Talk:VPBE/@comment-24890638-20140607064748/@comment-10428734-20140607105521

New BT and Reaver are both terrible imo. BT is way too expensive for what it gives and the shield is too unreliable late game: melee champions cannot stack it at all before a fight, ranged can waveclear but the 15 second duration means it's not enough to be up all the time, if they initiate during that window (when the minion wave just reaches the tower range, which is ironically the best timing to engage anyways), you officially wasted 1100g. Reaver is, like Censer, essentially an item that nobody needs. Not that bad in itself, but you could spend your gold on so much better items. And then you're 6-slotted and Reaver has the weakest slot-efficiency of any completed AD item. Reaver has absolutely no utility after the laning phase whatsoever. That's not even considering the wasted CDR. BF+Vamp costs 300g less for the same stats, minus CDR and mana (not needed anyways), and it can be upgraded into BotRK+IE which are actually powerful late game items.

I think BotRK will become the standard ADC item again, with IE being rushed right after Vampiric Scepter. Even AD dependent champions like Graves or Varus should benefit from the buffed Vamp>BF>IE>BotRK build path.