Why is this a thing?

Because people don’t like tanks for some Reason. I don’t get it. Tanks are healthy for the game.

Wrong place to ask though. The boards is FILLED with almost exclusively mage mains who don’t post but down vote shit, bruiser mains who do nothing but cry that their already broken af items are good enough, and assassin mains who are quiet right now because tanks are in the shitter and they insta gib everything.

May I ask you, what season did you start playing league exactly?

because they are braindead cancer. when they're meta it's awful playing toplane since you either play a braindead tank or the lane ends after the first back and nothing happens untill teamfights (which you are going to lose if you dont have a tank) out of lane they're simply unkillable so you can even cc chain them like you can with a fed assassin/adc/mage. they simply sit on your face and kill you with base damages. if you ever played adc vs a seju with cinderhulk thronmail and gromp smite buff you wouldn't ask this question tl;dr everyone hate playing vs tanks, everyone hate playing tanks so they should be viable in a support position and nothing else

cause you get shit like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJymxk9LqFc

Because when they're meta they outplay you by standing still and doing more damage to you than you do to them by buying pure tank items. I remenber when the meta was + + and they would run down anyone and eventually kill them while being immortal.

"When Tanks are strong, the game is uninteresting." This is the belief. While I don't necessarily agree with it, either, this mindset is the answer to the question.

When tanks are problematic it isn't because they're too tanky. It's been that they're tanky while dealing too much damage. We saw this with ornn, naut and mao in top lane. Sejuani, gragas and zac in jg. Naut, ali and leo bot (during their respective rises to power). They're strong when they're meant to be, early-mid however they were too strong when they were meant to be. At this point they become similar to a yi or leblanc. They sit on you til u die, and u can't do shit to stop em. This coming from a long time tank main. And it pisses me off, because every time they buff fking tanks it's their dmg. Never their beef. Recently they removed CC and beef from I think sej? to give her more dmg. Naut? MOre E dmg. Tahm? more dmg. Amumu? more dmg

just stop fucking crying about it as i am constantly desperately holding myself not to write a fucking book about why mages are busted and has to be nerfed to the ground just like everyone has been.\

Mages aren't even the most picked champions in their lane(just go to op.gg and sort by middle and pickrate). How are they disgustingly overpowered yet underplayed compare to assassins and bruisers mid? Mind you i'm not saying they're weak, i'm just saying they're not "busted".

its because when its a tank meta they're unkillable while killing anything thats not a tank in like 2 seconds. I have no issues with tanks, but when they start doing a shit ton of damage, thats when it becomes r%%%%%ed.

Also the reason why people hate tanks is easy. Unlike mid or botlaners or even junglers toplaners have to lane against this garbage.

And tanks are the most r%%%%% proof class in the game. A gold 5 player picks malphite and instantly becomes a challenger toplaner.

And if you had to play against this shite you would agree as well. How this fuckin malphite literally eats every single of my GP Qs off cooldown, eats every single barrel+passive auto procc and just outsustain it press E and outtrades me after eating 50 fuckin Qs and barrels. Then he hits 6 presses R and sends me back to fountain or i manage to W at the last moment and flash out or i could even dodge it, it's not hard to dodge a malphite ult but then he Qs, turns on W and rightclicks you to death all while getting his item a thousand gold earlier than me. Now i was playing fuckin gangplank it would have been even more sad if i played like jax or another melee where i then have to expose myself in an all in i either lose anyways or just draws the jungler to me non stop but there is no hope other than snowballing on him because in this is where it gets funny BRUISERS ITEMS ARE FUCKIN GARBAGE no matter what R words here on the boards think. The only the ONE AND ONLY thing that makes bruiser items "good" is when you are snowballing other than that, garbage. But you can't snowball against braindead tanks standing still and outstatting you or simply just stonewall the lanephase because of their interaction button like maokai.

Tanks are a fuckin cancer to the game. They are boring to play as, they are fuckin toxic to play against and they are only good and played when overbuffed to the point they autowin lane and outscale you in teamfights. If they don't do that noone plays but then what's the point?

Just like how i get rewarded later on when losing lane on GP there needs to be a way to make tanks more fun to play AND rewarding when they do NOT autowin laning phase but as they currently are they are just braindead and boring and noone plays them. Even when they are absolutely fuckin broken only a few LP abuser and autofills play them. BUT EVERY OTHER ROLE demands tanks to be playable toplane. Do they wanna play them? NAh they don't it's just easier to deal with ornn or maokai on a mage than it is to deal with riven, irelia, jax etc.

Tanks destroy literally every role.

Everyone melts before they can damage them properly.

They can towerdive and get out at 80% health with a triple kill. I hate them more than the hypermobile towerdivers.

Easy as shit to play as, easy as shit to conquer the whole game as.

They deal a shit ton of damage, which they shouldn't do.

My hatred for tanks comes from a bygone era that makes me hate it any time we enter a tank meta. It was the time of Atmogs.