when can we make not picking tank tops and jungles a bannable offense :D

lil koda·Feb 12, 2018·1 votes·355 views

losing games that i have 0 control over is getting kind of insane due to top and jungle not picking tank, ty.

7 Comments

PopcornBunniFeb 12, 20182 votes

Playing a tank in toplane is the most miserable experience. You get shit on by poke champs, outtanked by juggernauts, and die in three autos from fighters until you get two and a half finished items.

All so you can have no control over the actual outcome of the game while the enemy Xayah is 3/0/1 and 40 cs ahead of your botlane.

Playing a noncarry role in soloqueue is akin to just flipping a coin to decide if you win.

ZéychinFeb 12, 20182 votes

Not saying team comps aren't important, that is something your team needs to figure out together, because someone needs to be able to engage fights. At least one, preferably two or more of support/top/jungler/mid should be the primary initiator, which is usually a tank or someone like Annie.

However, hard-tanks, the selfless top-laners can be terrible picks as well. I'll cite an example. You first pick Shen. They immediately pick Fiora. Shen can't outdamage Fiora. Shen's W has an extremely long cooldown. Shen's only movement ability which is also his engage ability has a fairly long cooldown and can be parried. Shen's passive doesn't block enough damage to lane against Fiora. By level 9, Shen has to actively run away from Fiora.

Junglers maybe gank top lane one time, two times max if you TP back to lane after dying and the jungler is still nearby. The focus on bot lane snowball is too important right now.

Tanks lose every matchup against Juggernauts of equal skill, hands down. They lose against ranged matchups of equal skill as well. There are some Fighter-class champions they can deal with, but they will not objectively win lane a majority of the time. The only statistically even lanes they have right now are against other tanks.

It's great to have your Malphite TP bot lane to counter a gank and help your team turn get kills, but if he's 0/2 or 0/3, or behind 30 CS by the time he can even try to make that play, he's not going to be tanky enough and he is probably just going to die along with you.

A lot of the game is about team composition, yes, but there are times when you specifically do not want to pick hard tanks top lane.

FOR JUSTICEFeb 12, 20181 votes

not all toplaners have to be tanks you know. just not like all junglers are tanks. players refusing to not play the cliché of their role shouldn't be a bannable offence.

Lord of MathFeb 12, 20181 votes

Some tanks can be played midlane, some can be played support,

redniwediSFeb 12, 20181 votes

If you want top or jungle to be a tank then play top or jungle and pick a tank.

SnyperWulffFeb 12, 20181 votes

It's never going to happen. Riot isn't going to ban people for picking against the meta. Threatening bans because a player doesn't pick a certain class in a certain lane would cause Riot to lose players in the blink of an eye.

You can't make a person play a certain champion or class.