Talk:VPBE/@comment-26612064-20170208104329/@comment-27004415-20170208181629

Actually I'm probably wrong about the whole idea that riot is trying to push it towards the range champions. I'm just making an assumption based on the loss of the damage part in the active which was actually very important to its melee users, but less for range champions.

I'm pretty sure we can agree that any "tank" with this item would look pretty bad since, well, tanks are by definition primarily here to eat damage. As a tank, you don't usually go for an item that has zero defensive stats.

Now if I were to look at the item, I would guess range champions would be more inclined to build it because a) its passive is based on AA, b) the recent buffs emphasize the raw damage part more than the utility part.