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Need More Tanky Bois

God Claus·9/15/2019, 10:49:16 AM·2 votes·1,619 views

So before I start this is about actual tankiness. Not juggernauts we got a lot of those.

Back in earlier seasons I really loved playing champs that you kinda just get in there, don't really die or do damage but are a great distraction for your team for a fairly long time.

I get that after the juggernaut patch (;-;) they made tanking kind of suck because they made juggernauts really strong. I also just want to play something that I can actually not die in 10 sec at full build. It doesn't feel like tanking, it feels like dying.

The only real champs that have a tank, not juggernaut vibe rn are naut, rammus, zac, and just some tank support champs who focus on high cc. Which is cool but also there are so many bitchy adcs that it is nice to be able to not play bot lane, and they don't really have enough cs potential to go to another lane or jungle.

IDK what the real point of this post is other than I just want more champs that are kinda just more chill to play as a tank. I don't want to penta kill, or do damage, etc. Lemme be a tanky boi.

6 Comments

overpoweredscrub9/15/2019, 10:59:24 AM2 votes

I also too want to be tanky. The closest thing to what i mean is back then i used to go tank adcs. By that i mean like play lucian or ashe and build stuff like deadmans plate or sunfire cape etc. I know it sounds troll but the illusion in it was that most people would charge in trying to kill me so bad cuz im an adc, but they never check that im actually building tank so it actually works in my favor because even if i die, i lasted at least 7-10 seconds wasting all of their damage on me and then my team cleans up. Me being an adc is just a global taunt passive. And this wouldn't mess with competitive because good players actually look at the enemies items while in my normal blind pick games, most people dont do that so i get to just have fun being tanky and hard to kill.

And it's not even unfair because since im going tank adc, i do little to no damage but im soaking so much damage. That is what I consider a good balance to being tanky.

But here is the problem. If you go tank and it makes you tanky, and you go tanky on someone like fizz, akali, zed, master yi that's where there is problems. Because unlike ashe who actually needs offensive items to deal good damage, fizz, akali, zed, and yi have lots of damage in their kit that they don't need the offensive items as much as ashe would.

Some solutions should be that the defensive items have a passive that reduce your damage output by a percentage, or make it that everyone doesn't have high base ability damage and instead make it that all champs scale a certain amount. That way, if you build offensive, you do high damage. If you build tanky, you don't do damage to squishies or anyone really, but you are hard to kill.

Because i also miss being able to spam dance while 3 people are attacking me and laughing at them because they are actually losing in the fight since im the tank but they dont realize it yet and my team just shits on them cuz they waste all their ults and cooldowns on me.

Juice9/15/2019, 11:04:18 AM1 votes

Tanks require zero skill and are against the basic fundamentals of the game. You can go 0-5 and still be useful, making all the work your enemy did negligible since you will be relevant no matter what.

Do not expect to carry with tanks, as they are low risk low reward type of playstyle and that's what they are right now.

Plenty of tanks have healthy and good win rates. Tanks are boring to play and play against for 99% of the community.