What's the point of bruisers?
Doesn't the concept of tank + damage sound OP?
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Combat potential over strategic potential.
A Juggernaut like Darius is far weaker than an ADC or Mage is for a tower siege. However, if Darius gets in range, he can easily outduel and kill said tower-sieging ADC or Mage. The point of Bruisers is to be the bulky fluff you use to round out your team's combat potential once you already have a strong win condition like siege potential or heavy engage.
Diversity.
No, not really.
Every champion should have 3 of the following 5:
Range Mobility Damage CC Tank
A champion is OP if they do more than they are supposed to. Take the recent development of tank akali for example:
She has: Tank Mobility Damage
She does not have range or CC though so once people learnt to play against her the winrate dropped drastically.
Most, if not all, bruisers fall off heavily late game and pretty much just become tanks at full build anyways.