Ad items > Ap items, how bout a new ap defensive item?
TL;DR at the bottom...
Anyone else feel like the variety of ad items is way above that of the ap ones, on top of that they are far more superior both in the stats they give and their cost.
Just look at the stats ad champs build and ap ones.
Specific to Ap champs you just have ability power and magic penetration, wheres for ad ones you have attack damage, lethality, life steal, attack speed, critical strike and damage. Im not counting mana and cool down reduction cause that is a stat both benefit from.
And on top of the variety of stats ad champs can build, most items incorporate most if not all of these stats into one with an additional special effect on top of their low price. Examples:
, all of these items are super cheap and grant a lot of damage and utility with
granting a damage reduction passive which is very underrated.
Then just compare
to
, they have two % armor reduction items + with bonus effects where
just gives you the ap and on top of that its more expensive (granted not much 50g), but the proc from
is applied on all physical damage regardless of health while
applies on spells when every champs are below 50% hp, and when its comes to ad champs, most if not all of them are gonna have life steal, whiles ap champs there is only 3 you have to worry about healing and those are
, and they are easily countered by an early
where'es you don't have a similar ap item.
But my biggest problem with ad items over ap ones, the defensive/ bruiser items for ad champs.
For Ad we have :
+
for early game
Then we take a look at ap items to defend you, we have :

and here only
is a ability power defensive item vs ad champs, and its used universally vs any damage type, and with the new runes and items a lot of ad champs are gonna have a stopwatch at some point, giving them too a Zhonya effect (even if its only one, it could mean a lot in a match).
So now, lets take an example :
VS
, all of them could be considered as assassins and all are hyper mobile , now look at all the items the ad champs could build to counter the ap ones :
to name some.
While the ap champs can only build :
Because in a situation like this , ad champs and assassins have such a variety of items to successfully defend them from ap champs WITHOUT SACRIFICING THEIR DAMAGE! While should an ap champs build a
it will GREATLY decrease their damage output. And imagine now a
with a
, she will be able to survive a Zed ulty, big deal, she will be useless in teamfight, and whats stopping Zed from killing your carry - NOTHING (and im talking about items, not gameplay skill ,champs , supports tanks and the rest), and you may ask what is stopping
from killing their carry , here you go :
, all very successful items at countering ap assassins , and mages for that case.
And im not saying that any of these ap champs are underpowered of week, far from it, but i think ad champs are in a much better place in the game now, that is why you could see a full ad team and it will work great, cause all of the mentioned items give resistance , damage and LETHALITY, and with this being a damage focused meta, there is not much that can counter that, your carries and mages don't have ways to defend themselves while the enemy ad champs have all they want in a few items. That is why now, the most strongest ap champs are poke champs like
cause they bring something that ad champs don't have - long range .
Anyway i think it would be nice if we could see at least 1 new ap item to balance out the contrast between ap and ad items.
TL;DR HOW BOUT A NEW AP DEFENSIVE ITEM
AD defensive items vs magic damage :
not to mention
AP defensive items vs physical damage :
