[pbe] spear of sohjin is a bad item, for a few simple reasons
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it's an extremely effective tank item, but scales with ad. This gives ad tanks a huge advantage, and also incentivises them to buy more damage items, turning them into just stornger versions of bruisers. It also removes all the risk of playing an assassin, which is really unbalanced. Assassins currently have a high risk high reward playstyle, but with this item that turns into low risk high reward, and pretty much removes their main counter - getting bursted.
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the passive is way too strong. Most other item passives/actives are about as strong/slightly weaker as their champion counterparts. Not sohjhin. It's champion counterpart (amumu e) only blocks 10 damage, and only works on physical attacks. Sohjin blocks about 120-130 damage on the average build, and works on both magical and physical attacks.Last game on the pbe I was up against a darius. he bought sohjin and spirit visage, and went full ad besides that. He was literally unkillable, regardless of what type of damage we used against him (we had a burst mage, an ad dps, and a lethality based champ).