You know what's wrong with the tank meta?

Visigoth·Apr 19, 2015·2 votes·566 views

Tanks can still do tons of damage.

Assassin's go in, kill someone, get out, or get screwed because they are squishy.

Tanks go in, disrupt you, do tons of damage ( ) and don't die. Assassins at least could die, tanks just kind of fuck you over, and there's no real itemization since they will always be tankier than you.

9 Comments

Lao Fu the TigerApr 19, 20151 votes

Funny. Seems yesterday the complaint was all about item 3135 item 3035 item 3153 .

To be perfectly honest, nothing has changed except the addition of Cinderhulk, and from a purely defensive standpoint, it doesn't ACTUALLY have amazing defensive stats; even late game it won't usually push itself above 1000 HP. That's like stacking another Warmog's.

Oh how times change.

AradehkApr 19, 20151 votes

Some tanks have dmg based on their max hp, so that's one reason.

Trash MammaIApr 19, 20151 votes

Zed Leblanc Katarina These three were the meta. Not assassins in general. Just these specific three. Just like Amumu Sion Sejuani these three are the meta now not tanks in general.

LankPantsApr 19, 20151 votes

I never noticed Zed, LB or Kat shift out of the meta TBH. I still see them as pick/ban champs and according to lolking they hold the 3-5 highest ban rates.

Also Grag and Mao are far more impactful than Mumu.

LankPantsApr 19, 20151 votes

Tanks go in, disrupt you, do tons of damage ( ) and don't die.

Shyvana isn't a tank, she's a bruiser. Her only CC is a crappy knockback which only works when it feels like it. If Shyvana didn't do damage she'd be worthless.

SalidfingersApr 19, 20151 votes

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Shyvana isn't a tank, she's a bruiser. Her only CC is a crappy knockback which only works when it feels like it. If Shyvana didn't do damage she'd be worthless.

she does damage?

LankPantsApr 19, 20152 votes

she does damage?

Yes. She's an incredible damage threat when she has a Cinderhulk and BotRK built up.

SEKAIApr 19, 20151 votes

Except just from your example Gragas and Shyv are not even tanks to begin with, they are bruisers, which by definition, they should do damage even when they build mostly tank while some even kills when building full tank like Nasus.

Otherwise, for other tanks, the only cases they would "kill" you are because:

You focus them during teamfight while they have their team sitting around chucking your hp away, which in this case, you deserve it.
You try to duel them with little to no sustain, while they have some sort of sustaining damage to back them up like say Cinderhulk or Sunfire, which again, is your fault.

So yer.

EDIT: Also what are BotRK, LW or Void Staff?