AD itemization is still pretty overloaded.

It feels like every season riot is looking at the drawing board and saying to themselves "What kind of item changes can we make that'd be really good for AD champions".

Beyond the fact that everything is stupidly overloaded it doesn't help the fact that AD itemization is 100% interchangeable between champions besides crit, though I still see insanely fed Zeds and talons build IE because why the f*** not.

Oh boo hoo AP champions have hourglass. The passive stats are mind numbingly useless considering that AD champions have free access to top tier items with loads of lethality, and the active is only useful in niche situations when you're on equal footing with your opponent. Otherwise buying Hourglass as an 0/5 midlaner vs zed rarely saves you and typically just gives you the opportunity to delay your death every 120 seconds.

Meanwhile Hexdrinker grants 35 MR and a massive 200 HP magic shield (by the time most champions will early buy it) on a 90 second CD. Ol' seekers armguard gives you 45 armor (countered by easily accessible lethality from dirk and runes) and 35 AP, 15 of which needs to be stacked up by last hitting 30 creeps which is going to take several minutes.

So for a whole whopping 100 gold more Hexdrinker grants immediate stats and a shield that'll grant them enough effective HP to guarantee safety in a 1v1. In most cases AD champions will sit on this and rush Duskblade because this 1300 gold item is enough to insure that they can't lose in a 1v1 vs a magic dealing champion.

That's just an example as this is the case with most AD items. They're overloaded with extremely good passives and actives, packed into a gold efficient bundle, loaded with good amounts of AD and plenty of CDR, and most importantly there is no real issues with build paths in AD itemization. The only cases present is BF sword and Black cleaver, and Black cleaver is STILL a top tier AD item on everything but Juggernauts because -20 AD and the build path doesn't even come close to defeating the amazing benefits of the item.