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The Life of A Tank

ExecutorDill·12/31/2014, 9:04:20 PM·2 votes·603 views

What is your feedback on tanks in "this meta"?

Are they even useful?

What do you get out of spending thousands of GP only to sustain an extra 3 - 6 seconds and still being useless because your the last team member alive with not enough damage output to intimidate your enemies let alone kill them.

Would implementing % bonuses on health and amr/mr items help? Only significantly increases with the more flat defensive items you buy, improve the tankyness of full tanks while being utterly useless to bruisers who only build 1 - 2 tank items.

Damage is required to siege and win in all aspects of the game with side factors like CC and Utility/Mobility. You can't avoid death, and if you can, you definitely can't avoid backing to tower to regain health/mana and items. So what good is a tank if they can only survive longer and can barely CS. Damage= More Farm and Kills= Experience and Gold= More Lvls and items= Outscaling your Lane Opponent.

It's oblivious that tanks should be constrained with things like low atk spd, low mov spd, hard to hit abilities. But I never thought that they would be constrained by damage.

Please She'd Some Light :(

5 Comments

5dolarfootlong1/4/2015, 5:06:03 AM2 votes

Guys check this out a group of friends thought they would play all tanks the best part is they won it helps that the manged to steal baron and have a big finale push (close game) it's awesome. It's the full game play so if you want to skip to the exiting parts skip to the end. But I encourage to watch the whole video this Chogath is amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n10cJuLiaec

SeargentAnus12/31/2014, 9:05:38 PM1 votes

Tanks are useful around mid game before major pen items show up. They fall off late, which is sad as this should be their strongest part of the game. The game has a need for items with %reduction, but these items need to be looked at.

Gank Top 4 Succ12/31/2014, 9:59:55 PM1 votes

Bruisers>>Tanks right now.

Think of it as Jax vs Shen. They both can get very tanky, but Jax's DPS is much higher than Shen's. Shen's laning is amazing, but once his opponent gets a few MR items, his harass becomes nonexistent.

Sachabot1/4/2015, 6:00:51 AM1 votes

I will say this once, and rely on others to spread the word. Let the tactical reason for tanks be known:

Tanks are not supposed to be able to 1v1, or be a significant source of damage. They exist to fuck shit up so the DPSers can do their thing, and it doesn't matter if they die as long as they do their job.

My job as your tank is to hit the enemy and riddle them with CC so you survive longer, either because they're focusing me to drop the CC or because they're locked down completely. If I fail at this, I'm not doing my job properly. Damage is maybe a third priority for me, after initiation and peeling.

A good tank is worth several times the amount of gold/items they have. When you meet one, you'll know and wreck in tandem with them. Just don't expect them to do carry or bruiser level damage. It's not in the job description at all.