Can we have a black cleaver for mages
Maybe even a hydra? Bruisers have no items
Maybe even a hydra? Bruisers have no items
The short answer is NO, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NO
The long answer is, maybe but under certain circumstances:
Black cleaver exsists so that bruisers can have a long term solution to tons of armor
Such item exsisting for mages would mean that magic resist exsists and it does not
What can a tank (let's say
) build vs a figher?
What can the same tank which does not benefit from magic dmg build vs a mage?
and
and that can be countered by a item called
which gives 70 ap and 40% MAGIC PEN
Ok, there is a item to heavily counter armor too, 2 to be excact (but mages also have boots that give magic pen for some reason)
and
but they give very low ad and their armor pen isnt even that strong compared to void staff.
To sum up, give everyone more viable magic resist items OR reduce the ap every single ap item gives AND THEN something like what you suggest should happen.
no
get a 65% winrate.
It just sounds like a balance nightmare tbh
If you put a range restriction like Abyssal that favors melee AP champs else ranged battle mages will abuse it like crazy. Even then, I don't know a surefire way to balance it.
AP bruiser Itemization is lacking. I think the problem is that a traditional APC and a Bruiser do the same thing. Cast abilities.
It would be easy if Syndra could get AP Black Cleaver and AP Hydra and run a muck 1 shotting people and tanks included while being near invincible. Notice who the biggest culprits of Tank X Champion were...

All of these are AP** NON BRUISERS** who found tank items that allowed them to still deal damage due to their innate kit while being invincible.
The only 2 solutions I can think of would be to give the AP bruisers garbage scaling and great base stats, while APCs had great ratios and garbage base stats.
Which has it's own problems. Or melee only items, but then that doesn't fix champions like Ekko, Fizz, or Akali.
In short the answer is, because it's too hard to balance.