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I love how Shen's kits is just op and be balanced out by simply being Shen himself. Truly the embodiment of equilibrium.

Small correction: Ornn's passive doesn't grant him bonus armor/mr, it only grants him bonus BONUS armor/mr

I like how throughout the video we get to understand that Shen is the most threatening tank

i think taric's passive should be on this list, it's armour scaling empowerd basic attack that reduces cooldowns which would be amazing with for example shen's q

shen got 4 out of five, the kinkou truly is the best teaching

So what I'm gathering is that Shen is the best tank in the game. And if he had waveclear, that wasn't item dependent, he'd be straight up broken.

Imagine a mode where people chose their 4 abilities and passive off of all the champs. Make some crazy combos, but totally unbalancable

I’m surprised you didn’t mention Poppy W for peel given the amount of dashes there are in the game rn

If Ornn’s passive isn’t the chosen passive im gonna Riot lmao That thing does like 5 different things and it’s all OP lol

Hey Mr Vars i have a video suggestion i think it would be interesting to make a video like "Why SOMEONE plays" and talks about an off meta pick or build and explain why it could work and why some people find it fun to play along with it's negative and consequences

I think the best e should go to tahm kench. Incredible defensive spell with passive sustain. It’s the only reason tahm was op in toplane

Maybe Gragas's passive is a little bit underrated, a 8% healing low cooldown healing means a lot for a tank

Taric passive is by far the best in the game. After every Spell you get 100% attack speed and your spells get 2 second cd back. This one combined with a dash like Shen E. You can not be stopped

I think Rell W should also be mentioned. It has the same engage potential as an Alistar Q but the dash is included. It's so good that her damage, Q and ult are completely gutted.

Shen is just an honorable tank

7:19 however, shen's Q requires his spirit blade passive, so I don't think it would function on its own

In Vars's little world only 7 tanks exist

Sej passive, rammus q, nasus w, sett e and malph r. You can't move, and I move fast. Or imagine Ornn passive, Sion w as a q, Sett w, some other big boy e, and Mundo ult on a new heartsteel sett build. Getting hypothetical, I wanna see BIG haymaker numbers.

I'm surprised that Cho'Gath's ult wasn't on the honorary mentions

On the topic of longest dash - while it's technically called flight, I'd still classify Asol E as a dash, and that is easy the longest non-ultimate mobility ability

Naut passive, Alistar q, maokai w, Shen e and malphite r... And frostfire gauntlet on top. Good luck trying to move!

On the topic of Shen’s ultimate on a strong splitpusher/duelist, you don’t have to look that far. There is a reason why Riot has gutted Nocturne’s lane sustain and base mana to the point where he is not really viable in sololanes, because this champ just makes infinitely more sense in the sidelane than the jungle.

My picks without repeating skill from the same champion: Ornn's passive Amumu's Q Sion's W Shen's E Malphite's Ultimate Ornn's passive is just a no brainer, free stats for everyone everywhere specially for you, and it's the reason why he is so tanky, and with Sion's W it's even better, remember when Ornn had a shield? now he has one with infinite scaling HP :^) you can either Start landing the amumu Q or by just ulting, but you only need to land one so you can land the other and then taunt the same or multiple enemies while your team does the rest. even at 1v1 this would be a champion with possibly 4 dashes that won't take any substancial damage, that's every ADC's nightmare :^D

braum's passive is really good as well.

i feel orn and maokai ult are way better engage than malph and amumu cause they are non comittal, making them great in pro in case it fails somehow, and in soloq if your team doesn't follow up

I feel like K'Sante W should also be mentioned here because it does damage reduction scaling off of bonus health and bonus resistances, it is an unstoppable channel and its is a dash that displaces people

As a tank main I have been waiting for you to make a video like this

Imagine Ornn passive with Sion W and Cho R, the eats would instantly kill. Just add some stuns and dashes (Amumu Q, Gragas E) and there’s almost no counterplay

Damn those are some hard choices to make. I’d mention Poppy’s W, because the extra armor and MR, doubling that on low HP and AoE dash denial that can be pretty effective protecting a team, and Tahm Kench’s E, that stacks the regen and a shield (though the regen was recently nerfed, needing an Ally to function). But that’s a great list!

I think what pushes tanks over the edge for me is when their AP ratios are so damn high that they can just simply build Demonic Embrace, and deal more damage to me as a squishy DPS, than I do to them.

a really good combo of tank abilities would be Ornn P, K'sante Q, Sion W, Poppy E and K'sante R. Ornn P and Sion W give all the stats that K'santes Q and R would need and Poppy E just has great combo potential with both K'sante Q and R.

So basically Shens the best tank, got it

Making a strong tank jungler is kind of weird because a lot of the abilities tanks use to clear are dependent another ability/passive (ex. Zac W, Sej W/E, Rammus W) or aren’t stellar in teamfights (Maokai Q, Poppy Q, Amumu W/E). One option is Ornn passive, Maokai Q, Nunu W, Shen E, and amumu/malph R. You can engage and gank really well with W E and Q knocking enemies back into your team and having the option to layer AoE cc with with amumu/malph R. Your peel is also fairly strong between maokai Q, shen E, and amumu/malph R. Total cc duration is about 3 sec on basic abilties with another 1.5 sec on R. Another option is Naut passive, amumu Q, sej W, sej E, and amumu/malph R. This kit’s single target lockdown is just stupid. Your first auto roots them because naut passive and applies an E stack. Then W auto E and they’re at full E stacks and get stunned. Amumu Q is thrown in for being able to gapclose when ganking and elongating that single target cc chain. This kit has a 4.5 second cc chain on basic abilities with a 1.5 sec cc ult thrown on top. I’d say that this second option is more consistent in general because you have so much point and click cc and have no way to mess up in a fight. You only need a single auto to start the cc chain on a gank or engage. The peel on this one is much better too.

Ornn Passive, Alistair q, sion w, shen e, malph ult. Infinite hp stacking from ornn pass + sion w. Damage from hp translates to the shen dash and sion shield explosion. Build demonic and get infinite (tho low tbf) ap scaling as well which pumps into q,w, and r. Shen dash plus malph r gives crazy engage. God

Can we get a enchanter tier list? I don't think we get one before.

Me wanting to insert Poppy abilities in everyt part of the video Play Poppy tank

Kind of cool how PQWER looks like POWER

thresh passive is relay good for tank 1 armor and 1 ap it can get too 200 armor and 200 ap in late game

I love Nautilus because he is pretty unique in his ability to tell a single opponent no. There are few characters in the game with the ability to single somebody out and force them to just stand still and watch the fight happen around them while they are just chain CCd.

Taric W + Double Ornn Ult on another front-liner, second R redirect dash available as long as there’s still at least one unheadbutted ram

Talk about the forgotten rework of Xerath please attempt 7 The newest video on it is 7 years old

Might be biased because im a blitz main, but i feel like the unlimited pick potential of an over the wall grab at any point in the game, no matter how far beyond you are is priceless. thought i'd atleast see an honorable mention

poppy q should be on the list it does so much damage for a 4 second cooldown and chain well with any hard cc

I think that Poppys passive is also very strong bc you get access to a ranged AA what makes Tanks usally weak neutral pretty good and it deals bonus magic Dmg means that u often have about 150 AD and 200 AP on a 350 Range atack and u also get a shield based on 15,6% of your bonus health if u build health u can get up to 800 Shield afterwards u can take a quick trade without taking Damge its realy stong imo. Also i think in some Matchups her W is also realy strong but its 100% Matchup based. U get 10% bonus armor and magic resist what is always stong on a Tank, and that doubles below 40% health, but the active is only sometimes stong if the enemy has many dashes its broken if the enemy has no dash u only get Move Speed what is also strong.

These videos just keep making me itch for the day we finally get a 'Mimic' gamemode, where you get a passive, Q, W, E , and R from different champions, or perhaps choose each out of 3. Ultimate spellbook was close, but I want m o r e.

I’d love to see you make a video about the rework of Aurelion Sol (power level, lore accuracy, etc.)

I may be a bit biased, but Nautilus can do a lot of those things better than the ones you picked. Amumu Q has the same range and effect as Nautilus, but Nautilus brings the enemy closer to your team, and can be used to dash to walls. It also can be buffered to nullify crowd control abilities. Sion W gives less %max hp shield than Nautilus, and Nautilus W is an autoattack reset, allowing you to apply his passive to 2 people in a very short time. It also doesn't interrupt other abilities. And Nautilus R has the added benefit that it cannot be evaded by dashes or blinks. Nautilus is pretty OP.

7:23 "getting behind your opponent" well someone didn't get their lesson about empowered q technlogy from the shen master.

Im just saying, Orn passive, Sion w, and Cho'gath Ult would be very fun

I think this video really shows how well made shen and ornn are

Nunu R, big ass shield, scaling with health and ap (300% full charge), massive radius, screams alaram. can potentially do about 5000 aoe damage

why did you not even say at least 1 tahm kench move

Maokai's passive is also very good imo

Can’t wait for the Assassin version

Gotta love the Shen skills

Isn’t the longest non-ultimate dash in the game Aurelian Sol’s W? (Both prework (I think max 7500 range iirc) and rework (after u take some time to scale it up with ur passive (in which it scales infinitely, again, iirc)))

No mention of feast for the ultimates :(

You forgot about one of the key points of nunu w it’s still bloody bugged and is invis half the time

Trampoline hero: Alistar Q, Nunu W, Gragas E, Malphite ult.

Somehow It feels like a list of good designed abilities. Not like the 200 years bs of the assassins

For W ill add poppy, anti dash is so usefull

Cho'Gath R? Large amount of true damage and bonus health that is technically infinite

Honestly im suprised non of sej's abilities are in here but these are great picks

Build your own tank support: Nautilus passive, free root Rammus Q, haha ball Galio W, AOE taunt op Blitzcrank E, free knock up Maokai R, too wide to not be free Or if you’re unkillable: Maokai passive, big heal Leona Q, build haste coward Sion W, free health Tahm Kench E, phat shield (2) Cho’gath R, now he’s just big n phat HM Dr. Mundo R

I believe for q it has to be tahm kench over alistar. slow, potential stun , sustain , damage on 1 ability

How is rammus w not here? True, very conditional but against ad heavy teams it makes him more or less unvunerable and deals HUGE dmg to anyone attacking him.

kinda surprised mundo's passive and e arent here

seeing Shen's kit here made him the perfect tank

I think that Blitz's Q is the strongest tank Q. It isolates an opponent, and brings it to your team, it works on its own. I believe most tanks would gladly trade their Q with the hook.

I love your channel and the series, but can't but be amused by: "I'm going to evaluate abilities in a vacuum." and "Imagine if this one tank's ability was paired with this other tank's ability!"

Taric passive would be great on anyone.

My Loadout (I know this is a Tank abilities list but I feel like this would be OP) Viegar Passive; Vlad Q; Gragas W; Sona E; Chogath R This Loadout would be insane Viegar Passive will make it so that when you hit an enemy with Vlad Q you will stack allowing you to get AP scaling and some healing allowing you to win trades. Gragas W will allow you to be tanky with Chogath R; each stack of Chogath R will allow you to get health a strong exe and will help stack Passive . And with Sona E, it will allow you to chase other people while your poking them down. With this you have a Powerful Tanky that will Heal because of Vlad Q/Gragas W with damage reduction of 24% (or more matters on stacks) that allows you to chase down enemies with Sona E and Vlad Empowered Q and finishing them off with Chogath R.

I’m personally a big fan of poppy’s ult. Being able to prevent the most threatening enemy from participating in team fights is is a sure way to secure objects or protect your team. How can you lose the team fight if there isn’t one at all

Nice flex on the Black Alistar 😂😂

I'm suprised Taric passive or Ult wasn't on here.

Ornn passive, alistar Q, Nunu/Sion W, Zac E, Malphite/Aumu Utlimate would be an absurd CC engager champ

Thresh passive, amumu q, maokai w, shen e, nasus r.

My personal Tank design- as a tank main for the last 7 years. Passive: Living Forge This is a frankly stupid amount of stats, even relatively early into the game, while providing endgame value for the entire team. Given the rest of the kit in the works, this is going to provide insane total value. Q: Ntofo Strikes While lacking K'Sante passive and ult would normally make this ability subpar, the sheer amount of armor and magic resist this build will accumulate overall makes this a great damage ability. Cheap, low cooldown, and having tri-scaling? Disgusting. W: Steadfast Presence The majority of tank killers rely on dashes to keep distance. While Malphite W would definitively provide more total combat value and Garen W has a shield, the fact this has grounded, intercept, and higher total armor and MR% earns this spot. Garen also might be excluded as a Juggernaut. Honorable mention goes to Leona's Eclipse due to being the strongest of these skills, but it's lack of utility and downtime barely keeps it off the main spot. E: Searing Charge An AoE high damage dash and knockup on a moderate cooldown that has both armor and magic resist scaling? I play Ornn regularly, and this is consistently the most useful skill in fights, even if his breath tends to do more damage. R: Call of the Forge God While Ornn ult is great, it relies on having Ornn's passive to do the insane damage that it does. Fortunately, as you can see above, he does have Ornn's passive. This thing consistently lets me one shot bruisers with a full combo, and the vastly superior Q and scaling from W would feed into it. This list does have a bias towards Ornn, who I already consider to be the strongest tank mechanically. I have a clip on my channel of fighting for 2 minutes straight in a competitive league as Ornn without even having full build, and if I had this kit instead, I am confident I never would have died in the first place. The only thing I would fear genuinely would be fountain.

Zeri dash can be longer than zac e if the wall is long enough

Before I even watch I would just build super Maokai. Maokai Q and W, Zac E, Ornn R. Passive either Leona, Maokai, or Ornn. After watching I stand by this list though maybe I'd replace Ornn R with Amumu R not sure why I didn't think about Amumu being an option.

how did chos ult not make it? a true damage nuke with hp stacking on a champ with zac e and all the other stuff sounds super oppressive to me especially since the damage also scales with health

I like the part where you said tanks have below average damage

do a nautilus vid

Really great video, thanks for revisiting this series - one of my faves for sure. Here're my views on the matter if anyone cares: If you still count K'sante as a tank, I reckon that his Q probably should make it up there - a slow with damage that scales off resists and also a knockup. Pretty strong. As for passive, I reckon Rammus' should probably be included too, given that the ole purpose of a tank is to tank things, getting the extra damage of from just being auto'd puts you in a tough spot. It could be argud that this is uselss as the opposition doesn't really want to attack the tank, but I believe it should get an honourable mention. For W's, Gragas and K'sante give flat DMG redux and dmg of their own. Pretty nice, especially since one is a dash and also a cc. E - I think I would value Sejuani E over all others here - probably even Zac. The ability to get consitent CC multiple times in a team fight.. from one ability! - just seems too strong to be left out here. Finally for ultimates, I think that Galio/Shen have the best there, as a problem that a lot of tanks have is that they lack early game pressure - both Shen and Galio R solve this. Thanks :)

mundo Passive and R are also very threatening cuz.... endgame basically just no stun or low HP ever.... need I say more xD

Ornn passive on Vlad would be hilarious

I'm honestly surprised Mundo doesn't make any appearance on this list. His worst ability for a tank is probably his Q, and arguably that's still a very strong ability. His W is also great, but I guess it gets outdone by something like TK E. Speaking of E, Mundo's is bonkers with the Titanic Hydra passive making him a menace and a half with a lot of damage, which is even scarier with his passive, but more than strong enough on its own. Speaking of his passive, that's the one ability I expected to see, even over his very strong ultimate, since it's basically a Zac passive with less uptime exchanged by a 1 time CC immunity, which is absolutely ridiculous for someone who's in charge of the engage for the team. Which leaves his ultimate off, last but not least. An absolute fuckload of healing on top of even more AD, i remember picking some champs on Ultimate Spell book and squealing whenever I got Mundo ulti because it is just that good.

P : Ornn Q : Mundo W : Scion E : Shen R : Cho'gath Ornn passive, %Current HP+slow on a low cd, HP scaling that scales HP, a dash with taunt, an ult the benefits from close range and HP scaling. So here we have no need to build attack items since it's all linear, armour gets a good free boost. Build HP and isolate your target in teamfights, your engage is forcing an enemy into a fight.

I'm surprised none of Mundos abilities were on the list, I feel like a slow with 30% current health damage is pretty good, being unstunnable is pretty good, and getting AD scaling with your health (especially comboed with soul furnace) is broken as hell

For pure strength and not exactly tanking it feels obvious: Ornn passive Sion Q (or Amumu) Sion W Mundo E Chogath R Heartsteel to finish the hp scaling. Grasp for sustain. Titanic for fun. Only issue is, that it's more of a juggernaut and without Amumu q, it's immobile. But I'm guessing around 15k health eventually. And with Mundo e and titanic, around 800ad maybe. Only thing to kill that would be a vayne with perfect kitting.

I think I got a funny cheese tank. Passive: Ornn fore the mythic and additional MR and Armour Q Sej because its a fast dash with aoe does ok damage and goes over walls and is one of the few tank abilities to do. W Leona: it is flat damage reduction plus an armour multipler from the bonus on passive. Amumu E: It serves a damage roll but also PASSIVE: Amumu reduces every instance of pre-mitigation physical damage taken, capped at 50% of the damage instance. And finally a galio R just to save people. So every attack is gonna have it pre mitigation damage reduced by a huge amount from amumu E and that reduced amount is gonna be buffed from ornns passive and leona W to extreme amounts. It is then gonna get reduced by the armour and mr which is increased from ornn passive and leona W It will then get reduced by Leonas flat damage reduction W which we all know is strong af from the level 2 dives. So get some missing hp item like unending despair and the cdr rune every attack is gonna be doing at max like 200 damage but from an adc it properly be like 30.

I would put Nunu Q among the strongest Qs. It deals an absurd amount of true damage and basically heals you full, all while not having a very high CD...

Me, sitting here, about to tell you that the thumbnail is blurry. And then I scroll down and realize ALL the thumbnails are blurry and my internets tanking, lol

Sion Q with Nunu E seems sweet

okay but imagine taking taric w and amumu q and just inting your adc by landing their linked q

Im missing sejuani´s e and ultimate. point click stun after ANY melee partner has applied 4 aa is strong and her R is one of the best non comital engage in league

cho gath ultimate?????? -can outsmite jungler -health scaling -True damage -secure cannon -

I was expecting Taric in the ultimates section

imagine a champ with grag e and ali q that combo will be auto tilt and add on that sion w this will become the saaafest dive tank in the game . passive : ornn passive ( massive advantage late game ) q : alistar w : sion e : grag R : malphitooo