Tanks
Really want to know peoples thoughts on tanks right now...
I love playing tanks, there my favorite but currently i just cant...
The new masteries pretty much force you to take offensive masteries and masteries that may not even effect your champion. Shen top has so many useless stats from masteries.
The new jungle does alot more damage than previously, but i think it hurts tank junglers the most, its by no means impossible but tank junglers clear take less damage, but they dont do much damage so they end up taking more damage in the long run, the life steal in the jungle helps a tiny bit but not really much,the mana regen dosnt really help with health sustain, theres no more jungle item that heals when you smite to help clear, just lots of changes that hurt tanks in general.
I'm going top lane as a tank and need something like crystalline flask! Well I can buy a refillable potion which is only two and than im unable to to buy regular potion again, or I can upgrade to the junglers version, or the version that supports harassing your lane opponent. What if I just want to play a more passive top laner and try to farm? Yeah I can still upgrade it but im not getting its golds worth really.
I love playing tank champions, Shen, Zac, Nautilus, malphite etc etc. But now it seems your punished if you want to play a champion like this...
If im playing shen top versus a yasuo or graves, I dont have the straight up fighting power they do, so I need to try and farm and play safe early on until I can pick up some levels and items, but feels like Riot dosnt want that, they want me to fight early.
I know preseason is preseason with alot of changes coming and tweaks happening, but the direction this is going is favoring no tanks right now, its not impossible to play tanks,but the idea of the disruptive, mid-low damage rock in your face is just not here anymore, what are you guys thoughts on the matter?
tl;dr Tanks feel like there being punished just for being tanks.