The boards are more excited about a Tank meta/rework than anything in the past year

Key words: "RNG"

Except it wasnt 30 secs to a min. I played multiple games during the tank meta where people died, re spawned, died, re spawns some again, and could still return to the same fight

In theory, yes, but in our last tank meta, what happened? You ended up with a tank top, jungle, and support, a mage mid to waveclear, and an adc who could use botrk bot (trust, vayne, kog, twitch).

Most mages, fighters, and assassins were near unplayable, due to the dominance of tanks.

And please note, I'm talking about a tank meta, not a perfect meta where everything is balanced.

That's viable, not strong. If tanks are strong in all of those roles, that goes completely out the window.

No, you actually just pick tanks to pick off the enemy ADCs, and then you pick more tanks to try and peel the other tanks from your own ADCs.

What you describe there is not a tank meta, it is balance.

I could do the same with every other class and describe it like it would be healthy.

We have a Mage meta: we need assassins to take out the mages we need tanks to peel off these assassins from the carries we need marksmen to kill these tanks we need enchanters to protect the marksmen

You see, it works the exact same way. That means a balanced game. But if you have a tank meta, that means that tanks are significantly stronger than other classes and so the game is not balanced. Like already mentioned: we just would see tanks and tank busters in a game. Any champ who is not a tank or able to deal with tanks easily gets pushed out of the game. Because tanks are in advantage.

There's a difference between a meta wherein tanks are viable and a tank meta. In a meta wherein tanks are viable, your situation can arise. In a tank meta, your situation doesn't arise because the roles are all being swamped by the dominant tanks and anyone who can't handle not just one tank but several is no longer a viable choice. This means burst champions get phased out in favor of sustained damage just so the tanks actually have a chance of dying and forms of burst survivability tend to come into vogue because it's hard to kill a tank who just gained 500+ hp back in just a couple of seconds or less given his defense stats even with sustained damage.

This is incredibly important to remember: You do not want a tank meta. You want a balanced meta. Any meta that has a class name/role preceding it is instantly an unbalanced one because that role dictates what is and is not allowed to be viable. You want to aim for a balanced meta, not [role] meta.

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Not really true.

In a meta where Tanks can be viable in a multitude of roles (Top, Jungle, Support, and Mid with Galio), almost everything is viable as a result.

You need ADCs and Battle Mages to whittle down the tanks.

You need Assassins and Burst Mages to kill the ADCs and Battle Mages.

You need Enchanters to protect the ADCs from the Assassins, etc.

You need Fighters to offset the support by subsisting in the middle of combat and dealing a lot of sustained damage while being durable.

You need Tanks to peel off those Fighters.

And it's a never ending cycle.

No lol in tank meta its tank jungle tank top and tank support. The adc and mid are just for show

I shall reiterate. Tank. Meta.

In tank metas, tanks are so strong, assassins literally cannot do their jobs, same with squishy supports. In tank metas, tanks bowl over everything.

when tanks are strong, they have some of the least counterplay of any class, because they live forever, and can still kill you.

It's because they take no skill, that they are easier to climb with. At the same time, you are neutering your ability to mechanically outplay opponents,

It's the difference between straight up riding a bike, and learning using a tricycle. Yeah, you are gonna be moving sooner, but in the end, who's gonna move faster.

Wait, supports don't 100-0 people enough already?

DF