Talk:Spirit of the Elder Lizard/@comment-5490997-20121119164720

Seems like a great item for tank junglers. Sure it doesn't give tank stats, but it does give you a true damage DoT on most of your abilities. It's like a red buff without the slow, but with the true damage that now also applies on all your abilities (except DoTs).

In team fights Ancient Golem is probably better if you're the main tank of the team, but if you're not, or you're more of a damage tank, or they got very little CC, I think item is a pretty solid alternative to Ancient Golem.

Someone like Amumu for example can easily dive into an enemy team and get the DoT going on all of them with his ult and then refresh it with E and auto attacks (I'm not sure if W applies it, but I assume not). It's not OP and won't instantly win you any fights, but in longer fights the passive can really add up.