The advent of the Dodge Tank

Zero Shingetsu··2 votes·1,131 views

I'm advocating for the arrival of a new age.

I'm going to leave this game after my current event is done, but before I go, I'd like to provide the community who has supported me for so long with a strategy for overcoming the current anti-tank meta. In Japan, there are certain games with a style of character we we refer to as... Well I can't type it or I'll get chastised again. But the translation is essentially "Dodge Tank". These characters have low health, but protect their party by having insane dodge mechanics that allow them to attract aggression and dodge the incoming attacks to stay alive.

Now as most of us know, currently, resistances are useless. Lucian kills a 200+ armor Leona in less than four seconds. Literally. Literally literally. Not Millennially literally, but dictionary literally. If that's not what obsolescence looks like, call me a blind man. Instead, I'm introducing the dawning of a new age. The age of the Dodge Tank.

I intend to play mobile champions - LeBlanc, Akali, Nidalee, Shaco, etc. - who are annoying and difficult to ignore... as tanks. Build a little resistance. Call it ablative armor. Build some health. Build plenty of speed and CDR. Then get into the opponent's face, backdoor to draw their attention, and stay mobile. Get them off your team and onto you, and make sure they don't hit you.

This is the future of League if it has one at all. Riot's not going to fix anything. We ask and ask and they completely ignore us. (Too busy being mercurial with Faker, I suppose.) If the players don't adapt to this brave new world, frustration will soon set in and the game will stop being fun entirely. Join me, my friends. Join me in restoring order to our once beloved game.

Every meta has started with a demand for innovation. It's time to start our meta. It's time to Dodge Tank.

7 Comments

ADC Yuumi4 votes

Zoe summoner 4 summoner 21 item 3111 item 3027 item 3102 item 3512 item 3083 item 3512 Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of ya, pal.

Zero Shingetsu1 votes

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Zoe summoner 4 summoner 21 item 3111 item 3027 item 3102 item 3512 item 3083 item 3512 Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of ya, pal.

Man after my own heart. :)

iiGazeii1 votes

What runes do you run? I feel like you'd need some more CDR to really make it work. Maybe swap out the second ZZ'Rot for item 3157 / item 3001 / item 3110 ?

nosafterburn1 votes

so you like to play Goku. I'm more of a Vegeta man myself but w/e.

Ravenhale1 votes

Ugh... you mean I have to learn mechanically intensive champions? My arthritic, fat fingers can't handle such things.

Zero Shingetsu1 votes

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Ugh... you mean I have to learn mechanically intensive champions? My arthritic, fat fingers can't handle such things.

Hey, I have the reflexes of a medicated sloth. If I can do it, anything's possible. :D

Tahminatrix 1 votes

Ive done something similar on Cassiopeia where I build her as a drain tank and I literally orb walk into the enemy team dodging half the skillshots thrown at me and outhealing anything that hits me.

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