Talk:Irelia/@comment-151.185.60.250-20120312192710/@comment-2124153-20120316174559

The description on the LoL wiki is just something that someone wrote. I could go to that page right now, and edit it to say that mages are tagged such because they bring hard CC to teams. This, like your fakery about assassins, is true for most mages but not for all of them. As it is, the line about mages having low endurance is demonstrably NOT the case for mages like Ryze, Cho'gath, and Vladimir.

Likewise, I gave you FOUR examples of champions who are in the exact same position as Irelia: they deal assassin-type damage and are classified as such, but lack the ability to "disengage". I find it highly unlikely that Riot completely misclassified more than a third of their own self-selected assassin archetypes.

Finally, Garen is a FIGHTER, not a tank. Regardless of what you see Garen players do, his kit is designed to be a balance between tankiness (mitigation from Courage) and offense (his heavy early physical damage, and his ult). A "tank" is a champion like Rammus or Leona, who have both high endurance, and a way to either protect people or to force you to deal with them. Garen: not a tank.