Difference between bruiser, juggernaut and tank

CJ10002000·12/18/2017, 4:10:45 AM·1 votes·4,304 views

Bruisers are champions that focus on building mainly damage items with very few to no defensive stats and are often viewed as great duellists but terrible team fighters with the exception of a few. They also excel at split pushing and scale amazingly into the late game.

Juggernauts are champions that build one or maybe two damage items and then focus on going tank the rest of their build and they often have kits that can let them duel to an extent before they get out scaled and have to go team fight.

Tanks are champions that scale amazingly early because armour Shred items tend to be build 5th or 6th often making them powerful in the early to mid game but are very weak to split push bruisers aka Fiora or split push juggernauts aka Yorick that can easily bully them and take towers without a fight.

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Eight Rocks12/18/2017, 4:14:03 AM4 votes

Tanks haven't been weak to fighters and juggernauts in a looooooong time. Fiora can maybe give tanks trouble, but tabi + bramble will make her a joke. Yorick is just impossible to 1v1 due to like 6 different sources of damage lmfao.

PhantomGG12/18/2017, 5:15:26 AM2 votes

All Bruisers and all jugernauts are tanks, but not all tanks are Juggernauts and bruisers are tanks.

Tank:A role in a game in which your job is to soak damage and defend your teamates, an description that fits both juggernauts and bruisers. However Juggernauts and Bruisers extend the definition into more

Bruisers: A character with both the abilities of a carry and a tank but excels at neither. A middle ground

Juggernaut: A character who focuses heavily on soaking damage and charging towards the front lines, once they reach the enemy they can be a massive threat with damage, but are fairly kiteable.

Critmaster Garen12/18/2017, 7:13:41 AM2 votes

"bruiser" is a term that riot doesnt use and is basically just a synonyme for "fighter" and even some skirmishers. people have been using it for champions like Garen Renekton Jax and even Tryndamere for a long time before riot came out with their new class and subclass system.

i wouldnt say your class descriptions are accurate either. some juggernauts are made to duel/splitpush and scale into the lategame.

FIGHTERS: fighters are carries. their job is to be a frontliner and damage dealer for their team.

skirmisher: highly mobile duellists who are able to weave in and out of a fight while being squishy and dealing large amounts of damage in melee.
diver: decently beefy damage dealers who are capable of engaging on priority targets through the enemy frontline
juggernaut: slow moving tanky melee carries who trade mobility and utility for raw upfront defenses and high base damage.

TANKS: all tanks are highly focused on defenses and hard to take down, they usually deal low to mediocre damage. esxcept for nieche scenarios like a malphite being able to stack armor into a full ad teamcomp.

wardens: comparibly low engage potential, and highly focused on peel and protective abilities. their job is in some form to absorb or negate damage for their teammates
vanguards: initiating tanks. their job is to engage onto the enemy team headfirst and disrupt the ememy carries, thus forcing enemy attention on them.

Malix Farwin12/18/2017, 7:08:01 AM1 votes

OP is wrong and here is the simplified version of all three

Juggernauts are tanky and Deal damage but are immobile(Example: Nasus and Darius)

Tanks are Tanky with CC and engage but do not do as much damage as a Juggernaut/Bruiser(Example: Poppy and Leona)

Bruisers are not actually a thing, what you are in fact describing is a type of Juggernaut.

kaironen12/18/2017, 6:49:26 AM1 votes

What happens if I build poppy with titanic hydra or any other tank who usually builds pure tank with a damage item? Would this be classified as a tank as well or would it be classified as a juggernaut?

FullmuteAll play12/18/2017, 4:22:02 AM1 votes

Tbh from this text I am not clear what is tanks

NemeBro12/18/2017, 7:00:20 AM1 votes

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Bruisers are champions that focus on building mainly damage items with very few to no defensive stats and are often viewed as great duellists but terrible team fighters with the exception of a few. They also excel at split pushing and scale amazingly into the late game.

Juggernauts are champions that build one or maybe two damage items and then focus on going tank the rest of their build and they often have kits that can let them duel to an extent before they get out scaled and have to go team fight.

Tanks are champions that scale amazingly early because armour Shred items tend to be build 5th or 6th often making them powerful in the early to mid game but are very weak to split push bruisers aka Fiora or split push juggernauts aka Yorick that can easily bully them and take towers without a fight.

There is no official definition for a bruiser. It's a worthless term that does nothing to describe a champion type. People use it to describe champions as different as Jax (diver who builds three tanky damage items then full tank who dives the backline to disrupt and threaten it) and Riven (highly mobile skirmisher who builds nearly full damage and tries to incinerate the enemy backline quickly and then mop up the front line).