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Gregorovic08·6/11/2018, 5:59:50 AM·4 votes·3,785 views

I was wondering when/if we might be seeing a new tank sometime in the future, in particular, a tank that has an extremely high or even just moderately high skill cap. From what I've seen, almost every class has one or more of these types of champions. For assassins there are Ekko, Zed, and perhaps Katarina. For fighters we have things like Gangplank, Fiora, Camille, Yasuo and Riven. Mages have Ryze, Azir, Zoe, and perhaps Taliyah. Draven, Vayne, and Kalista all have high skill caps and are of the marksman class. Even supports, who some view solely as shield bots, contains champions like Thresh, Bard, Ivern, and maybe even Rakan. This leaves us with tanks. The most difficult tank/ highest skill cap one is Singed due to his very unique playstyle. The next most difficult tanks it seems would be Galio, Shen, Poppy, and Ornn. But when thinking of these, none of them bring to mind something like Yasuo does for fighters, or Zed does for assassins. They just don't seem to have the outplay potential, difficulty, or mastery that certain iconic champions from other classes do. One big thing the four tanks have in common is their high impact ults which seems to be the only thing making them more difficult than any other tank. To end this, I know some of this is simply opinion and not actually factual but feel free to disagree and say why in the comments.

16 Comments

RiotBazerka6/11/2018, 6:05:48 AM7 votes

You're not wrong, interesting challenge for you: Why not prototype a tank you'd think would do well as "the next tank". It seems like an interesting exercise to make a tank on Singed's level of unique playstyle. Certainly got me curious.

five oh tree 6/11/2018, 10:35:06 AM2 votes

it's hard to create a tank that's high skillcap due to the forgiving nature of building defense rather than offense. I'm not saying it's impossible, but their mistakes are naturally forgiven more than a carry champ's mistakes.

DeathBurst6/11/2018, 1:25:43 PM2 votes

in particular, a tank that has an extremely high or even just moderately high skill cap.

Apparently, that's Ornn.

When they removed unstoppable from his W, people complained that it was lowering his skill cap. Meddler replied that it's not a problem, because Ornn skill cap was too high, à la Ryze/Azir with too wide a gap between high and low MMR, and that it's the highest skillcap of all Tanks in the game.

Desertcolossus6/11/2018, 10:55:52 PM1 votes

I like the idea of creating a tank that is skill expressive. I actually tried creating a concept not too long ago for one. https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/skin-champion-concepts/1TpuJTOF-the-greatest-champion-concept-ever-kaktus-the-tag-playing-cactus The skill is all about hitting the Water Gun ability to get the cc off and in order to basically do that you need to land a seed on the target, so it takes two abilities in order to cast cc on the target. Also I wasn't taking the champ too seriously. But you are welcome to use some of my ideas for abilities or evolve them a little. Good luck with creating a concept