What to do when a team has no tank? [6.6] [Low Elo]

Profitex·4/8/2016, 3:00:44 PM·2 votes·1,069 views

I'm a low elo mid laner, and I notice that when I go into some games, whoever goes top always picks a non-tanky champion and my jungler is never tanky either and neither have any good form of teamfight initiations. As a mid laner, what am I meant to do in a teamfight when we have no engage and no one to soak up the damage? Is there any way to work around this or is it just a bothersome characteristic of solo queue that I must deal with?

Thanks, Prof

12 Comments

Live2LetDie4/8/2016, 3:02:35 PM2 votes

Don't team fight and split lanes. If you know you are not going to win 5v5 the play to your win condition.

2yftLP0KQC4/8/2016, 3:44:02 PM1 votes

so what's keeping you from picking a tank?

Swollwonder4/8/2016, 3:46:17 PM1 votes

Try to outfarm the inevitable feed is my motto.

Its hard but can be done.

Ralanr4/8/2016, 3:46:20 PM1 votes

If you find yourself really needing a tank (like getting stuck in teamfights often) then someone will need to build tanky, preferably someone in the front or high amounts of CC.

If you can't get that? Learn some tanks.

Quepha4/8/2016, 3:47:33 PM1 votes

Skirmish, split push, get picks on the carries when they're out of position.

Don't play the team fight game if your comp isn't fit for team fighting.

That also means that you want to snowball the game, as a mid laner this means it's very important for you to push your lane and roam to set the enemy top and bot lanes behind.

Lost R4/8/2016, 4:10:02 PM1 votes

Most of my teams these days are composed of nothing but ADCs and AD melee assassins. We're missing a lot more than just tanks.

WarlockLaw4/8/2016, 4:22:44 PM1 votes

If you want engages for teamfights pick Kennen Lissandra Orianna and just do it yourself. You can even start going into fringe picks with Maokai Amumu Evelynn Malphite Nautilus MonkeyKing

However if you don't want to do either of those then you should just learn to avoid unfavorable teamfights and instead focus on split pushing, skirmishing and finding picks when your team is lacking in hard engage/teamfight power

EndlessSorcerer4/8/2016, 5:02:39 PM1 votes

Lulu If they don't want to be a tank, you will make them a tank.

Possible tank mid-laners: Chogath Gragas Malphite

Alternatively, the following champions provide a useful about of utility to help make up for it. Orianna Anivia Lux Ekko Lissandra