Talk:Rakan/@comment-24971427-20170411071013/@comment-3391671-20170411212856

I personally haven't considered being stat-tanky as being an actual tank in gameplay. Rakan may have enough CC to justify, but just being raw tanky does not prove a champion to being a natural tank. Classes should be what they most naturally gravitate to, not what they can build (cuz you can stack as much health and resistance on any champion, but not all of their kits will compliment that).

is not a champion I am fond of, but in comparison to Rakan, her kit is tooled in a way that it can "tank" better than Rakan's. First off, she has a shield she can pin up voluntarily through an ability, and much more often without needing to rely on AAs (she also does not need to be in the middle of the fray, which Rakan's CD reducing on-damage innate requires). The presence of a few more ranged CC, along with a scaling self-heal makes her more fit to be the pseudo tank that she can be. They may both be Controllers (disruptive supports, if I am getting it right), but Rakan is a more allied-focused support and strictly so, while Karam is intentionally damage focused due to being a mage primary.