User blog comment:Megames1/Against the Meta September Edition/@comment-5194571-20120925181506/@comment-5194571-20120925225727

I wouldn't really say there's much of a lack of damage. I don't build Manamune unless I'm playing Ezreal which is rare because I fail with his skillshots and avoid AD carry. Besides, you're gonna get less damage on say... an ulting Mundo with your typical AD carry build than when you half his ult with EC active. He would just heal through normal build damage but not through EC active.

Once again, at my elo of 1.1k, people actually building any defensive items is rare. You have no need to worry about a lack of damage because getting LW will eat through enough armor to deal a large amound of damge regardless of if you build Manamune or not. Think this build: Zerk's Greaves, IE, PD, BT (game should usually end here), Manamune, GA/LW (depending on how likely you are to die).

The thing with most AD carries is that they are autoattack reliant. Ezreal not so much, Kog not so much, Varus not so much and Sivir a little more than the afformentioned ones, but not as autoattack reliant as say, Ashe. Autoattacks (unless using Tiamat, which is rare) only hit one target at a time. It does, to an extent, limit your damage output. Why not put out AOE damage in a teamfight? AD carries do have AOE abilities, I admit, but they still mostly deal physical damage. Stack armor and everything will be k, no oranges required. What if your AP is really far behind or even AFK? No need for the enemy team to build MR, there's no threat of magic damage on your team. It's at a time like this that I buy Ionic Spark. I don't get it often, but it really does come in handy. Ever had one of those games where you lost one, or even more than one teamfight by just a tiny margin and they enemy team escaped with 2 of them left alive with about 300 health each? With Ionic Spark, you could have put out that AOE damage and won the fight.

I forgot to mention in my last post that there is one AD carry I do play Hybrid: Twitch. After his rework, I do consider him a very viable AD carry. But not in the usual AD carry sense. I think of him more as an "AD assasin indirect carry er... carry". Now that Expunge scales on both AD and AP, while Ambush always gives the maximum attack speed boost, you can carry indirectly by assasinating the enemy carry by sneaking round to the back and taking them out 1v1 while the rest of their team is otherwise engaged. Their carry is out of the fight, you carried by makinfg their carry unable to carry, because they're dead. I think of Shaco and Leblanc the same way, as such, they do not fall off late-game like so many people seem to think. I take: Boots of Swiftness (no need for Zerk's Greaves, can reach 2.5 AS cap without them, making these better for use with Ambush), Infinity Edge, Phantom Dancer, Guinsoo's Rageblade, Hextech Gunblade and a final item, depending on the flow of the game. This allows me to position myself, sustain, deal a lot of damage and escape no problem. I can hit the 2.5 AS cap no problem and run faster than most other champions if I need to make a hasty escape. My passive and Expunge make for a good execute skill too. If I can't sneak in and attack the AD carry directly that's no problem, with the change on Twitch ult to be duration based rather than ammo based, he became deadly in teamfights. Did you know you get 1 stack of Guinsoo's Rageblade for each and every target you hit. Q + W + 5 target autoattack = 7/8 stacks in ~1sec. I'd like to see any other champion build AS that fast. Then you have Expunge. Imagine the AOE damage dealt with 6 stacks of passive on each champion, and Expunge damage with ~ 150 AP and ~ 230 AD, then the remainder true damage as Expunge no longer consumes the passive stacks. For added "indirect carry" impact, I take Exhaust and Ignite, making it that much easier to 1v1 the enemy carry and come out with a kill. So, Twitch can be hybrid, carry and no loss in damage. Isn't that what you were looking for in the original post?

Sorry for the wall of text again. I must be evil deep, deep down to make people read this much.