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The state of the meta....

NightmareCrawler·8/30/2015, 6:06:06 AM·1 votes·587 views

Alright, I can't be the only player who is sick to death of 3 tanks per team. The healing supports have been replaced with these titans of hp and resistances (Not to say there weren't a few of them to begin with..). Assassins have fallen out of favor apart from a couple of them. Mages for the most part fall off late game because of the chain cc that the tanks output and adcs are in the exact same boat. And while we're on the topic of dumb, Mordikaiser is a trainwreck in the bot lane being able to bully... everyone and still have god tier siege powers, Darius is a butcher who becomes unstoppable mid and late game, and Skarner has become a must ban. The new items are completely unfair. I have seen so many champions abuse these new items. In the current state of the meta I don't even want to touch adc with a ten foot pole. Overall the reworks make them fun, but break them. These new items have made previously lower used champion see a ton of use and the ones who were already whupping butt become team killing machines (Looking at you Sion, with your endlessly scaling hp)! Normally a new meta would have taken over but Riot just seems to want the tank meta to be the only meta. What next, nerfs to all adcs and adc oriented items? /endrant

Thoughts?

5 Comments

Sakura Mirage8/30/2015, 6:14:08 AM2 votes

I like the tank meta it is thought out team fights instead of a who can kill the carry the fastest. This leads to better games more comebacks it's just enjoyable.

Trebbi8/30/2015, 10:35:08 AM1 votes

We are not in a tank meta, we are in a bruiser meta.

Yes, you can be tanky as a bruiser and can function as one for your team, but your not a tank. True Tanks build pure defensive items and not more than 1 offensive item if any.

Building all these bruiser items item 3053 item 3748 item 3071 in conjunction doesn't make you a tank, but a bruiser.

BRUISERS are damage champions that need and build extra toughness to ensure that they survive to inflict damage or to kill other champions.

example: Garen

TANKS are champions that build defensive items to soak as much damage as possible to keep the carries alive or to get to a position where they can hold the enemy carries down with their CC.

example: Nautilus

All the Tank items in the game such as item 3143 item 3110 item 3075 were nerfed.

Also all the Juggernauts like Mordekaiser, Skarner, Darius and Garen are kitwise and buildwise BRUISERS.... NOT BLOODY TANKS!!!!11!