If I'm not allowed to win by building pure tank

GigglesO·Sep 24, 2017·2 votes·265 views

Why can others win by building full damage...

Come on now, that isn't balance at all.

5 Comments

JbelsSep 24, 20174 votes

I just want to point out that this post is actually much smarter than any of you are giving it credit for. Back in the day, NOBODY BUILT FULL DAMAGE OR FULL TANK. Every ADC had at least one defensive item, same with mages, and every tank had at least one damage item, or two (Sunfire or Iceborn or Both). ADCs needed that last defensive item so that tanks wouldn't run them over, Mages needed banshees so they could poke safely without eating shit every time they try. Tanks needed damage items to actually matter at any point in the game.

What is the game currently? Tanks build full tank and they win their team games but feel like complete ass to play, and only 3 or 4 are actually good. ADCs build full damage and are wrecking house (because they get so much defensive benefit just for having a support and Warlords that who fucking cares about defensive items? Not to mention shit like Death's Dance.) And for mages Banshee's Veil is now a damage item that they don't have to sacrifice defensive power for. Fuck, Assassins had Edge of Night for a full patch and they destroyed the damn game. Items need to be separated back into Offensive, or defensive. No more of this jack of all trades bullshit

GigglesOSep 24, 20171 votes

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I just want to point out that this post is actually much smarter than any of you are giving it credit for. Back in the day, NOBODY BUILT FULL DAMAGE OR FULL TANK. Every ADC had at least one defensive item, same with mages, and every tank had at least one damage item, or two (Sunfire or Iceborn or Both). ADCs needed that last defensive item so that tanks wouldn't run them over, Mages needed banshees so they could poke safely without eating shit every time they try. Tanks needed damage items to actually matter at any point in the game.

Thank you very much for your compliment as a fact:

I remember where you had to get one magic resist item, or you could just get destroyed by right clicking a target that had thornmail + randuins + sunfirecape.

Well I guess you could have gone the 5 tiamats + lifesteal method of play (tiamat Tuesday anyone?) and then hope the splash damage killed them.

But I strongly believe there is no reason that a damage dealer should be able to build 5 damage items and then just nuke you because they hit full build. There isn't really any gameplay in that at all. The game becomes: I just blew my load on him and he died. Man I miss having actual trades back and forth where if both teams forgot to take out the tanks they had some wet noodle fights while waiting for their damage to respawn. As it is now I see things like full damage garen do better than even partially tank garen/full tank garen.

Hell, I saw a mundo yesterday sell his stoneplate and purchase a ga because he lived longer with the GA than the stoneplate.

meowwow7Sep 24, 20171 votes

well you won't be able to do much dmg to the towers which is part of the game but just wait til that demolition rune comes out in the preseason

Ok sure but whySep 24, 20171 votes

This has never, ever, ever been the case besides maybe playing against a Yasuo

TwinkieProSep 24, 20171 votes

If you don't do damage, how do you kill anything? Killing is the core principle of the game; minions, towers, baron, champions, all need to be killed and require damage to do so. If you have no damage, you cannot win.