Suggestion to help tanks: Add CD reduction to the big three Armor/Health items

PapaGreg21·Dec 5, 2018·1 votes·868 views

A lot of tanks scale off health but are not a lot of great options for building armor and health and getting any cooldown reduction. For some reason all the MR and health items have CDR, but if you're a tank you need the armor a heck of a lot more than the MR because of the sustained damage champs can do to you. I would like to see Randuin's, Sunfire and Deadmans, or at least one of them get some CDR so that tanks can actually shoot for a good item early in the game. Especially tank junglers, who are going to build cinderhulk first and may not have a chance get that armor/health/cd until they buy a couple more items.

On a side note, I would also like to see any tanks appearing in an LCS game in season 9 being nerfed into the ground so that nobody ever plays them again because they don't generate enough BIG PLAYS.

7 Comments

The thigh guyDec 5, 20182 votes

Tank items are fine. It’s all the ways to ignore them that’s the issue. Seeing as how every champion has %max hp %missing hp, armor penetrating, mr penetrating, lethality boosting, %penetrating, true damage converting, armor shredding anus destroy 9000 in their kit, tank stats are just worthless.

PapaGreg21Dec 5, 20181 votes

I agree but there is no way that Riot is going to nerf all of those things so buffing tank items is the only reasonable hope for this season.

SwiftKitten88Dec 5, 20182 votes

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Tank items are fine. It’s all the ways to ignore them that’s the issue. Seeing as how every champion has %max hp %missing hp, armor penetrating, mr penetrating, lethality boosting, %penetrating, true damage converting, armor shredding anus destroy 9000 in their kit, tank stats are just worthless.

well as a person who plays almost exclusively AP champs.

unless your playing Cassiopeia Ryze or Azir or some kinda of dps AP champ... mr is VERY effective.

RagnaveilDec 5, 20182 votes

Or simply make some of the tank items grant % damage reduction, or flat damage reduction. One of the two would be fine.

AlzonDec 5, 20181 votes

The traditionally optimal item combo for tanks looking to soak as much damage as possible is item 3065 item 3110 item 3024

PapaGreg21Dec 5, 20181 votes

I agree. But for champs like Nautilus who have a shield that scales on health and rely heavily on abilities, you really miss not having that early health item and going for frozen heart instead. Plus, frozen heart gives no health for cinderhulk's passive either so it affects a lot of junglers negatively. Right now you HAVE to build frozen heart which I find is limiting and restrictive in building ideally for tanks (especially tank junglers that want the hp for cinderhulk).

AlzonDec 5, 20181 votes

Actually, he’s mathematically much better with an early FH than an HP item because the CDR lets him use his shield more, and the armor drastically improves the value of each point in the shield.