User blog comment:C4bal/Corki in the Tank Meta. How to./@comment-25055281-20150616180523

There are viable Carries in the current meta with builds that trade damage for safety as you suggest, Blue Ezreal and Urgoth

They probaby benefit of some other lategame high DPS picks to compensate, such as Vladimir, Casiopeia, Azir, AP Kog'Maw, Ryze...and probably others. Of course the plan is to outlast the enemy Carry and probably split the attention of the hard engage tank comps of today.

With this in mind, I see a remarkable difference between those two and Corki, and it's that both use their long range Q's as the main source of their threat. With his true damage and armor shred, the main reason for Corki's lategame strugles is that he has to expose himshelf with his 550 aa range to the lockdown of enemy Tanks and when you are the main target and will be focused down whenever posible, some extra 200 hlt and 60 ar wont necessarily make a huge difference.

Of course your idea may work, but I have my concerns on its conceptual coherence.

(For experimental purposes, it may be interesting to try such a trade of damage for safety with some long aa range champion like Caitlin...not IBG, but may be Frozen Mallet)