding, and not very useful unless you have a ton of cc (hence why i play sejuani).

Lategame it simply does not matter if you have 400 armor and 4k hp, a good adc will still destroy you in a 1vs1, something that does not exist in other MOBAS (just go vs a fed pudge in DOTA2 and see what happens ...)

My suggestion simple, make item 3035 Last Whisper 50% less effective, and item 3135 void staff 25% less effective when wielded by a character with a ranged auto-attack.

That way we still reward the champions who has to go face first into combat to deal damage, and stop the ranged deathgods that currently exist from melting tanks in under 5 seconds.

Another thing i would LOVE is too see item 3170 Moonfair Spellblade implemented in summoners rift, it would boost the ap tanks and bruisers significantly!

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

9 Comments

Zyras Honey Pot12/17/2014, 5:52:18 PM6 votes

The problem is that Last Whisper and Void Staff should be situation specific items but because they give such a big power boost regardless of what the other team is building they're picked up 100% of the time.

There's a big difference between "Oh, the enemy ADC was forced to buy a last whisper because of our tank stacking so much defense" and "Oh, the enemy ADC just picked up their Last Whisper greatly increasing their damage to our tank and everyone else on our team by a significant margin"

TehNACHO12/17/2014, 6:44:55 PM4 votes

To be completely clear, we are talking about Utility Tanks/True tanks right?

I just want to get out of the way that "Tank" Renekton will not (and in my opinion should not) have nearly the tanking capabilities of Braum, Maokai, or Alistar, while at the same time lacking the utility of, say, Cho'Gath, Sejuani, or Nautilus. It kinda bugs me when people try to talk about fighters whenever a "tank" discussion appears.

Laughing Fish12/17/2014, 5:29:18 PM2 votes

I think Last Whisper and Void Staff should simply be more expensive. They are some of the most powerful items in the game, and should be priced as such.

Kuroi8612/17/2014, 10:19:08 PM1 votes

Lategame it simply does not matter if you have 400 armor and 4k hp, a good adc will still destroy you in a 1vs1, something that does not exist in other MOBAS

So a tank should be both unkillable and be able to out damage EVERY other champion on the map?

GG, welcome to the raid boss meta.