Thread:Double Slap/@comment-3017217-20150625141131/@comment-4091261-20160627192141

What you're experiencing isn't a contradiction. Tanks do become stronger as they gain more items, much moreso than the other kinds of champions. However, the counters to tanks are bought in the late game which destroys the tankiness of a champion by the amount of tanky items the champion bought.

What this means is that tanks are actually at their strongest in the mid-game. Where champions are just finishing their core items and have not yet touched the situational counter items. Even so, some champions have counter tank items in their core. is core on and  while  is core on  and. This leads people to assume that the only spot where tanks are powerful is the early-mid game when the truth of the matter is just anytime before champions start getting counter tank items.

The "strongest" tanks are tanks that have methods to obtain their power before the enemy can prevent it. for example has a ratio that allows her to get  for early game tankiness but also pump out massive DPS at the same time. If the enemy hasn't built anything to fight against, this point in time is where is in her prime. The same goes for other forms like damage from with. But when the enemy finishes the counter tank item, all of that investment turns against the tank and suddenly the tank is worthless against them. Like for example, going up against a that rushed  will not bode well for. Tanks' effectiveness is only as useful as the lack of countermeasures against them.

It's ironic because Tanks are used as a countermeasure due to CC, but then there are items that are countermeasures to the countermeasure--which is the whole entire class itself. Comparing and, even  counters , but nothing tanky wise significantly counters.