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So I'm Going to Vent a Little Here....

SpongebobIsLife··16 votes·1,812 views

So it really boggles my mind as to why so many people love to play full squish teams in this current meta. Like if you slip up one time early game with those type of comps, you are not coming back in that game unless the enemy team epicly throws.

And another thing, TANKS HAVE THE HIGHEST WIN RATE IN THE GAME, why don't people play them more ?! I always see people saying how this is the tank meta and tanks are op, yet in so many of the games i play, people pick full squish teams into a 3 or 2 tank team with a frekin insane teamfight, it makes no sense to me.

Like I kinda get it, everyone wants to carry, and tanks can be a little unfun at times, but you're making the game so much harder on yourself when you pick something like riven and kindred into a Brand, amumu, sivir, taric, gangplank, where there's aoe and cc out the wazoo! I Just don't get it. Why don't people like to play around comps in high plat/ low diamond elo?!

47 Comments

lolipopevelynn9 votes

because everyone wants to be a carry.

Hullabaloo9074 votes

They all want the other guy to play the tank, because kills

Jofeyy7 votes

Can you blame them though? Having to trust people to carry you in ranked gives you psychological disorders lmao

BeMyFriendPlease9 votes

Ah tank meta... where tanks like Graves and Yasuo rule the day

billxx2 votes

Tank yasuo is a thing? I only thought there was awesome yasuo and tryhard yasuo builds.

9kPluzZ3 votes

yasuo top are still full damage but they take psudo tank itemsitem 3046 item 3812 item 3078

billxx2 votes

Oh. Those are some items that are In the tryhard build.

SpongebobIsLife1 votes

Oh yeah that's another thing ! What's up with all the bloody yasuo tops?!

Hmm let's see, we have a raka support, kindred jung, vayne adc, and a karthus mid..hmmm..vayne's condemn counts as a knock up right ? Yeah let's go yas ! This is awesome here !

DU Baymax4 votes

because the enemy team first picked this bitch Vayne

and now you can't play your beloved darius top because you just know that your team is going to feed her and you will have to try to deal with a fed vayne and if you're a tank that doesn't have point and click cc you're going to get fucked hard item 3070 item 3070

SpongebobIsLife1 votes

then play shen, mao, ryze, gragas.

And on the other side of things, if vayne is fpd, you better be picking cait bot lane and wrecking that sob.

DU Baymax1 votes

except im not adc, as previously stated, im top lane lmfao also I unfortunately don't own ryze, mao, or shen. I do have gragas tho and he's butt loads of funsies

SpongebobIsLife1 votes

lol yea ult that trick into the team XD or you could go nautilus, anything with cc man. lol, just dont put a squishy against her. Don't make it even easier for her to get a penta.

Privileged Jew2 votes

Because not every victory comes through straight up teamfighting. Dragon control/splitpush comes to mind.

SpongebobIsLife1 votes

yes you can do that, but you can still have at least one tank lol you can have a shen splitpush, or a mao top zed mid kind of thing, theres no camp you cant achieve with a tank. In fact, each comp is better with a tank in it.

NineTailedMystic2 votes

Because people want to play a specific champion. Some people put mid/top and just take their mid lane preferred champ top because they just want to play them.

Shenmue2 votes

because they are call of duty kiddos who think that the only thing that matter is the GLORIOUS KDA IF MY KDA IS BIG MY DONGER GROW

Chatillon2 votes

That's why I play voli in ranked

Tank and I get to carry and execute someone with 500 hp

nujumkey1 votes

What is a tank Kappa

SpongebobIsLife3 votes

do we need those? kappa123

Ariel the Cruel2 votes

I think I ate one once. (>_>)

FatesDefiler1 votes

'cause if i don't rush luden's every game i barely even feel alive.

SpongebobIsLife1 votes

lol as who?

FatesDefiler1 votes

DrMundo

SpongebobIsLife1 votes

lmfao!!!!

Ariel the Cruel1 votes

Sivir Scrub.

Shadow Hazard1 votes

unfortunately outlier carries are getting nerfed/tweaked so that it actually requires skill to be most successful with them, tanks don't need that mechanical skill as much (no offense) but will allow you to take advantage of good game sense.

Ariel the Cruel2 votes

tanks don't need that mechanical skill as much

Trying playing Braum with a Vayne. Then tell me you don't need mechanical skill to keep the 1v5 obsessed SoB alive. XD

Shadow Hazard2 votes

oh I have experienced that before. that was stressful.

TwinkiePro1 votes

But people do play tanks. Ekko is getting nerfed because of it, and I've played my fair share of squishys as tanks. It's a tank meta primarily because of items, secondly because of comps. Assassins have very little way to kill a tank, minus item 3071 and item 3147. Mages have a slightly easier time, as tanks build more armor than MR, and have item 3135 and item 3151, which dont do all that much but can help. ADC is the premier tank killer, yet ironically die to tanks quite often. They even have the most options, with Crit, item 3153 item 3124 item 3036 item 3033. MasterYi was the best chance to counter tanks, but received a nerf for being too tanky himself, and now must build squishy in order to have the damage against tanks that he had before.

Tanks don't necessarily need to melt, but the fact a voli can bumrush the adc and win hard is pretty silly. Tanks also should not have HP scaling on damaging abilities.

SpongebobIsLife1 votes

i know they do, but it seems that im always getting the teams that refuse to pick one tank and/or source of good cc. Like, i just dodtged a game because i had a janna, jinx, kindred, riven against a zac, leo, lux, lucian, maokai comp. The chances of me winning that game, were slim lol

TwinkiePro1 votes

That's just a bad comp, with the only cc being put on the squishies. But, you basically point out the problem yourself, without tanks, you are gonna have a bad time. It's not that you didn't have CC, it's that you didn't have a tank.

SpongebobIsLife1 votes

those comps are what this post is about, how I always seem to get teams that love to go the squishy with soft/no cc route.

Champion Skin5 votes

Well the ting is that ADCs needs tanks to protect them... like there is no way Volibear is getting to an ADC protected by a CC tank... especially if that tank is Nautilus and the ADC have some mobility

Jofeyy1 votes

Personally, I don't like tanks at all. Just not my style. I'll play them if I have to but I main mid so not that much need for tanking going on there.

SpongebobIsLife1 votes

So you're saying you won't play tanks mid? Lol

Jofeyy1 votes

I'm saying I don't like to play tanks at all. And I'm probably biased on that opinion BECAUSE i main mid. I don't disagree with you on their importance.

SpongebobIsLife1 votes

Yeah I know I main mid, and if I have top I'll generally Darius or gnar, however if the enemy team doesn't have a tank I'll play liss or zed :D

Jofeyy1 votes

Chogath mid is my closet pick when we need a tank. He's sleeper op. item 3027 item 3041 item 3110 item 3742 item 3111 item 3065 or item 3001 is as strong as a midlane mage but unkillable. Toplane Akali is fun too :D

Primaquarius1 votes

Because every time I use a tanky support like bae Leona, odds are higher that my team falls off

SpongebobIsLife1 votes

Meh, that depends on your comp, if you had something like kat, liss, yi, sivir, leoona would be an awesome pick. Janna, sona, raka? Not so much .

Primaquarius1 votes

I used to like Sona, but her kit shift (NOT A REWORK) left her as sort of a 5th body, even tho her R > Q > auto damage is still good

rmch991 votes

Because some people don't find playing a tank to be particularly enjoyable?

SpongebobIsLife1 votes

Yes, but in ranked it's all about doing whatever has the higher chance of winning, even if you don't like doing it. Like id love to play zed or kat into every comp, but I know that sometimes, for the sake of the team, I have to play something like liss, ori, or lulu.

EMeta1 votes

People play League for fun and would rather play champs they find more satisfying than have win rates that are slightly higher.

Typically, this sort of preference is baked into their Elo, so games are still relatively balanced (as much as they are in season 6, this patch excepted).

It's like how SolWolf plays all sorts of crazy off-meta picks. If he didn't, his elo would be far higher; he's a quite decent player. Since he does usually do weird stuff, that dominates what MMR he gets, and so he still has a decent win rate.

SpongebobIsLife1 votes

I can understand that, but unless you are far better than the people you are playing with, you are more than likely screwing everyone else over. Example: riven, fiora, nidalee

strut1 votes

Idon't just want to win. It's way more important to have fun. I don't care if i lose all of my games wit a squishy champ if i had a good time.

SpongebobIsLife1 votes

i see where you are coming from, but if you want to climb anywhere, you have to be flexible.

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