04-08-2011, 07:19 AM
Not going to flame for nubbery, but you have a couple of things that need to be addressed.
Firstly, Taric is not a tank. He's a support. One of the best support in the game, actually. A heal that hits both him and an ally. Either increased armor aura for your whole team or damage and reduced armor for the enemy team. Aura of damage and maybe HP regen (I never remember whether or not they took that off). Stun with good duration and great range. Anyone dumping him on a team for the purpose of tanking is officially doing it wrong.
The problem with your mage rankings is you're not contextualizing them. Malz and Karthus push a lane better than anyone else anywhere on a list. Are Ryze and Annie better at killing champs? I would say "definitely." So there's some give and take there. Another thing to keep in mind specifically about Ryze is that he can't push a tower for shit since building MP and not AP means hits for the full 70 AD he has.
Cass I agree with. She actually has an incredible laning presence, but her ultimate is SOOOOO worthless that it almost doesn't matter.
Udyr really has lackluster laning abilities. He needs to rank W nonstop to be able to sustain himself which means his damage is not going to be good. In the jungle he's still an absolute beast, though. He can gank like nobody's business. If you've been seeing people running around in lane with Udyr then I'm sure you've been less than impressed.
Nasus and Olaf kind of get the same comment from me. They require nonstop farm for the first 20~25 minutes of the game. If they're not at or competing for the highest CS by that mark then they're probably not going to have much of an impact on the game. That said, if they DO get their items, they are completely unstoppable. I've seen Olaf charge through three or four of my teammates and walk away like it was nothing. Nasus can just stand around dropping 800 damage Qs every two seconds and shrug off damage with his ult. They require a shit ton of farm and some careful play in the beginning of the game.
So... yeah. No rage, definitely, but it definitely seems like you've had the unfortunate experience of seeing some champions simply played completely incorrectly. And I don't mean "you have to build X, Y, and Z or you're doing it wrong" but there are something that just don't work. If I was in Ranked and someone pick/locked Taric for our team's tank, I would be pissed.
Firstly, Taric is not a tank. He's a support. One of the best support in the game, actually. A heal that hits both him and an ally. Either increased armor aura for your whole team or damage and reduced armor for the enemy team. Aura of damage and maybe HP regen (I never remember whether or not they took that off). Stun with good duration and great range. Anyone dumping him on a team for the purpose of tanking is officially doing it wrong.
The problem with your mage rankings is you're not contextualizing them. Malz and Karthus push a lane better than anyone else anywhere on a list. Are Ryze and Annie better at killing champs? I would say "definitely." So there's some give and take there. Another thing to keep in mind specifically about Ryze is that he can't push a tower for shit since building MP and not AP means hits for the full 70 AD he has.
Cass I agree with. She actually has an incredible laning presence, but her ultimate is SOOOOO worthless that it almost doesn't matter.
Udyr really has lackluster laning abilities. He needs to rank W nonstop to be able to sustain himself which means his damage is not going to be good. In the jungle he's still an absolute beast, though. He can gank like nobody's business. If you've been seeing people running around in lane with Udyr then I'm sure you've been less than impressed.
Nasus and Olaf kind of get the same comment from me. They require nonstop farm for the first 20~25 minutes of the game. If they're not at or competing for the highest CS by that mark then they're probably not going to have much of an impact on the game. That said, if they DO get their items, they are completely unstoppable. I've seen Olaf charge through three or four of my teammates and walk away like it was nothing. Nasus can just stand around dropping 800 damage Qs every two seconds and shrug off damage with his ult. They require a shit ton of farm and some careful play in the beginning of the game.
So... yeah. No rage, definitely, but it definitely seems like you've had the unfortunate experience of seeing some champions simply played completely incorrectly. And I don't mean "you have to build X, Y, and Z or you're doing it wrong" but there are something that just don't work. If I was in Ranked and someone pick/locked Taric for our team's tank, I would be pissed.
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