Tbh I like the tank meta and I enjoy the game whole lot more when team fights last more than 2 seconds,before people complained how games are too short( around graves rework time ) and I remember people saying that "every champ takes too much damage" and how "everything deals too much damage"
Marshbouy3 votesEverything gets hate. Everything. It's because of the simple fact that the boards is used for giving feedback to riot. People are most likely to give feedback when angry, annoyed, and upset.
Every meta causes different problems for different people. Those people with problems then complain. That issue is exacerbated by the fact that usually the meta is decided by a handful of items completely breaking a couple of champions (E.G. chogath).
Along with this every the community is very large and a lot of people have a lot of different opinions. You might enjoy the tank meta, but XxADCJINxX might hate it.
It's not that tanks get hate, it's that every class gets hate.
HeilHiem1 votesEverything gets hate. Everything. It's because of the simple fact that the boards is used for giving feedback to riot. People are most likely to give feedback when angry, annoyed, and upset.
Every meta causes different problems for different people. Those people with problems then complain. That issue is exacerbated by the fact that usually the meta is decided by a handful of items completely breaking a couple of champions (E.G. chogath).
Along with this every the community is very large and a lot of people have a lot of different opinions. You might enjoy the tank meta, but XxADCJINxX might hate it.
It's not that tanks get hate, it's that every class gets hate.
ive got to agree to a certain extant, i just want to point out however, go back to the tank update and look at how the patching team basically said even thought this is for the tanks, we are nerfing all of your health items and buff AD items.
Think about it, Riot heavily favors damage over durabilty in just about all cases.
But like i said, i do agree with you..... too a certain extant, its just that tanks have been getting all the hate weither its because of the boards or not recently
TheSandQrator1 votesI agree with the above points but I'll try to elaborate a little on this situation specifically.
A big reason tanks got hate was that they were that strong they could just facetank a crazy amount of damage while also putting out some strong, fairly target-agnostic damage themselves (due to the prevalence of % HP damage on many tanks' kits).
This led to a bit of a disconnect between what was expected, and what was delivered. If you see someone with a huge-ass HP bar and a lot of resistances, you don't expect them to do a hell of a lot of damage. They were able to live to put out multiple spell rotations on many occasions, though, and a combination of high base damages, and % HP damage led to them being safe and fairly effective. (Plenty of times I was surprised at the damage a good 
Maokai could put out while also being pretty darn hard to kill.)
It was boring to watch 'the wet noodle fight' as a spectator, and things felt less impactful to everyone as a result. It felt like a slow grind, that got stale after seeing the same thing happen again and again. Two tanks fight each other. Twenty seconds later, they walk away on low HP. Welp. The only time things happened fast was when two squishies fought one another.
It didn't feel good. You didn't do too much to them as a bursty/sustained damage character. They felt like they did the same back to you, and it sucked to feel like that. You're damage-oriented, why is this tank doing proportionally similar damage to you?
(Although now I feel like we've swung a bit too far in the opposite direction but that's mainly sour grapes on my end. I'll admit I miss the days of 1v4 tanking. But I'm a horrible person who hates fun. And 
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