So after playing on PBE, I am quite concerned at the moment about the direction this game will be going.
On one side, the AP items are colossally strong especially the Stormsurge, the new Shadowflame and the Companion, BUT the tanks literally benefit off of so much shit it is unreal:
- Sunfire/Frostfire/Jaksho and HEARTSTEEL are all kept. They do kind of the same thing but with a bit of toned down numbers like Frostfire no longer reducing the dmg and Jaksho being slightly weaker.
- Demonic Embrace is Gone, Liandry is nerfed numberwise.
- Armor penetration cant be stacked (you cant go Serylda +BC) and Serylda is very nerfed compared to live, BC is also nerfed in terms of Armor Pen.
- Frozen Heart is JUST 2300 compensated by 20 Amor.
- And yea lets celebrate DS is gone and Trinity Force is a complete joke of an item because Spellblade Flat is countered by everyone and their mother having big base armor due to durability patch !
But hey maybe the mages will answer the tanks, Nope, enter:
Kaenic Rokern 400 Health and 80 MR 150%Regen AND a Magic shield of 20% of your Max Hp. Perfect to brute force yourself into the enemy.
And Force of Nature of 400 health 55 MR which grants you stack every time you get magic dmg up to 8, moment where you gain ANOTHER 70 MR and 10% MS.
Now yea Nothing wrong with tanks being tankier, IF TANKS IN LOL WERE JUST THAT :D
Usually tanks in LoL are not just tanky but most of the time they are also Nukers, being perfectly capable of killing squishy champions and usually when meta they outvalue Divers/Bruisers and non True dmg/Trundle Skirmishers. Even Juggernauts get outvalued if the tank just plays it passive a bit early on.
Now, it might just be me but to me all the changes point towards the most obvious power increase of tanks and the biggest power decrease of bruisers that either liked to stack pen like Aatrox/Pantheon/ Riven/Kled or champions that relied on Sunderer to play like Camille/Jax/Woukong/Vi. Even Fiora will be struggling vs tanks that rush bramble the moment she loses the DS sustain.
Just to make an Ideea. Now Trinityforce stats-wise is much more fat than DS, and still DS is the better choice in a lot of scenarios because of the sustain, the %dmg on spellblade and the passive Armor pen.
TL&DR: Tanks seem quite OP/ Bruisers seem to be again weak and due to the tank design philosophy of Riot, when tanks are good they outvalue any other melee class in the game. Hopefully things change.
PS: Tank meta wont necessarily nullify the Mage Meta because very often they co-exist, and their items seem strong as well.
First of all it’s not gonna be a tank meta. It is going to be a tank viable season where tanks actually tank damage.
Second of all even if it is a tank meta, then so what ?
You had your assassin meta, you had your bruiser meta you even had your super strong adc meta. Even mages were probably strong sometime last year or the year before that.
But you know when last tank meta was a thing ? 8 years ago. So yeah.
Yes it was 8 y ago for A very good reason -> no other champs see play but tanks if tanks are good because they cover everything.
Tanks are viable just now. Idk where the ideea of tanks being unviable came from but Ornn/Zac/Malphite/Poppy/Sion/TK/Chogath/Ksante are all perfectly viable right now some of them boasting impressive WR as well. Even Rell/Ali/Nautilius are good if you want to count tank supports.
No they are not viable. As a tank your job is to tank damage and CC. Right now they can’t do that due to how easily they die from all the true damage, % max health damage and giga armor pen. To compensate Riot gives them pure damage which just doesn’t make sense for a tank to solo kill you in late game from 100 to 0.
In the low elos they are good don’t get be wrong, but once you climb to like what emerald and diamond which isn’t hard, they start becoming noticably worse. And that’s the general rule. The better you are the weaker they get.
The better you are the weaker tanks get? Tanks are viable in pro play and that’s the highest lvl of play.
Bruisers are still way better in terms of everything there but once again you compare solo Q to pro play. Lack of knowledge and game sense is 1 thing that is not missing from this sub at all.
Clearly haven’t peaked above emerald so you obviously don’t know how the game works nor how tanks are affected by higher skill brackets. Not worth explaining either cuz you won’t understand. So good in low elo !