Thread:Willbachbakal/@comment-1920550-20150512100119/@comment-1920550-20150625034702

Except they do...both of their max health damage is extremely conditional (Jayce being tied to his melee form, making him vulnerable to CC or assassination and Varus due to his 3 shot-spell combo, plus the fact that as a mid-laner, he doesn't build attack speed items, which makes the stacking even slower). Also their damage is burst-based, and burst based characters already struggle against tanks.

Then why remove the item at all? If you're lowering everything so that the effect is the same, in what way is you solution better?