Talk:Miss Fortune/Strategy/@comment-16257908-20131004092200/@comment-23894376-20131005223922

In a lo ELO environment it may work to go Black Cleaver/Infinity Edge, but you sacrifice a lot of team fight power if you do that.

The issue is you should not pick a Black Cleaver when opting for the IE/PD combo because your damage will come mainly from auto-attacks and Bullet Time will be a secondary damage tool. Now, if you build Black Cleaver AND Last Whisper, not only you deal great damage with a fully charged Bullet Time but you also apply those stacks to everyone caught in the cone. This transfers into increased monetary values for your team, giving you a temporary artificial lead, or basically a momentarily inflated advantage due to how powerful the armor shred can be when applied to 5 enemies at max potential.

At this point you no longer need to critically strike people because with 25% of their armor shredded and your 40% (LW + Mastery), you are dealing superb damage. Turn on Impure Shots and clean up without difficulties.

There is no break even point for IE+PD to be stronger than BC+LW on Bullet Time; even base damage is stronger, and just grows stronger per wave, whereas IE+PD doesn't. LW + BC adds 10 total AD, its 1300 Gold cheaper, can be more cost effective than IE + PD by a drastic margin, and at base it deals, literally, 75% more damage on Bullet Time's first wave. A full Bullet Time will deal 86% more damage with BC + LW if that's our only build.

tl;dr Ifninity Edge needs Phantom Dancer - it's a combo that rarely works well when one of the parts is missing. Infinity Edge loses great potential if you rely on Black Cleaver and expect the enemy to stand still and take 2-3 hits without fighting back. BC + LW is cheaper, brings more damage to your ult right off the bat, and overall outtrades a PD/IE combo unless you land a crit.

Basically, if you are going for Infinity Edge, pick Last Whisper and Phantom Dancer for superior DPS in extended skirmishes. If you are going for The Black Cleaver, pick a Last Whisper and Bloodthirster for superior team fight control.