User blog comment:Myself v1.0/Failed hybrids?/@comment-5419795-20120906224808/@comment-5209745-20120911225857

Although I understand your point, let's guess that you're playing a carry in one game. Somehow, the game is not going well, and you feel like you need to build a defensive item in order to endure enough damage to kill your objectives. Usually what you would do is think about the most threatening champs the enemy has, and build defenses acordingly: Armor vs AD, M res vs AP... But you can build vs AD+AP too. Aegis per example is pretty cheap and gives both good defensive stats, while GA also provides Armor and M res, and has an average cost.

However, this throws a new light on this discussion: Yeah, there is a huge lack of hybrid items, but there are also only two counter-hybrid items. In case of encouraging building hybrid, there should be more counter-hybrid items too.