if gunblade is a hybrid item, why doesn't the active scale with bonus AD?

Cough Kata cough

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cough Morde cough

What happened. I sensed a disturbance. Huh nvm

My mordesense must be on the fritz

Imagine if I had a real gunblade!

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cough Morde cough

Akali is still the best user of Gunblade though.

Oh god I've always wanted to build Gunblade on Dar for the Omnivamp + Ult healing

I don't care about the wasted AP if Gunblade were more AD-friendly I'd try it

I want to dunk people and when I dunk them I want an instant 150 health back it would feel SO GOOD

It means they have decent scalings on a few abilities and benefit from the extra AD, but prioritise AP damage.

Just because youre a hybrid champion doesnt mean you purchase half AP or half AD items, or damage items at all. Hybrid refers to the % of types of damage you do. There are 3 categories of "hybrid champions"

1. Tanks/bruisers who have mixed base damages - Shyvana, Mundo, and Sion fall into this category. I didnt mention them before because this is a gunblade-exclusive discussion.
2. Champions that can buy both AD and AP
3. Champions that do mixed damage in their kits/scaling.

Category 2 gets split into 2 types of champions: on-hit and hybrid scalings. Teemo, Kayle and TF are on-hit hybrids. They are not the primary users of gunblade, but can use it. Their "hybrid" nature is that they have to autoattack for their damage. They simply cannot do their magic damage without doing physical damage, even if the physical damage doesnt hit hard.

The others are hybrid scalings. Akali and Kat fall into this. The problem is that building half AP and half AD means you lose the multiplicative scalings and/or penetration of just choosing one stat over the other. Since both Akali and Kayle do primarily magic damage through their abilities, its overall better for them to build full AP to make use of things like Abyssal and Void Staff. Gunblade is used for the earlygame - before people get armor or MR its a strong item, plus it gives a little bit of extra burst and a little bit of sustain.

I put Jax in his own category of "gunblade users", but he really is the anomoly. Not only does he have on-hit scaling, he also has hybrid scaling, plus his damage is truly mixed (like a hybrid tank).

Category 3 are champions that do hybrid damage by their kits. Corki is the showcase - he has AD scalings on magic damage abilities. A full AD Corki will do around 75% magic damage at the very least. Kogmaw is another example, and to a lesser extent Ezreal. Due to the way they scale, building more AD/AS means they do more magic damage. But of course, they also have straight up AP scalings as well. They can use gunblade to its full extent but dont - generally because a AD lifesteal equivalent is better overall for their damage.

TL;DR You dont need to build AD, AP, or either to be considered a hybrid damage champion.

No. Never take away our secondary ratios.

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But that's a nerf to champions who use the item who don't build AD