Why aren't there any meaningful defensive items?

GlockHammer·3/18/2016, 9:14:43 PM·5 votes·897 views

They all seem like they get so vastly outscaled by AD/AP items it's not even funny. Force of Nature needs to make a return. Atmas is needed more badly than ever.

I just had my lovehole handed to me by a full mage 1 adc comp, I built banshe's, QSS and visage and still couldn't take a single second of focus fire, and the banshe's and QSS did little to allieviate the constant stunlocking, the cooldown on the iteams means they're more or less meaningless on a engager.

Even better, being forced go this path made me a easy snack for their adc. Can we please get some meaningful defensive options, tanky melee champs are so bad right now. This stack damage meta is anoying, offensive keystone vastly outperform defensive keystones right from the get go. Mages TL procing me for 1/4-1/3 third of my hp from lvl 1 is giving me so anti fun. ADC's straight up outstatting me from the get go despite having a massive range advantage is giving me so much anti fun.

I can't even walk up and touch them without getting swarmed by minions, most likely I'll take minion aggro for even trying, meanwhile they can attack me for free, walk half an inch and get an easy aggro reset. I get massively love-blocked by adorable wonderful minions creating an unpassable wall to make ranged overlords even more cumbaya to deal with in lane.

This game as never been as adorable as it is now.

Is this the way it's gonna be? Either become a ranged overlord or bow down and kiss their feet, or better yet, get the grease so it won't be so painful when I get sodomized for not being a meta lover?

If this is the way it's gonna be clarify that please Riot so I can just uninstall and find something more meaningful to do with my time.

If we're not going to get any decent defensive options can we please tune down offensive keystones as they vastly outperform defensive keystones from the get-go. Carrying should be about the lategame, not about outtrading and stomping from beginning to end.

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27 Comments

Mayor Stubbs3/18/2016, 9:30:47 PM2 votes

I can't really agree, when I play a tank I feel appropriately tanky. My go to tank is generally rammus.

I've noticed if you get behind, you're pretty squishy and more useless than another role that gets behind. but if you're even or ahead I am appropriately tanky or insanely tanky if I'm fed

EmEx3/18/2016, 9:22:26 PM1 votes

tanks dont work anymore you need damage even in season 5 i noticed this but S6 is even more about damage. if i go tank top i try to get at least a few damage items otherwise i know i will be useless in late-mid game and late game.

GlockHammer3/18/2016, 9:27:02 PM1 votes

What's even more funny is that defensive stats are supposed to be earlygame, problem is they aren't they are shit all game. You are garbage from the get go then you get even more outscaled. SOooooo much FUUUUUN!

KrugLyfe3/18/2016, 9:19:17 PM1 votes

Yeah just got shred by a master yi last game...as sion...with randuins and FH.....we squashed him hard early...but he got RB...if they made a tank item that could give me some protection from this cancer champ i'd be happy

Mecha MaIphite3/18/2016, 9:31:45 PM1 votes

Malphite Rammus Nautilus Amumu and even Sejuani are all performing quite well. Especially Malphite. He counters a lot of champions so hard that skill becomes nearly irrelevant; I've beaten several Quinn s and Fiora s ranked way higher than me because that's how good he is right now.

GlockHammer3/18/2016, 10:55:59 PM1 votes

Man fuck toplane graves.

GlockHammer3/18/2016, 9:30:28 PM1 votes

Can't beat the meta,so better join I guess. So much for diversity. Yay. Graves/Quinn top, here I come. You win Riot.