Talk:Taric/@comment-25665877-20150123215832/@comment-25838025-20150128103406

Shyvana's secondary role is Tank, Olaf's secondary role is tank, neither of them possess heavy amounts of crowd control and yet that is their official secondary. I agree that the role of a tank is to distrubt the enemy, albeit through blocking attacks or providing some cc. However, that doesn't mean that in order to be a tank one absolutely must have such a heavy crowd control effect.

Taric provides a healthy amount of crowd control that will completely distrupt any one enemy on a reletively low cooldown. His Q ability, Imbue, is 40% more effective when used upon himself which makes him very useful in tanking turrets and other like damage. As for Taric's passive, Gemcraft, being an in-combat ability, how does that make him any less of a tank? Maokai also has an in-combat passive, and yet his main role is Tank. Taric also scales well with armour and health which is a strong indicator of a tank.

A tank is a champion on the frontlines that is there to soak up the damage and distrupt enemies in a fight. I see Taric as a perfect example of that.

You are trying to argue that Taric is in no way a tank, when clearly he and his playstyle is very similar to that of a primary role Tank. According to your arguement, I see no reason as to why I should change Taric's labled secondary role to "Fighter" over "Tank".