Your Best Unorthodox Tank

BLACK REALM GOD·Feb 12, 2016·3 votes·840 views

Many champs have hidden potential because of the way their kit synergizes unintentionally. Sometimes though we see that potential become something amazing where you can design a build on the most unsuspecting champions into a pure unnatural force that actually prevents them from dying 99.9% of the time. It can be an entire game changer seeing a champ who heals/blocks more efficiently than the damage they receive - especially if that champ is someone like Annie. What are your favorite unorthodox tanks?

only 1 per person please. Other comments and discussions unlimited.

26 Comments

Subject 5Feb 13, 20163 votes

Tank Akali is basically my main right now but the new season started and people think you are Hitler for not playing meta so I can't really play her. =l

BLACK REALM GODFeb 13, 20162 votes

I know them feels

legionnaire99Feb 12, 20162 votes

Ashe tanky you have tons of slows and a stun

BLACK REALM GODFeb 13, 20161 votes

I want to try putting all the frost items on her one day. Frozen heart rylias gauntlet frozen mallet then mercury treads and a bloodthirster

BLACK REALM GODFeb 13, 20161 votes

Or! Instead of blood thirster maybe runaans for extra stacks

BLACK REALM GODFeb 13, 20161 votes

I just did it. Felt pretty amazing. Of course it was a bit off center cause of the weird luck I was having with my R and I had a teemo support plus the enemies had yi support.

ZenithirFeb 12, 20162 votes

... Anivia ...-sheepish grin-

She's a CC machine with strong zoning abilities with several skills that work well for peeling, especially with the insane 45% cdr keystone. She's not as much of a front liner, even when built tanky, but it can catch people off guard in a hurry. Her strong base damage and scalings allow her to make the most out of every drop of AP she can find.

BLACK REALM GODFeb 13, 20162 votes

Ha! I actually did that one! Zhonya rylias omen liandrys banshees veil and abbyssal

BLACK REALM GODFeb 13, 20162 votes

Guardian angel is nice too! Because of the passive

ZenithirFeb 13, 20161 votes

Man, I can ramble a good bit on different itemizations on her if you're building tanky.

To sum up, my build pool looks like this:

Mana - item 3040 item 3027 item 3174

Fairly standard, admittedly. Mana isn't something you can just skip on anivia. I highly favor building both tear and rod it gives a sizable chunk of HP/AP with strong synergies for a few defensive items I build on her.

Armor - item 3110 item 3157 item 3143 item 3075

I strongly favor building Frozen heart on her as a tank, it synergizes well with her ultimate and it gives even more AP when paired with tear. Zhonya is a typical AP vs AD powerbuy. I don't buy randuins often, as it's a purely defensive item that doesn't double to provide me any offensive stats, but it's a lifesaver versus the vaynes and dravens of this world. Thornmail for people I know clearly aren't paying attention to my build.

MR - item 3001 item 3105 item 3102

Athene's also falls into this category. Abyssal can be useful, but the aura requires you to be a bit too close for comfort for me personally. Aegis can literally go either way. If you're a team player pick Locket to counter burst in teamfights, if you want to create pressure on the map/more gold for yourself, go Banner. Banshee's is nice to prevent you from getting locked down so you can't do your job.

Situational/Flex - item 3026 item 3151 item 3512 item 3152 item 3065 item 3057 item 3083 item 3800 item 3222 item 3135 item 3285 item 3041

These items I buy under very specific circumstances or am in the process of experimenting with (namely sheen items). I'd give a blurb about each of them but it'd be about as long as the post so far. I do not buy rylai's on anivia, as I find that the major selling point of rylai's is lost on her, as all of her abilities slow to begin with.

BLACK REALM GODFeb 14, 20161 votes

Heads up with the sheen items - none of them work on champs with less than 1 attack per second. They're wasted gold. You're better off just getting a pure attack damage item if you want the same effect.

ZenithirFeb 14, 20161 votes

Really? What do you mean don't work? They just aren't slot-effective?

I figure anivia would have an easy time weaving autos between spell casts for the sheen effects. Most anivia players do.

BLACK REALM GODFeb 15, 20161 votes

Yes, but flat damage increases would help you better than 50-125% damage multiplier or a 75% ability power multiplier because of how anivias spells build.

trash sionFeb 12, 20162 votes

Rengar. Slow and Snare, decent damage to squishies because of Q base damage, and you get even tankier with W as well as healing.

BLACK REALM GODFeb 13, 20161 votes

Sounds insane. Rengar with armor becomes an invisible tank. Could you imagine fighting an invisible tank? That's almost as scary as teemo with pure magic penetration and 600 ap

CremepieFeb 12, 20161 votes

This is more of me trolling but.. Sometimes in normals I'll go tanky Jayce support with item 3022 Often find myself being useful for peels with Knockback and acceleration gates.

BLACK REALM GODFeb 13, 20162 votes

Trolling is bad. Just try your best and maybe you can make it work? These builds need to work to be viable. You only named 1 item but I'm sure you could put others with it to make an amazing build

BemaponFeb 13, 20161 votes

Anivia item 3075 item 3068

They kill themselves on the egg

ZenithirFeb 13, 20162 votes

Hurts even worse with item 3001 . The damage returned from thornmail and the passive from sunfire cape are both magic damage.

BLACK REALM GODFeb 14, 20161 votes

Wonder if liandrys and frozen heart would help stack it

ZenithirFeb 14, 20161 votes

Liandrys definitely would, as it provides straight pen, as would void staff, for those stacking MR.

What makes you suggest FH though? It adds armor and reduces attack speed.

BLACK REALM GODFeb 15, 20161 votes

Thornmail does magic damage before its reduced by armor and such. Reducing attack speed and damage would limit lifesteal and your opponent could still critical. Void doesn't properly stack with abbyssal but liandrys does. Flat penetration first then % penetration.

RawFeb 13, 20161 votes

Pantheon item 3111 item 3071 item 3156 item 3742 item 3053 item 3075

Best Darius KRFeb 13, 20161 votes

I mean, normally i would come up with a totally cool, well argumented and original idea that would totally be based on my personal experience.

....But i pretty much only play Darius Darius so fuck it.

BLACK REALM GODFeb 14, 20162 votes

To each their own, but why bother posting if you aren't adding anything to the conversation? You should post a "lets talk about Darius and Darius only because I don't play any other champs than a standard Darius" post. That way it would be interactive for you.

ZT XperimentorFeb 14, 20161 votes

Blitzcrank built for AOE annoyance, disruption, and durability; blitztank. item 1306 item 3068 item 3001 item 3025 item 3174 item 3083 item 2138 However this is more of a top lane only build, as it's extremely easy to steal minions & champion kills from allies if played support XD