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AP Items: 21
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AD Items: 26
And you add two more to the PBE making it 28.
The AD items also seem to be far more diverse than AP...curse your AD favoritism Riot.
First off, you both counted and in AD.
Second off, isn't an AD item.
Third off, you didn't include 
nor 
under AP.
You're clearly rigging the numbers here.
Is there still inequality?
Yes.
Does that make it an excuse?
No.
You're counting and so that's -1 already.
Then you should consider also that and don't give AD at all, any AP could go Nashor into one of those if they wanted ( doesn't mean it's a good idea, but it is just as bad for most AD champions that aren't marksmen or Yasuo.)
So that's -5
Counting the 2 new items that is 22 vs 21.
BUUUUT
and are more support-ish items so...Yeah, we do need more ap items xD
We need more defensive options, less ap on them but more armor/mr. I hate that the only mr item that gives also ap is . is no different. Meanwhile ad champs get and
There are 6 (arguably 8) AP items that shouldn't be counted as they are geared towards supports and should be included with support items
So after removing 
(and maybe and ) we have only 18 (arguably 16) AP items
Bruh compared to having the and power spike is insane vs any ad champion. You get a free dot and slow. People need to read.
Maybe take into account there is far more AD than AP Champions... And the fact Ap items need to cover less stats overall, and can work on different AP roles. Also the only AP champion that needs AS is Azir and perhaps just a few others in specific builds.
Whereas the AD items listed covers stats for a far greater champion role pool to begin with, 5 of those items listed are ussually melee only items, 3 lethality items that only belongs to assasins, and ofc the 4 AS items only belong to AD carries, and rarely to any other AD roles. The AD items need to cover quite a big role pool, therefore there is more of them, and techincally should be even more than it is.
As far as diversity is concerned, top row has mana regen, heal (Athene's unholy grail), shield on self (Seraph's embrace), empowered heals and shields, attack speed buff (Ardent censer), AoE damaging dash ability (Hextech protobelt 01), AoE damage and slow ability (Hextech GLP-800), multi-target damage (Luden's echo), single-target damage and slow ability (Hextech Gunblade) on an item that also gives universal vampirism, percent maximum health damage over time (Liandry's torment), spell shield (Banshee's veil), bonus damage after using an ability (Lich bane), grievous wounds (Morellonomicon), slow on abilities (Rylai's crystal scepter), health and mana recovery by fighting (Rod of Ages, Abyssal mask), team-wide movement speed buff (Shurelya's reverie), stasis (Zhonya's hourglass), AP and movement speed buff on self (Spellbinder), long-range scouting and slow (Twin shadows), on-hit damage (Nashor's tooth). Some of these have no equivalent in your bottom row's items, such as the buffs, various debuffs (except for the single-target slow of Blade of the ruined king), dash, stasis, spell shield, on-demand shield burst. Sure, items that give AD seem to have a number of cool passives, but I doubt that e.g. an item restoring mana on hit (Essence reaver) would be considered healthy for a number of mages, reason why Morellonomicon was reworked.
While I agree that some options are a little over the top (cleansing a stun for example is like pressing the "second chance" key, which makes me wonder sometimes why exactly I can't have the initiative when I am the one engaging on a squishy damage dealer), overall I don't feel like AP characters were forgotten as far as items are concerned. Some items that you classified as AD include passives like "hit harder" (Trinity force, Infinity Edge) or "survive longer" (Sterak's gage, Maw of Malmortius, Phantom dancer), which feel pretty bland to me; nothing quite like a supplementary dash or an AoE slow, which both are meaningful enough.
As such, I still have no clue about any kind of favour Riot would do to one or the other side of the balance.
