Talk:Zeke's Herald/@comment-71.236.150.124-20120331021711/@comment-69.141.8.150-20120429170959

Stark's was taken on a select few champions. Yi, Tryndamere, and Shaco. The reason why they bought starks is because it was a solid ganking item early/mid game and allowed them to start in the jungle with a vamp scepter without needing to wait to upgrade it to BT.

If you were buying Stark's on anyone else aside from these champs, you were doing it wrong. Mundo? Olaf? Wrong, not tanky enough. Ranged AD carry? Wrong, scales poorly into late game.

It was both too strong for a small subset of champions (squishy AD jungler carries/assassins) while being too weak for the intended target buyer (supports).

People hated Shurelia's Reverie for a long time before it became more popular. It eventually became a core item for not only all suports, but for many tanks and tanky dps as well. While I don't think this item is perfect as is, I think it's much more useful for its intended target buyer than Stark's.