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I want people to remember all of the options open to them when building a champion for a particular game. Sometimes your team needs more damage; that HAPPENS. There needs to be some reason for the enemy team to waste their CC (even damage) on you as a tank. Nunu's Subzero does this, Rammus's Taunt forces this. Atma's Impaler is an option to both punish the enemy team for letting you live and incentive to waste CC to stop you from getting to their Ashe or Sivir. Ultimately it is an option that is used occasionally in some games. The "MORE TANK" is the most balanced and best. This is a sixth item slot you will most likely never fill unless the game has dragged on far too long and this allows you to exploit the imbalance in the enemy team's composition.
A few other notes: Of course Udyr isn't a tank, I said so in my guide. In another parenthetical I suggested that Shen had sufficient poke to lane well. I suggest that Singed is a poor metagame choice because of a lack of range. He can, I'm sure, solo lane effectively, but not as well as Vladimir, Warwick, Irelia, etc. Even a Shen Solo top cannot freely leave with his ult if he is stuck defending a tower. This is not to say that Shen is a good jungler. Even Amumu is a slow jungler that is often at low health in the jungle. His natural damage reduction, high AOE damage and two forms of CC make him a good tank in teamfights. The distinction here is about the METAGAME and not merits of individual champions; the arguement is that from a theoretical perspective the best place for a tank is the jungle and this should be factored into rankings of tanks when theorycrafting. I
Maokai is unique in that his range on Sapling Toss is good enough for him to poke effectively in lane and Magic Sap gives him nice sustainability. His jungle is good, I agree there as well. He, like Shen, can solo effectively. I am not suggesting that there are no other valid metagame options besides putting the tank in the jungle, simply that this one is the most desirable from my observations. This work is, of course, an opinion piece.