Talk:Braum/@comment-3529242-20140518204040/@comment-5955640-20140519230319

Taric can only block a skill shot that he has enough time to get in the way for. His shatter better be up as well otherwise he's taking a huge hit and he will get damage with the CC. Leona also has to walk infront of the target. Thresh is horribly squishy in early game. If he's having to block powerful pokes all day in lane he's going to die, I know this because I kill Thresh's for exactly this. No scaling armor. No tank.

You don't seem to understand. He can throw himself infront of the ally. It's not relying on your movement speed to be there before it happens it's a targeted dash that buffs your target and with E can completely nullify a nuke and massively block all incoming projectiles.

Tanks like Taric and Leona are really initiators. Leona in paticular is actually pretty pitiful as she doesn't buff her ally in any way and if she can't get the grab or needs to get away she's sunk because she doesn't have the kit for it. Taric is also an initator and while he does have a heal and a stun the stun is very short range and does no damage and the heal is on a long cooldown, costs a lot of mana, and again. Because it of the weakened AP ratio you don't heal for really that much as long the cooldown is.

And again. What are you going to do for peel when you've already stunned someone?