Talk:Runic Echoes/@comment-11218751-20160205125045/@comment-26612064-20160804173550

Your post is from February but for clarification I'll just point out that this is a jungle item, so mid laners would not have had much reason to consider it.

It is similar to the  comparison  between   Cinderhulk and Sunfire Cape (although there is at least a +15% bonus health vs 50 armor difference which could matter to characters with effects based on bonus health) in that there's really little incentive for laners to get jungle items and that this is surely intended by Riot.

Before Runic Echoes, there was Runeglaive, which was based on the Spellblade effect of Sheen and in particular Lich Bane (arguably also Iceborn Gauntlet for the vs monsters effect).