Bruisers (and tanks building bruiser) are missing AS items
Not sure if this is the thing that will solve the feels-bad moments of bruisers, but I noticed a lot of them have strong synergy with attack speed, but not really the other physical damage modifiers.
A good example is
, who deals flat true damage with her W.
These characters have a conundrum for their itemization in that of the AS items, only three offer any defensive contribution.
gives a small (very small) amount of health
gives a little bit of MR but is costed highly for that thanks to it's main purpose being its cleanse
is borderline meme territory even with its high AS and moderate MR
There is no AS+armor item
There is only one AD+armor item (
)
Juggernauts, who want to build AD and Health, have plenty of great options

But for tanky duelists, the options for AS drastically inhibit their defenses, especially with the pure defensive items being geared for individual early-game spikes rather than late-game pickups (
et al)
Preferably an item or two that are melee-only would be the ideal additions, to keep "bruiser one-shotting
/
/whatever" from being a thing
who deals % health daamge with his Q empowered attacks. getting those out faster while still gaining a decent amount of armor from an early build (about 40 armor or so) would open up a more assertive playstyle for him without turning him into just a bad fragile diver.