Talk:Leona/@comment-115.70.176.196-20111030150720/@comment-3308937-20111102031005

If your only quality of a tank is initiation then they are both are pretty amazing tanks. Amumu has no damage mitigation and, outside of his initiation, next to no CC in a team fight. Galio is an amazing support/mage after he initiates with his defensive steroid castable on allies, the speedup on E, and the kiting potential of Q. In the LoL we play today pure tanks aren't really needed as much as they used to be due to the metagame shifts and the release of so many tanky dps who can act like psuedo-soaks/initators. In this genre initiation is a big thing of what a tank is, and Amumu and Galio are definitely two of the best at that aspect, but after their big initiation they aren't going to be tanking. If it helps, some "pure tanks" that come to my mind are Leona and Rammus, Rammus forces enemies to attack him between his taunt and his ridiculous PBAoE damage through tremors, his passive, and powerball. He has a huge defensive steroid in his W. Rammus can initiate, even if it isn't as good as Galio or Amumu's initiation. On the other hand you have Leona who does a lot of her tanking through hard CCing the enemy with her Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade, also providing a constant threat due to her passive. She has a pretty good defensive steroid that gets better if she's in melee range of an enemy. She can initiate just fine with her Solar Flare into her Zenith and Shield combo, but I always felt she does better as a secondary initiator, using her combo after the first round of initiation has gone down (I also think Amumu does better this way too, allows him to position better).