Talk:Ravenous Hydra/@comment-15020375-20130824115700/@comment-8468980-20130830054320

"cost efficiency"

The staggering vast majority of finished items are cost efficient, this isn't a particularly unique feature to Hydra.

"unrivaled amount of attack damage when you get it"

It has a 5 AD advantage over BT and IE. BT can ecclipse it's AD by simply farming and IE's crit chance and unique passive outweigh the 5 AD gained.

"a passive to help single targeted or mana dependant champs to clear waves fast"

These types of champs typically do not value fast wave clearing, and synergize with higher raw values for bursting champions better. Typically they are assassins that need that don't scale with farm as evenly as other carries do, instead they need spikes in levels and gold from champion kills.

It's not a particularly good item on many, if any, champs. Here's a more detailed explanation why other items are simply better choices: http://www.reignofgaming.net/blogs/a-different-view/oldmaneyebrows/24415-ravenous-hydra-vs-bloodthirster-with-tiamat-bonus