I actually had a Top Laner in champ select who flipped Lee Top, Flamed me for Sona Supp & Continued to dodge as if it's the Support's job to tank. Sorry .. tired of everyone always thinking it's support's job to be the tank but Top and Jungle have options.
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Kitty Clarissa29 votesSupport "tanks" are not real tanks since they can't farm so they can tank for the team, they mainly provide engage at most but they cant soak up as much as a top lane tank with items, They cant buy 
etc because they have to invest in 
etc and also is forced to duo lane + roaming so they fall behind in level + gold compared to the top lane 
who will be unkillable mid game.
Another issue is they get poked by 
and they will lose more xp and gold in lane since they HAVE to take hits for the carry. AT most late game they end up someone who can catch someone out and CC them OR peeling when its the actual job of the farmed tank to take hits from a team
is 
or 
going to engage and soak up a full AD leathlity team? no they will die instantly do to being 3 levels bellow them .
AbsoluteSadman2 votesHe's downvoted but he's right
XeroKimo1 votesI mean nothing is stopping you from going to full tank, sure you're behind in gold, but late game comes, everyone is full build or near full build, and you'll have like 40 less resistance on average while maintaining about the same amount of health, if you're team get's ahead you'll easily rack up gold from assists, if you're behind, it's harder to be tank
Papa Andrei6 votesEveryone is full build 30 minutes, Support tanks are around 50 minutes.
Ralanr1 votesBeing full build at late game for a tank is like getting your triforce on Irelia 30 minutes in: you've well missed your powerspike.
CarameI Frappe1 votes[{quoted}](name=Chiaki Naname,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=grKbzPff,comment-id=0003,timestamp=2017-02-21T15:31:29.375+0000)
Support "tanks" are not real tanks since they can't farm so they can tank for the team, they mainly provide engage at most but they cant soak up as much as a top lane tank with items, They cant buy
Another issue is they get poked by
is
This guy gets it, and for that you get an upvote.
boggletap1 votesthis, and that tank supports only get short windows of tankiness from their kit, which a lot of people dont seem to understand.
's W with shield up, 
with ult on, etc. they briefly become about as tanky as top/jungle tank, then it ends and they explode
NoPaxt12 votesI would leave this to pick order and team composition.
If I pick first, I get my choice of role, no matter what lane I'm in.
If I pick last I have the best opportunity to both counter my opponent and pick a team need. If I pick last and my team needs a tank, then I tank. It doesn't matter what lane I'm in.
Erockandroll8 votes[{quoted}](name=Stark of Wrath,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=grKbzPff,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2017-02-21T14:11:46.356+0000)
I would leave this to pick order and team composition.
If I pick first, I get my choice of role, no matter what lane I'm in.
If I pick last I have the best opportunity to both counter my opponent and pick a team need. If I pick last and my team needs a tank, then I tank. It doesn't matter what lane I'm in.
That's great and all. But given the shortage of Support mains, we really can't expect the person being autofilled to support, to own or be proficient with a tank support in particular.
Also, if you expect the person with half the XP and no gold to be the team's tank. You pretty much done goof. Personally I find Tank supports better as a supplement to the real tank on the team. If an enemy Diver slips past your Tanks engage, a good tank support can peel them off your carry. But don't expect that same support to be able to engage himself.
NoPaxt3 votesI've made that argument in the past, but it's wrong. Supports can tank quite proficiently with their limited gold.
Heroquet3 votesYou can tank or engage as support, but there is a world between a braum / leona / taric going close to the ennemy team and a poppy / maokai / naut top doing the same thing. The farming tanks can stand way longer, and their uptime (having loads of tankiness before the ennemies get %pen) is larger too.
Alistar can go in and play the full damage sponge all game long, but he explodes quite fast without his ult.
But yeah, they can do the job. They just need a faster follow-up. It's more about timing.
The best thing about tanky supports is when you play them in stuff like hexakill. There you get as much gold as everyone, and then everything becomes stupidly easy because you're used to work with mode hardcore's budget most of the time.
Kotex4 votes[{quoted}](name=Stark of Wrath,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=grKbzPff,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2017-02-21T14:11:46.356+0000)
I would leave this to pick order and team composition.
If I pick first, I get my choice of role, no matter what lane I'm in.
If I pick last I have the best opportunity to both counter my opponent and pick a team need. If I pick last and my team needs a tank, then I tank. It doesn't matter what lane I'm in.
It has nothing at all to do with pick order or countering. A support cannot and will not ever tank as well as an actual farming solo laning tank will--especially if they have to be the only tank. It is ineffective to expect a support tank to tank for an entire squishy team of glass cannons that expect you to soak all the damage for them on low income, or no income if youre behind. It's unreasonable to think "let the support do that job because i dont want to" in addition to everything else the support has to do which is enough already.
As it stands right now melee tanks are unfavorable to the bottom lane meta of poke casters.
LoomberFoot1 votesSome supports can tank just as well as top laners(Naut,Alistar) but I understand most supports are just utility.
RookPusher1 votes[{quoted}](name=Bob Chelson,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=grKbzPff,comment-id=000000010000,timestamp=2017-02-21T16:26:52.100+0000)
Some supports can tank just as well as top laners(Naut,Alistar) but I understand most supports are just utility.
and change team fights routinely.
Aptest1 votesThis is my perspective and personal experience as a support main:
1
i can only do X amount of things at any given moment.
2
tanky supports are more limited with the amount of things they can do than caster supports
3
teams where the support is the sole tanky front line require the support to do more things at the same time than teams where the top lane or jungle are the front line.
4
squishies a lot of time can't do shit without someone else doing the heavy lifting for them
conclusion:
if i have to do more things because of the team composition, but i am forced because of same composition into a pick where i can do less, and at the same time my team mates take picks that are dependent on me, that is a recipe for a loss.
Aquafuge1 votesMost tank supports are based as support first tank second, We have a smaller operating budget and have to rely on our team for tossing in their cc and dps at the right targets at the right time. Where as a top lane tank has a higher budget, more armor, more MR, and more HP so they are all around better choice. Not saying in a pinch a tank support couldn't work, but only if their team is on the ball and not hyper focusing on racking up kills.
Purpl3Jungl31 votesthey can be tanky, they cant be like say a 
tank who mid/late is practically unkillable.
Surr20plz1 votes[{quoted}](name=Stark of Wrath,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=grKbzPff,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2017-02-21T14:11:46.356+0000)
I would leave this to pick order and team composition.
If I pick first, I get my choice of role, no matter what lane I'm in.
If I pick last I have the best opportunity to both counter my opponent and pick a team need. If I pick last and my team needs a tank, then I tank. It doesn't matter what lane I'm in.
This.
Unfortunately sweaty fedora tippers don't agree.
AyoLiko4201 votesUr right and id love to have a team player like you in my queue man goodjob. There are plenty of good support tanks in case jg wants to go for hyper ad. and top goes Quinn or tf or some odd shit. theres mord, tahm and malz sup op lately even though not tank. S& supports jus selfich that's why bot can make or break games
Der Lindwurm8 votesMy win rate is 0% when I switch to Leona because someone is whining about how we need a tank support. Tank supports can be effective, but not when your teammates are spineless whiners who need someone else to face all the danger for them (and essentially fight their battles for them). You do a lot of staring down the whole enemy team while the rest of yours, the people who so desperately needed a tank support to go in for them, are scattered around the map doing... whatever it is they think they're doing.
notice me Sin pi1 votesback when i was trying to learn leona is normals, I went on a 14 loss streak, feeding at 0.2 kda or lower every single game and ended up getting matched with bronze 5 players. went mid to carry myself and recover my MMR, n i feel so bad for the people i've stomped in that process
I think it takes surprisingly a lot of experience to know when to engage and when to watch, but i see what u r saying. i still suck at landing my E when i know when to go in, however
Supreme Senpai691 votesI know a lot of others have differing experiences, but mine is that I cannot play tanks in solo queue. Just can't trust my team to do anything with my engage. I'd rather just poke from a distance; most of the fights that happen in my elo are just people dancing around and staring at each other across the lane, waiting for someone to engage but it never happens.
Spoofghoul5 votesbut shaco is an excellent tank
instead of 1 with his ult you get 2 !!
just need ivern and daisy in there and voila 4 tanks on your team
QuickenedBlade4 votes#season 2
pick order decides role
#season 7 pick order decides what class you play in the role you chose
spoiled s7 kids are like the millennials of the real work
Ariel the Cruel4 votesIt's not the supports job to tank
You're right. It's the support's job to fill all holes in the team's comp, game play, builds, and individual skill. They are to blame if the team is anything less than perfect (Still jungler's fault).
The sooner they accept being the team's worthless slave, the sooner we can carry them up the ladder (Rito knows they're incapable of climbing otherwise).
Yours truly,
Elisheva1 votes
[every mid laner] 
and
inplane3 votesIf the only Tank on a team is the Support, chances are that team has already lost. It's very easy to play around Tank Supports because of their peeling-based abilities. Forcing them to engage will leave their ADC with little protection because the rest of the team are squishy DPS champs.
Twitch Chat2 votesThanks for reminding me that bronze mmr still hasn't progressed past "WE NEED TANK".
Big Lincoln1 votesbut I aint picking a tank
xScarfy1 votesIts not just the job of the support...it all depends on the situation. If the support is last pick and the rest of the team decided to pick squishy champs than it might be the best choice if the support picks a tank, how ever if top is last pick and his team still lacks a tank than the toplane should pick a tank...same with jungle. So yeah it all depends on the situation.
BeatzBoyFTW1 votesSigh....of course, there's this one ultimately sad guy who has such a high desperation to pick Lee Sin no matter what, even top lane. What a jerk.
nice table1 votestanks are so shit right now you dont need em anyways so whats the issue here
Linna Excel1 votesFirst you get autofilled to support, then you get told to pick a class you won't have the XP and money to do well with. No wonder people hate it.
Skorch1 votesI mean it IS the supports job to tank. Sort of... Its about balancing team comp, different lanes have different options. But you should pick for what your team needs.
Thalassa1 votesBut the meta right now is mostly squishy supports... 
Skorch1 votesTrue but supports CAN tank
Thalassa1 votesThey can, but it sadly isn't strong atm; they dont have enough gold to itemize at the speed a tank jungler or toplaner would (or mid 
) So usually it doesnt work out. I miss the days of being able to pick my Leona and not getting blown up by a
Skorch1 votesWhile yes it isnt meta. i would rather have a or 
than 5 damage champs.
The Trent1 votesIt's not a support's job to tank, but if you don't have these items , which basically make every champ into a tank with decent timing, I'm questioning why not. It makes sense if you have an ivern jungle so you don't need to, but otherwise you're relativity tanky. Sightstone helps a bit too.
AyoLiko4201 votesactually ur job is to support ur adc and team so who better than a tank.... blitz, thresh, alistar, it may not be ur "job" but if u see the team lackin a tank u be the tank smh. S7 and the lazy supports thtat like to roam and ks smh
Supreme Senpai691 votesHow is the support lazy if they're roaming... lol
MasterOfMetaI1 votesI thought warding was the support's job Kappa
ItsOrval1 votesWho needs tanks in this meta lol. The past 8 games ive been on teams of all squishy and we've won every single one.
LuIu1 votesIt's really annoying, I only play squishy supports and I hear 'tanky sup plz' alot. Kinda how adc's sometimes expect the support to adapt to what marksman-champion they pick(even if I get to lock in my champion first).
