Talk:Sion/@comment-11334121-20141206115022/@comment-1330314-20141209210348

There's generally a lot of overlap between tanks and bruisers, but I think the end result is that a tank wants to take damage for their team, whereas a bruiser just wants to wade into the enemy team and focus specific targets. A tank can use damage items and still be a good tank ( and are tanks who build AP), just as a bruiser needs to build tanky, so there's also a lot of overlap.

Although Sion is classified as a fighter, and does well with a damage item or two, I'd say he works more as a tank. Almost all of his abilities apply crowd control, and they're designed to catch the enemy's attention: if they focus him, he can absorb a lot of their damage through his shield and natural tankiness, and if they don't, he can disable them all with his knockups and slow. He's also not the best at dueling, which is what fighters usually excel at.