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This is a pretty good list but you missed Malphite.


His ult wrecks squishes, why I love using him. Hes such an unknown beast these days.
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The best tank IMO is Cho, great sustain and can really mess the enemy team with Rupture + Feral Scream and you can nuke someone down with Feast.
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The good ones are Cho'Gath Singed Amumu Galio in my opinion.
Nice dmg and tankiness
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Problem with Cho, is for him to be strong, the player needs to be flawless.

Unlike with amumu or Malphite. Anybody can play them.
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I think Malphite is overlooked, he is virtually unkillable if you can farm him up, which is very easy with his W's passive and his E. His ult is also probably the best team fight initiator in the game.

Just something to consider
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Mooninites wrote:

I think Malphite is overlooked, he is virtually unkillable if you can farm him up, which is very easy with his W's passive and his E. His ult is also probably the best team fight initiator in the game.

Just something to consider


The only issue with his farming early game is his massive mana usage early game. If you can avoid running into problems with that then you'll be ok.
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This is a pretty good list but you missed Malphite.

Tou're right, my mistake, added him
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His ult wrecks squishes, why I love using him. Hes such an unknown beast these days.


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The only issue with his farming early game is his massive mana usage early game. If you can avoid running into problems with that then you'll be ok.


Malphite is good, and yeah I agree that he has a very good initiation (is not the best, is just the easiest to use), but being unkillable doesn't mean you're a good tank or garen would be 1 hell of a tank.
The things a tank need are the followings:
-Good set of iterrupts
-the ability to save teammates from chasers without becoming usless
-the power to drag aggro constantly
-initiation power

Malphite has an hella good initiation but he lacks the power to constantly draw aggo as opposed to better tanks, and his slow is kinda too little to save a teammate, while using ult means sacrificing all your initiation power till next CD, and he has no interrupts other than his ult.
Let's compare him to the top 3 tanks I listed:
Alistar: same kind of initiation exept that he has to flash into your team, but can use the skill again in just a few seconds, he deals constant AoE damage everytime he uses a skill, he heals people during a fight, he depositions enemies, can stop any chaser with ****up and a push.
Amumu: His initiation is great since due to bandage toss good range and a really wide ult. Despair grants tons of damage to draw aggro, his stun is good to save teammates
Leona: her variety of stuns grants her initiation and teammate saving powers (her ult has same or better range than Unstoppable Force and same width) plus even tho her personal damage is low the passive and relaively low CDs grant a lot of aggro.

For all these reasons, malphite is a great offtank, but a barely decent tank.

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ZioSerpe wrote:

Malphite is good, and yeah I agree that he has a very good initiation (is not the best, is just the easiest to use), but being unkillable doesn't mean you're a good tank or garen would be 1 hell of a tank.


Fixing: but being unkillable doesn't mean you're a good tank or morde would be 1 hell of a tank.

Mordekaiser is unkillable. Shield up and no idiot can kill you.
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Fixing: but being unkillable doesn't mean you're a good tank or morde would be 1 hell of a tank.

Mordekaiser is unkillable. Shield up and no idiot can kill you.

on that matter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD8tHh9-nbw
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4XMBiGyNfQ (best ending ever)

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lmao, I've watched the first video, and laughed even more when I watched the 2nd.
But theres another epic video where Morde kills anything because the smart bros cant wait until the shield fades.

This one is funny too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUU3SdOGNyY&feature=related
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