Why don't tanks get free tenacity? Similar to the degree that fighters get free armor pen.
It makes sense. The defensive tree is where you find the bonus tenacity so riot clearly sees it as a defensive stat. It seems intuitive and would make them better at eating CC and damage for the team.
LankPants2 votesTenacity isn't a particularly good stat for most tanks.
What tenacity does is allow you to act continuously, for most tanks this isn't a huge issue. If I get stunned as Sejuani I don't care that much, I still have my radiant AOE damage and strong chase abilities when the CC ends. I also don't need a long time to cast my highest impact ability, if I'm not chain CCed I can ult and generally break and turn a CC chain on me, even if I do get CCed again my ult is so high impact it doesn't always matter anyway. Because of these factors breaking CC early as a tank doesn't often matter.
The champs who want Tenacity are mostly fighters who need constant action because they rely far more on active DPS, often auto attacks. If you CC a Jax he loses valuable DPS while if you CC a Naut he doesn't always even lose anything.
deadlychuck1 votesI'm not saying that they particularly need the stat.
However fighters don't particularly need armor pen either, but if riot is going to just be giving away free stats, then tenacity on tanks seems like the most sensible option.
Imperial Pandaa1 votesSo I once tried to get 100% tenacity on Mundo since he gets some with his kit. Apparently it caps out at 69. That probably isn't relevant though. xD
EndlessSorcerer1 votesTenacity scales multiplicatively, not additively.
deadlychuck1 votesWiki always has the theory crafted highest possible values for stats.
The highest persistent level of crowd control reduction in the game can be achieved by Irelia Irelia with 3 nearby foes for the maximum benefit of Ionian Fervor.png Ionian Fervor, any item bearing Tenacity and five points in the mastery Swiftness mastery s4.png Swiftness for 67% reduced crowd control. With an Elixir of Iron item.png Elixir of Iron, she can achieve a further 4 minutes of 75% crowd control reduction, and if Cleanse.png Cleanse is used on top of this, Irelia Irelia can achieve 3 seconds of 91% crowd control reduction, which is the highest reduction possible in League of Legends.
Jinzo Torrance1 votesWhich Fighter gets Armor Penentration other than Darius?
deadlychuck1 votesinb4 "those aren't fighters"
Then it's not like it's uncommon for most of these guys to go BC and/or LW.