The Current Issue With League Of Legends.

Rainfall·Jun 17, 2017·1 votes·176 views

Most Impactful roles:Marksman,Jungle. Impactful Roles:Mid,Support. Impactless Roles:Top. The only toplane champions who are currently relevant in the game are either full ad or full ap. The tank update has crippled toplane leaving tanks and more generaly champions who build defensive items only viable in the jungle. I wish i could see the logic behind riot's actions but i cannot. Sunfirecape the most important item in every tank's build is now worthless. out of the entire defence item pool a mere 20% of the items are worth buying,since by buying a defensive item you're crippling your champion's late game.(cheap items-crap stats).

3 Comments

AbiwonKenabiJun 17, 20173 votes

I think it's the exact opposite actually. If your team wants a tank, it's most likely going to go top lane. Tanks are fairly weak in the jungle right now with the sole exception of Zac and maybe Gragas. Warwick or Lee are somewhat tanky, and other strong junglers are like Kha'Zix and Elise.

Meanwhile, the likes of Shen, Kled, Renekton, Jarvan are all being seen top lane. Even Gragas is run top more than jungle lately.

EDIT: Also, have you tried Gargoyle's Stoneplate? It's pretty strong against both magic and attack damage.

AnagsJun 17, 20171 votes

Kled, Renekton aren't tanks. J4 can build tank but also full AD and normally more bruiser.

You pretty much just proved what the OP was saying without realizing it. Gragas and Shen are just kind of meh. Galio would have been the other but he was just nerfed.

AbiwonKenabiJun 17, 20171 votes

I mean, I guess Kled and Renek aren't traditional tanks, but traditional tanks are crap for the most part, with like you said, Galio being a standout exception and Zac, both of which were updated and somewhat broken vs actually being strong/balanced. But Zac will probably get nerfed soon too and Galio just got nerfed. Renekton and Kled serve way more as tanks than the likes of Graves, Kha'Zix and Elise's current mostly AP build. Really tanks in general just suck, and as of late when they're strong, they're usually broken and get nerfed into the ground.

Besides, OP's point was "top lane has no impact and tanky champions are only viable in the jungle right now." Which my statements don't support at all. If anything I'm mentioning a bunch of Champions that are currently impactful that run in the top lane. The tank update didn't cripple tanks, if anything it made it so more champions are building tanky, the item item 3193 Gargoyle Stoneplate in particular is great for tanks (probably too strong). Really only specifically Maokai got crippled. Every other even slightly tanky champ benefited, with obviously Zac benefiting the most (assuming whoever's playing him is decent).

Maybe we're just splitting hairs over whether the term "tanks" means "a champion who builds tanky and serves to soak damage" or specifically champs that have the "tank" tag in champ select. To me, if you have someone on your term who serves as a tank, you have a tank in that game. You and OP might go by Riot's sometimes stricter categories.