Talk:Volibear/@comment-6301771-20130613214141/@comment-5266525-20130825014453

Sure.

There's a number of goals that can define what role you are in a teamfight - peeling, initiating, focusing, tanking, AoE disrupting and AoE damage output. A combination of those gives you your label of tank: to disrupt, to tank (of course), to peel and to initiate.

Good example: Nautilus. Absurd amounts of AoE disruption, extreme durability, and easy peeling. He has so-so initiations but he won't focus on other methods of contribution in a fight.

Bad example: Volibear. His disruption is unimpressive, his initiations are easy to counteract and his methods of peeling are on long cooldowns but he IS good at diving and dealing AoE damage. Playing him as a bruiser and as a tank is mutually exclusive.