Riot Why No AP Tank Items?

Traptintime·2/18/2016, 7:48:54 PM·8 votes·960 views

Riot could we please have some decent AP tank items/ AP "bruiser items. I mean AD tanks/bruisers have a huge arsenal to choose from, item 3071 item 3053 item 3748 item 3022 item 3025, which you won't see adc (both ranged or melee's like riven) or picking up . Hell item 3025 doesnt even offer AP anymore. I know that item 3027 and item 3157 exist which offers good health and armor stats respectively. But rod is wasted when you don't use mana and is still a core item on several squishy mages while hourglass is extremely expensive and far more suited for offensive minded squishy mages. I mean as a tank you want to be tanking not invulnerable from damage during a fight.

So lets start a discussion about what could make good AP tank items, you know items that would be good on a tank not make burst mages harder to kill while maintaining their high damage. I'll start by proposing an item and feel free to shred it as much as you want but also try and offer new and creative suggestion for design space for Tank AP items.

Seekers Chainmail Cost 2600 Recipe item 1031+ item 3191 +600 Stats 60 armor 40 AP

Unique Passive: Fortified Knowledge - you gain bonus AP equal to 10% of your armor max 30 AP. (That means you have to have at least 300 armor to get the max benefits so you are rewarded for building tanky.

Unique Active: You lose your bonus AP from "Fortified Knowledge" for 30 seconds. Grant a shield to target allied equal to 100% of your armor for 2 seconds. Cooldown 85 seconds. (This gives you an interesting discussion between playing defensive or offensively as well as adding in a skill ceiling for properly sequencing abilities and item actives).

Yes Malphite might go ham with it but it could open new build paths for champs like Vladimir Chogath Nautilus Rumble to go for more straight tank items and for champs like Maokai to actually have some AP for their abilities in their build.

20 Comments

Critmaster Garen2/18/2016, 8:01:34 PM5 votes

except for IBG those are all ad bruiser items.

otherwise. item 3116 item 3060 item 3151 item 3115 item 3068 item 3001 item 3091 item 3027

there you go. ap bruiser items.

ap tanks would get some of the usual defensive items with those. randuins, spirit visage etc.

Ruin Lance2/18/2016, 8:09:32 PM3 votes

what. item 3116 item 3151 item 3001 item 3027 item 3091

KrugLyfe2/18/2016, 7:54:47 PM2 votes

Maokai is still really strong lol

Khâmul2/18/2016, 7:54:44 PM2 votes

This one too suffers from the lack of AP/tank items Mordekaiser

WoonStruck2/18/2016, 8:08:40 PM1 votes

Because they'd all have to be melee only if we didn't want another AP meta.

Though, it would allow some tanks to function mid-lane, probably.

I want a middle-ground meta for once, not one that blatantly leans towards a certain class.

Khâmul2/18/2016, 9:16:10 PM1 votes

item 3060 is more adapted for supports (or maybe some apc) than AP bruisers. 200hp is laughable. most bruisers have to stick in the fight,not really good item 3050 More supporting oriented. that mana is useless for Mordekaiser Vladimir Rumble . I never had to took them with these champions because they clearly don't need it (there's other items that are more worthy)

Darkslayer852/19/2016, 1:29:33 AM1 votes

Ya missed the nexus killer spear man guy. XinZhao

OverpoweredSoap2/19/2016, 1:31:55 AM1 votes

I personally wouldn't consider item 3091 an ap tank item because a good amount of ap tanks have shitty attack speed and usually don't use basic attacks super often.

item 3174 Is a mana rengen option, it's not that great for ap tanks.

Paladin 0f Life2/18/2016, 8:00:38 PM1 votes

Thank you!!! They disregard ap bruisers. Don't forget swain too. But they need more AP resistance and health items as well as CDR

SoundChaosDebug2/18/2016, 8:01:01 PM1 votes

I play mao full glass cannon and I don't seem to have any problems, all about the positioning. This is of course normals draft and my ELO isn't amazing

Ralanr2/18/2016, 8:06:01 PM1 votes

item 3001