Enjoy playing tanks? Lol, forget about gaining LP.

Ironwalker4342·Jun 16, 2017·14 votes·1,051 views

Game after game, I play tanks because I enjoy that playstyle. Unfortunately playing tanks in this game means you take winning from your hands and place it in your teammates hands. Go 3/0/2 Top lane Sion, crush your opponent, doesn't mean anything. Your Adc is 0/4/0, your midlane is 1/6/3, and your jungle is 0/3/0, welp you lost because you enjoy playing tanks, and tanks can't carry. It's disgusting how the only way to rank up is to play someone who can 1v9.

This is 'team' game, but don't play for the team because they will suck 75% of the time. Pick Yi and afk farm the whole game, and your team feeds doesn't matter can still win. 136 champs in the game can only play about 1/5th to progress in ranked. Enjoy any of the other ones, haha jokes on you.

19 Comments

DunkinNoobsJun 16, 20179 votes

To be fair, most carry top laners couldn't have carried that kind of game either.

RalanrJun 16, 20171 votes

Top lane can be pretty irrelevant honestly.

Tobias BracknerJun 16, 20175 votes

Wait, so you are complaining that there are times the enemy team is better than your team?

ReySolomonJun 16, 20174 votes

I've seen many tanks carry the game so I don't get this post

CoolKnightSTJun 16, 20175 votes

Tanks can carry but on a different way than carries. The biggest issue with tanks is that they generate a frontline wall where the carries safely can aply damage behind. The problem is when the carries still position themself like their was no wall add all. This results into them not dealing as much damage as the enemy carries. In the end losing you the game.

B00B00Jun 16, 20172 votes

thing is players move, the ADC is probably moving to dodge a skill shot or a potential stun/engage onto YOUR backline, if you or the support or mid depending on what picks you have dont see this and dont move back in line to re-create that wall then thats not so much the ADC's fault, it comes down to everyones ability to read the game, the difference is made in circumstances, like ''oriann's Q is down, kill her'' etc etc as your safe from the ball for 3-5 seconds and she cannot ult if you dont over extend.

its not all black and white, go and re-watch your VODs and check your positioning.

not every game can be carried.

P.S. pick malphit / Poppy / Nautilus <- easy pees.

ReySolomonJun 17, 20171 votes

you are right!

PhantomGGJun 16, 20173 votes

I am legit sick of these comments it's this stereotyping that is actually making solo q hell.

TANKS

Sion: 51 percent win rate Maoki: 48 Zac:53 Sejuani: 50 Poppy:46 Shen:48 Ammumu: 51 Naut:46 Gragas:49 Malphite:49

4/10 at 50 percent win rate or higher 8/10 48 percent or higher 2/10 with a actually concerning bad win rate

Juggernauts

Darius: 50 Garen:48 Mord:50 Skarner:52 Nasus:48 Illaoi: 49 Shyvana:50

7/7 48 or higher 4/7 50 or higher

Tank Supports

Alistar:50 Braum:50 BlitzCrank:52 Leona:50 Tahm:46 Taric:50 Thresh:51 (debtable if he's a tank, but im putting him down)

6/7 with 50 or higher 1:7 below 48

Total score

21/24: have a passable win rate 3/24: have a winrate below 48 percent 14/24: have a win rate at 50 or higher

Conclusion

Your complaints are bullshit and statistically proven wrong.

B00B00Jun 16, 20173 votes

you sir.....just...... [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

nGioJun 16, 20174 votes

{quoted}

I am legit sick of these comments it's this stereotyping that is actually making solo q hell.

TANKS

Sion: 51 percent win rate Maoki: 48 Zac:53 Sejuani: 50 Poppy:46 Shen:48 Ammumu: 51 Naut:46 Gragas:49 Malphite:49

4/10 at 50 percent win rate or higher 8/10 48 percent or higher 2/10 with a actually concerning bad win rate

Juggernauts

Darius: 50 Garen:48 Mord:50 Skarner:52 Nasus:48 Illaoi: 49 Shyvana:50

7/7 48 or higher 4/7 50 or higher

Tank Supports

Alistar:50 Braum:50 BlitzCrank:52 Leona:50 Tahm:46 Taric:50 Thresh:51 (debtable if he's a tank, but im putting him down)

6/7 with 50 or higher 1:7 below 48

Total score

21/24: have a passable win rate 3/24: have a winrate below 48 percent 14/24: have a win rate at 50 or higher

Conclusion

Your complaints are bullshit and statistically proven wrong.

He was saying that to rank up, tanks are a bad choice. They can't carry, but can help put someone on your team in a position to. As a tank, you are relying on someone else to carry the game, regardless of how you do in the lane.

I'm not saying I agree or disagree, and tanks aren't supposed to carry, but you're arguing something else completely.

To add to your reply, just spamming win percentage is a horrible way to base a class. Here, I'll do it too, and make things seem better.

AP Mid Lane

Diana: 49 Morde: 52 Karthus: 51 Fiddle: 54 Ziggs: 51

You said that anything over 48% is a "passable win rate". Does that mean that Diana mid is good? Or Morde and Fid mid are great at 52 and 54%?

Of the 9 tanks you listed, 6 are below 50%. Let's again use AP mid lane as an example. Look at the (arguably) top 10ish meta/most powerful across all divisions for AP mids.

Ahri: 53 Ori: 50 Kass: 52 Syndra: 49 Kat: 52 Lux: 50 Ekko: 51 Anivia: 54 Vlad: 51 TF: 52

If you compare that to the more popular 9 tanks you listed, there is a huge difference in win %.

When I use win % to look at AP mids, I see a nice group of popular champions winning the majority of their games. When I look to tanks, I see Zac. Then 10 miles down the road I see Sion, who's best numbers come statistically when he's played as a support.

Ironwalker4342Jun 17, 20172 votes

Yes quote us stats from people in Plat and above elo, where you don't play with god awful people all the time. I'm talking about the other 90% of League not the top 10%.

PhantomGGJun 17, 20171 votes

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Yes quote us stats from people in Plat and above elo, where you don't play with god awful people all the time. I'm talking about the other 90% of League not the top 10%.

now i know the bronze has taken over the forum

Just Blame JennyJun 16, 20173 votes

I mean, sure. That's true if you literally AFK the game.

Otherwise, your actions matter.

Can you 1v9 as a tank? Probably not. But are your actions meaningful enough to impact the outcome of a game? Absolutely.

Climbing isn't about winning 10 games in a row. It's about winning more games than you lose. You absolutely can do that, regardless of which role you play.

NiamhNyxJun 16, 20172 votes

Do you even leona?

DukuesJun 16, 20172 votes

I gave an up vote. You can carry as a tank but.... it's different. Like.... in mid silver and lower I don't feel like playing tanks because to me it's literally a 1v9 scenario. Which is why I don't really feel like playing flex queue right now. My best jungler is currently Gragas . When I have high silver + teammates I have had a lot of success playing Gragas . But lower than that I can really get punished for playing gragas. In the end it probably evens out.. but It feels better playing a carry so 1v9 rather than having to try and depend on my teammates at all. What people don't realize when playing in silver or bronze is people may not even know how to cast an ability. It gets really annoying playing a tank when you need to depend on your teammates to do some damage early game and they literally sit there, do nothing, miss all their skill shots, or just walk into enemy abilites/team without doing anything and dying.

That's why I am mad about being in bronze in flex queue trying to hit gold. 1. rank levels vary a lot. 2. since I am bronze... I literally have no idea who the fuck I will be matched with. I have to assume no one knows how to play at all so I just play carries. Going Gragas could pay off but..... it only would because I better teammates that game so we would most likely win anyways even if I played a carry so why waste time trying to tank is I can just play a carry?

Ellis DeeJun 16, 20171 votes

step 1. play sion step 2. ? step 3. profit

LankPantsJun 16, 20171 votes

I've resorted to basically playing Sejuani as a bruiser. Tank items are just horrible right now, you need some to not be destroyed, but the more tank items you can replace with things like Triforce/Titanic/Gauge and get away with the better.