Alex Klontzas

safe , sustain , waveclear and guaranteed to be effective later thanks to bunker while not being a good main tank

Sounds like waveclear is ultimately what pushes him into the solo vs other “main tanks”? You still haven’t really told me why he can’t be a main tank though other than delay on CC which all main tanks have.

the delay is much higher on blaze than those heroes you listed while also forcing him to go in (unlike muradin for example) , he can't facecheck , he has no escape since his E can be bodyblocked (ETC goes through , anub has unstoppable and goes through for similar heroes)

I think you hit it on the head there. When Garrosh, Mura, Diablo, Johanna and Anub get caught, they can get out. Blaze's wind up on his E is predictable so it can be blocked and he dies unless he has Bunker up. There are exceptions but this is mostly true.

Hmm, Johanna and Garrosh have no way of escaping either though, unless you count Unstoppable which Blaze can also talent into. Why can't he facecheck with Q or W, same way a Diablo would with W?

Garrosh would not be viable without his unstoppable neither would johanna be but anyways those heroes can peel very well and are just played in defensive comps. Johanna can force fights post 10 which blaze can't he has no engage potential by himself without a flank

blaze can only peel really well with bunker , it's not only about facechecking the bush but about holding the position , Diablo is in a weird spot where he has some obvious weaknesses for a tank but he's more tanky by far than every other , has the best long 2/3

range engage in the game (point and click) and can one shot people. Blaze can't really force or punish like diablo so even if he was as tanky he still wouldn't be as good of a tank