Another idea for a new tank item.

The thigh guy··1 votes·2,105 views

So. Most people know every class has one blatantly op item. Adcs have infinity edge Mages have Rabadons Bruisers have every item they build Assassins have duskblade Support kinda get shafted here. Tanks are also bent over in this regards.

I have never once said to myself “YES! I finally finished (insert any time item here), now I can have a big impact in the game. Yet every other role has one.

Now. It has to be good at helping them Survive, but also making the enemy team not want to ignore them. But we also don’t want to be giving tanks more damage.

So. Here is my proposal.

Stats and costs are irrelevant. Just throw some health on it and move on.

Unique passive Inspiration - all allies within x units of this character gain a constantly regenerating shield equal to (small %) of this units bonus health.

This gives teams that team fight around a tank a pretty nice boost to survivability, it stops supports from wanting to rush it due to the hp requirement, and makes the tank an actual threat with the sheer amount of defensive value he’s pumping into the team.

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BrightWîngs2 votes

imo item 3083 and item 3025 fit this (all though item 3025 is more often abused by carry champs now such as Ezreal Ekko and Nidalee ive seen )supports have item 3107 and item 3504 they are really strong items they may not seem that way the work of a tank or support is often unnoticed

The thigh guy1 votes

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imo item 3083 and item 3025 fit this (all though item 3025 is more often abused by carry champs now such as Ezreal Ekko and Nidalee ive seen )supports have item 3107 and item 3504 they are really strong items they may not seem that way the work of a tank or support is often unnoticed

Warmogs is trash. Same with ibg. Tanks can’t use them because tanks don’t get to actually have their resistance stats anymore.

BrightWîngs1 votes

I disagree as a tank player warmogs is what really makes me tanky. See the reason tanks are not that strong is because there so much pen and true damage item 3071 item 3035 item 3135 ect. So if I have a ton of resist and not HP its kinda pointless and the end result Im not that tanky but having a lot of HP makes every 1 resist that much stronger. Now am I saying its at all comparable to item 3031 or item 3078 those are really strong items but warmogs allows you to take a few hits and regen to full instead of being forced to back also allows you to stay on the map more.

but also what a lot of tank players do is take grasp instead of after shock unless you're someone who cant benefit too much from it such as DrMundo or Malphite

and they take bone plating instead of conditioning which often can give you free 30 armor and magic resist. which is pretty damn good imo

and I just flat out disagree that item 3025 is trash not really a great first item because then you have no HP to back it up but it is strong if it wasn't other champions wouldn't be abusing it.

The thigh guy1 votes

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I disagree as a tank player warmogs is what really makes me tanky. See the reason tanks are not that strong is because there so much pen and true damage item 3071 item 3035 item 3135 ect. So if I have a ton of resist and not HP its kinda pointless and the end result Im not that tanky but having a lot of HP makes every 1 resist that much stronger. Now am I saying its at all comparable to item 3031 or item 3078 those are really strong items but warmogs allows you to take a few hits and regen to full instead of being forced to back also allows you to stay on the map more.

but also what a lot of tank players do is take grasp instead of after shock unless you're someone who cant benefit too much from it such as DrMundo or Malphite

and they take bone plating instead of conditioning which often can give you free 30 armor and magic resist. which is pretty damn good imo

and I just flat out disagree that item 3025 is trash not really a great first item because then you have no HP to back it up but it is strong if it wasn't other champions wouldn't be abusing it.

And also as a tank player, I can say sitting on raw hp just means you are only healing the enemies more, cause they all have innate healing. So really you are hurting your team more than anything.

BrightWîngs1 votes

I didnt say just get raw HP but you are not a tank player you dont play tanks

The thigh guy1 votes

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I didnt say just get raw HP but you are not a tank player you dont play tanks

I don’t play tanks anymore because they feel like shit to play.

And you just argued that warmogs is a good item. It offers ONLY hp. And that’s the problem. You can’t afford to build and item with only hp.

But you know what. I’ll humor you.

Let’s say you build warmogs third item because the enemy team is a balance of ap and ad so you need armor and magic resistance.

Oh look at that. Because they also have to be assumed to have 3 items they all have their %pen items. Because they are all core items.

But you know what. Let’s go even easier on you.

The enemy team is all ad. So you can just stack armor right, get that juicy warmogs into ibg you were talking about?

*laughs in conquerer, item 3071 item 3035 *

Welp. There goes that plan.

BrightWîngs1 votes

So they are shreding your armor and doing true damage? what's good against that lol?

I'll give a hint it's not more resist.

If you have 400 armor and 2.5K HP you are going to get obliterated because they have pen for your armor and you have no HP to soak up damage. If you have 300 armor and 4.5K HP you might live long enough to do something.

I'm not saying rush warmogs or get is super early I'm saying get it once you got a little bit of resist to make it more valuable.

Having a ton of armor and low HP is bad HP is what makes that armor valuable just like Attack speed makes AD more valuable on an AD carry.

Just because an item isn't blatantly broken doesn't mean it's not good

You also do not play tanks I looked at your op.gg in all the seasons you have not once mained tanks you have played a little bit of enchanters brusiers and juggernauts unless this is not your main account in that case I apologize I'm just going with the information I am able to obtain.

Zezockary1 votes

If the item had values that made it relevant it would make the meta revolve around the characters that abuse it best. If it didn't have good values it would be outclassed by locket of the iron solari which fulfills a similar niche and feels good to use right.

But I might just be overly negative.

I think part of the problem is that there are different types of characters that need different types of items that we are calling all of tanks. There are initiators which try to pick someone out and survive the enemy team retaliating (Maokai, Malphite, Nunu), the vanguards which try to keep the enemy from doing that (Taric, Braum), and juggernauts, which are more or less fine right now.

Initiators could use a better first item version of Gargoyle stoneplate and Vanguards could use a better Locket or item 3025 .

(Were initiators called vanguards and vanguards something else? I am too tired right now to be typing stuff XD)

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