The Problem with armorpen

Is that you don't give up anything for it

There isn't a trade off in these items

With defense there are always trade offs, does it give health? does it give sustain? or is it a flat pile of armor

With armorpen you get the ad and a bunch of other stuff on top of it in addition to the armorpen

If i want to buy defense vs physical damage i grab armor but then armorpen gets bough in return and my armor doesn't do anything anymore whilst their damage increases on top of it

What if last whisper gave attackspeed What if youmou's gave more cdr and less ad or perhaps movepseed and less ad What if black cleaver gave extra base ad like steraks

Armorpen items are universally good at all stages of the game vs anything and you have 0 trade off in AD or Utility from buying them

These are items made to counter a physical damage counter so the one thing we have to defend vs physical damage has a counter and it gives a buch of the stat we wanted to counter in the first place

There should at least be trade offs

Magic pen has some of the same issues but its less of a problem because magic damage is often applied in a burst and not in dps