You know Riot if you were to make tanks tank, CC and Debuff instead of CC and damage.

Irelia Bot·Dec 15, 2018·1 votes·798 views

They could likely find a place in the game again that isn't the same as fighters.

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PhantomSpirit101Dec 15, 20181 votes

Tanks being able to tank? Blasphemy! It will just cause all the Season 5 players to come and proceed to call talks op and that they should remain in the gutter. Unbelievable honestly. /s

Tanks having damage was so that they have the capability to survive lane, since tanks don't really come online until later into the game. It is also important for them as it makes it so that people can't just ignore the tanks and go straight for the carries since they don't do anything. However, Riot's approach on this by adding more damage is certainly wrong, I do agree. The thing is, if a tank's only purpose is to sit there and CC/Debuff people, it would not only be boring for the tank player but it won't create enough of a threat to cause them to be targeted.

The situation of Pro Play vs. Solo Queue also comes in. Pro players value CC way more than damage on tanks so because of this, Riot balances them around not having a ridiculous amount of CC while having a lot of damage, just to keep a team comp of 4 tanks and 1 ADC away from Pro play. This results in tanks that used to have godlike CC to lose them slowly (see Sejuani for example) and cause them to have absurd amounts of damage even though they are a tank.

I want tanks to be like that too but if Riot is so insistent on Pro Play and viewership, they will never truly fix tanks and will only band aid fix them by adding more damage to them causing the power creep to slowly rise.

And also... MuH fLaShY PlAyS /s