I'll say it again. Tanks should have debuffs
This is a win-win for everyone.
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Tanks gain more levers to balance with and won't need ridiculous amounts of base damage and/or CC disables to be useful to a team or worth picking at all. More levers is good, right?
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Tanks would be less reliant on absurd numbers advantages to win, which is more of a soloQ problem but still highly relevant since we are all soloQ players here.
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The purpose of a tank and the way the class is defined can be given more distinction from bruisers now that the modern bruiser is gaining more utility in the form of CC.
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Damage creep reduced twofold; firstly because tanks can have their own damage reduced, second because they can directly reduce the damage enemies can do without the binary of "stunlock them or lose;"
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Lower frustration vs tanks if obnoxious one man stunlocking is replaced with debuffing+some disables.
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Off the above, snowball champions and soloQ powerhouses can be balanced better; now that the game is less "instakill before you're chain CCd and obliterated " we can 100% justify making Rengar's 0.2s delete button fuck off from the game and Darius wouldn't need obscene amounts of AD just to function.
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Nigh infinite application; debuffs can impact literally anything you want them to. Literally free champion design.
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Tank items having similar qualities of weakening opponents is also perfectly acceptable.
Typing on a phone is hard so I condensed it into individual points. I'm sure I can come up with more the next time I post this.
has a slow aoe tied to his W. If we ever would tackle this idea of aoe extra aura cc, it would need to be a barely noticeable passive debuff otherwise I wouldnt vote for it. This is the closest example thing we have for Auras, even though is not an aura.
as an example. This debuff (his passive) leads to a stun once requirements are met. And again, i wouldnt vote for this if the champion that we are tweaking already has a massive impact when his requirements are met. An example of this is
which can stack up with 5 bleeds everything that a good flash + Q can grasp after his passive has been triggered. And not only that, Black Cleaver also synergizes too well with it too.