Champions tagged with Drain Tank share a similar playstyle.
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Best Drain Tank Champions – Recommended Picks by Role
Nasus
MID
#1
Summoners
Flash
Teleports you a short distance toward your cursor.
Ghost
Gain Move Speed and ignore unit collision for the duration.
Spell Order
Q ➜ W ➜ E ➜ R
Items
Trinity Force
Tons of Damage
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Increases Move Speed and Cooldown Reduction
Bandlepipes
Serylda's Grudge
Spirit Visage
Increases Health and healing effects
Randuin's Omen
Greatly increases defenses, activate to slow nearby enemies
Runes
Fleet Footwork
Attacking and moving builds Energy stacks. At 100 stacks, your next attack heals you and grants increased MS.
Triumph
Takedowns restore 5% of your missing health and grant an additional 20 gold.
Legend: Haste
Takedowns on enemies grant permanent Basic Ability Haste.
Last Stand
Deal more damage to champions while you are low on health.
Second Wind
After taking damage from an enemy champion heal back some missing health over time.
Unflinching
Gain Armor and Magic Resist when receiving crowd control.
Swain
MID
#2
Summoners
Flash
Teleports you a short distance toward your cursor.
Teleport
After a brief channel, become untargetable and travel to an allied unit. Upgrades into Unleashed Teleport, which significantly increases travel speed.
Spell Order
Q ➜ W ➜ E ➜ R
Items
Blackfire Torch
Mercury's Treads
Increases Move Speed and reduces duration of disabling effects
Rylai's Crystal Scepter
Abilities slow enemies
Zhonya's Hourglass
Activate to become invincible but unable to take actions
Liandry's Torment
Charge up in combat to deal high damage over time, especially against durable enemies
Spirit Visage
Increases Health and healing effects
Runes
Conqueror
Gain stacks of adaptive force when attacking enemy champions. After reaching 12 stacks, heal for a portion of damage you deal to champions.
Presence of Mind
Restore a small amount of mana or energy when damaging an enemy champion. Takedowns restore mana or energy.
Legend: Haste
Takedowns on enemies grant permanent Basic Ability Haste.
Last Stand
Deal more damage to champions while you are low on health.
Conditioning
After 12 min gain +8 Armor and +8 Magic Resist and increase your Armor and Magic Resist by 3%.
Overgrowth
Gain permanent max health when minions or monsters die near you.
Vladimir
MID
#3
Summoners
Flash
Teleports you a short distance toward your cursor.
Ghost
Gain Move Speed and ignore unit collision for the duration.
Spell Order
Q ➜ E ➜ W ➜ R
Items
Hextech Rocketbelt
Activate to dash forward and unleash a fiery explosion
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Increases Move Speed and Cooldown Reduction
Riftmaker
Rabadon's Deathcap
Massively increases Ability Power
Zhonya's Hourglass
Activate to become invincible but unable to take actions
Void Staff
Increases magic damage
Runes
Summon Aery
Your attacks and abilities send Aery to a target, damaging enemies or shielding allies.
Nimbus Cloak
After casting a Summoner Spell, gain a short Move Speed increase that allows you to pass through units.
Transcendence
Gain bonuses upon reaching the following levels:Level 5: +5 Ability Haste Level 8: +5 Ability Haste Level 11: On Champion takedown, reduce the remaining cooldown of basic abilities by 20%.
Scorch
Your first damaging ability hit every 10s burns champions.
Legend: Haste
Takedowns on enemies grant permanent Basic Ability Haste.
Last Stand
Deal more damage to champions while you are low on health.