Why do people complain about the 'tank meta'?

Shroom Junkie··7 votes·1,152 views

Firstly, I haven't seen a tank jungler in about a week. Honesty even I'm like 'wtf' but whatever. Pretty much over now. Secondly, even when somebody does build tank, you can still blow up everyone else. I mean, I play Nidalee jungle a lot and I blow up squishies and tanks alike(obviously tanks take more than one spear but you get the point, I can still fight them easily as an assassin).

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Very Hard Engage10 votes

people hate the tank meta because it invokes decision making and working as a team rather than " lol, ima bursty champ, i want to 100-0 everyone all the time" regardless of who they are or what they build"

zed - "wahhhhh, i targeted sejuani and couldn't 100-0 her, why is she still alive, why could she turn around and full combo me and wait for her second Q and W and suddenly kill me, wow, op, nerf sejuani please"

OhthePiplup2 votes

Sadly as it is riot seems to only listen to lee and zed mains.

Literally 90% of people - "Riot! Please dont go through with these changes to vei/karma/soraka!

Riot - i guess mayb--

Zed and lee mains - shhh shh, they need to be changed, do it, do it...

Keevalroy4 votes

People hate the tank meta because they don't know how, or want to know how to play. It requires thought...and that is completely unacceptable for anyone that enjoys playing #LCSBigPlays420Y0l0SWAG champions, the spectators drooling over pro scene content, and the balance team doing the same.

They hate the tank meta because "it's slow and boring," therefore it must be destroyed. Watch as the redditors who actually do have League accounts come to downvote the truth.

excodar2 votes

id like to see you try to 1v1 a jungle volibear.

Shroom Junkie7 votes

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id like to see you try to 1v1 a jungle volibear.

That isn't the 'tank meta' though. Volibear has always been hard to fight.

BetaDude401 votes

Volibear has no ranged abilities and no gap-closers, save for a speed boost and an extremely short-range slow. Get someone with decent range that can stay a couple feet away from him and he is laughably easy to kite.

Only Play Darius2 votes

Because before the tank meta, you could pick an assassin and destroy the entire team by yourself and carry the game all on your own if you were good enough. Now you actually have to work with your team if you want to win games, which is annoying. I play soloQ because I want to play SOLO, and not saying it can't be done, but it is harder to carry yourself up the ranked ladder when you are forced to work with your team.

3tyson1 votes

i get your point i haved alot of jungle nidalee and at first thoug you are like o w/e its a vi jungle i cannnot duel i can stil get a quadrilion kils at the squeeshy adc and mid laner

now think about this we have vi/sejuani/gragas jungle you need to avoid them at al kost cause they wil melt you your not gonne hit 20 spears before you get to finaly dive them theyl have u before that so if he comes to plunder your jungle you can do nothing

sure you could go mid and get a gank but mid has le blanc wich isnt going to get hit by a spear and even if she does you can not jump in than there is ezreal/kalista and blitzcrank bot you can go there but landing spears might be a bitch and blitz can really mess you up to

put a fiora/irelia Volibear annything semi tanky top and nid is kind of useless

like the extra tank in the jungle and a good pick mid/botem means your nid wont do shit

ofcourse most of the time now you stil see a squeeshy jungler and a ziggs mid a squeeshy suport like soraka and you go bot lane make that duble kil kil mid lane take tower and dragon than go show udyr with 0 kils and 20 farm that hes really not that much of a tank :p

Kerrigan 4 Prez1 votes

People complain about the tank meta because it is the meta, before tanks became viable, everyone complained about lee sin and kha zix. If cinder hulk is removed, they will go straight back to complaining about assassins, and that is a fact.

khorney1 votes

people complain because they do not want to buy the items to counter what tan they are stacking as in botrk last whisper so n and so forth

Zydin1 votes

The only problem I have with it isn't the tanks it's the "I'm a fighter but going to build mostly tanky items so you can't kill me yet i can melt your face and the faces of your entire team even if i only have a single damage item" champs, it's the being forced to focus the "tank" because if you don't they will kill your entire team.

BetaDude401 votes

Name people that are somehow capable of doing that, please.

Zydin1 votes

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Name people that are somehow capable of doing that, please.

Garen Vi Nasus Nautilus

BluePolarizer1 votes

that's kind of the point.

If the tank is ignorable they are useless, because this isn't world of warcraft where the enemies are bots that target the nearest thing. they have to do something to force you to target them or die, and that is either huge damage or CCing your entire team.

tanks that are ignorable like Taric and late game Renekton Yorick are usually terrible. Hell, even Garen is pretty much ignorable if he's behind whatsoever.

IAMS4T4N1 votes

cause it's bullshit how someone can have 4.5k hp, 300 armor, 200 MR and still outdamage assassins/adcs/mages perfect example: Rammus

Lugg3 votes

I have NEVER seen a Rammus out damage anyone.

Erockandroll1 votes

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cause it's bullshit how someone can have 4.5k hp, 300 armor, 200 MR and still outdamage assassins/adcs/mages perfect example: Rammus

I call BS. They don't out damage them, they out duel them. The ADC's do a whopping 300 damage per second and the tank can cut that in half. While they do maybe 100 Damage per second and your can't cut it by anything cause you built Glass cannon. But if your the ADC, you shouldn't even be in range of the Tanks attacks.

Their is a lot of Mileage from defensive stats, but they are not without weakness.

Without offensive Items you can't take towers as fast, you can't take Objectives as fast. And you can't clear waves nearly as fast. Yet Defensive stats are Good with it's lack of Diminished returns with the Idea that your "The TEAMS tank." That means soaking all the enemies damage.

RumblesMeatballs1 votes

but you get the point

haha i see what you did there

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