User blog comment:Tails365/A true tank's role/@comment-5605969-20140127020849/@comment-8267817-20140127152702

The only real problem with that definition is that it leaves 1 true tank in the game, and only if you build him tanky: Rammus. His taunt is what allows him to actually be a tank against smart opponents that won't focus the bloody tank in the first place.

If a tank is just a tank and deals no damage they will be ignored, Mundo is technically a true tank based on the way you have to build him and his gameplay style, but without Masochism and Infected cleaver, no one would ever bother hitting him, he would have nothing.

If a tank was just that, only a tank, just to soak damage, even if they had CC no one would focus them, because the time it would take to focus them down would be longer than the CC could persist, meaning that logically, it is smarter to ignore them and let them throw some occasional CC, because overall you are saving time to kill the rest of their team. Tank steroids mean nothing if they don't get  focused.