Board Thread:General discussion/@comment-4881935-20121212043456/@comment-4881935-20121212212356

Brutalizer stats it provide does not limit itself to AD caster. AD Melee DPS champion uses those stats as well and strongerly benefits from them. Zin, Shyvanna, Nocture, Fiora can use it just as fine as AD casters because just like them, they also use abilities and are actually very depeneded on those skill to be useful. Granted, attack speed and critical chance is still needed, but the upgrade just happens to provide, so this item provides a lot of stuff that is needed.

I missed the old Black Clever now and I did love to build it for my Melee champions, but for ranged, it always ended up being the worster item to grab. But it's now pointless to complain because the change has already happened and I doubt there will be a revert with an item this good. Nerfs and lots of balances changes, maybe, but no revert back to it's orignial form. This also includes that no new item will be made to have the same effect but with different stats.

Also, I don't see why turning Ghostblade into another AD caster item makes any sense. They would share a lot of similar stats and role (AD, armor pen, cooldown), since BC already provides everything besides spell vamp. Two, that limits build choice if one item path grants everything one class needs.

But to point, how would the distance travel even work. You're always be moving before, during, and after a fight, so wouldn't that just charge up to max constantly, which them would make the entire mechanic seem pointless. Unless the vaule is some asburb number, it would kind of make the item awarkward with no placement. Then it would also just incentive players to not engange untill it's fully charge (since it's so easy to charge to begin with) before abusing it.

Saying an item is terribad seems really closedminded. Obviously it will not compete for the 'most armor pen' item in the game, but it does provide a very strong movement speed boost and attack speed boost that neither items provide. It's one item that provides a lot of usefulness that usually takes champions mutlipe items to fill. With a few buffs, it can easily be a viable item since there are a class of champion that needs all those stats, unlike AP/AS where there are only a few with little incentive to stack both stats at once.

But on to topic