You know what tanks need to be meta again in high elo/pro play for Toplane?

Nevrankroaton·5/28/2019, 6:28:35 AM·3 votes·1,595 views

Just to preface, why we talking about high elo/pro play? Because people mostly copy them to know what is the most playable and you can always play tank in lower elo than that, as people don't play as well to punish the weakness of tank and people are way more prone to missplay.

No, it isn't ultra tankiness or nerfing damage to 1HP per auto-attack, it was never the true issue because you would always see the tank take the D. by the bully laner and soak it up. The problem of tanks is that they often have no priority in lane against them, and atm, we are in a meta where people discovered having prio on your laner enable you to set-up vision/clearing vision with the jungler and making huge roam like 3 man gank/dive top or 4 man gank/dive bot. We are also in a meta where early laning can't be easily soaked up by playing passive as turret plate allow the aggressive team to be rewarded outside of the kill.

So... Want to help tank? Allow them to be better at **waveclearing **(i am not talking about making it uninteractive like an anivia ult). It will allow them to have better counter to protect their turret plate and make it less easy to bully them.

It is okay to have some tank be good duelist (shen) or having strong sustain/tankiness early (sion or chogath) but the thing is that their pushing power is so weak and bully laner push easily better either by being ranged or just having better waveclear that they feel like a sitting duck. And you can't just play the "I accept to be passive because I am a TF character and early lead mean nothing" because turret play finally reward early aggression/dominance.

So yeah, allow tanks to push better (stronger dmg against minion, better AOE damage, just more base damage). Will avoid the board whining about them being push toward more damage to kill an ADC when fed, will avoid them being unkillable early by tankyness and making early aggression useless, will allow them to feel less shitty again bully laner. Overall a win/win.

3 Comments

sho ayane5/28/2019, 7:30:44 AM3 votes

im a poppy one trick, more base damage for tanks is a massive mistake, it will only make things worse. Although, i would love to read the angry threads by adc players afterwards