We all agreed the Assassin meta was toxic, now you complain about Tank meta?

Fadedpf··2 votes·997 views

Tanks are still the same. The jungler tanks with cinderhulk are just more powerful than before. If the team has 2 or more tanks and you have 1 or none at all, its gonna be hard to win that game. It isn't impossible. The ability to soak damage and dish out CC as a tank means nothing if you don't have teamwork. Assassin junglers/Bruisers are just as good at winning as a tank jungler. It is all about the objectives and early game pressure, who farms the most, who gets the most kills and what team can out preform the other. Some tanks right now might be a little too strong like Sejuani but that doesn't change the fact that it is Sejuani. A champion that is easy to counter jungle, has a weaker early game and is team reliant. So before everyone complains about tanks think about how you preformed and how tanks have many flaws. Being kited and focused by 4 people isn't very attractive, tanks can still melt in approximately 2.5 seconds if you focus the frontline, not the ideal target but still viable, destroy the tanks, destroy the squishies.

Edit: And lets not forget about your tank melting item options. item 3035 item 3135 item 3153 item 3071 item 3151 item 3020 item 3134 with heavy lifesteal item 3072

8 Comments

Zmuecat3 votes

This is all just my opinion, but... Most of the people complaining about the new tank meta are people who probably enjoyed it when every single target on the enemy team was a squishy that could be assassinated/bursted quickly. Nothing really changed outside of jungle tanks (and anyone willing to give up a summoner spell for an item) ability to perform at an equalish level as the holy trinity +1 of Vi/J4/Lee Sin +Who ever was about to be nerfed.

Another opinion: If the stat multiplier was on another item, we may see less people buying jungle items, but still going for the item with the multiplier on it.

disregardable1 votes

Yeah, I genuinely thought the late season 4 meta was awesome. It was a good time to be an adc.

BluePolarizer2 votes

whose complaining lol? I don't even get complaints in my games in high gold unless its one of those fking annoying "mid only" nerds.

Hemulen Magi1 votes

Yeah, I rarely see any complaints about this "tank meta" as well. Honestly, I am a bit confused about why this is even being called a "tank meta". Tanks being played does not equal tank domination.

In the current meta, the most common picks (based on lolking data) are: Top: Riven/Cho'Gath; Jungle: Lee Sin/Vi; Mid: Ahri/Zed; ADC: Jinx/Graves; Support: Morgana/Thresh ...There aren't even any true tanks in that lineup. Tanks clearly aren't even mandatory in the current meta, but even if a tank became a requirement for every team comp, how would that be less healthy than every team requiring a ranged ADC since season 1? If things remain as they are, actual tank junglers might eventually outcompete Lee Sin and Vi for popularity, but that hasn't even happened yet and it would be perfectly healthy for the game if it did.

Now, I feel it was legitimately unhealthy back when we were seeing comps like: Top: Riven/Tryndamere; Jungle: Kha'zix/Vi; Mid: Zed/LeBlanc; ADC: Lucian/Graves; Support: Annie/Morgana ... Pretty much everyone was built as a glass cannon.

The equivalent of that if we had a real tank meta would be something like: Top: Shen/Sion; Jungle: Nautilus/Sejuani; Mid: Swain/Vladimir; ADC: Vayne/Kog'Maw; Support: Braum/Leona ... In fact, for it to be completely equivalent, the ADC would need to be built bruiserish with 2+ defensive items so that there aren't any glass-cannon champions in the comp. There has never, ever been a meta like that before and there probably won't be in the foreseeable future.

lB2kGRlc8y1 votes

The lb and zed mains are complaining

Very Hard Engage2 votes

i like the new tank meta, people now have to be innovative kiters and pick team based champions instead of 1v1 duelists

lB2kGRlc8y2 votes

Yea, champs like ashe veigar and kogmaw can fulfill their intended roles now instead of filing the feed the leblanc role.

Extreme Troller2 votes

there is no tank meta nooblord. Just an op item that provide more health than a warmog, give 20% reduction damage, does true damage, give free gold, is cheaper, and does more damage than a sunfire. This item is worth 4650 gold but cost only 2250 gold, just be intelligent. You know there is a problem when 3 people start with smite in every game now just to buy this op item.

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