Why do people complain about tanks and ad itemization?

vinnythetaco·Dec 25, 2014·1 votes·693 views

tanks and ads are what wins games. You have to be able to take down turrets towers and the nexus to win. adcs can kill turrets kill people kill jungle objectives all the while never needed to look at the little blue bar underneath their health and tanks can stand there faceroll to cc the enemy or stand and do nothing in front of the turret(doesn't help that riot doesn't just make turret do health % based damage) while ads do their work. Ap nontanks can only do roughly 2 things, kill enemies and some of them can waveclear decently well to really well. so items don't really matter all that much because everything an ad needs is geared towards winning the game while aps can only slowly crawl to victory by doing 2 damage to the turret per second.

3 Comments

SookoDec 25, 20144 votes

Tanks don't win games if their team is retarded, while an ADC might. Comparing the least viable role to the one that is worshipped in this meta is kind of... well... pointless.

Tanks take literally 2 bonus seconds to blow up IF they are really full tank, unless they have flat damage reduction and if you think getting close to a Kalista, Vayne or a Lucian is by any means faceroll, you are very wrong. Heck, even an Alistar will get ripped apart by a Vayne unless she positions terribly.

Were tanks the godly game winners you call them, you would see more Volibears and Shens top lane instead of Quinns, Vaynes and Ryzes, as well as glass cannon melee carries.

And don't even get me started on how Zed is capable of going Veigar (one-shotting) on tanks with a Last Whisper and a BotRK if they are below 50% HP

Kuroi86Dec 25, 20141 votes

Vayne is an intended tank buster though.

As for Zed, hmm, how fed are we talking? Like two levels and an item or two ahead?

disregardableDec 25, 20141 votes

This is why Lich Bane exists. Plus there are some champions that have enhanced Auto attacks Sona Ziggs Teemo , and Heimerdinger turrets can actually attack structures.