Tank Class Update 2017
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