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The constant consistent nerfing of tank items ever season needs to stop.

hashinshin··5 votes·703 views

Item capping consistently at 35 minutes in is not fun.

Omen: 3200 gold -> 2800 gold. Warmogs: 3200 gold -> 2500 gold. Frozen heart: 3000 gold -> 2400 gold. Thornmail: 2200 gold -> 2100 gold. Abyssal: Effectively removed from the game.

Even Trinity: 4100 gold -> 3700 gold.

*(And note ALL of these have had drastic reductions to power. Warmogs has lost 500+ HP. Omen has lost armor and attack speed slow on it's active, movement speed slow on it's passive. Frozen heart has lost CDR, mana, and it's passive is less powerful. Etc.) *

You can now full build the same exact build from season 2 in season 5 with 1800 less gold. Tank's have nearly had a full item ripped out of them in the last 3 seasons. They can not come NEAR the full build of other classes anymore and are, again, item capping a good 10 minutes before other classes. That's just wrong. YES tanks do get less gold than other classes due to not getting many kills but they are still item capping WAY too early.

6 Comments

Jungle Lux God3 votes

I can't argue against buffing tank items because some of my favorite champs to play are tanks, but Abyssal Scepter and Trinity Force are not tank items. If anything, they are bruiser items, Abyssal for AP bruisers and Trinity for AD bruisers.

tooomine1 votes

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I can't argue against buffing tank items because some of my favorite champs to play are tanks, but Abyssal Scepter and Trinity Force are not tank items. If anything, they are bruiser items, Abyssal for AP bruisers and Trinity for AD bruisers.

Depends on if your tank has AP or not. Sion or Wukong could get away with building abyssal into a tanky build and it be effective because the MR stat.

Jungle Lux God1 votes

If you are buying Abyssal on a tanky build for Sion or Wukong, then why not get items like Spirit Visage or Banshee's Veil? Better stats, arguably a better build path, and arguably better passives for tanks.

OhOkYeah1 votes

item 3001

Joe Dredd1 votes

I agree make frozen heart cost 3k again.

KaisadiIIa1 votes

Abyssal: Effectively removed from the game.

LOL nope.

I agree that tanks are trash-tier right now since RIOT over-nerved them (and they over-buffed marksmen and BotRK, while giving everyone %health scaling on their abilities). But Abyssal is not a problem.

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