why don't AP bruisers just build double mask+iceborn?

Hammermancer·Apr 25, 2019·1 votes·1,179 views

, almost every ap bruiser can use these stats pretty damned well, provides a decent spread, and two item slots to go into somethin like a protobelt and a sunfire, or a wits end and a morello

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GaliöApr 25, 20191 votes

Most games end at around 3 items.

Rushing iceborn seems difficult for most champions in most situations.

Abbysal mask is very expensive.

Liandries is semi expensive and kind stinks unless you have spammable spells, DoT, with decent or good CC.

The build can make you well rounded but hard to build into many situations.

HammermancerApr 25, 20191 votes

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Most games end at around 3 items.

Rushing iceborn seems difficult for most champions in most situations.

Abbysal mask is very expensive.

Liandries is semi expensive and kind stinks unless you have spammable spells, DoT, with decent or good CC.

The build can make you well rounded but hard to build into many situations.

it's just a cost thing though?

it's super fun with conq or grasp, especially on something like ekko or diana, but definitely stronger on something like taric

GaliöApr 25, 20191 votes

You can easily get protobelt and rabadons and do triple the dmg than those three items and have 3.2K gold to spare for a third item.

Youd also be slippier with just those 2 items.

Cost efficiency is very important.

AlzonApr 25, 20191 votes

Mordekaiser Rumble Shyvana Lemme get back with you on that one

Tbh tho it’s because no one wants to build three 1k+ gold components before finishing anything ( item 3010 item 3136 item 3057 ). A bruiser needs to rush HP, sustain, CDR, and raw damage. Abyssal doesn’t give damage unless you have high base damage, and the CDR is locked behind the full item. Liandry’s doesn’t give sustain or CDR. IBG doesn’t give sustain or HP, and no AP. So most bruisers typically forget about sustain and HP in favor of the almighty Luden’s Echo, and then they build Morellonomicon because it has HP and is busted, and then Sorcs because double pen, and then Deathcap, Zhonya’s, or Void Staff because more damage to instagib people before they instagib you, and then you have just another mage who also happens to be shorter-range and possess a defensive tool.