Morello probably does a lot more than you'd think. We on the forums have a very limited window into Live Design.

Even when winning a lane, you will not always be able to buy a high cost item like a B.F. Sword. For example, you may recall after getting kills in the lane and have to decide whether to go back to lane without stronger items to eventually purchase a B.F. Sword, or skew your build path by purchasing a pickaxe.

With BotRK being built solely from low cost items, even when you are ahead in the lane, it means you will always be able to come back into the lane being stronger.

The power level of this item and the damage it's done to the game is entirely my fault to begin with. I did the items - I ignored the late-game feedback that would've done these nerfs earlier. It's not that other people do nothing - but I am the one who is at fault here for releasing something that is this warping.

But why are you nerfing the AD carries items? Why don't you instead, revert BotRK or something, and start nerfing the bruiser items? Like, if I could play double bruiser bot, it would be so much better than adc

Thorn mail is only great when there is no significant AP on the opposite team. This item is only great when several enemies stack health, but if only 1-2 enemies stack health, it may not be cost effective. So yeah, it will reduce people tendency to get health even on ADC and APC.

so why even release item that the devs are calling overpowered after 2 days? do you guys not see that releasing and item like this with its cost is clearly over the top?

i dont get it. who gives the greenlight on this stuff?

Following up on the idea of making BRK a more "on-hit" type of item with high AS and low AD, couldn't BRK be a sufficient replacement for LW in cases where HP was high and Armor wasn't so high? Perhaps you would not need to nerf LW since it would be a strategic counter to high armor and BRK a counter for higher HP.

I disagree.

MR feels weak because there is no dedicated MR item.

MR is a little bit here, a little bit there - such as merc treads, spirit visage (sometimes), Hexdrinker (situational), abyssal (situational/class specific) veil (situational/class specific) all giving relatively low amounts. Bulwark is the only real AP counter at the moment.

As opposed to armour being all, "HEY! YOU GOT SOME AD PROBLEMS?! COME AT ME FROZEN HEART, RANDUINS, THORNMAIL, SUNFIRE!"

We haven't started nerfing the bruiser items because it has not been clear that it has been the items that have been doing it.

For example, Xin Zhao is crazy. Sure, itemization helped Xin Zhao a lot - but not all bruisers are crazy. Just a subset of bruisers. Is it an item thing - or do this subset of bruisers share a quality that make them very very good right now?

And as it turns out, they either have ridiculous amounts of free resistances or resistance piercing that were holdovers from S2. At least that's the working theory.

I'll chalk this one up to major misalignment of my theory versus reality.

That and I really didn't consider the early game lane warping enough - which is what is causing a lot of the excess power at the moment.

Basically - my bad.