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Tanks and why you should focus them How to do it right

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User is offline   TwilightEfreet 

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http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/4813/alistarisarealman.jpg

See this ladies and gentlemen? This is a typical league of legends game. Towers get destroyed, people die left and right, LoLs are had. But there's a reason the enemy team lost despite having 33 kills and our team having 23. Tanks are OP. They popped all of their ults on Alistar, and totally ignored the udyr. But most of the time Alistar didn't die instantly. Why? Because tanks are OP. Tanks are designed to soak up ultimates, survive the most insane amounts of damage, and just plainly screw things over for the enemy team with their massive amounts of CC and disruptions. This a clearly broken tactic and has no place in a game where everyone picks 2 nukes, 2 carries, and a tanky caster. I mean, just look at all that damage alistar took in the next screenshot.

http://img814.imageshack.us/img814/838/alistarisarealman2.jpg

Look at all that damage, like 51k HP worth of damage yo! He should have fed like at least 10 more kills from taking all that punishment instead of simply healing it off or walking away from it. League of Legends clearly does not need such ruffians mucking up a perfectly good game of squishy nukers and carries everywhere. Surviving a teamfight? Bah! Who needs that? Disrupting ultimates and saving lives? No need! Soaking up tower aggro so a friendly DPS can pick it off easily? We never needed these kinds of individuals! So what do you do when you see such a scoundrel? Focus it! Kill it! Launch every ult at it! Their very being is a blight upon this earth that should be smited with the rage of a thousand gods! Once these heathens are laid to rest, League of Legends can go back to being a wonderful game where everyone dies during every teamfight! Who needs survival when you have the glory of dying with kills under your belt right?

[This was difficult to type with a straight face by the way.]

Ok now I'm going to stop BSing. These two screenshots should make it clear why you attack the udyr who's fondling your towers and nexus instead of the alistar who's just sitting there taking the tower hits for him. It does matter if it's low health. It doesn't matter how much sweet DPS you got. It doesn't even matter if your Vayne or any other "tank-killer". You never.......ever......EEEEEEEEEEEVEEEEEEEEEEEER focus the tank.

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Actually, there are opportunities and reasons to focus the tank, but that is another story.

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His ultimate grants him the ability to become super tanky for awhile that is why! hes a awesome tank :P

tanks are not OP imo

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tanks used to be OP back then but they nerfed the damage of tanks, so they just became soakers not soakers and retard strength. Now its all about Crowd Control.

But anywho, 6 towers by Udyr. Really sad. Also you aren't taking Alistar's ultimate into account which is something like 70-75% reduced damage to all things

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You're playing Alistar. So what's your point?

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Taric is the shit fuck everything else

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Heroes like Trundle with their defense eating/ripping abilities would eat your "OP" tanks.

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View PostVillu, on 10 August 2011 - 07:07 AM, said:

Heroes like Trundle with their defense eating/ripping abilities would eat your "OP" tanks.


Trundle's auto attack animations are too flawed to do so efficiently.

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Everything above "[This was difficult to type with a straight face by the way.]" was me speaking in the mindset that you should not go into a LoL game with. Hence why I said it hard to type it with a straight face. My honest opinion is that people need to actually think things out all the way through when they see the enemy team, not just go in there all blood and thunder trying to kill the most distracting thing available. (90% of the time it's the tank)

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This was a satirical topic.

I thought it was apparent, but i guess it wasn't for them.

<---------My face when

This post has been edited by Flurospar: 14 August 2011 - 01:22 AM


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View PostVersachuu, on 10 August 2011 - 03:03 AM, said:

Taric is the shit fuck everything else

Never queuing with you bro.

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This thread delivers.


I think.

View PostQQed In A Tutu, on 11 August 2011 - 02:55 PM, said:

Trundle's auto attack animations are too flawed to do so efficiently.


Either it's just you or I'm simply godlike at timing his Q correctly.

This post has been edited by NecroSan: 17 August 2011 - 02:44 PM


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