us tanks need all the CC we keep getting it's our job to cc with minimal counterplay

Big Lincoln··4 votes·343 views

but we don't want to give up any of our already high base damage even tho we've got CC on 3-4 spells hehe, we need kill pressure in lane too even though we want to be tanky teamfight gods

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oSEXYPLATYPUSo2 votes

other champs have high damage out puts while have cc

Big Lincoln2 votes

usually 1 cc spell

not 3

Anags1 votes

Who has 3 hard cc spells?

chipndip11 votes

Zac

Big Lincoln2 votes

Zac Galio Sejuani

coincidentally all 3 of them are op

Alistar Nautilus too but he booty and Leona if you count that mini-snare on E but the supports are balanced because they aren't also huge damage threats

ProfDrDeath1 votes

Also, Leona has only her ult and her mini-snare for AoE CC. Her main CC tool, Q, is single target, but super spammable (5 seconds base CD).

EndlessSorcerer1 votes

Nautilus Zac Sejuani Alistar Galio Leona Maokai

Poppy if you count W's interrupt against dashes.

It's fairly common among tanks.

Anags1 votes

And Sej and Zac are the only two with good winrates. And most of them have at least one very conditional cc. And it's not that common.

Galio was nerfed and is sporting a solid 44% winrate top now so I don't know why people complain about him in soloq after the recent patch.

Right now you are better off just playing tanks support or jungle and that is it.

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

Ahri has two Ashe has two Annie has two Caitlyn has two Yasuo has two

shall i continue ?

Big Lincoln1 votes

what 2 cc do annie and ahri have? ahri has charm and annie has passive stun?

ashe has ult and her permaslow but she's not a tank and she's immobile af cait is op yasuo CC is more conditional than any tank's

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

annies stun passive and tibbers , if you dont think tibbers cc's you then dont run from it lol

ahris charm and well my bad i though her W slowed you as it attacked you maybe that was just the item 3116 meta

Big Lincoln1 votes

i think tibbers CC only if Annie uses her stun lol

she does build rylai tho, I hate it

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

well to your point im being autofilled support like 5 times in row...

all maokai all tank build 5-0 http://imgur.com/UJUYt8v

9-7-87 kda for 13.71kda 58.6% kill participation

Big Lincoln1 votes

op tank :^(

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

update

just finished another game. auto fill support maokai another win so 6-0 this time with a 2-1-26 kda and 58% kill participation

so now a total 11-8-113 kda 15.5

chipndip11 votes

But tanks don't build damage, nor do they scale well. They have higher base damage so they can potentially get tankier faster, unlike other champs that get kills and get more damage.

Big Lincoln2 votes

the issue is that new tanks are getting more cc than previous, without actually losing much in terms of damage besides sej. zac, galio in particular have this issue, being CC machines but still having the capacity to chunk people hard - tbh i think gragas is dumb in this regard too but he at least builds bruiser

the tradeoff has evidently disappeared and tank balance has gotten very fucky this season

support tanks are fine having monster amounts of cc because they're not going to do any damage at all

chipndip11 votes

But Galio falls off later in the game, posing a similar issue to Poppy's situation: If he's not allowed to be strong early, he's not going to be strong period. How is he going to be good at all as a Warden if there's no time he can go aggro and rake in gold because "muh dmg"?

It's the exact same thing that nerfed Poppy into the low tier for months, and we're doing it again.

Big Lincoln1 votes

well then don't put cc on 3 or all 4 spells and it won't be cancer when they have damage too

shen has 1 hard CC and it's completely fine that he gets to be a duelist. poppy? not at all

chipndip11 votes

Shen isn't as strong as Poppy/Galio early because he's comparatively stronger than other Wardens later in the game thanks to global utility on his ult. Poppy and Galio don't give people shields from anywhere on the map while teleporting to their location. Poppy in particular becomes nothing but a ram-bot come late game, with all her hard cc having conditions to their usage on top of all her damage being shaved off (R can't be combo'd off of during the knock-up, E has to hit a wall, W has to be dashed into). I can understand the argument that Galio should at least build some damage before he does some damage since he's actually meant to, but Poppy got royally fucked over due to people not understanding her powercurve.

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