Tanks irrelivant now?

legobrick01··2 votes·687 views

I am not sure myself, but I have been playing for a while mainly tank champions with some bruisers or fighters on the side. I love the feeling of protecting my backline at performing plays that cause people to target me allowing my backline to destroy them or the other way around. Recently however even if I do really well as a tank I can't help my team, I haven't seen that many changes to tanks but they seem to be a lot worse at the moment especially against adc as they have ridiculous armour shred at the moment. In one of my recent games, I was frontlining my team protecting them, then the adc engaged on me and shredded me in about the same time as it took to kill another player, I went almost full armour, used stoneplate and as Poppy had my shield up, my allies came in and I was nearly already dead. I am quite a low level player but I was wondering if we could try and address a balance for tanks because right now even when I am doing amazing trying to carry my team I am destroyed, top or support. Especially top. :(

4 Comments

kaironen3 votes

Tanks are fine, if conqueror and other true dmg sources didn't exist. Conqueror, Infinity edge, and true damage sources from champions makes a tank's life hard.

I think tank items might need a small shift in how good they are. Higher cost on the items and more stats could help them out.

heroikc3 votes

Neither option, honestly...they're just being outweighed by bruisers.

Who Fed Ru1 votes

yes so bad that they even get played bot now

kaironen2 votes

Bot lane is in complete preseason mode. I wouldn't use that as evidence for tanks being good right now. However, tanks are playable, it's just that true damage at top lane, and scuttle being so important in the jungle, pushes them out of jungle and top lane.

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