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Firstly I just joined vaingloryFire and this is my first post so bump. Secondly I need help countering tanky toons or just toons that stack life. Namely aegis/crucible or shiversteel/crucible or any other combination of those items. I just recently ran into a team in the pretty good tier where every player stacked a combination of these types of items so it was very hard to kill them. I did not play poorly that game I had Taka and went 7-5-2. My build was 2lvl boots, aftershock, tyrants monocle, and I started to get alternating current but changed to tornado trigger but neither really worked. So yeah, what the heck do you do to counter a TEAM (key word team) that stacks life with any of those items?

Also I am not sure if this is the correct section so I apologize in advance.

The information you give is not enough. Did your opponents go full defensive items right from the start? If so they would have a hard time farming and you should be ahead in gold, therefore ahead in items and your damage would be bigger than their defense. If it was late game then 2 defensive items were quite normal.

Taka does not do well against tanky characters. They can last long but he can't. If you really want to beat Tanky teams, you'll need a different character

Aftershock is your best bet against high health players. You also have bonesaw for armor shredding to get more basic attack damage through & broken myth (whatever the tier 3 shield pierce item is) to get more shield pierce and crystal damage through.

If the fights are lasting long- which they would have if you weren't taka- breaking point would be a smart weapon choice because it makes you stronger over time.

Players like krul do great against tanky teams- they need time to get a kill & he gets stronger over time.

Normally I build shiver steel, breaking point, aftershock and bonesaw.
Shiversteel stops the enemy from getting away.
Breaking point stacks your damage the longer a fight goes.
Aftershock does a percentage damage of 15%.
Bonesaw shreds the enemy's armor which lead to more damage.

Bonesaw counters armor
Aftershock counters crucible
Broken myth counters ageis


id say with the current updates crystal power is really easy to counter (except a joule ult to the face) so I'd pick more weapon orientated heros like ringo/taka/glaive and just get a bonesaw as your 3rd key item if your ahead, ageis if you are behind then get a bonesaw/ageis as 4th. Aftershock isn't really needed if they go all hp because no one really does anymore. Most tanks go fountians so if you can silence or stun the players with fountians and kill everyone else, the tank can't survive alone.