Boards›Gameplay

I need advice on being tanky.

Tattersall··1 votes·333 views

I'm just going to get right into this. I never feel tanky. Never. I play TahmKench , I have a item 3748 , a item 3068 , and a item 3065 , and I get melted in six seconds, and that's including my E. On Olaf I have item 3742, item 3065, item 3812, and item 3110, and I die in moments. I don't get it. I'm not whining about how it's impossible to be tanky, I've seen people go tanky and survive for forever while the entire enemy team is wailing on them, but I just can not reach that level. I just never feel like I'm actually a tank. Just to reiterate, I'm not complaining about how this is an anti-tank meta or something. I'm just saying that I see other players building tank who proceed to 1v5 while taking tower damage for minutes while they wait for their team to follow up, but no matter what I do when I build tank, I get taken down in seconds. Could someone give me tips or advice on my issue? Can I get a speculative explanation of what is happening here? Thanks for reading this far, I guess.

Some hyperbole was used in the creation of this post.

3 Comments

deathgod52 votes

It's not just getting tanky it is knowing when to tank what. If you tank everything you die in no time.

https://youtu.be/6j48byYFG34

take the vladimir clip in this video 2:32 . This guy knows exactly what he can and can't tank and dodges everything he can't tank. He still takes a lot of damage, but by choosing what spells he get's hit by he get's this magical amount of tankyness.

Rewt2 votes

They are most likely ahead and therefore have a better tank item to enemy pen item ratio. You probably arent getting ahead so you arent as tanky.

Also. you might just be blindly building defensive items instead of looking at their team.

So lets break this down.

Enemy Team comp. Darius LeeSin Orianna Caitlyn Lulu

In this case you want to finish your armor item first (unless Ori is balls to the wall fed and you need to get some MR so she doesnt fucking 1 shot you)

So my build pathing would probably be something along the lines of item 3742 item 3047 item 3065 item 3748 item 3071 item 3512

Now im more used to Jungle build pathing but Id probably run this in Top lane.

Nahui2 votes

I have the same problem as you sometimes and I've figured out it's not a matter of how much you can tank but rather what your team does during you tanking that determines, in your mind, how much you tanked. Let me explain.

All champions, save maybe a full armor Rammus vs an all AD team, melt under team fire. There's no build that can just protect you from 5 champion's worth of focus.

However, this is where don't focus the tank comes in. If the enemy team focuses you as the tank, but your team wasn't able to capitalize on that and hit their carries in that time, you'll melt and the enemy team will still be 5 strong. You'll feel as if you couldn't tank anything.

When you tank 5, and your team jumps into action and hits their carries, suddenly, that 5 focus peels off. You're never the focus when your carries are shredding their carries, so suddenly you seem tankier because the 5-focus quickly becomes much less.

Even if they continue their focus, you die, but so do their carries so even though you got shredded, they lost more and you feel as if you tanked enough to make it happen.

It's mainly mentality but also partly the whole 5-focus decreasing as carries disengage from your team.

More from Gameplay

3 Refunds per season, upvote if you want 3 refunds per season.
Gameplay764 comments
7,167
votes
3 Refunds per season, upvote if you want 3 refunds per season.
Gameplay156 comments
3,510
votes
UPVOTE FOR URF
Gameplay606 comments
2,440
votes
Yes plz.
Gameplay456 comments
1,721
votes
3 Refunds per season, up vote if you want 3 refunds per season.
Gameplay114 comments
1,716
votes
When is ANYONE at riot going to address the awful new player experience?
Gameplay634 comments
1,383
votes

More by Tattersall

"We're currently not planning to bring over the item set creator feature from the legacy client."
Gameplay118 comments
394
votes
With the Galio rework coming up, I now need to send off one of my favorite boards moments ever.
Memes & Games55 comments
109
votes
Riot just released their "Universe" page, and honestly, I'm a little upset.
Story, Art, & Sound48 comments
85
votes
Dawnbringer Riven is not, how you say, overly "thicc"
Story, Art, & Sound93 comments
84
votes
Guys, guys, guys. Doom Bot Leona's Tooltip
Story, Art, & Sound16 comments
72
votes
Who’s the hottest character in League of Legends?
Memes & Games105 comments
68
votes