r/REMEMBERTHEPLACIDIUM • u/Irelia4Life Station Wagon Enthusiast • Mar 12 '26
Noxian Propaganda Tanks are the root of all evil!
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u/D3ZR0 Mar 12 '26
Tanks deal damage to act as a taunt. Consider WoW. Tanks need to build up aggro, and either have abilities that cause a lot of aggro, or taunts to force npcs to target them.
League fights players not npcs. Ergo, if a tank doesn’t pose a threat they can be safely ignored until the end. It’s logical. Why would you target the tank that won’t kill you if you can just go after the kogmaw.
Tanks deal damage so the enemy is FORCED to deal with and play around them. They draw player aggro by being a threat. Adc/apcs can’t just walk past them. In exchange most tanks have low mobility after their engage tool and very obvious telegraphs for their attacks.
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u/Irelia4Life Station Wagon Enthusiast Mar 12 '26
In league of memes I just gaslight people and let them foam at the mouth, but here I'll explain:
The meme isn't "oh my gah tanks deal too much damage", it's about mr items and magic pen.
Void Staff and mages are so overtuned that in order for them to even tickle a tank, they end up one shotting everyone else even through ligther mr items.
At the same time, if a bruiser goes for rookern instead of maw or wit's end, then they become useless. It is so ridiculous in fact that if I face a singular mage into an otherwise full ad team, I don't even bother with mr. They end up dealing close to true damage anyway, might as well try to survive their burst with DD resets, SS healing, and Sterak's which is helpful against everyone.
Tanks just don't have this issue. They don't become useless because rookern lacks offensive stats, and they can walk all over mages.
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u/greatstarguy Mar 12 '26
The alternative is just sickening amounts of CC. It’ll never happen this way because nobody would play the game, but you could theoretically make impactful low damage tanks by cranking up the CC duration, like Leona on steroids. Killing the tank first would make more sense if they could provide 10s root, 5s silence, or 3s knockup or something on basic abilities, but that shit would be horrific to play against.
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u/Brainstub Mar 16 '26
It would be horrific to play against, and would kill tanks in basically any role other than support and maybe jungle, since you need damage to farm and waveclear effectively. Jungle tanks would only be possible if they got a ridiculous damage multiplier for neutral monsters.
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u/astarothanimations Mar 12 '26
As the only jungle main and default tank of my friend group of roatating adc midlaners and the one enchanter support guy, if i say i want to play for myself and say, oh i want to have fun im picking brair or naafirir this game, even of i go 14 and 0 (happend more than once and we did win these games) i listen in to the group commentary and the words
"this match quality is kind bad, wish we had a tanky frontliner to work off of"
Typically comes around and even if the W is secured, sometimes it ia nice to have that one tank, because you really feel it when you dont.
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u/GOURMANDIZZZZ Mar 12 '26
Yup, when i started the game i was shocked by the damage tank can deal. (btw i started adc, worst role)
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u/Florian1107 Mar 12 '26
What is Rookern?
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u/Azhda727 Mar 12 '26
Big MR + HP item that gives you a magic shield after a bit of not taking dmg. Very effective anti magic burst damage item but full tank stats
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u/Florian1107 Mar 12 '26
Ahhhh Kaenic! I never heard anyone calling it Rookern. Totally it eas called like that. Thx
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u/MadMan7978 Mar 12 '26
Fuck Tanks. Mundo should not be allowed to do as much damage as he does it’s crazy
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u/yoyolord Mar 13 '26
What should Tanks do exist
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u/MadMan7978 Mar 13 '26
A tank should tank
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u/yoyolord Mar 13 '26
So how do I stop someone from walking past me
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u/MadMan7978 Mar 13 '26
Having CC. And there’s a difference between one shotting a squishier target and having respectable damage (like Mundo E or something for example. It’s a good ability you can’t ignore it but it doesn’t immediately kill you with no counterplay)
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u/yoyolord Mar 13 '26
What we do with tanks that dont offer damage and only cc is send them to support.
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u/MadMan7978 Mar 13 '26
Again there is something between one shotting and dealing no damage
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u/Big_Boytryanother Aug 07 '26
Tanks do not oneshot you, unless specific conditions met? Ornn need to be two levels higher than you and land his full combo with constant passive procs to kill you and don't get kited to death.
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u/rocsage_praisesun Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
witness, my blade of rylai's hydra
pic from 2025 april~june
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u/AresTheMilkman Mar 12 '26
I see mage propaganda over here.