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stilgar
If you write the role in the way of tank, you would need a means to distract. And how can you if all you're doing is blocking? It'd be simple to plot hole the enemy's attention to them, but it would agitate most readers saying things like, "Why wouldn't you just go for the non-blocked members?"
Now if he were just paired with magi, archers, and other ranged archetypes, I can see that being godly. But fantasy world without Sword Hero Man?
Are you mad?!
Logically, it makes sense. But the story would devolve into ways of getting around
The Wall and that's about it. Maybe someone dies and the MC feels guilty for a few chapters because he couldn't protecc. But then it goes back to the basics; and that's boring fast.