League of Tanks, help me adjust

pE4CbxDPQO·3/20/2015, 7:51:28 AM·1 votes·1,009 views

Hello LoL,

I got back in to my ranked groove at the wrong time it seems. Couple nights ago I was stomping and on quite a streak. Woke up the next morning and tanks are running amok everywhere. I can't kill them. I can't run away from them. It feels like when I just started playing. I don't like it, but that's besides the point, the point is I want to win again.

I can play any champ in any lane, but I'm not sure what I should be playing. Do I pick up tanks myself or switch over to tank busters with %dmg? What have you all found success with this patch?

9 Comments

RogueWill3/20/2015, 5:01:50 PM2 votes

Tanks has been gone for so long that people forgot how to play against them. As for how to kill them item 3153 has been and will be the best way to kill them.

pE4CbxDPQO3/20/2015, 8:36:38 AM1 votes

Thought I would go the tank buster route when I got first pick so I grabbed Kog'Maw, the other team grabbed a bunch of "kill the sitting duck" champs- no tanks. So that wansn't fun. Main Zac for a while?

UnSeenDeath883/20/2015, 11:28:41 AM1 votes

Can't beat em join em. No but really 3 tank teams are a pain in the ass late game, lost a game the other day because mid and bot fed hard, while me and jungle did ok, needless to say their top sion, jung vi, and supp something all went nearly full tank. We killed the carries under our nexus turrets but none of the 3 tanks died and were able to finish us off to win.

TehNACHO3/20/2015, 2:33:18 PM1 votes

Pick up, or make sure you peel for, the DPS champs of your team.

To explain, most DPS champions are already optimized one way or the other to kill tanks. Generally, the ADC is going to help you the most due to almost every team running an ADC anyway, but be sure to watch other lanes. Mid Lane or Top Lane is also a good source for a DPS carry in some cases, like Karthus or Top Lane Marksman. Even the rare Carry Jungler can keep up or even exceed normal ADCs in terms of tank busting if sufficiently fed.

If you can't play DPS champs well, find champions who can peel for them. Try to avoid certain Bust Mages and Assassins during this meta as Burst champions are countered the hardest during any given tank meta. The exception to that burst rule however is if the opposing team has a really powerful tank busting DPS and your own team is made of a lot of tanks; you're going to want to kill the enemy team's DPS as fast as possible so that the DPS doesn't kill your team's tanks, and Assassins/Burst Mages counter most DPS champs the hardest.