Talk:Lucian/@comment-24428993-20140716194434/@comment-60764-20140717043057

If you want me to be serious:

No. It doesn't work. Essence Reaver isn't terrible it's just that it doesn't have a place in most people's games due to being outclassed in both calculation and in practice (like Sivir!).

The reason AD caster carries don't work as they did in Season 2 and 3 is due to how the new itemization has lead the almighty auto attack every champion has being really good to build for. Due to all the multipliers (attack speed, crit, and cost effiecency said auto attack has, one would need AD items having ~100AD to be comparable even with full CDR, OR said ability needs to scale exceptionally well to warrant using.

This is why Essence Reaver, and CDR Lucian/Sivir/Quinn/Varus/anybodyelsepageyouvebeencommenting on don't work so good. It IS a great item on it's own, but it doesn't provide good enough benefits for anyone it's geared toward; not the mandatory IE or in every ADC's build, or the comparable item that fill out an ADC's kit. And when you factor in:


 * AD Casters without mana have no use for the passive and could buy a BT for 100g more
 * AD casters WITH mana aren't hard up for mana regen due to having costs and/or falling back on an auto attack for late game shenanigans (Or get mana regen through runes/masteries/their teamates/magic).
 * Other casters don't use that much AD, if at all.

This leaves us with a very niche item not many can use in the stead of something else, again. It's not unlike Zephyr for the longest of time, providing a hefty amount of AD and AS (As well as a huge amount MS AND tenacity to boot), and hardly anyone built it because nobody needed. It's been buffed significantly over time (and those AS scaling changes essentially make it so that you'll be hovering around 2.0 AS on an ADC with any other item that gives AS, like BOTRK or the Zeal build paths) and is a MUCH more fetching choice, but the choice to build it over anything else that gives AS and/or AD is more or less the same in people's minds.

Hope that helps.