Here is how I would make tanks actually be decent late game:

Dasdi96·Jan 15, 2017·3 votes·355 views

Right now tanks full off extremely hard in the late game due to the amount of %penetration adcs get. However, they have an extremely strong midgame due to base damages and cheap items. What I will do is make tank items more expensive, but provide better stats. Another idea I thought of is to actually remove %penetration from the game. I know you would think that it would make them unkillable, but I suggest we reduce the base damage of tanks. This will encourage staying alive more to cc the enemies and actually make them feel like tanks. Right now tanks feel like season 3 bruisers.

6 Comments

ZT XperimentorJan 15, 20174 votes

Not a bad idea, but with riot's obsession with damage creep, I doubt they'll try it. Between the tower nerfs & bonus gold, the game barely reaches midgame; it's no wonder tanks finally feel impactful these days.

Big LincolnJan 15, 20173 votes

the main problem here is that tanks generally stop farming because they're needed to be the front line

i agree that % pen should be removed but it needs to come with a very big nerf to armor items to compensate

in my opinion health, armor, and MR should only be buyable in large amounts individually, hybrid items like sunfire, dmp, visage either get weaker amounts or they're split up into 1 stat. this makes it so tanks/bruisers aren't double dipping into strong defense with just 1 or 2 items, but gives us more wiggle room with making the end-game stats a lot higher and more customizable

WoonStruckJan 15, 20171 votes

Basically this.

Even if I'm full damage and ahead on Vlad, I can't fight any bruiser in the game if they have Hexdrinker or Cowl unless I have an almost unreasonable lead...barring the ones you can actually out-play.

This shouldn't be the case. I shouldn't be required to buy Void super early (second item) in order to not be stat-checked and killed by them.