Wouldnt it be cool if tanks were an optional class?

But they havent been one for the last 3 years...

If you want to win you HAVE to have 1 or multiple tanks on your team, it just makes your team straight up better than a team without a tank, theres nothing you can exploit about teams picking multiple tanks (unlike full adc/ap/support/assassin comps etc), they just become stronger and thats it and the only thing you can do is just make sure your team also has tanks otherwise your team is going to have no EHP, you cant even splitpush them down because riot thought it was a good idea to make tanks lane bullies and duelists aswell (ornn/maokai lmao).

Why do you think there are 5~6 tanks per game in competitive in last 2 years worth of metas?

Remember when ori/syndra were the meta mid? Ppl spammed tanks Remember when adcs were weak? Ppl spammed tanks Remember when assassins got very strong for a few patches? Ppl spammed tanks Remember ardent meta when adcs got stronger? Ppl spammed tanks

Picking tanks is just the awnser for everything in this game and its not cool.

Imagine if bruisers were actually strong vs tanks early game, maybe you could viably play one to make picking tanks more risky and give a team that stacks tanks a weakness (which is exactly how it used to be in season 2, aka the golden era of the game).