Going Tanky in URF

LODEELOLO··3 votes·1,806 views

Earlier today, I was fortunate enough to get Singed in ARURF. I went with item 3800 item 3116 item 3151 item 3742 item 3075 item 3047 .

Their team had Quinn Kayn Akali Gangplank Caitlyn .

They were stomping us pretty hard early. At some point in the game, I had everything complete except for Thornmail (but I had the Bramble Vest). Around that time, the Quinn starts complaining to me about how I went tanky in URF. The enemies started to say that I should have built AP instead. When I asked why, they simply responded with "It's URF". I thought that my damage was sufficient enough. If I did go full damage, I would have just died in a few hits when I try to do anything to them. Instead of trying to figure out their reasoning in all chat, I decided just to post here instead.

I normally wouldn't think much of it since it is was coming from people that were probably bitter, but I remember a comment from Redmercy's latest video in which he ranked the top 10 URF champions. In that video, he says something along the lines of "Only the most evil and atrocious people would build tanky" (paraphrasing).

So what is the deal with it? Is it courtesy to not build any tank items in that mode? Maybe they just watched the video too and got brainwashed from it. If it turns out that it is taboo to build tanky in URF, I will still do it. You guys can't make me feel bad for doing it. I just thought that it is an interesting question that I would like to know the answer to. And yes, I am low ELO. Doesn't mean that I am not allowed to have any thoughts.

4 Comments

Danjeng2 votes

There's nothing wrong with building tank in URF. It's just that defensive stats don't scale as well as offensive in URF, due to everybody being able to output a ton of damage due to low cooldowns and infinite mana.

Mawootad2 votes

Nothing wrong with that. A lot of tank champs in URF are better off going pure damage due to having higher gold incomes and no longer having issues with using all abilities and then being useless (Malphite and Amumu being great examples of that), but off-tank and even full tank are still legit builds on some champs.

LaMuert32 votes

Only thing I see is little kids, teens and raging 20 year olds getting upset cause they can't Insta kill you like they should be. Which leads then to probably think you're trolling. I mean it's not your fault for picking singed, but it helps fit the trolling process. Lol

hhaavviikk1 votes

going full tank works great on mundo but that's because of a inherent problem with his kit, health % damage which has a minimum damage and is bs

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