I've had it with people belittling the amount of effort it takes to play tanks

Every time tanks are being played and do well you see people go like "Lul stupid Braindead tanks" and every time I fight the urge to write an essay on why the tank played really well in that situation.

Just because tanks can take a beating doesn't mean they're easymode as most of them don't have escapes when they do fuck up. Yeah, they survive a lot longer than a squishy that's caught out but even someone like Galio is going to crumble if he has no way to get out of a sticky situation.

But this isn't only about them being able to tank. No. When a tank makes a huge play I see people bitch and call what they did easy/Op/any other ignorant expression.

A tank has a lot of things he needs to pay attention to in order for him to win. A tank isn't just a sandbag that's used to soak the enemy's damage and he isn't an expendable part of your team.

A tank has to: -Peel: Protecting one's team isn't as easy as it sounds, especially not in SloloQ, where the mid laner constantly face checks the jungle when they have a fed Kha'zix. They have to cc the enemy, use their shields/heals and their very lives to protect their designated damage carry Dealing damage is one thing, protecting said damage pump is the other

-Engage/Make catches/Start team fights: Tanks have to KNOW when and how to engage. Finding an opening, capitalizing on the enemy's lacking positioning and catching the entire enemy team in a huge CC chain isn't easy. More often than not an imperfect engage results in YOUR team getting wiped and not the enemy

-Knowing how to tank/itemize A tank isn't an immortal Colossus. Knowing how to itemize and when to use one's defensive steroids requires just as much skill as a Mage's combo and I've seen a ton of tanks just melt away because they fucked up their spell rotation or simply had faulty itemisation

-Surviving the laning phase/Jungle Tanks aren't lane bullies and most of them have pretty "meh" laning phases compared to Fighters and mages. A tank that's behind might still be useful but a fed tank won't snowball as hard as say a fed Riven or a fed Darius

In the end a Tank's job isn't as "easy" as some people think it is and I've had it with some individuals constantly belittling Tank players. In the end they're the ones carrying your sorry asses when you're fighting like the Frontliner and then bitch when the enemy tank capitalizes on your mistake and just roflstomps you.