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Why is it I always have to tank?

Creator: Jvstm March 22, 2011 10:02pm
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Yes, one AP will carry the entire team when they build Thornmail and shut us down.
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Playing normals? Screw tanking :) Pick your champ and lock it.

IDC about it... You can easily win without a tank if you dont have 5 sorakas in team.
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I'm having the same problem
I'm enjoying playing with Caitlyn this week and would like to play her a bit more but I just can't seem to get a decent team because whenever I'm not a Tanky DPS or Tank we have none. Or my team just can't play them well at all.

(On that matter, Dante. We need a game soon. I'm not letting you say Rammus still sucks thats a plain out-******ed comment >>)

And yeah Thornmail shuts AD carries down way too hard, I mean most MR items aren't that great and Thornmail means you need to get over 30% lifesteal to survive?
Really?

What are we supposed to do against a 4 man AP team? Get lots of FoNs?
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caucheka wrote:

thats why you don't solo queue. everyone you pick up has a hard on for trying to get the most DEEPS as they can.


Exactly.
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make your main a tank based champion, have fun

hi morgana
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I've played 5 solo queue ranked games. Of those games, I've played udyr 4 times. Of those udyr games, I had to tank 3 times. Of those remaining games, I've had to jungle all 5 times.

Basically, if I don't jungle then no one jungles. That's why I main nunu now, because otherwise I'd be in a top duo lane every freakin' game.

So I suggest not only you main a tank based champion, but also a jungler. So, y'know, you can fill two roles that everyone hates.
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well you can vary the flavor when playing a tank :

Mord, Nasus, Kennen, Swain those have a pretty unique way of tanking.
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Trojan995 wrote:

I've played 5 solo queue ranked games. Of those games, I've played udyr 4 times. Of those udyr games, I had to tank 3 times. Of those remaining games, I've had to jungle all 5 times.

Basically, if I don't jungle then no one jungles. That's why I main nunu now, because otherwise I'd be in a top duo lane every freakin' game.


i'm not understanding this

you pick udyr but complain about tanking and jungling? (he's a tank, and he's only good in jungle) so you pick nunu otherwise you'd.. be jungling and tanking?

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Jet wrote:

i'm not understanding this

you pick udyr but complain about tanking and jungling? (he's a tank, and he's only good in jungle) so you pick nunu otherwise you'd.. be jungling and tanking?

?_?


He is an offtank, (shouldnt be forced to maintank imho), and he is great on a lane with good cc and survivability he can assure plenty kills on your ranged carry.

You are quite single-minded here.
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why would you lane with one of the best junglers and gankers in the game

it's not single minded, it's like laning shaco - the reason shaco is good is cause you don't know where he is, same with udyr. if he pops out from anywhere and ganks you, you're screwed if you don't have summoners. if you see him in lane, that threat level is non-exsistant, and they are both easily avoided when they don't have red buff.
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