User blog comment:Zilverdael/Seperate itemsets and why they are good/@comment-5588011-20140618183850/@comment-973379-20140620000907

Actually Yasuo is in.. difficult spot - he is melee carry, and they aren't viable ATM mostly, cause 1-2 def items are still not anough to survive CC+burst(you wil get this burst in you face as melee). Yes, this RO doesn't help much. So Riots purposely give Yasuo too much everything(def, cc, steroids etc) just to make "viable melee carry" and slightly overdid it.

Trinity is a "single offensive item" - it does give a good spike by itself, but doesn't scale as well as say PD, IE etc with other items - and this "spike" is just anough to be a treat to squishes, while enemy tanks will just ignore you. And no, Udyr isn't too strong even with full tank+trinity build(good luck ever reaching anyone important for more than 1 sec)

BTW there's no "diminishing returns" actually - each point of armor give you 1% more health against phis attacks(1% of health pool). 300 armor - 300% more health(so with 2000 hp and 300 armor you can take 8000 dmg). "Triforce as last item better than say Sunfire" because damage you done = time(you stay alive)*DPS, so yeah 1+4  or 2+3(1 def 4 offence or vice versa) is a way to go. Mathematical!

Sooo.. Bruisers can get 1 offensive item and double their damage, carry(both AD and AP) - 1 def item and double their HP, supports ARE strong(cause vision and CC/utility win games). Yes, good Janna can carry if teammates aren't braindead and at least join teamfights. Yes, those bruisers are 1 vs 1 kings and fall of in teamfight(as every rule have exeptions), no, you can't duel anyone with lifesteal or spellvamp as Leona(but 350 or so hp, which is 10% of bruiser's pool, IS in your burst range if you have that sunfire and IBG like you should).

And yes, true tanks are in bad spot, cause they actually need more utility than some CC(see Braum, he's good cause of tanking utility). Tanks should get some "tanking" mechanics like "marks"(you attack someone but me?! take punishment!), damage-redirecters(to tank from teammates), heavy melee-range debuffs(kite me out or you'll never do anything) etc. So no, bruisers are "good" right now(most of them, at least..) - they have what they should, just tanks are either hidden bruisers(amumu do really good dmg actually) or semi-useless CC bots when played like tank(Galio etc).