User blog comment:Care Level/Let's Talk about Melee v. Ranged./@comment-14874017-20140728192626/@comment-24792363-20140728195633

^ succinct, pointed riot goes out of their way to nerf tanky melee carries all the time because super survivability plus outrageous output is imbalanced as hell and yeah unless you're super high utility or a support, tanks are nigh useless nowadays without a fair amount of damage, because the meta is so geared towards burst output