User blog comment:Unevent/Hybrid items!/@comment-5266525-20130519141204/@comment-8506165-20130520114417

But surely if you plan to make an awesome hybrid character with scalings for both AP and AD, and then buff their scalings because you plan to remove items like Gunblade, it's a massive buff for their non-hybrid versions? I mean, to use my Kayle example again, I already showed that with her scalings as they are pure AP and pure AD Kayle will outshine hybrid Kayle by some significant degree when Kayle can't itemise properly for splitting her resources. Doesn't this problem only becomes more exaggerated if you buff either her AP ratios or her AD ratios, or even both? Hybrids suffer innate problems that have nothing whatsoever to do with their scalings:

- they will never get AP nearly as high as their AP counterparts and getting multiple items like Rabadon's, Zhonya's and Deathfire isn't viable for a split, when they can make all the difference for a full AP build

- their AD can be entirely respectable, but their pure AD counterparts have time to itemise for things like crit chance and attack speed and thus can capitalise on it more

- they can barely itemise penetration

- either you build one stat first and then fall behind a dedicated character who's still improving it while you start to build the other, or you build both equally and have both being a little lacklustre until delicious fullbuild time.

The first two are really why I'm sceptical about the notion that if you just buff ratios on their abilities they suddenly don't need hybrid items. It'd amount to a buff for AP and AD builds, while the hybrid build still languishes somewhere behind them, if with their stats slightly improved.

Besides, there's nothing to say you can't add more hybrid items but make them weaker so that they're an option but two hybrid items won't outclass one for both AD and AP. That way I don't, as Xypherous said "lock myself out of any cool AD/AP itemisation", but nor am I locked out of cool hybrid optimisation because Riot decided they were bad and just binned them. And I like my cool hybrid items =[