Talk:Volibear/@comment-6301771-20130613214141/@comment-5266525-20130718161834

You're still proving my point. xD

I said Voli was not a good tank. You are trying to disprove me... by saying that he's a hybrid tank/bruiser, or basically definitively worse than dedicated tanks.

Tanks are not defined just by being damage soaks. Lots of champions can be damage soaks. Olaf. Xin Zhao. Taric (who is an even worse tank than Volibear, for the record). A Tankitating Master Yi in the absence of a hard crowd control. What do tanks give that differentiates them? Initiating, disrupting and peeling.

Voli can peel if he really wants to, but with just a speed boost for his initiation and his only disruptions being a long-cooldown slow and a singletarget fling, he just can't fulfill the role of tank very well.

Voli is similar to Olaf and Shen. Stack a lot of health with maybe some attack speed or AD on the side, and just focus on getting to one target and beating the crap out of 'em. That's why he's a bruiser.