Why are Tanks consistently out-damaging the whole game?

Penta Penguin·Apr 22, 2017·1 votes·424 views

DISCLAIMER: I'm talking about Normal games, I don't know what my "ELO" is right now but I'm always up against golds and silvers, sometimes Platinum.

So looking at several match histories I discover that whenever there's an AP Full Tank in the game (Amumu, Zac, Sejuani, Rammus, etc.) They very often top the damage chart. If I'm fed as fuck on a Pantheon or something and ruling the game, I'm out-damaged by an Amumu that built full tank or had at most a single Liandry

Why is this happening

8 Comments

Mecha MaIphiteApr 22, 20174 votes

Because consistent AoE damage adds up to more than high single target burst.

Also consider how the damage from those tanks is distributed. A tank's damage is probably distributed through their whole team through AoE, whereas, say, an assassin's damage would be much more focused on the squishy backline. The tank's damage may add up to more despite the assassin going full damage, but a lot of that damage is being passively soaked by the enemy tanks, making it less "useful" than concentrated damage on the carry.

GlîtchyApr 22, 20172 votes

They just wanna make every tank a juggernaut.

Ok sure but whyApr 22, 20171 votes

I wish I was in games with golds and platinums, and not just Special Ed bronzies

But yeah, tanks have massive base damage on all their abilities, and their base AD can double that of an ADC, which means they can do massive damage with Iceborn Gauntlet or Trinity Force, on top of their massive-base-damage abilities

oSEXYPLATYPUSoApr 22, 20171 votes

are you talking about like in your last game as wukong where rammus out damage every1?

Penta PenguinApr 22, 20171 votes

Yeah that was one of them but at least he can reflect damage

oSEXYPLATYPUSoApr 22, 20171 votes

so im gonna guess it was a pain in the ass to kill him... took alot of time and abilities?

so heres the thing... if it takes you 10+ seconds to kill a tank then that tank has 10+ seconds to do damage, including aoe damage, and alot have % hp damages

if i play maokai and can damage all 5 of the enemy team and it takes all 5 of them 10+ seconds to kill me then i do alot of damage

[zombie-brand-mindblown]

EazyMakaveli2Apr 22, 20171 votes

because riot are a bunch of silver clowns who cant play the game and because 80% of the playerbase are also silver trash. they all suck so much that they need to play tanks to cover for their retarded plays. otherwise people gonna say "ughhhh i was full health when i dove him lvl 4 and couldnt even take 2 tower shots and i died. fix ur game" nah idiots, fix ur damn self.

NogrimApr 27, 20171 votes

rammus main.

i know him specifically its 100% the aoe damage on quake (minion + towers) and reflect (again minions)

because those abilities tend to hit ever minion in a wave his damage total ends up being pretty nuts at the end of a match.

my fav tactic is to power ball ahead of my own minion wave so that the whole wave targets me with the shield+ thornmail up, usually wiping the whole wave before the wave catches up or the shield drops.

for the rest its a similar effect just from using persistent AOE damage.