We here the word "tank" thrown around a lot, but what exactly does the term entail? When referring to a tank, people are normally talking about a champion with a lot of survivability through damage migitation and increased health. But being a tank is more than just being really hard to kill. Because the tank is building other items besides damage, he has to make himself useful through other ways. Main tank champions should always have a decent amount of crowd control in order to disrupt the enemy. If a tank has no CC he is basically useless since the other team can just ignore him due to his low damage output.
A tank's main job is to run interference on the enemy team. He has to find the enemy team's top priority carry and lock him down. If he can't do that, then has to push him out of the fight. If the team you are going against has carries that can dive onto your carries, your main job should be peeling (Keeping champions away from the champion you are peeling for) off your carries.
A main tank champion should have decent survivability stats, high crowd control, and damage migitation runes and masteries. Some examples of main tanks would be: Shen, Singed, Maokai, Malphite, Amumu. These champions have good CC as well as good mobility for initiation. Every one except Singed has an ability that also lends itself to damage migitation, or some kind of shield. The combination of all these make an extremely good main tank that has good survivability and can disrupt the enemy extremely well.
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