User blog comment:The5lacker/Varus is not a normal AD carry/@comment-5556439-20130614205620/@comment-5266525-20130615025117

So many of these arguments occur simply because how people define carry varies so much.

When I talk about a 'carry', I talk about a champion that relies on triple-multiplicative scaling to deliver extremely high sustained damage, not the older definition which is more or less summed up as a champion who does better later on than they do early. I believe this is the definition Riot uses for their 'carry' tag, as every champion who has it will commonly use that kind of build.

With that premise, hybrid carries by definition cannot exist, as they cannot take advantage of triple multiplicative scaling. And to top that off, any such hybrid who COULD match them for damage output would be guaranteed to be broken, as their ratios would have be so high to do that it would make them ludicrously overpowered in the early- and mid-game.

Also, I'm extremely confused that you call Xerath and Akali carries even by your own definition.