People want tank killers because you can roll with team tanky dps and having a well balanced team is hard to fight against it. It's by no means impossible but the balanced team has to be more skilled than team tanky dips and focus much better to get the job done.

Want a tank killer that doesn't destroy squishies? Make them do more damage the more armor and MR the target has. If the tank beefs up, the Tank killer gets em if they don't the squishies do.

One tank isn't too much of an issue, it's having 2 tanks that get one damage item, 1 support, and 2 tanky dps that get one tank item.

There are ways of getting around this. Abilities can be made that do more damage the more magic resistance or armor a champion has. Just a quick idea I got from reading this.

like the current dedicated tank killers, most of them cant burst a tank down instantly and take about 5 or so seconds to drop, malzahar is good example, despite all his damage he wont kill a tank in less than 5 seconds, no matter who he hits he will probally kill them but given his limted escapes and range he can usualy only hit a tank safely anyways.

what i dont like the the appalling anti tank items, while a few notable exceptions can reliably kill a tank most mages will bounce off them completely leaving their dps to struggle. why is this? cause there is no counter to 200 MR where the mage isnt at the least droped to half damage. magic pen is expensive and ineffective once the target has 50+ MR leaving and void stave doesnt help you once they get past 200. given most "tank killing items" are magic damage they just become useless vs tanks. like the deathfire grasp, this item would be great if it wasnt for the fact its only used on burst casters to kill squishy targets faster.......

Well reading this thread I see a couple problems. Most of you are assuming a 1v1 vs a tank. This is a team game and though killing a 200 mres tank with an ap champ may be considered difficult to you, that vayne next to you with a last whisper and/or black cleaver should not share your difficulty. It seems pretty foolhardy to expect to burst down a tank with any one character anyways- they are tanks because they can supposedly take hits. WCSharp I noticed your comment and you might like the idea I had for vayne. My idea was to make her silver bullets do %health based damage on the lower of a champion's armor or magic resist. This way vayne would still be effective on an alistar with his ult up but would not be a definitive death sentence.

Depends on how the anti-tank features are made. Vayne can realisticly kill a tank given time and an inactive team.

So can Olaf.

However an active team will notice someone murdering their tank and will make the tactical decision to save the tank by gibbing the damage dealer if theey can.