User blog comment:Kman034/TANKING 101 - Roles of Tank/@comment-216.58.59.39-20130106233908

Pure tanks are pretty bad. Tanks that do good damage, like Malphite or Amumu, or tanks with really strong support abilities, like Shen, or tanks that have extreme cc/initiation, like Amumu, are good. Pure tanks are crap because all they can do is absorb damage, and nobody's going to focus them anyways. That's why nobody builds pure tank on Amumu, Shen, Malph etc, they usually get some damage; AP, AD, AS, etc, because.....

"The best cc is death"