Talk:Viability Ranking/@comment-39230426-20191105001945

Tankerion: SS --> S-

HOO BOY that's a clean drop. It was almost just like everyone wanted Tankerion to have a massive hard drop on the Council. But, I'm one of those people and I can explain why. He has issues. Like, a lot of them. It's surprising that he was even in SS in the first place lmao.

First off, his stats, for the modern meta, are dissapointing. He tries to pull off this whole, living hits while slowly chipping away at the enemies' HP shtick, but it falls pretty short because of his lack of DoTs. He's got massive HP (41,017), which is his only good stat, decent Strength (3454) but not exactly that many high damaging skills to fully benefit from it, and an absolute piss-poor Speed (3091) which, tbh, does fit into the theming of him being a Tank (I mean his name IS TANKerion), but simply because of his complete lack of any form of Taunt (which is basically essencial to be a successful Tank in this modern meta we're in), he falls completely flat on his face in the Tanking department. All of his skills are either Single Target or Ally-type skills outside of his Ult, so he is incapable of doing literally ANYTHING AoE, which kinda sucks since pairing up a good AoE skill with his solid enough single skills could totally land him in like S or S+. As for his skills, while their negative effects are solid enough (Stun, Mega Stun, Daze, Damage Reduction) and he can be a pretty good team player as well providing heals, Precision, and NER to single Allies or himself, they're almost all severely hindered by CDs and Stamina Costs. All his best skills range from 2CD, all the way up to frickin 6CD! And as if that wasn't bad enough, there's also his best skills' Stamina Costs ranging from a nice, usable 29 to a very costly 40.

All that being said, he didn't drop down to like below A and whatnot for a reason. His Trait and Relic Slots are incredibly useful. Artifact Trait is amazing, period. And what better monster than a thicc as hell, team healing, stunning Tank to have it? About his Relic Slots now, he has Armor and Essence. Armor is really good for a self-sustainer because it typically provides a lot of extra shielding, ie the Heavy Duty Armor and Atum's Armor, or that slot could provide him with extra self-healing and Stamina Regain with the Nebotus' Armor. And an Essence is pretty self-explanatory. Uriel Essence for that second wind in the middle of battle, and/or so mnay different Essences that can heal him and his team.

For all these reasons, Tankerion is getting bumped down to S-, but not any further down since he still has his own respective merits and uses.