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TANKS ARE BALANCED? 90 farm lv12 Shen vs 200 farm lv15 Zed

Juice·10/22/2019, 2:15:09 PM·3 votes·1,257 views

I know a lot of lower elo players claim tanks are weak, so I'm trying to figure out what kind of League of Legends are they playing

This low risk role can get outfarmed by DOUBLE amount and still be an insane 1v1 threat - basically dealing carry levels of damage, now imagine if Shen was 2x the CS of Zed? There's NOTHING Zed could do to him to even dent him.

How many times have I been one shot by Rammus within the duration of his taunt and red smite while playing assassins ?

"BuT tAnKs ShOuLd CoUnTeR AsSasInS" - then who counters tanks? And do ADCs counter tanks as bad as tanks counter assassins (specifically AD assassins?)

Should games be won / lost in champ select through sheer stats ?

Bonus pic : https://imgur.com/kCRoueE Maokai (((the most useless champ in the game according to LoL boards))) full tank dealing almost same damage as Poke ADC Ezreal while taking and healing by the highest amount in the game.

So, please tell me how and in what way is this role in a bad spot? Their playrate is low? Maybe because the role is boring BY DESIGN. The only time they are not boring is when they are OVERPOWERED as hell. THEY ARE EASY, STATCHECKING, LOW RISK, and I honestly don't believe they belong in League of Legends.

19 Comments

DartExplosion1010/22/2019, 2:19:09 PM8 votes

is this a troll post

nm101010/22/2019, 2:37:21 PM6 votes

He had full energy, Zed had none. Zed essentially got into an auto attack fight against someone with spammable shields, a ton of armor, an auto attack dodging mechanic, and multiple auto attack enhancers. Bad post is bad.

Quáx10/22/2019, 2:33:44 PM5 votes

Ah yes. Juice back at it again with the usual shitposts.

letsfeedtogether10/22/2019, 2:19:56 PM5 votes

AD ZED VS FULL ARMOR SHEN WITH TABIS AND GRASP WON A 1V1??? OH MY GOD THATS SO STUPID!. tanks are weak.

DuskDaUmbreon10/22/2019, 3:19:48 PM4 votes

Zed almost literally did nothing but auto, until he cast his ult on someone else entirely.

Who would have thought an ability-based champion would fail to kill someone with just autos and an E?

Ragnaveil10/22/2019, 2:23:59 PM3 votes

They are bad because of the amount of defensive ignoring stats in the game? First off, using ranked flex to back up your points is already bad in itself. Its a queue NO ONE gives a shit about, and play whatever they want. Second off your ADC built like a chimpanzee, had he not Maokai would be dead where he stands.

Also, everyone low and high elo say tanks are bad. They are right because you don't have to look far as to why: Their items suck, their base stats suck, their scaling sucks. They dont have a purpose other than being a placebo frontline to tank one spell rotation before dying.

And, for the Zed vs Shen thing. Zed had no energy and tried fighting the Shen. Fighting without a resource you need vs someone with theirs is already a lost fight.

Eedat10/22/2019, 4:04:41 PM2 votes

Why yes, assassins do suck ass against tanks contrary to popular belief

Need Gold 4 Tent10/22/2019, 7:19:22 PM1 votes

Shen is a duelling tank, which is an oddity in the class of tanks itself.

I.e. He's a tank but he somewhat fits the fighter class in that he's very good in 1v1. He isn't the greatest when compared to other actual bruiser duellists but let's just say if you're not a duelling champ, you really don't want to be messing with him in a 1v1.

On top of that you were playing an assassin. Assassins aren't meant to defeat tanks, much less a duelling one. On top of that, you played that poorly by missing pretty much everything, and taking 2 Q rotations, including an empowered one.