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Viable Tanks

Creator: SpoonyBard November 21, 2010 11:29am
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New player and have yet to purchase a champion. I see that the link in the Sticky is currently down so I hope no one minds me creating a thread.

I'd like to know which pure tanks are viable at the higher levels of play. To make things a bit harder, I'd also like to know which on the list can not be purchased in a bundle (should I choose to buy the bundles, I don't want to waste IP).

Galio, Garen, Gragas, Mordekaiser and Shen are all listed as tanks (in the wiki) and are not available in bundles. Though I have read that Morde is not a pure thank and that Shen is often banned in ranked play. Any opinions or insight into these champions (or any that I may be missing) would be greatly appreciated.
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Galio, Shen, and Amumu are often banned in ranked play and they are probably the best tanks in the game. Gragas I see as more high HP AP character but that's up to debate. Mordekaiser indeed is not a tank but he can push a turret and farm minions like no one's business. Can't really speak to much for other tanks such as Rammus.

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idk what the bundles are, mostly because i have a lot of champs so it'll be a waste, also because i'm trying to not spend money and so far its working.


as b-wong said shen galio and amumu are some of the best tanks in the game, and i'm pretty sure rammus is up there too somewhere.


i also like to play gragas and singed, but they are more ap-offtanks than full tanks.
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Thread no # 1919418952952 "which champion to get" and no # 9294528 Which tank is the best...
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Been playing malphite as my main tank in my clan for a long time. Amazing denyer, best iniater in the game, almost industructible early game and amazing harraser. Although he falls under the off-tank better ( we normally have a Shen jungle in our set up)
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One of the most viable tanks in game, and generaly ignored by the community is NUNU. Amazing jungling capabilities, with a never ending HP pool build correctly.

Give it a try the champ is cheap and easy to get used to.
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And not to mention very easy too use, ey Ernil? :)
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One of the best tanks for engaging is

He ranks up there is Amumu in terms of starting team fights, and he scales with armor so thats a plus. His passive gives him a bubble that will block 10% of his health and it comes back up if he isnt attacked for 8sec... I think. He is also easy to use. Great farmer and Harasser. Can deal insane dmg, and one of the best tanks.

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Way to read my post chaotic bliss.
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Valgrave, I believe Chaotic Bliss is allowed to post his own opinion on this, regardless of previous posts?
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