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Can we stop the bullshit about tanks?

chipndip1·9/1/2019, 8:24:02 PM·11 votes·2,548 views

Look, Idk where you guys learned League of Legends, but something is fundamentally wrong with how people understand the issue with top lane tanks. Misinformation leads to more misinformation so it's high time people get some things straight.

  1. League is a game that's balanced around time as well as a large number of other variables. Getting fed means you're stronger sooner. This means you can exploit your power curve before other people can deal with you appropriately.

  2. Flat pen does not beat armor. % Pen and shred do.

  3. Burst rotations are not strong into tanks. DPS damage patterns are.

Why list these things out? Because people are spreading fake news around and stating that tanks somehow get shat on by assassins in 2019. This is hogwash.

Now, there's a world where your enemy drafts some assassin, and they beat your ass looking like this Talon item 3147 item 3142 item 3071. This is most likely due to them being 7/1/5 over your 0/5/2 mid lane Ziggs. So if you're a tank that looks like this Maokai item 3068 item 3211, we understand that this Talon's gonna do work on you but that's because he's ahead right now.

If you, as a tank, catch up to the Talon and gear your itemization against him specifically, his ability to run through you, even while he's ahead, is reduced. Why? Because he can't dps to utilize Cleaver well, you can hold him down so people can wail on him, and flat pen is kinda crap against armor stacking.

If an assassin gets the lead, they'll tear through people. That's their job. If they don't, they won't. A tank's job is to understand what needs to be mitigated so they can build into it and help neutralize those threats while their team takes as little front loaded burst as they can manage. It doesn't mean you can wade into a war zone of Veigar ults and come out with 75% hp. It doesn't mean you're entitled to run down people that are farther ahead on their power curve than you. Most importantly, it doesn't mean that it's Riot's job to throw off the game balance between offense and defense because people don't realize that fed carries do damage.

34 Comments

Hi im 129/1/2019, 9:32:36 PM6 votes

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The thigh guy9/1/2019, 9:40:28 PM3 votes

Oh yes. So tanky that they instantly die to bruisers. Mages. Adcs. And the assassins they are suppose to be good into still insta gib them because lul %pen

boricCentaur19/1/2019, 9:06:58 PM3 votes

It's really funny when I see post being like armor is useless and tanks suck then I see a post about nunu being broken as a tank.

Both those post have upvotes too.

Like tanks are fine people just need to play them.

Kai Guy9/1/2019, 8:50:11 PM2 votes

IM SICK OF THIS DAMAGE META THOU AND USEINGCAPSLOCK CUZ RITO SUCKS.... (Proceeds to que then builds squishy glass cannon champion every fucking game or worse glass cannons a champion whos scaling and role is not to be Dps.)

And some of yall wonder why games get more snowball? [zombie-brand-facepalm] Its a real mystery what happens to gameplay when the attitude results in plapatterns of win? win more!/lose? lose more!

Any decent feast or Famine player from any season can tell you what that playpattern feels like.

I legitimately had some one tell me Taric sucks, his heal is unusable garbage with far to long of a cd and the champions in the gutter because armor is shit. Baised off... An Aram game where he did not build armor because its "useless" I disagreed that's a relevant metric for judgment and that given his passive is required to make his Q useful. Perhaps instantly dying the moment something looks at you prevents you from chaining CDR into durability the way his kits fucking designed.

Guess which one of us benefited from a negativity bias on boards?

bluefire mark 29/1/2019, 9:43:15 PM2 votes

Riot: how can we buff tanks? Employee: i know, we can buff their damage! Riot:... i love it!

Anatera9/1/2019, 10:11:29 PM2 votes

Is this what stockholme looks like? Huh, fascinating.

Pandemic Punch9/2/2019, 11:49:04 PM1 votes

Tank champions have been weak top lane for like 2 years now. Maybe more. I'm not counting Sion, I am talking about the tank class. Even Sion has been weak for a while now though.

Full tank players have more right to complain than players who main any other class.

Tahminatrix 9/1/2019, 9:55:45 PM1 votes

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If you, as a tank, catch up to the Talon and gear your itemization against him specifically, his ability to run through you, even while he's ahead, is reduced. Why? Because he can't dps to utilize Cleaver well,

Actually most ad assassins burst via many small hits, talon especially with his R.