Suggested buffs to pure tanks (NOT hybrid JUGGERNAUTS) to counter the current adc meta

GoldenSlayer825··2 votes·533 views

The current meta and item buffs for adcs to counter tanks mid to late game are very effective and sometimes gamechanging, exceptionally ad champs that deal % hp damage. My suggestion is that when a tank's defensive ability (ex. rammus w, leona w, and even malphite w) is active, gives them a **temporary **buff that halves % hp damage/true damage, all armor/magic pen, and apply a weak version of grievous wounds (20-30% heal reduction) to the assaulting target until the end of the ability's duration. This buffs should be on real tanks only, not darius, mord, garen(he already has damage reduce on his w). To make sure proper buffs to the right champs and overall game balance, this should appear on champs like rammus after they have gotten 250 total armor or 180 total mr and other champs (full tank garen?) after 150 bonus armor or 140 bonus mr.

Feel free to comment your hearts out about this or come up with some version of buffs to save the tanks from being taken out solo by an adc in under 8 seconds late game while not even breaking their bt shield.

6 Comments

TehNACHO3 votes

Nooooo.

You want to counter DPS Champs? Buff the Burst Mages and Assassins already designed to counter them. Buffing tanks to counter ADCs simply removes the purpose of having DPS Champs in the first place and drags us dangerously close to the original Cinderhulk Meta.

GoldenSlayer8252 votes

Its called temporary buff, it only last while their defense ability is up and running, which is around 5-8 seconds, the good adcs players will kite the tanks then kill them as it is right now after it ended, bad adcs will struggle to not take damage. Besides, this is just to even the meta, you can change the % that it effects, to like reduce armor pen by only 20% instead of half as I stated above. And since when does burst counter tank? You ever tried to burst a full tank malphite using a zed in this patch, zed can only take off at max 1/3 of mal's hp with a full combo and he is vulnerable afterwards as malphite autos him to death.

Nogrim1 votes

ramm already gets a pretty major buff to his damage while his W is active (passive is 25% of his armour added to his attack damage) with a full rank W (+ 150 armour iirc) that is an extra 37 damage adding more would be a bad bad idea.

Mr Broken Wings2 votes

Its not adc meta btw. Pure tanks are stronger because last whisper is shit right now. http://champion.gg/champion/Malphite Just an example, easy to play, 55% winrate. We DONT need buff for them, pretty much the contraire.

BluePolarizer1 votes

pure tanks are already dominating. Rammus and Malphite are top 5 win rate god tier champs.

Nogrim1 votes

rammus main, it might be true for other tanks but ramm doesnt need a buff in his current state

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