Do you think part of the reason why bruisers are going straight tank is gold cost

Shadow Hazard·Apr 12, 2016·1 votes·220 views

AP bruisers have similar itemization as other mages which is among the highest costing items. Similar issue with the AD ones also. Compare. ......... Vs .......

Tanks have a similar general cost efficiency as ADC with their option of zeal items giving good power much cheaper. Tanks are beating their damage counterparts in being able to get their item spikes much earlier which not only come from the stats that the items give but the effects that people build them for also.

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darkmatchwaldoApr 12, 20162 votes

Any bruiser that's going full tank is going to be nearly useless unless they have a crazy amount of CC/Utility. Once their AD carry gets item 3072 you're gonna lose every fight.

item 3078 is core to a good selection of bruisers. So is: item 3071 item 3748 item 3027 item 3116 . If they don't have these items they're basically just throwing power down the drain. So it's not like they're going full tank. Sure they're building mostly defensive but that's for a reason. You can't deal damage if you're dead.

Defensive items also have really useful passive effects for top lane.

item 3068 item 3512 item 3056 item 3742 Are all great for split pushing champions.

item 3053 item 3025 Are great on champions that like to skirmish and duel people.

item 3083 item 3075 item 3102 item 3190 Are great on heavy team fighting champions.

redniwediSApr 12, 20161 votes

Back when I started playing bruisers had a few qualities they all seemed to share:

High base damage Low scaling Affinity for defensive items

This gave them a fair amount of defense while making them very strong in the mid game. This also meant they fall off late game. Riot has since improved their late games while attempting to maintain their mid game strength.

Gold cost honestly has nothing to do with it. Bruisers, particularly as they are now, will just build as pure fighters or mages if defensive items go up in price, instead of the fighter/tank hybrid they are supposed to be.

I assume from the title your use of "tank" in the main body of your post is just a slip, and you meant to type "bruiser". Those are two very different things after all. No true tank will ever match an ADC for damage, unless the tank built damage and you're only taking damage percentage into account, instead of raw damage. Defensive items make it so an ADC often has to do 10k raw damage to kill a tank, where as anyone else only has to do 1-2k raw damage to kill an ADC.

Just because one melts to the other does not mean their damage is comparable.