User blog comment:Fistful of Force/There is no point in building tanky if you don't use it./@comment-71.227.197.18-20120722205029

In the past, tanks had a much higher role of a team composition. In old LoL and DoTA, champions only had the capacity and build style to fill 1 role of a team, wether it be dps, tank, or support, and were not able to fill the multiple of roles as champions are designed today. Although, I still myself play tank as a favorable role, but I'm very selective, I only tank with champions that were originally designed to do so, ex. singed, garen, poppy, malp, and rammus, all these champions have exceptional base stats in the game. To say tanks are useless I think is a unfair statement, especially if you have a tank with the ability to taunt, or cause mass cc such as mumu. The tank role isnt something though that people like to play, because people suck at it these days and would rather play the latest OP champion.