Tanks

notmebuthim··2 votes·622 views

The only time I feel like the game is unbalanced is when a champ that is given free tank stats builds full damage and one shots me with out me being able to one shot them back. Or a tank given a massive execution true damage nuke of an ult... Darius Chogath Garen Graves Jax Maokai Shen Vladimir Volibear Trundle Swain Irelia Illaoi . I dont lose to all of these champs, but man... I think more tanks should be like Malphite, where their power is increased as they get more tank items rather then just having high base damage high sustain and super tanky. Low base damage and high scaling would be cool too...

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EndlessSorcerer2 votes

The only champions who are actual tanks in that list are Cho'gath (who also functions as a mage depending on the build), Maokai and Shen.

There rest are fighters and/or mages (and Graves is a marksman).

Riot defined the champion classes and subclasses here if you want to learn about them.

Marshbouy1 votes

darius, juggernat and easily kited cho gath, easily kited garen, juggernaut, easily kited graves. graves is a fucking marksman. jax is a bruiser. fucking none of the champions you put up there are actual tanks except shen and maokai. I have never been one shot by a shen or maokai. You are thinking of pure tanks. those are next to useless nowadays.

CerealBoxOfDoom1 votes

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The only time I feel like the game is unbalanced is when a champ that is given free tank stats builds full damage and one shots me with out me being able to one shot them back. Or a tank given a massive execution true damage nuke of an ult... Darius Chogath Garen Graves Jax Maokai Shen Vladimir Volibear Trundle Swain Irelia Illaoi . I dont lose to all of these champs, but man... I think more tanks should be like Malphite, where their power is increased as they get more tank items rather then just having high base damage high sustain and super tanky. Low base damage and high scaling would be cool too...

most of those aren't tanks

but more importantly do you understand what a tank is?

Tanks hit fucking hard but then have to reload.

Ralanr1 votes

You know nothing of tanks.

67chrome1 votes

The only time I feel like the game is unbalanced is when a champ that is given free tank stats builds full damage and one shots me with out me being able to one shot them back.

rather then just having high base damage high sustain and super tanky.

Most tanks and fighters don't start out being super tanky. Juggernauts especially. Base-stat wise many only have ~10% more HP/armor than a typical squishy. In most cases, "super tanky" is something that's only achieved through itemization.

Sona even beats Shen Sion in the base HP/armor war.

The main champions that start with great tankyness are either tanky supports like Alistar, Braum, and Leona or light-fighters/assassins/melee-carry deals like Jax, Fizz, Master Yi, Fiora, Pantheon, Nocturne, and other such champions that have a 100% damage block mechanic.

Which is kind of awkward to complain about when you have a Fizz avatar, just saying.


Also: in regards to tanks doing tons of damage, main pattern I've found in LoL is that the difference between juggernauts, fighters, assassins, marksman, and mages has much more to do with how they survive long enough to kill things over how efficiently they can kill things. With most non-support rolls, everyone has pretty equal kill potential.

They just rely on defense, defense and speed, speed, speed and range, range, or range and defense to survive long enough to kill things.

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