Are tanks overpowered?

Simuku·Dec 6, 2016·3 votes·874 views

In my opinion i think tanks are overpowered due to the fact that their items are cheap and offer way too much for the tank. I feel like they get too much out of 2900 gold items. Then again that might just be me thinking like a retard. As well as this, i feel like tanks do more damage than they should. It might just be that im bad but i feel that some tanks poke way too well and win trades due to their somewhat decent sustain if they have any. Furthermore, i constantly see squishy targets get oneshot by tanks that build tank items. For example, time and time again i see a full armour malphite one shot the adc. Is that normal or just me being a smackhead and thinking tanks are op? What do you guys think? Are tanks op or am i just a spastic?

9 Comments

EschetonDec 6, 20163 votes

Tank items are cheap, which means they are good early-mid game. But late game, when full build, those cheap items suck because dem fancy mages and adc have much better expensive items in their slots and shred the puny tank. Kinda how the game is built.

Also, Malphite has armor scaling on a damaging ability. And his ult has decent base damage. So building full armor and then doing a full rotation on the adc, should do quite some dmg.

OleandervineDec 6, 20161 votes

You are spastic. Tanks have been a dying breed all season with the insane amount of shred available to the point that even the flimsiest champ could destroy them in seconds. The changes to lethality and the new masteries have actually given them the longevity they should have had from the start.

RivuoDec 6, 20162 votes

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You are spastic. Tanks have been a dying breed all season with the insane amount of shred available to the point that even the flimsiest champ could destroy them in seconds. The changes to lethality and the new masteries have actually given them the longevity they should have had from the start.

?????????/ what bronze elo are you in

RalanrDec 6, 20161 votes

What tanks do you mean?

SimukuDec 6, 20161 votes

Gragas Maokai Zac Nasus Nautilus Malphite DrMundo Amumu Poppy

RalanrDec 6, 20161 votes

Mundo and Nasus aren't tanks.

As for damage output, tanks tend to hurt squishy characters. They are these big wrecking balls that people need to peel off the carry.

Malphite though is really stupid. Proper kiting though and you make a tank worthless.

Swiftstrike4Dec 6, 20161 votes

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Nasus an infinitely scaling juggernaut he should do a lot of damage. Poppy does a lot of damage because of her passive and zac just does a lot of base damage. Mundo and Nasus are juggernauts so they typically do more damage. The red do mixed amounts of damage depending on their builds but they are pretty modest compared to the others. Their earlier damage is better than most, but after the mid game most of their damage is relatively low.

Swiftstrike4Dec 6, 20161 votes

Tanks are not strong, while they did get indirectly buffed with the armor pen changes.