I've seen a lot of controversy over the distinguishing of tanks so far in my HoN days.

A lot of teams I play with scream that we need a tank, heros like kraken, leg, zeph, arma, ect.

I'm just wondering what you guys (higher lvl players) have to say about them.

From reading on the hon forums its a little confusing some people advocate building heros for tank specific roles but is this in most cases necessary?

you dont need a tank, you just need to be able to execute, but at the same time, you cant go around with under 1k hp 30 minutes into the game

A tank refers to a class that can draw aggro while being able to take all that aggro damage without dying. If you have a lot of HP and don't deal any DPS, you're not going to draw aggro, and all that HP is worthless.

The are a couple of heroes that can be considered tanks in HoN: Legionaire, Armadon, Moraxus, and Balphagore. Lego is probably the truest tank in HoN as he forces aggro and you build him with hp/armor items. Armadon has a great tanking passive, and if you don't focus him his quills will quickly rape you, but later in the game his DPS falls down compared to other heroes so he's not that big of a threat mid/late game, plus he's easy to run away from. Moraxus and Balph don't really draw aggro, but if you don't kill them quickly, their ults will do a lot AOE damage.

Those heroes really don't have that great of bust, though balph is pretty good with a fully charged ult, but the hero is considered crap. These heroes won't be doing much damage in team fights, which means other heroes that do a lot of damage in team fights will get picked off.

Burst damage is more important in HoN than being able to absorb damage. Mystic vestments is underrated.

all u need is initiator

There is no aggro is HON...
Aggro does not exist in PvP

This post was edited by Qwuazar on May 8 2011 08:52am

thats because you havent played with my moraxus

or legionnaire.

and infact there is "aggro" when you harass opponents in lane, creeps come to attack you = aggro.


This post was edited by garbo on May 8 2011 10:12am

diving T3 tower and then running in circles around it

while your team is 2 screens away, thats drawing aggro

/e

and then sit in ingame voice

"I TANK I TANK I WAIT UNTIL I HAVE AGGRO THEN KEEEEL THEM KEKE?"


dying


"WHAT THE FUCK RANGE AGI DPS YOU NO KEEEL THEM YOU FUCKING IDIOT?"

vote concede

This post was edited by UndeadGad on May 8 2011 10:15am

tanks are bad, mmkay?