why do tanky junglers/top tanks in general do as much damage as they do?

Drakkardnoir6·1/28/2017, 10:15:42 PM·3 votes·886 views

i cant get this over my head, every time i play it's the same thing over and over again. i get it im new, because i wont lie, sit here and say that i am a diamond player, i am a silver 4 player that basically just strted playing ranked. but the thing that i always see is these tanky, and i mean TANKY junglers/top laners that build full armor/hp and still manage to get a ton of damage across, like for example rengar, im not calling him op or anything but jesus, every time i go against him it's the same thing, full tank build with little to no damage at all and jumps, slows and bursts down a ton of hp. or renekton even, full fkin tank and still does a load of damage, i know everything has its counters but this looks ridiculous to me, they manage to get so much damage across even with their full tank build.

20 Comments

Alzon1/28/2017, 10:22:33 PM3 votes

That's just mid-game. Their damage falls off pretty hard late game. A four-item ADC who kites well and has even a little bit of peel will always out-damage a four-item tank.

Divine Winds1/28/2017, 10:17:27 PM1 votes

They have more relative damage output since they live longer than the average damage carry. A lot of tank junglers also need higher base stats because they build tank, and need the extra damage to clear.

Ralanr1/28/2017, 10:25:26 PM1 votes

Top lane tanks and junglers need high base damages to farm in their roles and be a relative threat to their opponent.

Rengar is just very dumb at the moment and Renekton is a well known lane bully who hurts a lot. They both usually build a bruiser item as well so they get a damage boost.

But an actual tank can only really hurt a squishy (exception is Poppy who hurts everyone). Trying to fight a fighter with damage items as a full tank tank is usually a losing battle. Especially if they have incombat sustain (something that tanks generally lack).

ScissorsNstuff1/28/2017, 10:48:45 PM1 votes

its not that they do so much damage, its just that you don't build to do enough damage and they have better early scaling.

tank != no damage

tank == very different power curve

tanks should be kicking your ass earlygame