Talk:Kayle/@comment-76.95.106.252-20121230144833/@comment-2124153-20121231231847

^ Think of it this way:

It would cost you about 3444g in fake items to get +100 to your autoattack with pure AD, pre-Armor. Spending the same amount of gold on AP items would get you about 172 AP, or 172 * 40% -> ~69 magical damage per hit. Spellsword improves this to 77.5 damage per hit, and Spellsword + Malady brings this number to nearly 95 damage per hit.

In other words, with a typical AS/AP vs. AS/AD build, you're looking at 70% efficiency with no help, and up to 95% with Malady and Spellsword combined. Obviously critical hits would make AD win forever, but there is no crit here, this is purely discussing the value of AD in a hybrid build.

Spoilers, AD in not that good in a hybrid build.