Tank Class Update 2017

Tyberius11··1 votes·382 views

Hi Riot and other readers,

I was very pleased to see a tank update finally this year. It has come to my attention that the update was a little underwhelming with you guys only reworking 3 tanks. As you guys have done in previous updates like The Assassin Update, more than 3 champions got new abilities and they were made so much better. While Sejuani's update is wonderful, Zac's was promising, until you nerfed him so much, and Maokai's is very weak still. Allow me to explain:

Tanks need a lot of CC, it's what makes them worth playing:

Sejuani has so much more CC now, and her passive is wonderful, job well done on her Riot, she needed more CC and her stuns are a great punishment.

Zac's new Q, a great concept looked promising, though recently you reduced the range and it seems that the two units you bring together don't go completely together as they should really have a slow for a few seconds afterwords. His new R, while good, takes too long to channel for a legitimate use and people can just walk out of it with ease.

Maokai is very unusual. His Q is still the same, his W root also, his E saplings are stronger but still very weak. The slow doesn't slow much and the brush advantage isn't very advantageous. If anything, the brush saplings should have a stronger slow and possibly more damage/last longer in brush. And finally his ult, while a cool concept, is odd. He already has a root (W) so why'd you give him another root? That was odd to me.

Why didn't you guys rework more tanks? We would've loved more tanks to be reworked like you did many more champions in other class updates.

TLDR: The 3 tank champion updates are nice but there are some changes that need to be implemented.

Thanks, Tyberius11

12 Comments

Big Lincoln3 votes

all 3 are shit reworks

Tyberius111 votes

Interesting viewpoint! Can you please elaborate?

Big Lincoln3 votes

zac can NOT be outplayed

sej wins and loses in champ select

Maokai base kit still lacking in counterplay

Tyberius111 votes

I completely agree with your comment on Maokai. He is still very weak. Sejuani is getting a lot of attention as her cc is what it should have been a while ago, so I find her to be good. Zac is strong in some aspects, but if you have some cc on your team like hooks, then it's easily counterable.

Big Lincoln3 votes

vehemently disagree. Sej pre-rework should not have been considered a tank, but a bruiser with strong initiation. she was not picked so that she could be the champ to single-handedly stunlock people forever; she gave you a combination of a strong front line and a damage threat to the enemy carries, while making up for it by not having a strong defensive steroid (only +25 armor late game)

i consider it a great insult and injustice that riot made her a CC bot. isn't even the same champion anymore.

Mordepool2 votes

Their are still some glaring inaccuracies when it comes to Riots Classification system. That said I believe all three who were chosen were fine before and they should have Reworked Different champions altogether

Mordepool2 votes

Less is more. They did Posts about it in the Developers corner. Perhaps check it out

Tyberius111 votes

Thanks for your kind comment! Can you perhaps send me a link to said post/s?

Mordepool2 votes

No I don't think I will. I believe pointing you in the right direction and allowing you to do the research yourself is more beneficial for both of us in the long term

Tyberius111 votes

Sounds fair. Thank you again for not being a toxic boards commenter and disagreeing with me and calling me bad.

Mordepool2 votes

Everyone has something to bring to any discussion. Trying to make something constructive collaboratively is the goal

Tyberius111 votes

It's funny you mention that, almost all the posts I make to the boards of my personal opinion get so much hate and/or people tell me I am bad.

Thanks for your nice comment. Means a lot. Oh and I found the Dev corner articles. I think I may have read one or two of them back when they first came out but it didn't stick in my brain seems like lol.

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