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Tank stats are not useless.

Marshbouy··12 votes·590 views

Is this really happening? People are saying that tank stats are useless. Not that armorpen is easy to get, THAT TANK STATS ARE USELESS. For some reason people are saying they are useless when in reality they are not. An ADC has to build Crit, AD, armor pen, and AS if they want to be able to scale hard into the late game and be able to deal relevant damage. A tank just has to build armor and health. Not to mention tanks have wonderful items like item 3110 item 3143 that shut down their AS and crit a fair amount. I can understand why they would say this though. Building pure tank does make you useless, but what's the point of having 140 MR and 300 armor on darius if you deal no damage with your abilities? This is a damage focused meta. When playing a follow up reliant champion like nautilus is going to be less rewarding when playing solo than going darius, illaoi, or any other tanky bruiser you can think of. That does not mean tank stats are useless.

13 Comments

MunchCrunchLunch4 votes

they aren't. but it doesn't feel good to take 1-1.5k damage per second from an adc while having 300 armor tabis and randuins.

what i see in pro play and matches.

the team with the more damage wins. not the one with the tanks. you need 0 TANKS. if you have enough damage to snowball and kill the enemy frontline in a cpl seconds. meanwhile them as a frontline are non threat

the other day as graves. I build sv against a mostly ap team. death dance. and bt. I did about 50k damage. most on my team. and took about 50k damage. more than the enemy tank. i was tanking 3 people and getting a triple kill in a 1v3.

pretty much at mid game anything that isn't an assassin or an another carry is a teddie bear to the adc. they just heal off them while killing them. assassins stink in team fights. they just get cced down after engaging hoplessly on the carry and die to them in half a second

the game is ugly. the game shouldn't be balanced around ad carries. they don't need to be the focus of it. every class needs to be even. but for obvious reasons they are not.

there aren't many ways to compliment being a tank. the only thing that does is a mastery that gives you damage and 5% bonus armor and mr increase lol. meanwhile look at all the penetration items. damage masteries and amplification. too much.

REMEMBER WHEN PEOPLE USED TO BUY BOTRK TO KILL TANKS? YEAH I REMEMBER THOSE DAYS.

Weasel Kensei3 votes

Is it really that hard to capitalize the first word of sentences, or are people that freakishly lazy they just cant be bothered?

MunchCrunchLunch3 votes

apparently its easy for you to be a douchbage dickhead.

PermabannedGaren2 votes

{quoted}

apparently its easy for you to be a douchbage dickhead.

Not as easy as it is for you to whine and cry on the boards like a little girl though.

"Waaaaah why can't I solo the ADC as a tank waaaaaah!"

crippler381 votes

personally I like naut for his ultimate being the fck you in particular ability I always use on the most fed member of their team.

Reikken3 votes

If someone thinks tank stats are useless, they're either setting their expectations too high or are building the wrong items for the situation

But this has been said many times before. None of the relevant parties will read it anyway. People who come to the boards to complain might not even skim the titles on the first page. Just look at all the complaints about not getting an S rank.

Marshbouy3 votes

getting downvote spammed for it too. i hate the boards with a passiion

CerealBoxOfDoom2 votes

if it doesn't hardcounter everything to the point you can fall asleep and win people here will swear its uselss

Marshbouy2 votes

This.

Reaper Soraka2 votes

idk. I kinda of feel like if I build any armor item on a non-tank, that it's a wasted slot. Not because the stats are weak, but because it barely mitigates an adc's standard build. Once upon a time, armor pen was a secondary build that was somewhat dangerous to go down because it didn't bring as much damage, but now the armor pen items have a high damage bonus on them in addition.

Increase the armor pen value and lower the damage on it. I feel like there should be some sort of trade off for picking up that armor pen instead of getting all you need in one convenient, and rather cheap package.

WoonStruck1 votes

This.

Zach Sandwhich1 votes

I agree that tank stats aren't useless. The misconception that they are in fact useless is because of the more meta ADC's (Jhin, MF, Luc) as of late (I think the only one of these that still is "meta" is Jhin even though I personally see a lot of MF and Luc in my games.) are all using some type of Armor Pen build that makes your tank stats not as good because they just go straight through with all the flat armor pen. Its not that they themselves are useless just that armor pen has become a really REALLY popular option lately.

Spoofghoul1 votes

ur right tank stats arent useless

they are beyond useless but we don't yet have invented a word for something which is beyond useless so we will just call them useless for the time being

[slayer-jinx-catface]

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