User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Concept) Skjold, the Shield Warrior/@comment-5088437-20130119205028/@comment-5088437-20130120235642

I could've sworn that said 'can't affect the same target twice'. It appears I misread.

Basically, I don't think his ability spread, as stands, can perform both tasks like others with the 'Tank' tag, with the notable exceptions of Sejuani & Volibear, who both take an offensive approach. 'Tanks' have either constant high damage abilities like Voli's R & W or Sej's W & E on targets hit by the passive, or they have seperate abilities which aren't required for initiation which can instead peel someone off the carry.

On the point of his abilities, it is my understand, and I'll confirm this ingame incase I'm wrong, that abilities which offer secondary abilities don't go on cooldown until the secondary ability is consumed. Examples might be Lee Sin's nested abilities which seemed to not go on CD until after the second cast. If that's an incorrect observation on my part, then I'm mistaken. This is opposed to something like Gragas' barrel roll which goes on cooldown immediately but just offers a prompt detonate.

If his R was divorced from his other abilities, essentially a single large AoE mocking shout that could maybe be recast within a small window, than his kit would have enough disruption, light CC, and utility to perform as a 'Tank' tag requires. However, his taunt is only added as a secondary active to each of his abilities, and thus can't really be counted as its own effect. It just makes his Q & W more potent at the job they're already doing.

I think we're coming to another 'agree to disagree' here. I've obviously screwed up explaining my thought process here, and its jumbled up the message, so I'll probably just put down a basic feed back on each ability and leave it at that. Fresh slate sort of thing to maybe get the communication straight.