Ranged critical strikes now deals 170% of damage instead of 200%

Yes, so if IE becomes worse through a nerf to crit, it hurts Graves much less than it hurts other champions because he's fine building other items. A lot of carries aren't.

There should fighters, but not bruisers. AR and MR stats have consistanly weakened due to the fact that they help brusiers more than tanks. Bruisers force out the tanks out of the game when they are strong and take there place.

The proof is in all of season 3 and beyond

I think really what needs to happen to fix the issue of bruisers being better than tanks no matter the balance (if tanks are balanced, bruisers become op; if bruisers are balanced, tanks become meaningless; &c.) is to nerf all the tank items so bruisers can't "buy one and done" for defense and be decently tanky and then proceed to build damage. Now stay with me, but I'm saying that as compensation for tanks, give pretty much every tank item a passive along the lines of "increases bonus defenses by 10%."

Now this would help to alleviate the issue of bruisers being able to buy 2 defensive items to survive inside a team and 3 offensive items to kill that same team, as their defenses would be significantly lower. At the same time, a tank that builds 2 armor, 2 mr, and a big hp item ends up with +% defenses, thus gaining a much higher degree of effective hp than any bruiser can by just getting 1-2 defensive items.

Of note, I'm not saying every defensive item should give +10% to all defensive stats, that would be crazy op. Maybe a tier-main defense system where both are considered and boost the stats based on their cost and idea. Something like having a main stat and two secondary stats (like armor and then mr/hp). tier 1 items (cloth armor) would increase the bonus armor (main stat) by 3%, and both bonus mr and hp (secondary stats) by half that, or 1.5% (small for first tier, but gets larger as tiers go up. I am partial to the idea of tier 1=3%, tier 2=6% and tier 3=10%. There are currently no tier 4 tank items, but the progression could be adjusted should one or two come out in the far future.

There would also need to be an evaluation of all items, and whether they fit as 'tanky' items or whether it's a damage item. For example, it's obvious that Randuin's Omen is a tank item, but what about the Black Cleaver, Maw of Malmortius, and Rod of Ages? I mean, B.C. and Maw are usually built by bruisers to get damage+tankiness, so I'd leave them out of the tank's increasing defenses, but RoA is really just a great item for everyone. I'd probably put RoA in as a tanky item, but lower its status to just a T2 tanky item(6/3% boost) to limit its incredible efficiency. Either that or just leave it out because it grants a lot of tankiness on its own. I'm not sure. There would also have to be decision making for items with multiple stats, like Randuin's. I'd probably put it as an armor primary item, just because A) it's most expensive component is armor, and B) it's made of a T2 armor item, but only a T1 health item. Spectre's Cowl and its derivatives force a similar problem, but I'd probably put them as primarily MR items, because they're the highest MR items out there.

Now, Discuss.