hmm..im newbie and always play carry, but look like im very sux at it

would love to try tank. may i get any advise from u guys on what runes/item/masteries/ should I focus when playing tank?

tq in advance
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I think some pages back there are people maining non-carries. Don't think it's fair to generalize everyone to say no one plays tanks. Or supports. My brother is a Soraka freak.

My fav is Leona, which is a tank. 75% win rate in ranked. Do I play her in ranked often? Yes, but only if I duo queue/5v5 premade and I can trust my carries. Because she's limited to 0 CS support, if my carry fails I have no influence on the game.

Otherwise, I usually play solo top carries to get myself out of ELO hell. Carry often and carry hard!


Anyhow, there's no perceived glory in talking about tanks. Gushing on the forums "I went legendary and aced their whole team" sounds a lot more fun than "I tanked hard and went 0-8 but with 20 assists and won the game!".

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Added on March 23, 2012, 4:21 pmDepends on the tank you are trying. general rule of thumbs is Defensive tree for masteries, flat armor seals and flat MR glyphs.

This post has been edited by statikinetic: Mar 23 2012, 04:21 PM

depends on the champion, like maokai, morde are different from irellia, renk, gp etc... you really need to try them yourself to suit your gameplay style... which why I like LOL~

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Added on March 23, 2012, 5:48 pmanyway, today got sales on Lux, Caitlyn and Sona, both champion and skin are 50% off~

This post has been edited by jepertine90: Mar 23 2012, 05:48 PM

Csing > Killing for Carry

Killing is more like a bonus gold for carry and increase chances to win the game.

AD carry is boring game la.... last hitting oweiz ahahah

I prefer more roaming style hence I choose Udyr and Nunu for jungler


For Magic Resist..go for MR glyphs per level as in late game , itemization for MR will less likely to be important than it should be


This post has been edited by wairai: Mar 23 2012, 06:18 PM

I prefer flat MR glyphs to address the early game issues with most tanks. Some are item dependant to be tanky, and with item priority to be HP or HP/Armor early on, MR is a big weakness in the early stages. Flat MR glyphs address this issue.

Later in the game, I feel that the difference betwen flat MR and MR per lvl at level 18 wouldn't be as significant at 3-4k HP as compared to the early game benefits.

If you are planning to be aggresive, flat are much better choice

i found that recently more trolls coming in LOL...

its becoming more of a habit for players who suck so badly to use trolling as an excuse for their crappy score but in reality,they just cant keep up with the game that they are losing so they claim that they are trolling the game in which i just think that these are really confused individuals....why play a game just for the sake of that
just speaking from experience

Despite my main being Brand, I actually play a lot more bruiser, jungler and support now. Not a fan of pure tank but has no problem playing the supportive role. One thing I dislike about supportive role is that I can't carry the freaking game, which pissed the f*** off when the carries suck. And yes, I do agree that most like to play carry but I think players are more versatile on the higher ELO range while the carry-only players usually stuck at bottom elo because well...how the F you can win a good team with 5 carries?

I find more trolls on December and January than now...

even more troll when you are playing on 1.6k abv... lower elo-ers take matches more seriously...

i won a game with 3 carries before..

ashe mid, corki top, gp jungle, others bot + support = 4 carries~

Hmm...no experience on that range yet.

Yeah, but you can't expect yourself to win alot with such composition, especially when your opponents ain't bad.

@Hive
Alright, I have to say that not everyone can play tank well, I would rather take a bad carry than a tank that don't initiate, met too many tanks like that nowadays.

This post has been edited by Goliath764: Mar 24 2012, 12:05 AM

If you are being full tank (only buff armor + HP) most pretty decent player will ignore you since this build for champs doesn't really dish dmg consistently except for certain champs that have sustain or pretty large CC skill

Either way even you pick tanky champs , you still need to dish out considerable amount of dmg for right target aka Carry or weak Supporter

since Supporter also buy HP item or HoG , Carry will be the usual target for tanky DPS champs

I think we cannot generalize one game to the masses. I've seen teams with 5 carries somehow win, but until that winning consistency is established in competitive play, it won't become part of the meta.

I think only champs with a threat level (Amumu's Despair) or CC (Leona) has the option of building full tank. So the term 'full tank' is starting to become a thing of the past, as tanks are expected to retain a threat level if ignored. Tanks without a threat level will often fall off the radar, for example Sejuani once she uses her ultimate. Then she is no longer a threat, and has nothing to make enemies focus her instead of allies. More successful tanks like Nautilus and Rammus can sustain their threat level throughout the fight, either you focus him down or you live with the fact he's going to CC you every couple of seconds.

Yeah, they will ignore you but you should still be the first one to get into the scene, for pressure at the very least(and to catch the attention of the enemies because well, it's a champ, of course you will be looking at him) and CC if you can get into range successfully. Like why in the freaking world are you playing tank if you prefer to stick at behind and come in later when you can't do ANYTHING as ppl are ignoring you.

For f***'s sake, these 2 days almost all the tanky one are like that in my team, except when my friend or I am playing a tanky character then the initiation is a little bit okay(not say everytime is right timing, but still, it's better). Those stupid pub tanky just wait there, wait wait wait wait wait, and 1 of these 2 things will happen:

1. Pu**y out too much, never engage, 1 of my team get caught, die, lose war, rinse and repeat, lose map control, defend all the time and lose

2. Other non-tank charge first(sometime me on out-of-position enemy as I know playing defensive for 10000 minutes won't win either), proceed to die, tank come in for nothing, lose war, rinse and repeat, lose map control, defend all the time and lose.

Tanks that are afraid to die/Care to much of their KDA ratio = Hopeless

Most tanky DPS are melee and if the enemy team can kill your carry, basically you are gonna get kite for life and die eventually lol

AoE CC can be nullified with QSS but in SEA I doubt many people what the heck is this LOL

Well, Lee Sin is damn OP i think...i just hate him....

LS is a good pick for those who can land Q and have pretty much skill timing down in his hands

It's damn hard to use , and its rewards you handsomely if you good at it

Since I get the Dota 2 beta invite, less time for LoL it seems.