Lets talk about tanks

Börky·Aug 3, 2017·2 votes·513 views

League is a game that has its distinctive roles. We have 3 lanes and one jungle. We have your usual AD carry with its support, we have the sneaky jungler, the bursty mid and the tanky top lane. All these roles create a team. But there is one role I want to specify and really talk about, the tanks, usually the top laner.

What is a tank? I don't mean the war machine with a cannon, I mean the role in the lovely game of League of Legends. The purpose of a tank is to take the damage like a mother's beating and to engage teamfights. Most of the time they take a long time to kill, but that's the point of their lives. Sometimes they can even create a divide in the enemy team during a team fight. Now let's talk about what a tank isn't supposed to be. A tank should not be immortal. A tank should not be able to deal more damage than the AD carry. A tank should not be able to have both previous points as stated before. There are way too many tanks in the game that can go super tanky and deal way too much damage than they're worth.

I can already hear someone telling me, " Come on you bimbo monkey, just kite him to death with your AD carry [zombie-brand-facepalm] ". While yes, that's what you're generally supposed to do [slayer-jinx-unamused] . Sadly the {insert role} just killed you because he closed the gap and the AD carry dies due to him being such a squishy role [zombie-brand-clap] . Now that you lost your AD carry, the team falls apart and tries to run away from the high speed, unkillable, high damage dealing tank. (some exceptions of AD carries can vary)

Here are some tanks that I think are way too overpowered:

Cho'gath Maokai Rammus Jarvan Malphite Garen Darius Warwick Nasus Renekton Sejuani

I know some of these tanks on the list are overpowered with whatever scaling type of ability/passive, but they're overpowered by it nonetheless, then again, this is a discussion from my own personal views and opinions so if i'm wrong about something or there is some way to counter this, I'd love some feedback.

8 Comments

meowwow7Aug 3, 20174 votes

out of the 11 you posted only 5 of them were fully tanks and from what i seen most people consider cho an ap juggernaut and the only time i've seen mao being "op" is when his enemies always face check brush

BörkyAug 3, 20171 votes

Doesnt only happen if you facecheck, but it's good feedback nonetheless, thanks for that :) also, Cho may be a juggernaut but if you haven't heard of the amount of true damage he can deal with his ult, I suggest you check it out

meowwow7Aug 3, 20171 votes

oh i've heard about it and keep him away from people when i see him glowing

Mecha MaIphiteAug 3, 20173 votes

Yeah, Darius is an OP tank. He builds full tank items like item 3071 and kills me anyway.

Ben SharpioAug 3, 20171 votes

dude when i see people pick that tank champion renekton, i think to myself WOW. HE'S SO OP ! And that other tank champion warwick? SO BROKEN!

SohleksAug 3, 20171 votes

With the amount of tank Renekton can get away with building and still be lethal thanks to fervor of balance and one half offense item the lines do start to blur. Yada yada CC. Role classifications. Who cares.

RalanrAug 3, 20172 votes

Honestly if your ADC is not getting the peel he needs then you have more problems than a dead ADC. If an ADC dies in one fight because of no peel then you can recover. If the ADC continually gets no peel, then it's practically a lost game no matter who or what is kill them.

And 7 of those champions are not tanks.

Critmaster GarenAug 4, 20172 votes

pls do some research into different champion classes and their specific strength and weaknesses.

as other people pointed out, most of the champions on that list arent tanks. theyre fighters. and fighters are a different type of carry, but still supposed to keep up in carry potential with marksmen.

especially juggernauts like darius, garen and nasus.