Can Resolve reward going tanky rather than giving innate tankiness?

AbyssmalHydra·7/7/2018, 9:11:56 PM·2 votes·1,190 views

Its just so lame to be top lane and see resolve primary or secondary no matter what the champion is, because the tree is so overpowered its literally killing the fun from the game, Doran's Shield + Second wind makes any poke damn near pointless, especially if you're a champion with innate sustain already. And Chrysalis* (edit) does nothing but give lane a statcheck advantage, every champ has almost 200 hp in effective HP in the early levels just because of that path, and there is almost NO VARIATION, its pretty much always Bone Plating + Chrys/Second Wind.

Its either you take it or you don't, and if you don't you'll likely lose to someone who does have it, and it just sucks.

16 Comments

koochario7/7/2018, 10:41:42 PM2 votes

In a way, it already does. HP synergizes with resists. Blocking damage also is more effective with resists etc.

Paroe7/7/2018, 9:17:03 PM1 votes

How would you do that when tanks are a generalized class based on itemization?

You could reward resistances by having threshholds... But the optimal tank build is also the optimal bruiser build. You could reward HP stacking... But a briuiser is 90%HP.

IMO the way you do it is by making actual tank items 50% less effective on bruisers, unless they itemize specifically for it. Like... buff tank HP by 500 across the board and nerf bruiser HP by ~200 or ~300. That way you can add threshholds for tank item effectiveness, forcing bruisers into fighter items (item 3156 item 3026 ) and bruiser items (item 3748 item 3071 ).

Also nerf the HP on both titanic and cleaver to 300.

TSM Weapon7/7/2018, 9:17:27 PM1 votes

I agree with your points but that was always a problem with the mastery system. There are just always gonna be some runes that are better generalist runes than others.

remakoro7/7/2018, 11:42:16 PM1 votes

I was even tankier in previous seasons but then i took rework to rune system.

ZephyrDrake7/7/2018, 11:47:56 PM1 votes

so... defensive stats are garbage yet something that gives primarily those stats is "OP"... ok I guess