How are tanky midlaners acceptable?

SuperHornio··1 votes·2,085 views

In a game i had a yasuo who bought a frozen mallet and he automatically became tanky. Same goes to Veigar and Vladimir maybe Ryze. Ijust dont understand how they can make it work building half deffense half offense items, it just shouldn't work imo. And i know you can build armor pen or magic pen but it doesn't help a lot atleast that's how i see it.

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Ahristocats3 votes

i enjoy being 100-0'ed by 500 ap veigar that has instead of rabadon , abyssal mask and banshee/zhonya in his item build

Zed genius1 votes

In a game i had a yasuo who bought a frozen mallet and he automatically became tanky

forgot to mention he did negative damage

Brotha1 votes

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forgot to mention he did negative damage

item 3022 item 3046 item 3031 Does obscene damage and makes him incredibly tanky.

Zed genius1 votes

the way he says it it's like he rushed mallet, and he doesn't do "obscene" dmg with that build, the dmg is mediocre at best

meowwow71 votes

wait defense and offense built at the same time what kind of madness is this if they don't build full damage they will do negative damage but if they don't go full tank they won't get 1 shot in a 5 second window by other damage dealers

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Dasdi961 votes

What is wrong with building a bit tanky on midlane? It is not a “you must build glass cannon” lane people think it is.

Ahristocats1 votes

the balance between reward and risk will be ruined, and reward is going to overwhelm risk by a lot

at least if it's ryze who scales with mana, and veigar who gets a ton of free AP

Diamond3Kappa1 votes

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AlienPrimate1 votes

The reason is that people who play champions like Riven and Pantheon are idiots who think lethality is the only stat they can build and will build it no matter what the situation is. If they could grow a brain and realize that you are building armor and take black cleaver first item instead, they would absolutely destroy a tank Fizz.

iPooUnicorns1 votes

Balance between reward and risk Marksmen in their current state

Pick one.

iPooUnicorns1 votes

So you're saying that bruiser builds shouldn't be allowed?

SuperHornio1 votes

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So you're saying that bruiser builds shouldn't be allowed?

Im saying that champions that are designed to bring your team dmagae and nothing else shouldn't be allowed to build tanky/bruiser items especially not midlaners

iPooUnicorns1 votes

So they shouldn't be able to sacrifice some of their damage to be a bit safer?

Also two of the mid laners are battle mages, who are designed to be somewhat tanky DPS. Veigar however, is busted, he is a burst mage that can still burst when building tanky.

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