Playing Malphite vs. Maokai top w/ both starting jungle camps

thinking man·Apr 26, 2015·10 votes·2,173 views

We both rushed RG so we just slapped each other while waiting for Catalyst and then slapping each other some more. This promotes skill and risks, Riot, I love tank meta.

16 Comments

thinking manApr 26, 20157 votes

Update: The lane was really intense and it was a constant back and forth struggle between the two eternal forces of rock (Malphite) and paper (Maokai), but in the end, paper couldn't quite dispatch rock fast enough.

also LeBlanc is cancer and Riot needs to nerf that whore

SirsirApr 26, 20155 votes

My friend once got into a fight Nami vs Soraka (reworked) after everyone else died. They eventually just walked away with more HP than they started.

Kariu RenaApr 26, 20152 votes

tank meta best meta!!!! full tank thronmail gromp can still 100-0 squishies with their base dmg, balanced!

thinking manApr 26, 20151 votes

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tank meta best meta!!!! full tank thronmail gromp can still 100-0 squishies with their base dmg, balanced!

I killed somebody as Sion with Thornmail/Gromp and nothing else once

kile147Apr 26, 20159 votes

Maybe, if the adc stands there and tries to go toe-toe with someone who has built specifically to counter them

Kariu RenaApr 26, 20151 votes

You're right. Adc should ignore the massive cc tank that is focusing them and instead flash into the enemy backline and deal dmg because tanks deal no dmg amirite

Sir YamazukiApr 27, 20151 votes

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You're right. Adc should ignore the massive cc tank that is focusing them and instead flash into the enemy backline and deal dmg because tanks deal no dmg amirite

Tanks aren't strong because of "damage", they don't really do damage compared to every other class. Even when they successfully kill an adc by themselves, it was over the course of a few seconds, not in .2~2 seconds. Also, adcs with proper positioning easily destroy tanks in the later stages of the game and assuming they didn't build 2 phantom dancers, thornmail becomes irrelevant.

LittleBlastApr 27, 20151 votes

Well the other game i did 100-0 a xerath as full tank rammus... dear god was i fed that game.

Kariu RenaApr 27, 20151 votes

Dmg dealer dealing dmg is ok and gets chuncked easily

But full tank dealing massive dmg but still walkig away with full hp is not ok

Aych PiiApr 27, 20151 votes

I can't think of a Tank who can 100-0 anybody who's playing with any scrap of intelligence. Maybe it could happen if you're an ADC auto-attacking a full armor/thornmail/gromp Malphite while he unloads his full combo on you, but that's when you look for a better target.

And if Tanks are entirely irrelevant aside from CC they'll be not worth having on the team at all, since nobody will attack them and they won't soak any damage. Right now tanks are in a good spot where they're actually enough of a threat to consider attacking sometimes, without being high priority damage dealers.

PatMcGroynApr 26, 20152 votes

Play a tank killing champ if you don't want to be in a slap fight, then. Nobody is preventing you from playing Vayne top, especially with all the tank mids and jungles in the meta right now.

thinking manApr 26, 20152 votes

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Play a tank killing champ if you don't want to be in a slap fight, then. Nobody is preventing you from playing Vayne top, especially with all the tank mids and jungles in the meta right now.

I'm just marveling at the fact that the most effective thing is to just pick a champion that can ignore everything into a champion that can ignore everything.

ShockwhiteApr 26, 20151 votes

I love you Roger E Stannerman.

Aych PiiApr 27, 20151 votes

Maokai hasn't changed at all since before tank meta, Malphite's only changed in that he's actually somewhat on meta now. If you don't like slap fights, you shouldn't be playing top lane anyhow.