User blog comment:LionsLight/Sunfire Cape/@comment-76.122.45.161-20120108093728

The Sunfire Cape is almost never used by the pro players, and there are reasons for that. You are being stubborn in your defense of this item. Full tanks do not need this at all. They have other methods by which they ensure they have a "continual threat" factor, typically CC but also auras and such. You mentioned that one of the ways you could increase your continual threat factor is with damage ala Amumu and Galio, however both Amumu and Galio are almost never used and are among the least played champions in the game at a high level, often eliciting a "what?" or laugh when they are picked. That's because they DON'T have a continual threat factor - they blow their long cooldown CC ultimates and are then ignored for the rest of the fight. Why? Because their damage pales in comparison to their carries. Which would you rather aim for, the tank doing 100dps that takes 10 seconds to kill or the carry that does 800dps and takes 3 seconds to kill? A full tank building damaging items is typically pointless as no amount of damage will make him a higher priority target than the carries who are doing 5x-10x as much damage as him, and are much easier to kill. Instead a tank needs to be building more tanky items, for when he is the focus (when the carries can't be focused), or he needs to be building items that support his team more, rather than wasting gold on some damage output. 760 gold is also not *that* cheap for a full tank, as they are often in the support role and thus getting no CS or kills, plus are spending much of the gold they do have on support items like wards, vision wards, and oracles. Lastly, you are overestimating the actual damage output of the item. It does its damage over a long period of time with a short range, which significantly reduces the damage it's actually doing unless the entire enemy team is in hugging range for 5-10 seconds. The Sunfire Cape is not 100% useless and it does pop up in high level play every once in a blue moon, but it's not even remotely close to being as good as you make it out to be.