Just Because Marksmen are Strong Now, It Doesn't Mean Tanks are Weak

I'm getting real sick of all these board members complaining about ADCs and saying that tanks are too weak against them. How about you pick up , take a walk out of mid lane and lock in some and try it out for yourself before you say things like this?

Marskmen are Powerful Right Now This isn't so much because tanks are weak. is being nerfed because it's too strong. (And it was already nerfed once this season).

Tanks are doing very well for themselves. They regularly get over 4000 health, along with 200 armor and MR and quite a few nice defensive passives from their items. The rework has been a resounding success. Even though everyone who looks at it keeps insisting via the math that the item deals less damage overall, they are A) failing to account for the heavy nerf to juggernaut healing with this item ( and get destroyed by , and they are some of the biggest threats to tanks) and B) failing to account for how much more durable tanks are with the extra health and Cold Steel passive.

The item is meant to help you tank. It helps you tank. You don't need to worry about damage as a tank, they will die to the rest of your team eventually.

Tanks Get Bursted Down by Marksmen In what world? Because it certainly isn't this one. Unless you guys are using 'tanks' as a blanket statement to refer to melee champions, no. Tanks are doing fantastic. Yes, divers and juggernauts are overall weaker with the item update, but divers and juggernauts are not tanks. Tanks have amazing items like (which is getting nerfed, again) and . They don't die to burst.

Marksmen will eventually kill tanks, yes. But it takes them an appropriate amount of time to do so. Even if a marksmen can just kill a tank in 10 auto attacks, with the Cold Steel passive and the aura from , tanks will survive a full 5-6 seconds against these guys, and that is a LONG time for them to be focusing one target. The rest of your team can kill them. Not to mention, tanks have plenty of crowd control that they can use to stop the ADCs from auto attacking them.

By the way, have you guys forgotten about ? Champions that are heavily rewarded for building armor, and become unstoppable bulwarks of destruction? has an attack speed slow, loves being auto'd so much he baits people into it. These champions simply do not die to marksmen quickly or painlessly.

The Data Does Not Agree with You, and Neither Does Riot Tank items would not be getting nerfed left, right and center if tanks were doing poorly right now. Tanks are actually pushing AD junglers out of the jungle because can be afforded by a single first clear while requires you to pull off a successful gank, not to mention that tanks generally have an easier time killing Raptors than other classes with their AOE damage.

B-But Yetii, What About Lord Dominik's Regard? Woe is me, the squishy carry who tries to fire bullets into my obsidian armor plating is carrying armor-piercing rounds. He even gets extra physical damage against me that my extreme armor reduces by an absurd amount. Let me open my special bag of fucks and see how many I give...wait, it's completely empty!

Assassins are weak and supports are strong. That has nothing to do with tanks. Stop bringing them into this. I will not let you victimize one of the most powerful classes in the meta just because their natural predator is doing well. Tanks are flawless right now.