Will the hinted mid-season update include off-tanks in the base stat buffs?
Meddler:
Unsure, this is still early and quite experimental work. Most likely all items with defensive stats, possible some exceptions, or different changes, for items intended to be defensive choices on characters otherwise going mainly offense or utility.
In response, there were some pretty important questions some of our fellow boards members brought up.
Tides of Blood:
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Wanted to ask about Vladimir, in regards to someone previously referring to him (and Swain) as Juggermages. Since you're doing some stuff with the bases of Juggernauts and Tanks, would Vladimir (who even prior to the introduction of the Juggernaut concept was very much though of as a tank/mage mage/tank) be a part of that at all?
KGB watching U:
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are you going to buff offtank too? if you debuff defensive item and don't buff offtank defensive stat a lot of champion like jax, shyvana, irelia, wukong, darius etc become trash tier
While many off-tanks do need a hit to defensive capabilities considering offensive potential, refusing to give follow-up on champions similar to those mentioned above would essentially remove them from viability.
#Please tell me you'll be keeping an eye on them.
I have a feeling Vlad's about to be trash-tier again, despite his recent buffs.
#TL;DR: Meddler said they are planning on nerfing defensive stats across ALL items, and funneling most of it into tanks. Specific non-tank champions will most likely end up non-viable if they are not adjusted as well.
Effectively, the balance team needs to re-adjust base stats across the entire roster of non-glass-cannons if they wish to go through with this change in a healthy manner.