• Anub'arak is extremely flexible thanks to the huge amount of CC he has access to, allowing him to initiate and peel in equal measure. However, he's fairly fragile as a result.
  
• Arthas is a brawler with soft peel and initiation and can enable hard pushes against fortifications thanks to Sindragosa. His primary value comes from his Q build, allowing him to effortlessly poke soft targets and sustain himself at the same time.
  
• Blaze has good initiation and very weak peel, but is an excellent brawler because of how comfortably he can exist in the middle of the enemy team. It's very possible to play him as a main tank, but if you're playing with a group, I highly recommend using Blaze as your Bruiser because he's basically Flamethrower Sonya.
  
• Cho is a high-damage, high-durability brawler whose primary peel comes from being worth two kills. Depending on your choice of ult, you can also pick up some hard initiation or hard peel.
  
• Diablo is very flexible but has strict positioning requirements. If you can flank and combo properly, Diablo is easily one of the best tanks in the game, if not the best. If you can't, he's trash.
  
• ETC is similar to Anub'arak - tons of CC, can be any kind of tank, but lacks durability.
  
• Garrosh has a reputation for being a hard initiation tank and he's definitely great at that, but folks forget that he can throw enemies away too, not just into the team. He also has the ability to throw allies, which can get them out of trouble (especially since its cooldown is separate from the enemy throw).
  
• Johanna is a low-damage, high-durability brawler, and her job is to exist in the middle of the enemy team while being as big of a nuisance as possible.
  
• Mal'Ganis is a mid-damage, mid-durability brawler, and his job is also to exist in the middle of the enemy team while being as big of a nuisance as possible.
  
• Mei is a flexible tank that's tricky to play due to her skills' delays and knockbacks and so on. Unlike other flexible tanks, she's ridiculously durable. If you can get her trickiness down, the opposing team will find you impossible to deal with.
  
• Muradin is a more of an initiator, but is overall very flexible since his stun can be used to initiate or peel. He's also very mobile, has great sustain if he can get away from a fight, and can use Haymaker to reposition targets easily.
  
• Stitches is a hard initiator tank, but can have a little peel as a treat when used right.
  
• Tyreal a mid-damage, mid-durability brawler who's more oriented towards team support than anything else. He's very tricky to play since everything he brings to the team is soft value until he gets his ults, at which point you have to decide between hard peel and hard initiation.
  
• Varian can pick up a shield and be a semi-decent brawler, but almost all of his initiation and peel are reliant on his ult.
  
• Dehaka, despite being classified as a Bruiser, is completely capable of serving a team's main tank needs due to how powerful Drag is and how it can be used to simply pluck someone out of the enemy lineup and move them where you want them.
  
• Uther can moonlight as a tank when played properly and is arguably at his best when played in this role since he's kind of a lovely healer in most cases. Having a point-and-click stun that can be followed up by an AOE stun can be very valuable if your team is capable of capitalizing on it.
  

Kith fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Jan 7, 2024

ninjewtsu fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Jan 11, 2024