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The Reason Tanks Aren't Played Often

Pántheón·8/5/2019, 4:46:28 PM·64 votes·15,595 views

Some people blame bruisers for the death of tanks, which is false. Though some bruisers are not fun to deal with, tanks are not played because of how garbage MR items are. By late game, Mages have Sorc Shoes, Void Staff, Morellonomicon which cut through MR items like it's nothing. So by late game, you're just a useless sack of shit getting 1 shot while dealing no damage. All of the good tank items are Armor items, all MR items need a straight buff.

Also Vayne. You cannot play a tank against Vayne. Her percent health true damage is impossible to deal with as a tank, as her entire kit is toxic. Vayne is incredibly shit design which they try to force on the game for some reason, but this champ that successfully kills an entire class. The solution to this? Clearly it's buffing her Condemn. Also nerf Conquerer. And Buff Omen. Not to mention if you have to lane against her in Top lane you can't do anything.

It's way preferable to pick a carry/lane bully and snowball. Stop acting like buffing tanks damage will do anything against the insane damage in the game.

178 Comments

Ragnaveil8/5/2019, 4:48:01 PM36 votes

I mean, AD assassins like Zed can kill a tank easily with LW and Leth. The issue is pen right now it so efficient you cant go wrong.

rework pantheon8/5/2019, 4:54:39 PM22 votes

Yeah, no. Can't nerf anything about Mages, Vayne, or even Riven or else their mains are gonna go pissy baby mode

Pandemic Punch8/5/2019, 5:39:26 PM14 votes

Tanks can't survive the majority of Top Lane match ups

Cojak8/5/2019, 6:41:36 PM12 votes

Tanks do not need a damage buff, they might need a survivability buff. The truth is, tanks are supportive. There are some that do damage, but those are outliers. A tank's job is to Engage, CC, and Peel. These things don't require damage. Tanks do not need to solo fight someone. Tanks should, and do, require someone else to do the damage they set up. If a tank is dealing damage then they are a bruiser. One of the biggest flaws I see in my games is a tank that build triforce (or other spell blade) first item. Vayne is problematic, but that's what makes her vayne. She alone isn't the only adc that can shred a tank down, but a tank cc-ing her (or yi for that matter) sets up a teammate to come in and do the big numbers. If you want to put out damage go juggo, or buiser, or adc. If you want to control a fight then go tank.

Also, if you think you're going to survive a teamfight then I don't think you are tanking with the right attitude in mind. You're whole job is to get in there and pull attention so your damage dealers can do their job. Everyone on the team has a job. That's what people refuse to accept about this game. Its a team game. When you're laning a tank, your jg is the damage that you set up for. When you're jg tank, your laners are the damage you set up for. When you support tank, the adc is the damage you set up for. Can you all stop with this notion that tanks should shrug damage and dish it out? Can you all please look at a team comp and pick appropriately instead of being selfish?

Romans VI XXIII8/5/2019, 8:27:20 PM4 votes

It's okay RIOT is giving all the new reworked Assassin/duelist the stats they need to be giving to tanks.

%Damage reduction or flat out ignoring damage.

Irelia Pantheon Fiora

Good design philosophy there!

Bugog8/5/2019, 7:56:55 PM3 votes

In LoL tank means you have a lot of CC, and probably a defensive steroid of some type. It doesn't mean that you're going to survive very long against an opponent 1 on 1. The people that can actually sustain a lot of damage are the bruisers who build some variation of item 3812 item 3053 item 3230 item 3065.

FroXZenBuLLet8/5/2019, 8:10:35 PM3 votes

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Also Vayne. You cannot play a tank against Vayne.

You cannot play anything against a Vayne and that's why she has been my permaban for 4 months now .. the champion has 0 counterplay, yeah you can poke her out of the lane and harras her but then she gets item 3153 and item 3124 and it doesn't really matter what has happend in the laning phase, she has come to kill you and your team with perma tumble, invisibility for some reason and % hp true damage which is insane that that is still allowed as you cannot build against her.

Silent Reaper8/5/2019, 7:24:13 PM1 votes

As bad as Vayne's W is, I would reconsider how good it is considering she has to attack 3 times in a row and it's single target damage, I feel like there are bigger tank Buster's in the game like Lucian that can abuse Black Cleaver, or champions with AoE to wipe out whole teams like MF or Xayah. Keep in mind ADC's late game are suppose to scale the hardest so considering the hardest carry in the game can kill tanks pretty quickly (5-10 seconds) I consider that pretty balanced for having a weak early/mid game while still insta dying to any point click mage like Annie, Syndra etc.

I think the best way to solve all this problem is to just give tanks better armor/resistance scaling similiar to Leona W but also for offensive abilities so they can scale enough to deal "some" damage, while still focusing on building pure survivability. Idk.