Talk:Blade of the Ruined King/@comment-9300675-20130509014409

Many people disregard alot of factors when calculating the damage from this item and comparing it to a bloodthirster. Yes, it is equivalent to a fully stacked bloodthirster if the enemy has 1500 health; but this is only true if you do not have crit chance. For AD carries this is not the case Lategame you take into account critical strikes and critical strike modifiers.

A bloodthirster will give you 100*2.55=255 damage per hit., modified by Infinity Edge and mastery.

A BotRK will give you 25*2.55+5% of current hp=63.75+5% of enemies current HP per hit. With someone with 1500 HP, BotRK will do 138.75 damage.

The damage per hit becomes comparable to a BT when enemies have around 4000 HP, which would hit for 263.75 per hit.

Of course this is not taking the active into account or the attack speed it gives, but at some HP's even the active damage is worst than the raw 255 damage a BT provides, and at other greater HP's  auto attacks with a BT will surpass the damage done with the BotRK (auto attacks and active).

I prefer the BT because the damage is constant and in teamfights you will fight people with low current HP. The BotRK scales down as teamfights progress.