User blog comment:PurpleWii/The Evolution of the Tank archetype./@comment-6719710-20160425153717/@comment-1330314-20160430051540

But Yasuo without his Q still has so many things that make him good at being Yasuo, and the same goes for Ryze, and certainly Ahri. Even Azir, whose functionality is designed completely around his W, has a ton of other ways to be a good and interesting mage. It is idiotic to assume that I'm saying a champion should be just as good without one of their abilities; my point with Rammus is that he's certainly not the "best" tank, he's one of the most poorly-designed tanks in the game, and his taunt is a band-aid for a playstyle that doesn't naturally lend itself to tanking. The best tanks don't need taunts to work, because what they do naturally gives their enemies reason to focus them, and if your tank cannot command others to attack them without forcing it through a taunt, then they're not a good tank.