"[Insert diver name] don't build dmg go tank" is the an ignorant statement
Yeah let me just quickly build full tank on 
, despite the fact that my champion has 0 tank steroid, and will essentially be ignored when not doing damage.
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Bro yi and trynd are melee carries. When u say divers, i think xin irelia camille j4 diana aatrox.
Why did you list two skirmishers and an assassin in a topic supposedly about divers
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Oh please, as if anybody ever tells a to go tank
yi genuinly only needs 2 dmg items to function, personally i build 3 most of the time.
gives you plenty of dmg and surviveability, I didn't include a 6th item because that's where you decide wether you can afford going another dmg item without being deleted.
and 
+ tank probably has more DPS than what i build, less burst tho.
Xin functions fine using 
+ tank
Noc's a weird one, either see him go assassin or botrk+hydra and tank.
Pantheon is pretty much a poke assassin.
Trynd has ult.
Think about it like this: You can't do dmg when you're dead. So even if you had the dmg to oneshot, it wouldn't be worth shit if you get oneshot first.
also bruiser might be a better term than diver in this case.
I mean,
Excluding Trynd, all these champions already build some defense or have off builds designed around core defensive items. It's not the worst idea at all if you're building flexibly.
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Xin can buy 2 tank items and be ok, Pantheon usually buys BC after his Lethality and with deadmans NOW yi can maybe go deadman or frozen mallet same with trynd but you rarely see that and nocturne.
I think they mean to go HP/AD/1 armor or MR item.
I haven't played with you yet, but i have played with thousands of xin, yasuo, irelia,... that keep building damage even when they are already that far behind. And then they jump in and get oneshot before they even make one attack. Ofc buying tank on those champions is never as good as a real tank, but still better than just dying in 0.1 sec wihtout making use of your beautiful ad items
Excluding trynd, most of those champions definitely benefit from building at least 1 or 2 defensive items, ESPECIALLY when behind...
Like yes, you want your core 1 or 2 offensive items first to be relevant from a damage perspective, but after that you're going to deal more damage overall if you're not dead (and living longer to eat more damage/cooldowns for the APC/ADC that's carrying you when you're behind is worth on its own).
You don't always need to carry / deal damage. If you have 2 other damage dealers doing well (or 1 that's extremely fed) you can win more easily by building some defence and just not dying... There are games (admittedly not recently) where I build randuin's or abyssal mask on champions like Ahri because I know my ADC is going to carry if I don't feed.
I had somebody tell me that vi was a tank once. how these people function in everyday life is beyond me tbh.
BadRengar has a free tiamat though