Talk:Mercurial Scimitar/@comment-4937115-20130208192439/@comment-131.151.141.44-20130323040334

If you are the AP carry in this situation you would always go early catalyst into veil, you would never buy a bf sword item.

TLDR mikaels at 2200 >>> merc scim in any situation

Anyway as an ADC if the game lasts long enough your support should buy a mikhaels, it is quite cheap. For the sake of theorycrafting we will assume that you and your support have some communication and that your support is proficient enough to use mikhaels about as proficiently as you would be able to use merc scim. So because we're not in wood league the support will be building support items, but more importantly they'll be buying wards all game long. Anyway let's look at a situation where a game lasts long enough for your insane, weixiao-like CSing to get you to a 5 item build and you are looking towards your next item. At this point your support should have boots, ruby, shurelyias, and some money probably. Depending on how many assists they have they could have other stuff, whatever, the main point is that at this point in the game if the cc on the enemy team is enough to warrant a merc scim it is enough to warrant a mikhael's at a little over half the price. During a teamfight, your support will stay with you. It's already their job to peel for you, use shury's etc, so you will be able to devote more of your attention to kiting, potitoning, and most importantly killing the enemy team. If someone is diving you hard enough to cc the adc, the carry will have to be kiting back, using abilities, watching their health etc. and won't be able to perfectly use the active most of the time, no matter how good they are. The active has no residual, like a real cleanse. Mikaels also gives a heal, 150+15% missing health. Anyway as far as a 6th item another BT is the obvious choice, 100 AD and 18% more lifesteal, the increased flat AD should already be amplified optimally by the other items in your lategame ADC build, the PD and IE, for hella op crits.