New Conqueror is better against squishy targets than it is against tanks ?
I feel like new conq just doesn't do anything against tanks. Meanwhile I'm melting squishies with it. Intended or nah ?
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They removed its anti tank portions entirely, and instead shifted it to raw damage, that scales into every damaging ability. Champs with it will burst harder, AA harder, and do more sustained damage. This in turn means more of their damage is mitigated by resistances (same percentage, but larger numbers means more damage mitigated) but champs without resistances (say, ADCs, behind champs, enchanters, etc) will simply take more damage. Furthermore, as they heal for a % of damage dealt, they will heal for more against squishy targets.
Finally, conqueror now scales really well with penetration, particularly flat Magic Pen and Lethality, which further cements it into an anti squishy, weak against tank niche. The anti tank rune is PTA, if you were wondering, as evidenced by pro play last year including Worlds 2019 where even when conq gave true damage PTA was still favored over Conq for dealing with tanks.
Squishys dying faster than tanks? Working as intendet if you ask me....
The point of Conqueror is not that you melt tanks(not anymore), but that you simply ignore their lowish damage with the sustain and thus still easily come out ahead in the 1v1 extendet fights.
In my opinion, if they want conq to be the primary 'anti-tank' rune (not sure if that is exactly their intent as that might be TOO narrow) and the true damage was too strong (it was) then they can meet in the middle a bit. Rather than getting a bunch of ad/ap (now) or true damage (old), it could be a small amount of ad/ap and a small % armor pen. The % armor pen would be much more effective against a tank than against a squishy.
Why are we complaining about tanks? They are still in a weak spot and weaker as supports since the preseason. In top lane, there are only 3 tank champions in the top 20. One of them doesnt even build full tank... it builds mage hybrid.
You cant really make tanks weaker than they already are. The only two tanks in the top 20 that you have to worry about are ornn and shen. The rest of the lane is still dominated by fighters, bruisers, and mages like it has been for the last 3-4 years. And that is getting old.
Riot attempted to make tanks viable solo laners by making conqueror worse against them, however all it did was make tanks even less viable as solo laners because now your solo laners HAVE to be carries with how EXP is distributed in S10. Ultimately I think this was the plan though, they don't actually want tank meta, they want 1 shot right click outplay meta. Also Conqueror is still good enough vs tanks in the 1v1 anyway. You can sustain alot of their damage with conqueror healing and most bruisers have some way to deal with armor + 
, and mages have 
. The champions that don't have ways to deal with armor though are just not viable like 
and 
even who actually has a surprising 49% winrate atm. The only viable positions for tanks are the same as last season, jungle and support.
I mean, you remove the true damage aspect and increase its raw damage....of course it does less to tanks and more to squshies...... that's just common knowledge.....
Try it as Ryze and Cassiopeia against Tanks and you will start doubting your statement