Unpopular Opinion: Tank items on squishes are fine...

GigglesO··5 votes·1,480 views

Lets be real here, almost all of my ideas are unpopular. That and it makes for pretty good downvote farming.

Anyways, for the subject matter I actually think its fine and the game was healthier when squishes build defense items. Sure assassins weren't as effective at 100-0ing people but that was fine too. It was all a trade off.

We used to have a small rotation between damage, and tank items where you felt like you could actually defend yourself (a little). Sure you weren't unkillable, and in some cases it was too much, but that wasn't necessarily the largest issue, some number returning to encourage building offence items were all that was needed. (sites tank ekko rework). Instead we had years of tank item nefs, changes, and even huge changes to the ad itemization all to avoid any negative aspects of squishies building tank items.

Sadly these changes have warped the game so much that we are right back to where we started where we have items like item 3046 item 3156 item 3139 item 3025 item 3040 item 3161 That have alot of defense with little drawbacks into purchasing them.

Lets just get back to what made league a popular game. A game where you choose trade offs.

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Death by Glamour2 votes

only one of those items is a "tank" item

GigglesO1 votes

Did I say they were tank items? I said we had alot of defense with little drawbacks (specifically to champions damage). Even item 3026 item 3053 item 3078 item 3157 item 3071 item 3165 item 3151 item 3102 have a significant amount of defense for the damage that they offer. Lets also not forget item 3091 was just changed in hopes to be significantly better in terms of offering both offence and defense.

I mean the list could even get longer. With item 3748 item 3812 (all lifesteal items really) item 3152 and whatnot.

Death by Glamour1 votes

Unpopular Opinion: Tank items on squishes are fine...

Tank items on squishes are fine...

Tank items

Tank

GigglesO1 votes

Yea, you must not have been here very long.

Adc's used to build, item 3143 item 3083 item 3065 item 3102 item 3026 item 3022 type items in their build.

They nerfed/changed those items so that adc's and other squishy champions wouldn't build them.

Now we instead just have high damage items with damage splashed in. Most items used to actually believe it or not just have defense or offence, not both. Thats why Atmas impailer was actually originally removed.

If you want to be a dick and misunderstand what I initially wrote that is fine, but you don't have to be an asshole about it. Honestly did you even read my post?

Instead we had years of tank item nefs, changes, and even huge changes to the ad itemization all to avoid any negative aspects of squishies building tank items.

Sadly these changes have warped the game so much that we are right back to where we started where we have items like

That was all refering to how we removed tank items just to give adc's the same access to defense items. It left a huge fucking void in tank itemization.

Soul Dealer1 votes

Agreed

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