Can we please stop calling bruiser builds "tank builds."
When a champion builds 3 damage items but they're beefy fighter items like
and even less beefier items like
and
, they aren't building tank. Tank items are items that offer purse resistance and health, the only exceptions are
and
as they offer more utility/dot with a little damage but still mostly durability/resistances.
This. Is. Not. A. Tank.
Now, if they are stacking pure tank items with no damage items like
and even
, sure, those are tank builds. But when
was building both
and
, that was a bruiser build. Just like the common bruiser off build is for yasuo to build Trinity/mallet/maw/steraks.
Whether these are healthy builds or not isn't the point but the point is, they are NOT tank builds. Please learn the difference, the only thing fighters and tanks have in common is they both want durability but their jobs are totally different. And even when assassins build full tank items, they're not tanks. They're just abusing high base damages while capitalizing on full durability builds.
is a tank item because you know, shields and heals and magic resist
on Shaco he's a tank?
. For as long as melee champs get blown up before they have a chance to do anything then we will become bulky, rely on weaving auto-attacks to proc some form of Spellblade, and just plain do adequate damage to ruin your day while being semi-challenging to kill.


. This is tank. When you are building primarily defense from the start and can snowball off of being unkillable, that is a little rediculous.