Since there are Hybrid Penetration runes what about Hybrid tank runes? This will also help with Void Staff and Last whisper against tanks and give them the tankiness for the early game. Greater Quintessence of Hybrid Tank Cost: 2050 IP Stats: 3 Armour/ 2.5 MR
Sailor Mint1 votesVery few champions can use both armor and magic pen effectively. Every champion is likely to take both physical and magic damage.
In most cases, Hybrid Pen using casters are trading very little magic damage for a very small small increase to their Basic Attack damage against enemy champions (and cannon creeps). If we followed your suggestion, we'd be trading some defensive stats to get more of the same stats (not much of a trade is it?).
King Odin1 votesWhat are you saying? I don't quite get what you're saying because Hybrid runes and flat AP or AD are very different and I rarely see champs who use both AD and AP runes. Akali, Fizz, Swain, Lux, Diana and many more use hybrid pen effectively
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Very few champions can use both armor and magic pen effectively. Every champion is likely to take both physical and magic damage.
In most cases, Hybrid Pen using casters are trading very little magic damage for a very small small increase to their Basic Attack damage against enemy champions (and cannon creeps). If we followed your suggestion, we'd be trading some defensive stats to get more of the same stats (not much of a trade is it?).
More importantly, you're barely even trading any stats with these numbers. Compare to ar/mr quints: AR: 4.26 MR: 3.00 You could make this a balanced option- you'd just have to give up more of each stat. Say, give the quint 2.25AR/1.9MR, That way, the quint is marginally better in terms of gold value than AR or MR, but not as good against a specific type of damage, making laning vs a single dmg dealer worse.
All of that said, there's really no reason to make such a quint. If we start making hybrid everything, where do we stop? Hybrid Crit damage/hp% runes?
NotDevan1 votesI'm going to go out on a limb and say "because Riot hates tanks".
CrazedPorcupine1 votesAlso, tanky runes are best as Seals, and so they should be "Hybrid tank seals"
Still a bad idea since they'd become standard on everyone.
youngjake931 votesThere's a thing called health. It makes you tankier against magic and physical damage.