7.9 Highlights: Tanks (De Big 'Uns)

Meep Man··1 votes·602 views

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.


Chogath CHO'GATH, DA TANK CARRY No one and everyone saw this coming the moment they revealed this beauty right here: item 3193 . 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 SEJUANI, DA BIG PIG Check out this build: item 3047 item 3075 item 3194 item 3748 item 3025 item 3001 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 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. item 3047 item 3027 item 3001 item 3157 item 3165 item 3151 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 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).

3 Comments

UnboundHades1 votes

I have found that if your an adc and sej stuns you before you have a qss you're fucked the cc chain on that champion is not right

Rewt1 votes

They need to change Cho. guarenteed 1 shots on a 60 sec cooldown while being simultaniously unkillable is just not Ok.

Sej. She is pretty absurd. She does some crazy damage and lets not forget that the passive gives her like 120% of her armor bonus. Its insane.

Mao.... Eh. Havent seen much

Zac change was meh.

I dread the day we return to the tank meta. Im already tying my noose in preparation for that cancer. Id rather just get 1 shot all day (Preseason 7) than play another tank meta (Season 5)

Meep Man1 votes

Quick Note: The builds I listed are just what I build. Most are very flexible with their builds. If you want to be tankier, but deal less damage as Sej, Gargoyle is an option.

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