User blog comment:Lukeatlook/Never Go Full Meta/@comment-15244341-20140713203021/@comment-15244341-20140714161042

I'm afraid LoL won't ever get anything stronger vs CC (items wise, of course) than QSS. Which is an OK pickup for melee carries, actually.

I'd surely love something that gave me Black Shield on a stick, but that is a DotA item design-wise (powerful active while not being necessarily efficient just for stats) and LoL is clearly steering away from that design. Guinsoo was, after all, a development member of the DotA Allstars team. So it's not like they don't know how to do it, but they instead chose to do something different from that design with LoL and most likely on purpose.

Also, they do hate the whole "buy this item always", which those kind of items end up being. Mercurial Scimitar is, for example, situational but great if built against the right team, which is probably the kind of thing they are trying to go for.

Not that I don't agree with you. I'd sure love to see more teamfight oriented melee carries, since now Yi and Yasuo are pretty much the only options in that respect (Yi is surprisingly good at it with a Jax-like build that mixes offensive and defensive items). Most of the others are better at splitpushing or at small skirmishes (Fiora is awesome in TT), which is fine, but requires to make a teamcomp to work around them.