There's this augment in Arena & ARAM: Mayhem called *ADAPt* which transfers all your bonus AD into AP, therefor giving you access to AD-Bruiser itemization.

And boy did it confirm how I've been feeling about AP itemization.

How marvelous it is to build a *Sundered Sky* and play around that fantasy of always draining just enough HP to clutch out some long-lasting fights.

How exciting it was to move away from building the same lame-ass *Nashor's Tooth* and **exploring other AttackSpeed options** through the likes of *Stridebreaker* and *Hexplate*, knowing that they also offered so much more.

*Hexplate* especially was a lot of fun : its synergy with your R is way better than *Malignance*'s and the flat-stats it offers **do not push you away from your Bruiser identity** and into an assassin playstyle like its counterpart does.

I only got to try out those few items, but I can easily tell that **we'd be getting incredible trade-offs**. Think of replacing a *Banshee's* by *Maw,* of having a *Trinity Force* instead of *Lich Bane*, of how *Hullbreaker* would make our splitpush fantasy become reality, and how so many other items like *Spear of Shojin* **would FINALLY make** ***Riftmaker*****'s HP-to-AP conversion passive useful** !

It's not hard to achieve : **they've already given Mordekaiser some AD ratios** and he can now opt for an *Hexplate* (even though he had already access to SO MANY more AP-Bruiser items —like *Liandry*, *Rylai*, *Bloodletters a*swell as tank items— than Gwen, which is having an identity crisis simply over building *Riftmaker*) (though tbf Mordekaiser needed some changes).

TL;DR AP-Bruiser items suck + the only few that exist can't even be properly utilized by Gwen. I dream of us getting the Moderkaiser treatment. That or for items to give adaptive force instead of binary stats.

Building AD-Bruiser items felt so amazing it was both an incredible experience and a very depressing one as I now know how badly we are getting screwed over with our shitty AP-Bruiser items