User blog comment:Unevent/Hybrid items!/@comment-5266525-20130519141204/@comment-8506165-20130519152930

No, he actually argued for the all-out abolition of hybrid items at various points. I quote: "Convincing people that the best thing for their hybrid characters is to have no hybrid items at all is difficult at best."

I just found it a little annoying that he was saying "we know best, hybrids work best without hybrid items ahuehue". I concede the rest of your point though - I feel that the number and power of hybrid items is at a pretty good level at the moment, especially given the small number of genuine hybrid champs, as opposed to "you can build them AD or AP but not both" champs. Personally, I'd like to see more of the genuine hybrids, though, but removing items for them entirely would just leave them crying in a corner and building sub-par AD or AP builds when they finally pulled themselves together (seriously, have you ever seen Poppy try and be a straight AD carry?) Because as I tried to illustrate with my example, if you try and split AD and AP without hybrid items you end up with a very lacklustre mix imo. I'll admit it is a bit of a balancing act with such items becoming too strong if you have too many of them, but at the moment we have, what, two? Three? Guinsoo's, Gunblade and (at a stretch) Trinity Force?

I dunno, I was just also a bit unimpressed by his argument that hybrids having to get hybrid items is in and of itself a bad thing. It's like saying that AD carries having to buy the typical AD carry items is a bad thing. "Draven has to buy a Bloodthirster? Well this is clearly bad design."