User blog comment:Emptylord/Champion reworks/Rammus the Guardian of the Sands/@comment-24951773-20160519182819/@comment-3974211-20160520005537

I never meant to imply they were, merely a way to make an otherwise fairly as-it-says-on-the-box effect different. A taunt will always do the same thing and has relatively few ways that it can be realistically applied and still make the taunt applicable to the ability. You can't really do long range taunts, for example.