7.9 Highlights: Tanks (De Big 'Uns)
If you know me, you know I zoggin' love Tanks. They the greatest and the strongest among the roster, making them my favorites. While my own experience is as limited as most others, I have found the following interesting tings in my time in this patch.
Before we get started, I will say that I overall enjoy this patch so far in comparison to other Class Update First Days.
CHO'GATH, DA TANK CARRY
No one and everyone saw this coming the moment they revealed this beauty right here:
. Cho'Gath can pop it's active to grow EVEN LARGER and increase his health pool, which is already immense, by 40%-100%, making him both stupidly hard to kill and deal butt loads of damage with his R. This guy is a menace and we will see if he is noticed by the community as the patch continues. Not sure if he is hotfix worthy or even 100% nerf worthy till further experience is obtained.
SEJUANI, DA BIG PIG
Check out this build:
This is my own build in-lane with Sej, da big pig. In the jungle, you replace an item of your choice with Cinderhulk of course. Sejuani is da big pig of the patch and deals butt tons of damage while providing butt tons of crowd control. Thornmail is bought to abuse yor passive in the first splash of the fight, making anyone basic attacks you to have to remind themselves that you are Sejuani and not Rammus. Adaptive Helm is a really powerful item that provides resistance against sustained magic damage, similar to your Thornmail and Ninja Tabi's are. Thornmail is a new item I buy on Sej to proc her E faster and therefore do some ridiculous CC chains with da big classic:
Q+W+AA+Titanic+E+Walk Away+R+W+AA+Q
...big pig combo. This deals da big damage against Tanks and Squishy bugs alike, making you da big pig of da team in team fights and duels.
MAOKAI, DA BAD COP JUNGLE LORAX
YOU THOUGHT MAOKAI WAS A TANK?! INCORRECT! It's much beter to build him as an AP Bruiser with CDR in order to fill the enemy's jungle with extremely high damage saplings and make roaming a living pain.
With respectable defenses and some big boy health and AP, plus max CDR, Maokai's E will be dealing an absolute metric ton of damage to enemies they spot and catch in the jungle, making the jungle near Maokai very hazardous for your health.
ZAC, DA BLOB
Zac actually hasn't changed too much really. Dive in and mess up everyone around you. It just takes a little longer now. In my opinion, Zac is the most underwhelming of the Tank reworks and needs a few adjustments to make him like the rest: BIG BOSSES! (or big pigs).