Talk:Irelia/@comment-197.87.129.152-20130113203204/@comment-4659726-20130119085308

^ Except they were likely overbuffed compared to Mages who only got nerfs in S3.

Bruisers/Assassins have:

New damage formula, Cheaper AD, very cheap armor pen, tons of hp (warmog's), tons of new items, and the natural kit advantage to being based on AD. Able to hit hard with spells like AP carries but unlike AP carries they can auto attack for a 1.0 AD ratio extra bit of damage.

Mages lost:

Deathcap (-20 AP -5% AP), Grail (-30 AP), and more recently the only new AP caster centered item (Guise) was nerfed by 10 AP and got 100 hp.