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Why can't Tanks get SOME love?

KnightLakega·12/9/2019, 11:25:36 AM·5 votes·2,054 views

I'm not talking about a tank meta here... I'm just talking about being able to have 300 armor at lvl 10, and not have a senna who's 2 levels under me, chunk 45% of my hp with 2 skills and not even fed...

what the hell am i supposed to do as a tank support, that has no damage and I get assassinated by overloaded kits 2 levels under me when I have more gold, and stacking armor against their ad?

Oh look they got 2 lethality items, gg. Game over. I'm now literally useless all game....

Remember when Riot knew what tanks were supposed to do? You know.. be able to take damage from multiple sources, but do very little damage in return? Now I can't even take damage from 1 god damn source, yet I'm expected to go balls deep in a fight with 6 lethality items being trained on me and taking me out in literally a second?

gtfo riot you're all on crack.

Edit: Told people I"d get the Leona game where Senna 2 levels down chunked me by almost 45% of my hp. Unfortunately I've played to many games, and I don't have access to that anymore since then. However, I do have a game that perfectly resembles my point in the post anyway.

Defending a turret, and I get hit by 1 aatrox Q, 1 Viktor Q, and a Senna Q, E, for 45% of my hp about. If anyone else got even an auto in, that'd be half my hp gone in half a second had I chosen to go all in (if my team was there), and I'd of been dead in another half second.

Again, I'm not expecting to take no damage here.. I'm just expecting to be a tank... meanwhile aatrox or any other bruiser champ can build full damage, take less damage AND get heals injected into their kit while doing 9x more damage with CC's built in....

Why can't tanks just be... tanky? If that's literally all they got going for them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfa46GpdSEM&feature=youtu.be

21 Comments

boricCentaur112/9/2019, 4:27:42 PM6 votes

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The thigh guy12/9/2019, 11:40:10 AM5 votes

Because this is league of duty.

Riot has made it very clear that they want damage to be the only thing that matters in this game.

I don’t like it and neither does anyone outside of the Chinese Internet cafe players, but riot only cares about them now so the rest of us are shit out of luck.

RhastaFhasta12/9/2019, 11:48:13 AM2 votes

Yup riot is on crack, they got so much china money

IP Masquerena12/9/2019, 4:38:08 PM2 votes

Go play Ornn then.

If not even Fiora, you know, the 1v1 tank killer, can't outduel him, then that's pretty much all the tank you need.

Illabethe12/9/2019, 5:00:51 PM1 votes

If senna is chunking you so hard that you can't counter initiate before she kills you, you are playing tanks horribly wrong.

That being said, I've seen both sides of that fence.

Nautilus is by far one of Senna's strongest counters, BUT..... I have actually seen some Nautilus players just outright int to me too. They fed me FB on a jungle invade, missed every dredgeline, never even tried to play aggressive nor safe; They just got poked once, and then ..... didn't know what to do. Do I dive her? Do I run away? I dunno.....

The answer is almost ALWAYS to engage her. But instead of doing so, a lot of catcher supports are just running in circles trying to make up their mind, or worse, they stand where minions are in their way.

But no. Unless you're doing something horribly wrong, Senna isn't a threat to most tanks.

Furthermore, tanks are supposed to be most vulnerable early game and strong mid game. Which is how they are. Your HP and Armor growth are large as is HP regen. But, you start out at a reasonable point. So stay calm for 4-5 levels..... try not to feed, and wait for your built in advantage.

P.S. All lethality items have been hard nerfed. Stop crying. They aren't 22-28 Lethality right now. Most are 10-18.