The Hardest Thing About Being a Tank Support

Rezandra·Feb 5, 2016·229 votes·10,572 views

...is always having to try and steal that damn siege minion from your ADC.

103 Comments

CremepieFeb 5, 201685 votes

As Nautilus support I do naut have this problem.

Dominick DestineFeb 5, 201610 votes

I hate you, but I will give you a +1 anyway

kasfasFeb 5, 201646 votes

We need to get to the depths of this problem.

Shield VillainFeb 5, 20169 votes

[slayer-jinx-unamused]

VulcanIsHereFeb 6, 201632 votes

These puns are getting pretty Naughty

I think we need to be anchored down before we go too overboard on these puns

AMYS GRAVEFeb 6, 201628 votes

I sea what you did there. Stop fishing for upvotes. I do naut approve.

VulcanIsHereFeb 6, 201621 votes

Water you talkin' about? These are naut that bed

kasfasFeb 6, 201619 votes

These puns are causing a sea of problems, we need a titanic amount of effort to hook ourselves from the riptide of bad puns.

yoniameFeb 6, 20164 votes

these jokes are roaming too far, but tank-s for the puns anyway

3ofGot40veFeb 5, 20163 votes

I'm getting hooked on these puns.

PennsFeb 5, 201633 votes

Thresh life

LauchmelderFeb 5, 201625 votes

Just forget Relic Shield on Thresh in lower elos. I switched to Coin ages ago. (feelsbadman)

KillerKellFeb 5, 20163 votes

I do the AP Item, because it gives that extra Damage per Champion and Turret Hit, which stacks nicely with a 100% Flay Passive.

So I just focus on Harass/Zoning and get mad bank wailing on Champs and Turrets.

All other Tank Supports (which Thresh doesn't start out with, do to 0 Base Armor, but certainly becomes if he's grabbing his Souls even in Pro Play I see WAY to many Souls left to wither on the Rift) I do go Relic on.

That being said, I also sell the AP Item once I'm a bit built and heading to late game as the damage is no longer that great and I'm not big of Frost Queen's with Thresh (where I do complete Relic to FotM... I never use Coin on any Support really).

My Waifu VanillaFeb 5, 20162 votes

Thresh has 0 scaling armor not zero base armor. #themoreyouknow

KillerKellFeb 5, 20162 votes

RIght, had it backwards.

Still, he's not a Tank at Level 1, even with a Relic Shield.

TotalJerkFeb 5, 20161 votes

I used to run coin on Thresh until the preseason started. My 9/0/21 masteries for the starting 10% CDR is gone and they took the movement speed away from item 3096 and item 3069 . Feels like the preseason changes as a whole made tank Thresh completely outclass utility Thresh. Which sucks because I really miss utility Thresh.

LordGeovanniFeb 6, 20164 votes

i miss utility any support you get punished for having utility with low ap on the items you build cause carries could abuse them but they wont raise your bases or ratios and they dont provide much in the way of survival stats

KillerKellFeb 5, 201621 votes

Then they yell about you stealing CS... with your Relic's that gives them the Gold and some Health for it.

That's when I wish we could Deny Kills... and just kill our own ADC from 100 to 0.

A Loyal SupportFeb 6, 20162 votes

{quoted}

Then they yell about you stealing CS... with your Relic's that gives them the Gold and some Health for it.

That's when I wish we could Deny Kills... and just kill our own ADC from 100 to 0.

Play Tahm kench. EzPz.

RiotRiot SotereFeb 6, 201619 votes

No mention of the woes of attempting to kill a superminion here? Love when my allies swing by the wave while I'm chunking away on a super as Braum, trying to stun it and expecting some help. Then they proceed to kill the rest of the wave and WALK AWAY, because clearly I'm going to finish off the super. item 3124

JariFeb 6, 20161 votes

I was expecting a tear instead of a rageblade.

RiotRiot SotereFeb 6, 201640 votes

Overused. And Braum doesn't cry.

JariFeb 6, 20162 votes

I guess the heart really is the strongest muscle.

OhZennyFeb 7, 20161 votes

Braum's Shield can melt thought! item 3070

ValthanFeb 7, 20164 votes

Woah woah WOAH!

Wait...

It can melt thought!? Like... your mind? Which eldritch horror did he get that thing from!?

Braum : Thank you for the new shield, my strange, floating, tentacled friend.

Velkoz : The subject is easily manipulated with a show of feigned generosity.

Braum : What?

Velkoz : Nothing...

Sahn UzalFeb 5, 201612 votes

I just spam ''ON MY WAY'' ''ON MY WAY'' ''ON MY WAY'' Pings on the siege minion as it walks into the lane when I have time, I type ''Lemme siege'' Then I cry because my ADC still takes it ;_; summoner 31

SeenanFeb 5, 20168 votes

lol. tfw your charge is like 3s away and your adc clears the wave.

Carpe VictoriaFeb 5, 20166 votes

...as thresh without the melee execute.

Zero Skill TankFeb 5, 20164 votes

They didn't spend 2 years learning how not to miss canion minions just to let you lasthit them.

Penguin EclipseFeb 5, 20164 votes

I'd have some sympathy for tank supports if they didn't get a free lv 1 Sona heal just for AA a minion with a 350 gold item. Which is beyond BS.

Dominick DestineFeb 5, 201632 votes

Which is more of a problem with Sona having a terrible heal.

Penguin EclipseFeb 5, 20162 votes

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Which is more of a problem with Sona having a terrible heal.

Not going to deny that. It's pretty shit. But should tanks really have a free heal? I mean healing themselves, sure. They have to take a risk hitting that minion. But their adc doesn't. And for 350 gold, it's pretty ridiculous they get a free heal. If you want to heal someone, you should have to take someone with a heal in their kit. If tank's couldn't heal their adc for free, bottom lane would change quite a bit.

Supreme Senpai69Feb 5, 20165 votes

To be fair whenever you're going in to get that, you're gonna be poked since most champions that have this item are melee. As for healing the ADC, they usually walk into every single damn skillshot from the support so I appreciate this. It's a very small heal and only up once every 30 seconds or so.

LordGeovanniFeb 6, 20165 votes

its not a free heal its a miniscule heal on the first item you buy with a pretty long cooldown. the reason why it heals the adc too even though the heal is still pretty shit is cause the adc has no reason to let you exicute the minion other wise. adc mains dont and wont worry about letting the support hit a minion to heal themselves cause they dont think that it will help them but will harass the support who constantly has to back when they have no hp.

Penguin EclipseFeb 6, 20161 votes

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its not a free heal its a miniscule heal on the first item you buy with a pretty long cooldown. the reason why it heals the adc too even though the heal is still pretty shit is cause the adc has no reason to let you exicute the minion other wise. adc mains dont and wont worry about letting the support hit a minion to heal themselves cause they dont think that it will help them but will harass the support who constantly has to back when they have no hp.

It is free. It does not cost any resources.

That's not a good enough reason whatsoever. A 350 gold item that gives health and gold should not be giving 80 health to the lane every 60 seconds. That is beyond OP.

LordGeovanniFeb 6, 20164 votes

doesnt cost resorces like auto attacking. abilites some champions on the whole. life steal. crit. free cleanse on item 3222 and item 3140 . free slows on item 3116 item 3022 item 3144 item 3025 . so on and so forth. you pay the gold to get the effect on the items 80 health every 60seconds a support can auto attack twice at lvl 1 and pass that in damage but its beyond op for you to have to go up and execute a minion that has reached a certain health to get 80hp and it. when you go to exicute minions as a tank support your enemy generally deals far more damage to you than 80 damage wait that 80 health isnt even going to you just 40 of it you take about 120 damage more or less to get 40 hp because lets face it your adc is most likely untouched in the back of you its not cause you want the health its cause you want the gold. but 80 health 40 to you and the person you share with is so op its gonna break the game thats why no one builds spell theifs edge that does 10 extra damage on auto attacks and spells every up to 3 times every 30 seconds. while relic sheild heals 40 damage for 2 people is breaking the game. relic sheild 's heal/exicute to get gold can'teven be used when you are alone.

AHeroNamedHawkeFeb 6, 201616 votes

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Not going to deny that. It's pretty shit. But should tanks really have a free heal? I mean healing themselves, sure. They have to take a risk hitting that minion. But their adc doesn't. And for 350 gold, it's pretty ridiculous they get a free heal. If you want to heal someone, you should have to take someone with a heal in their kit. If tank's couldn't heal their adc for free, bottom lane would change quite a bit.

But it isnt free

They literally paid money for it

VlasimutheFeb 5, 20164 votes

{quoted}

...is always having to prevent your ADC from stealing that damn siege minion.

fixed it for you

ValyrianBladeFeb 6, 20164 votes

I'll give you every cannon minion you want. Just don't get ahead of yourself and waste an auto attack before you can execute it. If you use an auto and don't execute and it's low, I'm taking it. Not going to risk missing a cannon because you attacked too early and your AS is too low to get it before the minions.

RezandraFeb 6, 20162 votes

Wow, it's like you were IN that game I just had.

ValyrianBladeFeb 6, 20162 votes

Well then now you know :P Know what your execute point is and watch their health so you don't attack too early.

Draven Wun TrickFeb 6, 20164 votes

play tahm kench, eat that shit and spit it away from him... damn adc's

SoMNiaFeb 5, 20163 votes

And that is why we item 2302 .

CressiliaFeb 5, 20163 votes

My problem is that I like Thresh and Leona's utility but I hate standing up front

SoMNiaFeb 5, 20163 votes

Bard Nami ?

Velzard of KozFeb 5, 20163 votes

I was once accused by my ADC (cough Vayne cough yes I am ~~racist~~ championist right now) for farm-stealing. Additionally, it was also my fault she kept wasting her ult to "chase down" full HP tanky support leagues away from her, only to watch the support go to the lands of eternal turrets second later. But she went from 0/5 early game, once she strated roaming, to 9/5 (first kills were taken from teamfights, others were just Vayne being Vayne assasinating lonely squishes to death by monstrous right-clicking) so it was my fault of being bad support and "farm-stealing" her.

JaqzFeb 5, 20163 votes

That sounds like what a Vayne main would say. Or a Yasuo. Or Riven. Whats the jungle equivalent of those champs?

KynamiFeb 6, 20163 votes

MasterYi and Quinn in the jungle come to mind. Both love using their ult to chase like mad... don't always know when to stop and let it go. And thus can often end up running right into trouble.