User blog comment:Lukeatlook/Pyro's Item Overhaul 7 - The Tank Project/@comment-8468980-20141221193529/@comment-8468980-20141222060630

"If you look at the bigger picture, bruisers actually get less value out of these items. The block from Randuin's Omen is more effective with higher armor - as a standalone item it's way worse than before."

I mean no offense but if you think bruiser minded players wouldn't trade Randuin's active for that incredible unique defensive passive you have suggested, then you do not understand how champ roles like to itemize. The reason why bruisers get more out of tank stats than support tanks is because bruisers get very self sufficient kits (a la Morello's description "a ball of stats"), you throw Renekton at someone's face he's going to have the ability to close the gap on his target, stun them long enough to pop his spells for a solid chunk of their damage. This will either kick them out of the fight or leave Renekton at a tactical advantage if they stay. Meanwhile, support tanks like Nautilus  want support passives and actives so that they can force multiply them with their own initiation, allowing their entire team (who may not want to blow their gap closers since they are squishies) to take advantage of the enemy's moment of weakness. It also allows them to goaltend or counter intiations from the enemy team. A support tank can afford to build less "selfish" tanky items in favor of locket or Righteous Glory because it helps his team work better. Bruisers need the selfish stats because they'll be more likely to be taking focus fire since they're far more like a very hard to kill yet slow-working assassin.

I have not looked over all of these but Randuin's isn't the only one flatly buffed for bruisers. Granting Sunfire regen makes it an even more alluring laning item for bruisers. While you mention that your changes to Frozen aren't complete it's still totally nuts. Armor pen, armor shred, costs 600g less, builds out of phage, and maintains most of its base stats and slow? There's no way that any of those changes would make it live.

About a year ago Riot FeralPony was talking about bruiser itemization since so many people wanted to see Atma's return to viability. He stated that Riot wouldn't buff Atma's because while the item was garbage, the champs who would buy it aren't and would only get an unnecessary buff along with it. Riot recently removed Atma's entirely, ignored pleas for changes to phage and frozen mallet, and created righteous glory instead reaffirming FeralPony's thoughts on bruiser itemization.